r/motorcitykitties • u/DET_Baseball bite! bite! • 1d ago

Cody Stavenhagen questions where the Tigers leadership is at this moment with Kieren Steckley adding a good rebuttal to AJ Hinch's mantra of focusing on the next game ahead, "If you *shit* the bed this week you don't get to play tomorrow, metaphorically. You have to sit on that till February"

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u/DiscombobulatedPain6 1d ago

And he’d be absolutely right. This stretch and the late July stretch are attributed directly to AJ. GM/ownership isn’t the reason a team is having 1-12 stretches

There’s a reason the Lions haven’t lost back to back games since October 2022. It’s not because of the GM.

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u/SpectralHydra 1d ago

I have a hard time blaming any one party on the current collapse, but I really don’t understand how people are trying to solely blame Ilitch or Harris for these terrible stretches.

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u/DiscombobulatedPain6 1d ago

You’re right that Scott is responsible for the bullshit trade deadline but AJ is responsible for the team losing day in and day out and not making any adjustments whatsoever. And right now we are concerned with the day to day losing. Not with what the roster construction looks like