"His usage had declined," said Tigers manager A.J. Hinch, who gave Miller the news after the team plane landed in Detroit Sunday night. "I hadn't used him a ton. I didn't even get him up in Baltimore and the decision hadn't even been made on what we were doing at that point (with Jobe). It became more and more clear (Miller) was falling toward the back of the line. That combination with us wanting to get Jackson in the mix made him the odd man out."
"There was a lot of good and a lot of times he struggled, as well," Hinch said. "But like I told him, it was one or two pitches here, one or two pitches there and he got burned by the long ball a lot. That was unfortunate for us and unfortunate for him. Because there were stretches when he got a lot of big outs."
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