After serving his one-year suspension, AJ Hinch was named Tigers manager on Friday. But make no mistake, his punishment isn’t over yet.

Exactly one year to the day that AJ Hinch last managed, the Astros’ World Series Game 7 loss to the Nationals, the Tigers announced they had hired him as their next manager. News of his hiring confirmed what long had been expected—that a team would give Hinch a managerial job as soon as he served his season-long suspension in the aftermath of Houston’s electronic sign-stealing scandal.

This presumption, justifiably, can be attributed to the widespread disappointment and lack of faith in both MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and the hedge-fund-ification of big league front offices. The same environment that allowed the once-model franchise to develop and conduct its cheating scheme has permeated throughout the upper echelons of nearly every organization. Why wouldn’t at least one of these teams see