I wouldn’t agree that players are ciphers who don’t pay attention to what’s going on with teammates around them, keeping their heads down and focusing only on the baseball and nothing else. These are fully-formed adults with thoughts and opinions just like the rest of us, and who work in close proximity to one another seven or eight months during the year (well, except when they are ghosting, for reasons). I would be really surprised to learn they weren’t paying much attention to what was going on with Eduardo last season, or while he was jerking the team around at the deadline this past July, and had zero opinion about any of it, especially since it all definitely affected them as teammates. I don’t know what that opinion would be, exactly, but I would be surprised to learn it was no opinion at all.
As for Turnbull, I’m sure most of those guys don’t have zero opinion about him and his deal, either, since his antics cost them a Turnbull start for his so-called cracked toenail “injury”. Just because we the fans don’t have the first clue what’s going on in their heads doesn’t mean their teammates don’t as well, and while I don’t know any better than you what their opinion of it all would be, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the other Tigers thought of Turnbull as flaky and unreliable as well.
We don’t know what really goes on in clubhouses behind closed doors, except perhaps what we learn from tell-all books after the fact, but I’m as sure as I can be that it’s not 26 guys existing in their own bubbles shutting everyone else out and knowing nothing about what’s going except with themselves alone.