The Detroit Tigers will not renew the contract with manager Brad Ausmus.The franchise announced this on Friday.This means that after four years under Ausmus, Motor City is looking for a new manager.
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The 48-year-old Ausmus had taken over the team in 2014 and led them into the playoffs.For three years now, the team has been waiting for the postseason, but this season there was nothing to do with the play-off race at an early stage.With a current record of 62-92, the Tigers are the worst team in the American League.
This is also due to the fact that the front office around General Manager Al Avila has decided to tackle a rebuild: stars like Justin Verlander, Justin Upton or J. D.Martinez were delivered by trade.And now I want a new manager to fix it.
“We didn’t win enough victories,”Avila explained,”The organization, the club came to a point where we needed changes in the field.We rebuilt the squad and traded players, and the bottom line is,”Okay, you know what?Let’s go a whole new direction.”
Ausmus, as manager of the Tigers, has a slightly negative record (312-326).His contract would have expired and will not be renewed,”I told[Avila] that it would be perfectly understandable,”said Ausmus,”If he had offered me a new contract, I probably wouldn’t have accepted it, because I think this team is starting over.You need a new voice.”
By 2016, the Tigers had won 86 games and just missed the playoffs.
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