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Originally Posted by regularp
Blaming Ilitch is a cop-out for what Harris did this past offseason and trade deadline.
Ilitch didn't give Alex Cobb $15 million. Ilitch didn't trade for the remainder of Charlie Morton's $15 million salary. Ilitch isn't the one who signed Maeda, who has $10 million in dead money on the cap. It wasn't Ilitch who pushed to sign Kahnle for $7.75 million.
Ilitch isn't the one who has a reputation of being difficult to deal with among rival GMs with outrageous asking prices for his prospects. Ilitch didn't botch the E-Rod trade negotiations a couple years ago.
I haven't heard of an Ilitch mandate to not trade ANYONE worth a damn on the farm.
Do you think Ilitch is the one obsessed with going after old pitchers and hoping to wring one final season out of them?
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So has Ilitch allowed either GM to spend money? He got burned on Baez and never again. Both GM’s not surprisingly have the same philosophy “grow and promote within”! Where does that philosophy originate from? Who is hiring these GMs? Neither GM trades away their prospects for ready talent.
Within those constraints can they have acquired slightly better players possibly. However, players want to play in locations with better tax benefits or big markets where they can earn more money through marketing.