For 105 games, we played as well as any team. The San Francisco Giants were better. So were the Chicago White Sox. We didn't do it when everyone was healthy. But injuries are part of it.
Every team has to overcome injuries.
Make no mistake, the loss of Meluskey is disappointing to the Tigers, but they don't regard it as devastating. Two years ago, he had surgery on his right shoulder and was out from late April on. I pushed it too much. Based on that, there's no guarantee Meluskey will ever catch for the Tigers. But other than their inexperience at catcher, the Tigers don't have a gaping hole anywhere.