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AJ Hinch wants to keep focus on Tigers this week, not on his personal reunion tour

Cleveland — Maybe it’ll be different by the end of the weekend. Maybe he won’t really feel anything until the plane lands in Houston or until he walks back into that stadium, which has been his personal field of dreams. Maybe it won’t happen until his name is announced and the fans stand and applaud and thank him for five winning years and a World Series championship.

At some point, the emotions will rise to the surface, or close to the surface. He’s not a robot, after all.

For now, though, Tigers manager AJ Hinch is keeping his focus on a three-game series in Cleveland, not on his personal reunion tour next week when the Tigers play at Minute Maid Park and then at the Coliseum in Oakland, where he spent the first three years of his playing career.