Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Detroit Tigers Newsletter.
In the end, we really shouldn’t be surprised Ron Gardenhire left a little early.
After all, he racked up 13 ejections while managing the Tigers — fifth in franchise history, as least as far as they’ve tracked these things down — in just 373 games, or about 3.5% of the time. (For comparison’s sake, Jim Leyland — who was known to tangle with an ump or two — was tossed 30 times in 1,297 times as a Tiger, or about 2.