Best of the Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket: Is A.J. Hinch or Scott Harris to blame for the Tigers' collapse?

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We break down the Detroit Tigers' baffling downward spiral, debating whether manager A.J. Hinch's frustrating analytical hooks or Scott Harris's roster construction is more to blame. With the offense completely stagnant and a 100-loss season looming, we look at the grim reality facing a franchise already entering salvage mode

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0:00.0	It's AJ Hinch.
0:01.1	He's full of crap.
0:02.9	Because if they would have kept Montero in with the same results as we got with Drew Anderson,
0:08.8	nobody would have criticized him for pulling him or leaving him in with just 65 pitches.
0:15.0	Nobody.
0:15.7	Nobody would kill him.
0:17.7	Instead, it's people's biggest complaint from the weekend we're going to get into it we got stony
0:22.3	in for a few more days before john comes back boy is he missed a lot while he's been gone fishing
0:26.2	nine o'clock you have a former super bowl champion saying there could be a qb controversy in
0:32.8	an arbor we'll get to it at 902 yeah pretty interesting we got. We got some audio. We'll play it for you.
0:39.2	Stony is Hinch on the hot seat.
0:41.7	Well, I think it's starting to warm up a little bit, but I've no idea the relationship
0:47.2	with him and Scott Harris and Chris Illich.
0:50.6	I would say the fan hot seat is burning.
0:56.7	But I don't know if he's on the ownership hot seat right now.
1:02.3	Hinch just got an extension.
1:03.9	He's regarded as one of the better managers in baseball.
1:06.5	I tend to put more of this on Harris.
1:09.6	Again, they're managing in a one-nothing game last night. The offense doesn't do anything. You're walking a tightrope. Having said all that, it's hard enough to win. Your manager can't make it harder. Correct. And he's had multiple. This is just the latest, but multiple blunders. I mean, you talk about Harris. You talk about the roster. You talk about the lack of offense. How about this weekend? Maybe an idea what the Tigers were with runners in scoring position this weekend. Was it 0 for 12? 0 for 12. And they left 18 guys on base. Which is not a lot, but that's part of the point. Zoom out. They didn't add a bat. Offense wasn't good enough as it is. That's only made this harder for Hinch. They're injured. He's throwing these, but he's pinch hitting McKinstry and Jemai Jones who don't even have a 500 OPS. So that's why I say you're making it harder on a team that's already having a hard time.
2:02.7	The Montero thing specifically, let's focus on it.
2:04.8	It just makes no sense.
2:06.8	Analytically for this season, it makes no sense.
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