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Originally Posted by low
What an epic collapse going on right now. Sorry.
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The patience this team had earlier in the year at the plate has been an issue the second half of the season. People have pointed at the all-star break but I think it happened much sooner. Reese Olson got hurt in Mid May and then Jackson Jobe went down on May 30th. At the time, the Tigers were well above .500 with a 6 game lead in the division. That lead would grow but over time the loss of those two pitchers would loom large. Since May 30 the club is now 47-48. My argument here is that Scott Harris did not do enough to address the needs at the deadline. I don’t know what his mindset was. Did he think the team would coat to the finish line? Was he concerned about giving up prospects? Did he think he could never be victim to baseball magic that got the team into the playoffs last year, but could never work against him? So many questions and the one thing Harris does well is use a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. I don’t even know what type of dressing he likes to go with his word salad. At this point nothing short of an ALCS appearance will get the bad taste out of fan’s mouths but that will be really hard to do as they are on a run to miss the dance entirely. But hey, what’s it matter? We have shiny prospects in the minors that will help us in the future as we waste the best years of Skubal in the present. Is that about right Mr. Harris?