While even successful teams continue to shuffle their coaches, scouts, front office, and player development personnel, the Detroit Tigers have largely kept the band together through two seasons of terrible baseball. But there are some changes in store for 2020. The team announced on Thursday that they have cut ties with Toledo Mud Hens manager Doug Mientkiewicz a year before his two-year contract was due to expire.
Mientkiewicz joins Luis Lopez, who managed Gulf Coast Tigers East in rookie ball this season, as the only two managers fired, but their respective departures aren’t the only changes as the Tigers begin setting the stage for their 2020 campaign.