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Tigers FO thread, Scott Harris Pres. of Baseball Ops,Tigers Hire Jeff Greenberg GM

https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/14/saturday-survey-49/
SATURDAY SURVEY.
Tigers official site

The Detroit Tigers PoBO, Scott Harris, has already started addressing the roster. At his press conference last month, he said to expect significant changes.

Looking at the 2022 roster, the team appeared to have enough relief pitchers. But regarding starting pitching, currently the only active one signed beyond 2022 is Eduardo Rodriquez. There are a number of starters on the IL with only a couple potentially being able to come back in time for 2023.

If we address the infield, the Tigers are expected to make changes behind the plate and at third base.

First and second bases may be in need as well with changes being discussed internally. Only shortstop has a guaranteed player to fill it but then again there is talk of reassigning positions.

The outfield has only 1 guaranteed player ? Riley Greene ? with Akil Baddoo, Kerry Carpenter, Willi Castro, Austin Meadows and Victor Reyes fighting for 3 other spots.

How much should Harris remake the roster?

How many of the 2022 players deserve to stay?

How much does the organization want this team to progress?

Considering the 40 man roster, how many of these players should be cut?

How many players from the 40-man roster should be cut?

1. Less than 10

2. 10-15

3. 16-20

4. 21-25

5. 26-30

6. 31 or more

VOTE
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/deeper-discussions-46/
DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
Totally Tigers

As PoBO Scott Harris remakes the Tigers franchise, he will have a decision to make on the long-term ?special assistants? who all had some role to play in advising Al Avila. Those advisors include:

Kirk Gibson
Willie Horton
Jim Leyland
Lance Parrish
Alan Trammell

Other than tv broadcasts. Kirk Gibson assists in on-field work at both the MLB and MiLB levels. He also is involved in personnel meetings and travels around the minor league system.

Lance Parrish also travels around the minors and offers a little instruction and observations to the GM.

Alan Trammell does the same and has been actively working with infielders on their skills. He recently spent time with Spencer Torkelson as the Tigers changed him back from a 3Ber to 1st base.

Jim Leyland does scouting of top prospects, assists in various hirings and spends every day during Spring Training watching games and taking notes as he sat with Al Avila. He is often seen in the GM?s suite at Comerica doing the same.

Willie Horton has morphed more and more into the goodwill ambassador but also connects with players on occasion at the personal level. He primarily attends special events.

In recent years, the Marlins fired all of their special advisors and fans became angry. In part, because of the way it was done and the lack of respect shown. But the Marlins did such because they wanted to change who was being heard by the decision-makers and not be mired down by the past.

How should the Tigers handle their special advisors going forward now that there is a new sheriff in town?

Today?s blog addresses this dilemma and allows readers to share their thoughts in more detail. And hopefully, to actively engage with others by responding to their posts and creating back-and-forth discussion threads. The more the merrier!

For this one blog only, you?ve got 6 sentences max to share your thoughts.
Of course, you can respond to as many other readers as you want.

TT will supply the ammunition. One thought-provoking question. Several options provided. One hard choice to be selected. One vote.
Ready?

What should Scott Harris do with the Tigers' special advisors?

1. Keep them in their current advisory roles.

2. Keep only some of them as advisors.

3. Eliminate all special advisors.

4. Take away job responsibilities and make the title honorary only.

VOTE
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/first-clues/
FIRST CLUES. This is a Great read.
Totally Tigers

New President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris, reminds me of a duck. Calm and quiet on the surface but paddling furiously under the water.

This is how it is whenever anyone new, from outside the organization, comes in. You?ve got to do a lot of work first before you can make changes that everyone else will see.

Harris took 3 weeks to complete an ?orientation? process as he called it. On his first full day, changes were made to the coaching staff. On the next day, another move. This time in the Front Office.

After that? Not much. But don?t get concerned.

The changes, they are a?comin?.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/saturday-survey-50/
SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

In an interview earlier this week, President of Baseball Operations Scott Harris made some revealing comments about the organization?s corporate culture. Since he was hired in September, Harris has been digging into the team?s structure and meeting with as many employees as possible.

He indicated that there has been a pervasive practice of stifling constructive discussion. That employees were dissuaded from offering feedback and that a system of analyzing decisions and their worth was non-existent.

That bad decisions remained because constructive criticism was not allowed.

That this practice was embraced and enforced by multiple employees, presumably those holding positions of power.

That trust was non-existent and that the organization suffered in an attempt to rebuild the team to any significant degree.

Here is Harris? quote:
?I think we need to create a relationship in which we are very comfortable giving each other feedback?. I also think we need to create relationships up and down the organization in which we are receiving a lot of feedback about some of the decisions we?re making and the culture we?re creating. If we can do that, if we can establish that trust up and down our front office, our ideas are going to be a little bit better, our decisions are going to be a little bit better, our in-game strategy is going to be a little bit better.?

Given this statement, to what extent did this type of corporate culture contribute to the Tigers? inability to progress in successfully rebuilding?
How much did the Tigers' suppression of feedback factor into their inability to successfully rebuild?

1. It was a huge factor.

2. It mattered to some extent.

3. It wasn't a factor at all.

VOTE
 
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