DETROIT -- Scott Harris spent much of Monday answering the same question in different forms: Did he do enough at the trade deadline to try to make the Detroit Tigers better?

Almost no one considered the possibility that he did too much .

The numbers suggest that if Harris had turned off his phone, ignored the trade chatter and trusted the roster that got him there, he and the Tigers might have been better off.

By trying to strengthen the Tigers with a wave of low-impact veteran arms, Harris may have actually weakened them. The deadline moves didn’t cost valuable prospects, but they cost innings, opportunity, and perhaps even some of the energy and cohesion that defined the team’s rise.

The Tigers’ season ended on Friday after a Game 5 loss to the Seattle Mariners in the AL Division

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