Scott Harris Interview on 97.1 this morning

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1. * Confirms they were never close to trading Skubal
   * Spending money doesn’t automatically make you a winner
   * Reminds us that young players are currently getting better in MLB
   * “Doesn’t know” if Spencer Torkelson will be back in the MLB this year.
   * Says “we can both add bats while developing core” but have to do it smart. Says having a DH would’ve limited Colt Keith, J-Hen and Kerry Carpenter.
   * Mentions Jace Jung and that he may be better than the options that are on the FA market.
   * Again says he didn’t “settle” for players at the deadline. Compares it to negotiating buying a house.
   * Haven’t talked about buying out Baez contact at all internally.
   * Makes joke about fans wanting to spend money, but in the same breath people are wanting them to buy out Baez contract
   * Excited for C/1B Thayron Liranzo because he “nukes” balls. advanced game called behind the plate.

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3. harris reminds me of my system director at the hospital i work at:

   a massive people pleasing pussy

4. Did this interview give anyone confidence in the Tigers future at all?

5. Acting like it’s bad to spend money because Javy is shit (literally no one wanted him btw) is hilarious. I do not care for Scott Harris.

6. What I got: We could add players that would make us competitive right now while we still have Skubal but you simpletons just don’t understand that if for example, we add a very gifted player who might propel us up the standings, that player might be blocking a younger player who may or may not ever make it. You have to give him credit for his determination though. I sensed that he is determined to have the lowest payroll in the history of MLB and I think that is very important to him. Very depressing interview IMO.

7. Let him work. we would all suck at his job. but given the nature of his job if he made the wrong moves. Byeeee. We do need to spend more. Pizza pizza guy owning majority detroit sports is the problem not Scott Harris. We need to change the dialogue to pizza pizza guy

8. God this guy is hella arrogant for someone who’s the GM for this team. The sunk cost fallacy at work with Baez is infuriating. This is a historically bad shortstop.

9. Guy thinks he’s the smartest in the room,

   Always comes off as a d-bag

10. That’s the interview of a guy who won’t be here in 2026.

11. I hate this sub so much. Why can’t you guys just screech at talk radio instead of dragging down the quality of every single discussion with your pathological bedwedding? I know, let’s shitcan the new GM every 5 seconds until we get who will sign free agents we aren’t even close to being able to compete for?!

    Yeah yeah this isn’t an airport and blah blah blah. Surely there’s

    Happy bedwetting guys, if only they let you dipshit Reddit scouts and reactionary bozos run the front office, we’d totally be there as a team!

12. Harris’s tone doesn’t instill confidence but he’s always direct and blunt about shit we bitch about here , so I’m all in. If it works it works, if it doesn’t we can all bitch in a couple years and watch the team go 47-115 again