Tigers fans won't like reality of Scott Harris situation moving forward

An unfortunate trend is developing for the Detroit Tigers. Larger than the actual one playing out on the field where the Tigers' play, the way their season has been going has made it clear that, assuming health, Tarik Skubal is going to be traded this summer. But if Tigers fans are hoping that Scott Harris will be out of a job by the end of the season, there's an unfortunate reality they may be ignoring.

Setting aside the potential Skubal trade, assuming the Tigers don't turn their season around, it seems pretty clear that the Tigers are going to point to injuries as the reason for their failure this year.

There certainly is some truth in that assessment; the pitching staff has been thinned out with injuries, and as for position players, the team was constructed to go several weeks without Javier Báez, Gleyber Torres, Kerry Carpenter, and Parker Meadows.

In other words, the stage is set. Harris is going to have an end-of-the-season press conference in October and will suggest that injuries dug such a deep grave for Detroit early in the season that they couldn't climb out of it. Their likely will be some word salad mixed in, as a way for Harris to not sound completely tone-deaf in his projection of the Tigers' incompetence onto injuries.

The Tigers have a Scott Harris problem, and it won't end.

What is going to make things worse is that Harris is going to be afforded the opportunity to go through yet another rebuild. Again, injuries will be the excuse the Tigers provide, but that is ignoring the reality of the Tigers' resetting from Harris' previous iteration of a rebuild that resulted in the team failing to reach the ALCS.

It also ignores the hypocrisy in blaming the 2026 lows on injuries. In part because it was clear throughout the offseason that the Tigers needed another bat for their starting lineup. No, we're not just talking about Kevin McGonigle. But another established bat that could prevent the lulls that Detroit's offense had during the final two months of the 2025 season. If anything, the injuries have proven just how wrong Harris' roster construction was.

The Scott Harris problem isn't simmering for the Tigers anymore, it's boiling over. Making things worse, it doesn't appear that Harris is on the hot seat, despite his stink being all over the mess that the 2026 Tigers have become.

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