Monday’s news that Scott Harris is arriving as new front-office general for the Tigers was proof how much the Tigers mean to big-league baseball. This always was going to be their good fortune, this genuine status, from the day last month when Al Avila was discharged following seven years of too much losing.
Begin with Detroit’s status as an old and venerated baseball town dying to reunite with a playoff-grade Tigers team. There, for MLB’s intelligentsia, was a first reason for wanting that Detroit job — knowing the passion and fire waiting to be unleashed at Comerica Park.