Mistakes were made. Assumptions were accepted.
        Jim Leyland sensed things weren’t quite right in spring training. “You smell it when you’re a manager,” he said the other day
        Hindsight is always 20-20.
        Leyland was asked this week if, perhaps, some of the changes the Tigers are making now -- Miguel Cabrera to first base, Carlos Guillen to third, and Gary Sheffield to left field -- should have been made in spring training?
        “Should we? Yes,” Leyland admitted.
        “Could we? No,” he added.
        Under the circumstances, Leyland felt his hands were tied.
        At the time, the Tigers were courting Cabrera, trying to sign him long-term, which they eventually did, to the tune of $152.3 million. Cabrera  felt at home at third base and the Tigers were not inclined to disturb his comfort zone.
         The Tigers, in need of another left handed bat in their lineup  had traded for Jacque Jones during the off-season. He had a track record, a history.
         Besides, Sheffield was coming off shoulder surgery and the Tigers were  worried more about his swing than his psyche.
        The Tigers’ shocking start has forced Leyland and the front office to revisit a lot of things.