ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jim Leyland is feeling more friction between umpires and teams in recent times and says it has become a problem in baseball.

A day after the Detroit manager was among three ejections in the Tigers-Angels game, Leyland said something needs to be done to improve relations between the sides.

"We have to work harder to eliminate some of the tension," Leyland said before Detroit played Los Angeles on Wednesday. "You can feel it. That's just not a good situation. That usually causes blowups."

Leyland was ejected before the seventh inning during a prolonged argument with first base umpire Joe West. It was Leyland's second ejection in nine days.

The veteran manager said Joe Torre has been working to solve the issue in his new role as Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations.

"The tension level is much more than it should be, between managers, players, coaches, umpires," he said. "I know Joe is trying to get it resolved. But right now, the tension seems like it's almost worse."

Torre was a guest on ESPN Radio on Thursday and said MLB "is aware" of the problem and is trying to find ways to deal with it. He didn't get into specifics but did say demoting umpires wasn't something he'd be in favor of considering.

"I want to make the umpires feel like they're part of the game, but sometimes in that you're going to wind up banging heads and that's what we're finding now," Torre told "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" on Thursday.