Detroit Tigers deserve credit for sudden firing of Chris Bosio

The Detroit Tigers broke the sudden and surprising news of the firing of pitching coach Chris Bosio on Wednesday and they deserve a ton of credit for it.

If you’re like me, you may have thought you missed something when the Detroit Tigers first announced the firing of pitching coach Chris Bosio on Wednesday.

There was no indication any change was on the horizon. Aside from bullpen issues that have plagued the organization for years now, Bosio was doing good work with the pitching staff and the Tigers season overall was going better than many predicted.

Of course, the firing had nothing to do with what was going on on the field. The Tigers’ announcement made that perfectly clear. It was with a short and direct Tweet that the Tigers PR department informed the world that Chris Bosio had been fired for “insensitive comments that violated Club policy and his Uniform Employee Contract.”

As it turns out, we hadn’t missed anything. There were no previous reports of an incident that took place in the previous days. We don’t know exactly what the incident was that got Bosio in trouble but according to WXYZ’s Brad Galli, it involved the use of racist language toward a team employee.

All too often teams are reactive in situations like this, waiting to act until the public pressure to do so mounts to a level that requires action. You can lump kind of thing in with non-apologies from people who appear more sorry they got caught than actually sorry they did something wrong.

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Give the Tigers credit. They acted on their own based on how they expect their employees to treat one another. Maybe this was the kind of thing that could, and sometimes does, get swept under the rug. But it wasn’t. Good on you, Tigers.