A.J. Hinch awaited his new catcher. The two men crouched into a squat on either side of home plate. Behind the plate, Chirinos readied into his normal pre-pitch setup. Hinch, facing him directly ...

When Tigers manager AJ Hinch asked his ace which of the two games he’d want to start, he got a straightforward response: Game 1.

“He notices everything.” This is both the blessing and curse of playing catcher under Hinch, a former catcher who caught 338 games in the big leagues. Hinch demands excellence of his ...

To this point, AJ Hinch has swiped the best part of the ... "It's a blessing and a curse to play for an ex-catcher when you're a catcher," Hinch said. "One part is we got a lot of expertise ...

Well, perhaps on a smaller scale and in a much gentler way, Tigers manager AJ Hinch has sent a similar message to rookie catcher Jake Rogers. Rogers is a gifted athlete with above-average ...

Manager A.J. Hinch revealed on Wednesday morning that ... Hinch provide an update on injured catcher Jake Rogers. He underwent an MRI on his left oblique and it revealed that he is dealing with ...

Hope came this winter in the form of a phone call from A.J. Hinch, the former big-league catcher and now the first-year manager of the Tigers. From his early days on the job, Hinch spoke fondly of ...

Credit Tigers general manager Al Avila for giving Hinch a chance to lead his young club to the next step in the team’s plan for a renaissance. Catcher A.J. Hinch was selected by the Chicago ...

Exactly one year to the day that AJ Hinch last managed ... damaged the monitor his players were using to read and decode the catcher’s signs. Meanwhile, Luhnow is still denying that he knew ...

Wednesday, new manager A.J. Hinch spoke to reporters as part of MLB ... Perhaps as badly as any position, it seems the Tigers need a catcher for the 2021 season, something Avila mentioned ...