DETROIT -- When Anthony Gose and new Detroit Tigers hitting coach Lloyd McClendon bump into each for the first time this spring in Lakeland, Fla., manager Brad Ausmus insists that it won't be awkward.
"Last year -- it's over," Ausmus said last week. "It's water under the bridge."
What explains J.D. Martinez's defensive slump in 2016? Everything and nothing
MLB.com crunched the numbers using Statcast data and largely confirmed what the defensive metrics suggested: Martinez missed an awful lot of balls in right field.
Last year, of course, is when a dugout confrontation between Gose and McClendon, then the manager at Triple-A Toledo, prompted the Tigers to demote Gose to Double-A Erie for the rest of the season.