If you listened closely to Scott Harris at the Winter Meetings, you probably heard what Detroit Tigers fans have been hearing — and dreading — for two offseasons now:
The cavalry is not coming.
Not via a big bat. Not via a surprise trade. Not via that shiny, middle-of-the-order threat fans keep hoping will walk through the door with a press conference and a jersey number. Harris all but spelled it out: Detroit’s offense is going to rise — or flatline — based almost entirely on its own kids.
And look, it’s not that he’s wrong about the talent.