Detroit Tigers’ season is over: What they’re saying

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It’s hard for that to soak in. It may take several days of seeing other teams advance and bow out of the 2014 postseason to fully realize it. Baseball is a full-time job for most of the year. It is a 162-game commitment, following the team since February and then it’s all over. Just like that.

Though the Tigers still haven’t won the biggest prize since their reemergence on the baseball contenders’ list back in 2006, they had never gone out of the postseason with such a thud, becoming the first team eliminated in the divisional round for 2014, breaking their perfect 4-0 divisional series mark.

The record books will reflect that the 2014 Tigers were at times a very good team, a bad team, and an average team. We saw a little of all three of these events in the short 98-hour window that was the Detroit Tigers’ 2014 postseason.

So where do we go from here? Time will only tell.

In the meantime, here’s some instant reaction from players in the clubhouse courtesy of the Tigers’ always stellar beat writers and others.

Torii Hunter

Torii Hunter said he doesn't know what his future holds. Tired. Has strongly considered retirement.
— Chris Iott (@Chris_Iott) October 5, 2014

Torii Hunter said has been thinking about retirement a lot, said has to talk to wife to decide what to do #Tigers
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 5, 2014

Victor Martinez

Victor Martinez: "It's our fault."
— Chris Iott (@Chris_Iott) October 5, 2014

V-Mart on whether he'd like to be back: "They know. They know, so we’ll see what happens.” Someone: "That must mean yes?" V-Mart: Silence.
— Chris Iott (@Chris_Iott) October 6, 2014

Victor Martinez: "We’re going to go home with our head high. We gave it everything we got."
— Chris Iott (@Chris_Iott) October 6, 2014

Longest answer V. Martinez gave was to a question no one asked. Spoke at length about great job Ausmus did: "This is all on the players."
— Chris Iott (@Chris_Iott) October 6, 2014

Max Scherzer

Scherzer: "We can beat anybody in the AL. Unfortunately, we just ran into a team that played better than us, and that’s what’s frustrating."
— Matthew B. Mowery (@matthewbmowery) October 6, 2014

Alex Avila

Alex Avila said he suffered another concussion. His third. Yeesh. We're entering dangerous territory, folks.
— James Schmehl (@jamesschmehl) October 6, 2014

Alex Avila on concussions: "It's nothing to take lightly, and something I've obviously thought about. It's always in the back of my mind."
— James Schmehl (@jamesschmehl) October 6, 2014

For the sake of his health, Alex Avila's MLB future can't be behind the plate.
— Josh Slagter (@JoshSlagter) October 6, 2014

Others

Miguel Cabrera spoke briefly. Lots of two- and three-word answers.
— Chris Iott (@Chris_Iott) October 5, 2014

David Price: "It stinks, because this is the best team I've ever been on. To get knocked out in the first round, it's never fun."
— Adam Berry (@adamdberry) October 6, 2014

Verlander"going 2b a bit of retooling, don't think we can keep everybody-I'm confident we'll go in2 spring training w/ chance 2 win it all"
— Jeff Riger (@riger1984) October 6, 2014

Will say this. Don't think this #Tigers team doesn't care. There were a lot -- like, a whole lot -- of red eyes in that clubhouse tonight.
— Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) October 6, 2014

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