(WXYZ) -- Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire doesn't buy into the narrative that his team is going to be struggling through a rebuild.
"The part that I can't buy into right now is 'we might take a beating for a few years,'" Gardenhire said during an MLB.com interview. "I can never go into a season thinking we're gonna lose."
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— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) December 15, 2017
Gardenhire says the team echoes his confidence.
"They don't think we're gonna lose either, but we've talked and they've made me understand that we're gonna have a young baseball team. We have a few veterans around, but we're gonna kind of redo this system, and I'm excited about that part of it."
