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Detroit Tigers Stock Up & Stock Down · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Another episode of Tiger Territory for the Powel Territory Network,
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Speaker 1: a podcast. I'm lip me as always the man pability
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Speaker 1: of a Rory. Yes, Stave and Hagen, How you doing?
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Speaker 2: Hey? Doing all right?
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Speaker 3: We are, I think entering the final holes in the
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Speaker 3: Masters here on Sunday. I'm personally going for Rory, but
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Speaker 3: uh open to anything here. Not feeling too passionate in
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Speaker 3: the back of the target field press box. Tigers lost
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Speaker 3: the series finale against the Twins, but you're nine and six,
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Speaker 3: you got another series win. I think things are going
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Speaker 3: very well for the Detroit Tigers right now. I continue
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Speaker 3: to be impressed. I think I'm more impressed with this
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Speaker 3: team than I was at any point in spring training
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Speaker 3: because they've come out in the regular season and they
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Speaker 3: have been in every game in a way. A five
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Speaker 3: to one loss yere was maybe the least competitive game
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Speaker 3: they've played so far this season. And it wasn't like
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Speaker 3: they got lown out. They just never quite mustard a
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Speaker 3: lot of momentum on offense. But you are nine and
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Speaker 3: six winner today, with the best record in the American League,
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Speaker 3: and they are continuing to find different ways to put
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Speaker 3: pressure on opponents, whether that's pitching well, whether that's running
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Speaker 3: the bases, doing a lot of little things, right, that
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Speaker 3: makes me really encourage right now, you couldn't ask for
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Speaker 3: a whole lot more to start this season.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 1: I think like one, what I'm grappling with Cody is
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how good I should feel. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because because because here's the thing, Like this schedule we
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Speaker 1: all looked at and we thought, you know, it was
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Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 4: It was kind of front loaded, you know to begin with.
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Speaker 1: And and by the way, you're you're gonna go to
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee and you're gonna play a team that was no
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Speaker 1: slash last season either, right, So like like the they're
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Speaker 1: the one cupcake if you would was the White Sox.
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Speaker 1: What did they just do? They just took two out
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Speaker 1: of three from the Red Sox, all right, So like
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Speaker 1: Baseball's we and the only thing that you can do
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Speaker 1: is kind of, like you said, do all those little things.
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Speaker 1: Do the stuff that is going to play itself out
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Speaker 1: to your benefit over one hundred and sixty two. The
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Speaker 1: difference is the Tigers had done those little things and
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Speaker 1: it's played to their benefit over fifteen. Right, So, like,
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Speaker 1: like you you think that these kind of things can continue.
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be slumps. There, there are slumps. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to get to that a little bit later. But I
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Speaker 1: I will say this, if the Tigers weren't like a
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Speaker 1: really random, if you want to call it, that surprising
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Speaker 1: point zero two percent playoff run last season, Like if
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Speaker 1: they had been like a little bit better than mediocre
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Speaker 1: for the previous three years, I'd be thinking, like, what's
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Speaker 1: the ceiling for this team?
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Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the stat that came up to speech,
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Speaker 3: the staff that came out like they're forty and nineteen
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Speaker 3: dating back to August eleventh, the last season, that's the
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Speaker 3: best stretch of Tigers baseball since late twenty eleven into
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Speaker 3: two Like that is how well they are playing, Like
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Speaker 3: last season doesn't actually matter. We talk about that a lot.
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Speaker 3: Not big believers in carryover, but it's not nothing. You know,
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Speaker 3: I think when you have you do have a little
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Speaker 3: bit of history to look at. And when the team
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Speaker 3: continues to come out and play well with guys injured,
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Speaker 3: it's it presents a good feeling like there's a roadmap
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Speaker 3: now that this team has for what success looks like.
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Speaker 3: And they have come out of the gate and largely
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Speaker 3: executed a lot of the important factors. They continue to
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Speaker 3: pitch well, continue to get They haven't blown the lead
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Speaker 3: yet this season. I think that's important to know what
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Speaker 3: the bullpen looks very good and the offense, you know,
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Speaker 3: whether it's big hits from Twurklsen. Yeah, you're a gett.
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Speaker 3: You're gonna have guys up and down throughout the season, right,
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Speaker 3: Zach mccinstry's probably not gonna have a thousand o ps
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Speaker 3: all year, Riley Green's not gonna be in a mired
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Speaker 3: and a horrible slump all year. But if you continue
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Speaker 3: to run the base as well. There again, I think
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Speaker 3: second in baseball in terms of going first to third.
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Speaker 3: If you cantinue to two smaller things like that, you're
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Speaker 3: setting yourself up in a pretty good position.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The way I would almost praise it is seasons don't
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Speaker 1: carry over, Cody, but ballplayers and coaches do, and their
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Speaker 1: messages do. And that's exactly what's happened. Like, it's not
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Speaker 1: momentum that's carried over, it's just them doing what they've
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Speaker 1: been doing. Like it's actually rather simple when you think
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Speaker 1: about it. Plus you're getting you know, better pitching from
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Speaker 1: Mies than you did. And and we'll talk about him
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Speaker 1: in a second, that he did at any time last year,
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Speaker 1: you know, the Glabor Torres edition, which we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: a little bit later. Like you have Jay hen More
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Speaker 1: in the mold, you have Dingler for a whole Like
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Speaker 1: it's it's not like you're lacking anything from last season,
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Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, who we talked about earlier this week. You're
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Speaker 1: not lacking anything from last season. You're actually kind of
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Speaker 1: maintaining and getting the games, including Torkalsen, who deserves a
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Speaker 1: ton of credit for for what he's been doing.
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Speaker 4: But I did want to.
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Speaker 1: I did want because we're fresh off of it. Cody
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Speaker 1: talk about the Casey mis aspect Casey Mice today.
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Speaker 4: Uh in my notes, Uh was there? I found it point?
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Speaker 4: I mean seven hits or earned.
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Speaker 1: Runs three k uh, something that I actually just felt
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Speaker 1: like a come back down to Earth game for Casey
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Speaker 1: Mice and which you still feel overall encouraged with.
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Speaker 4: With what you're getting out of him. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, on the mound, I thought, you know, I
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Speaker 1: thought the Twins honestly beat him more than he pitched.
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Speaker 4: Uh didn't pitch well?
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Speaker 1: I mean they went down and they kind of earned
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Speaker 1: their hits, and he had a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: bad ball in play. Overall, he gets the watch and
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Speaker 1: he earned it. But that I think he's still feel
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Speaker 1: pretty good about Case.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't even necessarily frame it as a comeback down
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Speaker 3: to Earth outing. I guess maybe come back down to
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Speaker 3: Earth in terms of the you know, the.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the stats, the overall vibe.
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Speaker 3: But his stuff I think was equally as good as
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Speaker 3: any outing of the season. The Twins were pretty aggressive
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Speaker 3: against him. They did put a lot of balls in play.
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Speaker 3: He still had a decent amount of whiffs, maybe not
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Speaker 3: quite to the level of his previous two starts, but
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Speaker 3: the swinging miss was there, the splitter was largely there.
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Speaker 3: He did give up two home run balls bad pitches
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Speaker 3: to Buston and Julian that got hit out of the park,
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Speaker 3: but otherwise he.
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Speaker 2: Was really good.
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Speaker 3: It was kind of a reminder of just how hard
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Speaker 3: it is to post five six scoreless every single time out.
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Speaker 3: It's just not going to happen. So if this is
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Speaker 3: something close to an off day, you will take it.
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Speaker 3: Case he said after his start, you know, I think
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Speaker 3: if I pitched that level or the course the thirty starts,
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Speaker 3: the results are going to be pretty good, and I
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Speaker 3: tend to agree. So even though they lost, even though
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Speaker 3: Casey gives up four and runs, I'm just encouraged that
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Speaker 3: the fastball is still playing, the splitters still there. There's
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Speaker 3: evidence that these multiple sliders can work. I just chalk
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Speaker 3: it up to baseball today. I still feel just as
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Speaker 3: good about Casey mis as I did before this outing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, overall overall.
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Speaker 1: Like I agree, and and again like I Casey the
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Speaker 1: stoic guy, I'm like reading his emotions as these things
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Speaker 1: are happening in real time, and you could tell like
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Speaker 1: he's pod out himself because he just missed as opposed
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Speaker 1: to being po because it's a miss if that, and
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Speaker 1: that's kind of like.
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Speaker 4: The way that I would phrase it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna continue talking about what we saw this past weekend, Cody,
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So the the it was the back half of the rotation,
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Speaker 1: back two thirds, if you want to say, of the
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Speaker 1: of the rotation three fits, I should say of the rotation,
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Speaker 1: uh this weekend Cody and the the guy that we
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Speaker 1: saw on Saturday, Jackson Joe. There's nothing but glowing things
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Speaker 1: to say about what he did. Jackson Joe. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do a little bit of a of a
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Speaker 1: game like stock up, stock down, a little spoiler alert
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Speaker 1: Jackson Joe stock up all right, six innings, two hits,
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Speaker 1: two k zero runs, his first professional win. Kind of
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Speaker 1: a week of first we just talked about Casey Meys
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Speaker 1: his first win at America right so recently, so like
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Speaker 1: we first career win for Jackson Joe. Congraduate, But man,
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Speaker 1: was he fun to watch on Saturday to clinch a
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Speaker 1: series victory for the Tigers against the divisional Flow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know.
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Speaker 3: Sarahs at The Athletic had included Job in a recent
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Speaker 3: article talked about pictures whose results so far ahead not
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Speaker 3: match what you would expect based on their stuff. Plus,
9:17
Speaker 3: we've talked about how Job has an elite stuff plus
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Speaker 3: metric right now. The characteristics of his pitches suggest he
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Speaker 3: is going to be an all star caliber pitcher at
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Speaker 3: some point in his career.
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Speaker 2: I mean literally right now.
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Speaker 3: That's how good his stuff already is, and it's the
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Speaker 3: execution that had to be better. I think the execution
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Speaker 3: was a lot better from Job this weekend. The thing
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Speaker 3: that stood out to me was just the command fastball
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Speaker 3: and sinker arm side into right handed hitters all day.
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Speaker 3: He pounded them, He made that work, made them work,
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Speaker 3: and I think that opened up the cutter, slash slider
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Speaker 3: on the outer half of the plate's righties. He was
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Speaker 3: able to do a lot of different things there. In
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Speaker 3: a way, it's almost the reverse of the mind. Because
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Speaker 3: Job got great results and he looked much improved its
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Speaker 3: easily as best execution. I kind of left like, gosh,
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Speaker 3: there's still much still so much meat on the bone
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Speaker 3: left for this kid. He only strike out two batters
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Speaker 3: the fastball, although he commanded it well. It had an
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Speaker 3: eleven percent cold strike with ray that's like not gonna fly.
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Speaker 3: And then he made an effort to mixing the curveball
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Speaker 3: a little bit more. He didn't get any whiffs on
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Speaker 3: the curveball. He did steal three strikes with it. That
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Speaker 3: curveball is still a work in progress.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: We saw him struggle to get out of some two
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Speaker 3: strike counts early in the outing. The pitch count was
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Speaker 3: up there through two innings, and then he really dialed in.
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Speaker 3: He went right at guys, got some weak contact, so
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Speaker 3: it was okay. He wasn't necessarily missing bats or generating
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Speaker 3: cold strikes with the fastball. It's still a pitch that,
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Speaker 3: in theory, is only going to get better and get
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Speaker 3: better results if he commands it. If he can lock
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Speaker 3: in this curveball a little bit to miss some more bats,
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Speaker 3: I think that maybe the next step for him. But
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Speaker 3: really this was a reminder that leaving pitches down the middle,
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Speaker 3: and if he is an issuing walks, it's just gonna
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Speaker 3: be tough for anyone to square him.
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Speaker 1: No, that's a good point because like what what I
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Speaker 1: had talked about previously with Joe was he had like
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Speaker 1: the pitching ninja highlight outings and it wasn't like a
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Speaker 1: complete start.
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Speaker 4: And what we had.
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Speaker 1: Here was less of the ninja stuff, although we you
11:23
Speaker 1: know it did happen, don't get me wrong, but less
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Speaker 1: of the pitching ninja stuff and more of just kind
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Speaker 1: of the boring stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and and and I would I think I think
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Speaker 4: Jack that.
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Speaker 1: Might be like the weird battle for Joe this season,
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Speaker 1: and and and I'm gonna start looking at it from
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Speaker 1: that framework, not necessarily like he's a guy who lacks
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Speaker 1: details or the Tigers certainly aren't a staff a coaching
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Speaker 1: staff that uh, you know, kind of skips on the details.
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Speaker 1: But when this stuff is that naturally great like that,
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Speaker 1: you you there's a tendency to rely on it.
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Speaker 4: Just in general.
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Speaker 1: This is like this, this is across the board for
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Speaker 1: pitchers that are all athletes really, and the technical things
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Speaker 1: come later. He's only a rookie, he's only had a
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Speaker 1: couple of starts, so we're not expecting this to happen overnight.
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Speaker 1: But the quicker that some of that command stuff, So
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Speaker 1: some of that, you know, even if you just want
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Speaker 1: to put it simply just not missing middle, like the quicker,
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Speaker 1: that's that happens more often the faster he's gonna ascend,
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Speaker 1: because because then all that natural stuff that we all
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Speaker 1: google gaga over is gonna is gonna like, you know,
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Speaker 1: take it away. So like I I'm a fan of
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Speaker 1: boring outings from Jackson Joe.
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Speaker 4: I think if we.
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Speaker 1: If he has like like a like a three to
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Speaker 1: two ratio of boring outings with with the Holy s
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Speaker 1: stuff outings.
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Speaker 4: I think he might.
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Speaker 1: I think he might win Rookie of the Year like that,
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Speaker 1: like like seriously, like that's the kind of that's the
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Speaker 1: kind of thing that you honestly should be looking for.
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Speaker 4: And and and that's what we had.
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Speaker 1: Today again Divisional on the road against the team that
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Speaker 1: is chop full of of talented hitters. On a side
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Speaker 1: note on that, Cody, I'm pretty happy to not have
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Speaker 1: the Debt or Wallner uh in the outfield anymore. I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty I'm pretty over that. I'm pretty over them just
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Speaker 1: going after every ball. That's just like a side note.
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Speaker 1: That's nothing do with Jackson job obviously, but they're fun
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Speaker 1: to watch, don't get me wrong. They're just not fun
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Speaker 1: when you're looking for the other team to have some
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Speaker 1: hits drop.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, no, I a couple other little notes
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Speaker 3: on Joe. It feels like he hasn't had all that
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Speaker 3: great of a start to the season, right Uh.
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Speaker 2: He has a.
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Speaker 3: Solid three flat ERA, and if his ERA is anywhere
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Speaker 3: under three five, he's going to be a legit candidate
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Speaker 3: for Rookie of the Year. Also, thought that was our
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Speaker 3: first look at Tomas Needo with the Tigers. He caught
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Speaker 3: that game, obviously up for the injured Jake Rodgers thought
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Speaker 3: Nedo did great navigating chill, maybe a little bit more experience.
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Speaker 3: Was almost nice as I knocking Dylon Tingler or Jake
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Speaker 3: Rogers or anyoney. But a j Hinch told joke before
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Speaker 3: the game, like, hey, this guy's caught Jacob Jagrau, all right,
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Speaker 3: Like he knows what he's doing. Just trust him, And
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Speaker 3: I think it came out like Job didn't shake him
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Speaker 3: a single time. Nito was not afraid to keep calling
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Speaker 3: that fastball and to be aggressive. Was interesting with how
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Speaker 3: he mixed in the curve ball. You know, Nedo's probably
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Speaker 3: just here until Jake is back and healthy. I think
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Speaker 3: it was kind of a reminder of like how lucky
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Speaker 3: the Tigers were to get a guy like that as
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Speaker 3: their third catcher. This is this is I think even
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Speaker 3: a tier above kind of some of the normal journeymen
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Speaker 3: that you might see fill that role, Like Tamasino was
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Speaker 3: a big leaguer and like he knows what's up. He
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Speaker 3: was a Gold Glove finalist before first look at him.
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Speaker 2: Was pretty encouraging.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, and you know, happy late birthday
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Speaker 1: to Thomas and it was a It was it was
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Speaker 1: fun to kind of see, like, you know, the old
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Speaker 1: Wiley kind of journeyman type with the hot shot. You know,
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Speaker 1: like that's one of the things that I love you
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Speaker 1: about baseball when you get you know, sort of matchups, mashups.
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Speaker 4: I should say like that, so you know, shout out Thomas.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't happen without him, that's for dang sure. And
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Speaker 1: again it's not like they've got multiple years of minor
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Speaker 1: league experience going for them in terms of chemistry and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. All right, we're gonna get to our game.
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Speaker 1: Not to be like down Cody, but I do feel
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Speaker 1: like the more prevalent stock up stock down would be
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Speaker 1: a stock down for one Riley Green. This is a
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Speaker 1: guy listeners know you and I are very high on.
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Speaker 1: I think the ceiling is it's pretty high for him.
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Speaker 1: The floor is also high. Right now, the floor is
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Speaker 1: kind of coming out from underneath him at the plate
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Speaker 1: he did now We'll give him credit. He did make
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Speaker 1: a nice kind of diving catch in center field this weekend,
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Speaker 1: so I'll make note of that, but it doesn't change
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's My numbers are correct one for
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Speaker 1: twenty four, one for his last twenty four, I should say,
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Speaker 1: and that's about a week span, and he's got fourteen k's.
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Speaker 4: I think I have that correctly.
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Speaker 1: It's just he does not look he does not look
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Speaker 1: comfortable like he I don't think he's seen.
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Speaker 4: The ball as well.
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Speaker 1: There are pitches today that I thought there's a different
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Speaker 1: time of year. He's crushing that, and it's just not
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Speaker 1: happening for him right now. So you kind of have
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Speaker 1: you kind of have to just say what it is.
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Speaker 1: He is struggling, Riley Green struggling right now.
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Speaker 4: Stockdown.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I posted a chart on X that looks at his
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Speaker 3: rolling ops throughout his career, and it really kind of
17:48
Speaker 3: highlights some of the brutal slump seas encountered in a
17:51
Speaker 3: short time. So what's a short time in the big leagues?
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Speaker 3: Like I said last episode, I think the whole entering
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Speaker 3: this year, he's gotten All Star season under his belt,
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Speaker 3: little more experience, you would hope maybe he could kind
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Speaker 3: of smooth out the valleys a little bit, and obviously
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Speaker 3: that's a lot easier said than done.
18:08
Speaker 2: He's really going through it right now.
18:09
Speaker 3: Talking to Riley after I believe it's a three punch
18:12
Speaker 3: out game, there's like, yeah, I'm just missing pitches middle, middle,
18:16
Speaker 3: Like I don't know what's up just watching him. I
18:18
Speaker 3: think it's simple, like he's his head's in the first
18:22
Speaker 3: base dugout half the time. It's like the Little League,
18:24
Speaker 3: like keep your eye on the ball type thing. So
18:27
Speaker 3: maybe he's trying to do a little too much. I
18:29
Speaker 3: don't know, kind of respected his method of getting right.
18:31
Speaker 3: He was intersing a couple of cores lights after the game,
18:34
Speaker 3: so you know, maybe that's all it'll take to clear
18:37
Speaker 3: the mechanism.
18:38
Speaker 2: You know, Riley holds himself to a very high standard
18:41
Speaker 2: as a hitter.
18:41
Speaker 3: I think he was frustrated, but in another way, he
18:46
Speaker 3: has been through this before and he does know how
18:48
Speaker 3: to get out of it, and I wonder if experience
18:51
Speaker 3: will play any factor and maybe helping him snap out
18:54
Speaker 3: of this a little bit clicker quicker, because you definitely
18:57
Speaker 3: don't want to see it linger any more than it
18:59
Speaker 3: already has.
19:01
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, It's one of those things that it feels good,
19:05
Speaker 1: like if you're the Tigers to get wins and when
19:08
Speaker 1: two series amidst this like like cold as the Rocky Mountains,
19:13
Speaker 1: there's your pun scratch that that Riley Green is on
19:18
Speaker 1: his bat is going blue.
19:20
Speaker 4: Just kidding, all right, I'm done.
19:21
Speaker 1: But the thing is like it's not going to last.
19:27
Speaker 1: So the fact that you're still winning games is encouraging.
19:30
Speaker 1: But the but the bottom line is like it's this
19:35
Speaker 1: has to have an expiration day. I'm sure it will,
19:37
Speaker 1: but I'm just staying in the office.
19:39
Speaker 4: Obvious. It has to have an expiration date, all right, So.
19:42
Speaker 1: We we we did a stock up for job already,
19:46
Speaker 1: so that we've got that a crime Cody, a crime
19:50
Speaker 1: was committed by the fact that we have not talked
19:53
Speaker 1: about specialtorcal Sin yet other than a passing mentioned.
19:56
Speaker 4: Uh, he'd probably be pissed.
19:58
Speaker 1: He'd probably be so pissed that he would hit our
19:59
Speaker 1: head heads into the upper deck of target field there
20:03
Speaker 1: because he is hitting the ball like he's mad at it,
20:07
Speaker 1: all right, Like it is so much fun to watch
20:10
Speaker 1: his home run today, Like he's like po to himself
20:14
Speaker 1: for missing a couple of fastballs. And then he gets
20:16
Speaker 1: another one and he he like hits himself in the
20:20
Speaker 1: head after a home run, like he like like he's
20:22
Speaker 1: still upset. And there was another thing too, Cody on Friday,
20:27
Speaker 1: I think it was in the sixth inning, he has
20:29
Speaker 1: two near home runs that just go foul, and like
20:36
Speaker 1: the emotional kind of like h of that in the past,
20:41
Speaker 1: and probably most ballplayers probably you're you're out of that
20:44
Speaker 1: at bat to go to get almost get a home
20:47
Speaker 1: run twice, you're out, like there's no way you're getting
20:50
Speaker 1: a base hit.
20:50
Speaker 4: You're certainly not hitting a home run.
20:52
Speaker 1: Torks gets a walk there, and I thought, that's a
20:55
Speaker 1: little thing that I'm looking for growth wise out of
20:58
Speaker 1: Spencer Torrelson. Is that like as a man who's been
21:01
Speaker 1: through some highs and certainly some lows in this game.
21:05
Speaker 1: And that at bat he missed a home run twice,
21:08
Speaker 1: still came back, still worked, it, still got on base.
21:11
Speaker 1: I thought that was a big moment and I had
21:13
Speaker 1: that written down already. Then he goes it hits two
21:15
Speaker 1: home runs on one on Friday, one on Sunday, and
21:17
Speaker 1: it makes it.
21:18
Speaker 4: Seem like a small moment, but I thought that was
21:19
Speaker 4: a big moment too. Specier total sent.
21:21
Speaker 1: You look at the county numbers across the board for
21:24
Speaker 1: this team, he's leading him in pretty much everything except
21:27
Speaker 1: for triples, I think so Specier. Tortle sent five doubles too,
21:30
Speaker 1: by way to go with five home runs.
21:32
Speaker 4: He's killing it.
21:34
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:35
Speaker 3: Talking about that at a bat with the foul balls,
21:36
Speaker 3: even Torque was like, I feel like, normally for a hitter,
21:39
Speaker 3: whether it's me someone else, you watch that.
21:41
Speaker 2: And it didn't in a strikeout.
21:42
Speaker 3: Sure enough, his his at bat where he broke the
21:45
Speaker 3: Joe Mauer retired number thing out there a couple a
21:48
Speaker 3: couple of years back.
21:50
Speaker 2: That didn't do his strikeout, not anymore.
21:52
Speaker 3: He worked at he took the walk Beyond that, like
21:55
Speaker 3: his homer Sunday was a hitter's pitch that he crushed.
21:59
Speaker 3: But he continues to just cover the entire plate. He
22:03
Speaker 3: is driving pitches all over the place, balls away, falls
22:07
Speaker 3: down the middle. I just can't be more impressed. Yeah,
22:12
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot to say about it because
22:14
Speaker 3: he's only been hot and hitting since since the start
22:17
Speaker 3: of the regular season, but it hasn't really cooled off.
22:19
Speaker 2: Every now and then there's been one at bat.
22:21
Speaker 3: Maybe he'll miss a middle middle pitch or something you're like,
22:23
Speaker 3: oh boy, is this gonna happen? Is Towork can refer
22:26
Speaker 3: to his old ways and so far just hasn't happened.
22:29
Speaker 3: Five home runs easily the quickest he's ever reached five
22:33
Speaker 3: homers in a season.
22:34
Speaker 2: So it's so kudos dispense.
22:37
Speaker 1: The fun thing about Tork is that, uh, he's been
22:41
Speaker 1: those lows have been so low. Is that I don't
22:44
Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna get over there, get ahead of their
22:47
Speaker 1: skis if you would.
22:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'll tell you this, I'm fighting it. I'm
22:52
Speaker 4: fighting it. God, I say I'm fighting it.
22:56
Speaker 1: So we gotta go with a stock down of of
23:00
Speaker 1: of reesulson, balls and strikes. People are gonna bring up
23:04
Speaker 1: from the home plate perspective, Cody, but bomb line is
23:08
Speaker 1: he was out before the end of the fifth inning,
23:11
Speaker 1: four earned runs, three k's, three.
23:14
Speaker 4: Walks to go with it.
23:17
Speaker 1: There's if you're a hipster and you never really like
23:20
Speaker 1: all in on rees Aulston, like you you're feeling like
23:23
Speaker 1: a pretty good about yourself. I still I still believe
23:27
Speaker 1: in Reese, but he's clearly fifth in the hierarchy of
23:29
Speaker 1: this rotation.
23:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, if Resulsen is the fifth in the hierarchy of
23:35
Speaker 3: your rotation. At this point the season, you should feel
23:37
Speaker 3: pretty good about your rotation. I think he obviously has
23:40
Speaker 3: not been his sharpest, but we've seen him have a
23:42
Speaker 3: lot of success in the major league level.
23:44
Speaker 2: We know it's in there.
23:46
Speaker 3: The pure stuff on some of his pitches is maybe
23:48
Speaker 3: not quite as nasty as these other guys. That puts
23:51
Speaker 3: a little more premium on his ability to execute, and
23:54
Speaker 3: he just hasn't quite executed so far.
23:56
Speaker 2: But look, the.
23:56
Speaker 3: Change up is still there. The change up can still
23:58
Speaker 3: be very difficult for hitters to square up, let alone
24:02
Speaker 3: make contact with.
24:03
Speaker 2: Uh.
24:03
Speaker 3: He just can't be getting behind in counts. I think
24:06
Speaker 3: he really struggled to get ahead. He really struggled to
24:08
Speaker 3: stay ahead. He struggled to put away hitters. It was
24:11
Speaker 3: a little bit of a tedious outing. It was a
24:12
Speaker 3: very long game. I was like, come on, he just
24:15
Speaker 3: throw a strike one, and then he started throwing some
24:17
Speaker 3: strike ones, and then then it'd be two, one, three, one,
24:20
Speaker 3: and like, come on, come on. I think it was
24:22
Speaker 3: just one of those nights for him. We haven't quite
24:24
Speaker 3: seen him dial anything in. I asked if there was
24:26
Speaker 3: anything specific he felt like he was fighting mechanically.
24:29
Speaker 2: He didn't quite point anything out, but I'm.
24:31
Speaker 3: Sure he will confer with Chris Fetter, with Robin Land,
24:34
Speaker 3: and I will be interested interested to see what kind
24:38
Speaker 3: of adjustment he think he makes.
24:41
Speaker 2: I'm far from concerned with him at this point.
24:44
Speaker 1: All Right, A couple couple quick stock up just enter
24:49
Speaker 1: malloy diving catch in the outfield today.
24:51
Speaker 4: All right?
24:52
Speaker 2: Like it not the best route I've ever seen, trying.
24:57
Speaker 4: To ruin the stock up coach.
25:02
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is, like, is it stock up I got?
25:05
Speaker 3: I mean, I love me some j in, but I
25:07
Speaker 3: think he's stocked down for me right now. He's starting
25:09
Speaker 3: to go through it quietly at the plate too.
25:11
Speaker 4: Well, that was part of it.
25:13
Speaker 1: That's why I specifically said that he had a diving
25:15
Speaker 1: catch in the outfield, not a not an overall week of.
25:19
Speaker 4: Stock up for just Alloy.
25:21
Speaker 1: But the thing is you you have to have him
25:23
Speaker 1: in the outfield in order for this roster to be maximized,
25:26
Speaker 1: Like you have to feel comfortable about him in the
25:27
Speaker 1: outfield at times in order for this roster to be maximized.
25:30
Speaker 1: And so like, all right, there there was something not
25:33
Speaker 1: gonna overplay it, but it was something slight stock up
25:39
Speaker 1: Carry Carpenter. What if I told you that Carry Carpenter
25:41
Speaker 1: is hitting two thirty one against lefty so far this year, Cody,
25:45
Speaker 1: what if I told.
25:46
Speaker 4: You that he's hitting two nineteen against righties?
25:49
Speaker 2: And that would surprise me?
25:50
Speaker 1: And and it's two and two with the home runs
25:53
Speaker 1: for uh for Carry Carpenter. So a little little little
25:56
Speaker 1: little up, little little up for carry a gets lefty
25:59
Speaker 1: just a little A guy who's like.
26:02
Speaker 2: You need him to hit better than two nineteen against
26:04
Speaker 2: right You do?
26:05
Speaker 4: You do?
26:06
Speaker 1: And and it's somebody that like, I still can't get
26:09
Speaker 1: my arms around what the start to his season has been.
26:12
Speaker 1: Like I just I keep going and back and forth
26:15
Speaker 1: on so many different variables with Kerry Carpenter. Obviously, you
26:19
Speaker 1: like have him in the line up there at the
26:21
Speaker 1: top and you and you need him, and he does
26:23
Speaker 1: enough of the highlight stuff.
26:24
Speaker 3: But it's like, I think he might be close to
26:27
Speaker 3: getting locked in on a little bit of a different level,
26:29
Speaker 3: especially against right handers.
26:31
Speaker 2: He's he's I think showing some good signs to play.
26:33
Speaker 4: There you go.
26:34
Speaker 1: So I stuck up to Hobby or Baias, who recently
26:37
Speaker 1: had a five game hit streak, Snap that's okay. He's like,
26:41
Speaker 1: as we talked about earlier, he has been a positive
26:45
Speaker 1: for this team. And let's do a stock down for
26:51
Speaker 1: smooth ninth innings, Cody, because the on Friday, who was it?
26:59
Speaker 2: It was?
27:00
Speaker 4: It was Canley?
27:01
Speaker 1: Canley, right, gives up the run and and and gives
27:04
Speaker 1: up you know, get some traffic there, a little bit
27:07
Speaker 1: uneasy and then hand or not hand to fee Uh
27:10
Speaker 1: sorry my note Reba on Saturday gives up the line
27:15
Speaker 1: or it's a line out, but it was sharply hit. Obviously,
27:17
Speaker 1: nice works played by Torque there and then the double
27:20
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, were about to like
27:22
Speaker 1: have to have like a little bit of a harder
27:25
Speaker 1: conversation about this ninth any No, a couple of k's
27:28
Speaker 1: to end it out. But first two at bats weren't
27:30
Speaker 1: necessarily the most encouraging, just in a very you know,
27:33
Speaker 1: just in the moment there, and you know, there's a
27:35
Speaker 1: reason that a J. Hinch looks at four just like
27:38
Speaker 1: I do looks at four runs as a quote unquote
27:40
Speaker 1: safe situation. Uh sweeps, sweeps, stock down. You had a
27:44
Speaker 1: chance to sweep twice this week, and you could so
27:47
Speaker 1: stock down for sweeps and he also for picking the
27:51
Speaker 1: closer of this team, Cody, because Canlee and Herder two
27:56
Speaker 1: each saves.
27:58
Speaker 2: So h three innings save is a little bit different.
28:02
Speaker 2: I think.
28:03
Speaker 3: I think Kinley's clearly your go to option for the
28:06
Speaker 3: ninth inning in a safe situation right now. But I
28:09
Speaker 3: like Brenton Herder with the old school fireman save. That's uh,
28:13
Speaker 3: that's that's kind of cool.
28:15
Speaker 4: Uh.
28:15
Speaker 1: And a couple guys we had talked about earlier in
28:17
Speaker 1: the week but want to make mentioned Zach McKinstry stuck
28:21
Speaker 1: up and then also h Dylan Dingler, who had himself
28:25
Speaker 1: three hits on Friday, was hit list today, I believe,
28:29
Speaker 1: but still like he like he continued, it makes you
28:32
Speaker 1: feel good about the catcher position, so I wanted to
28:34
Speaker 1: give him some credit. And look, we've talked about cold
28:37
Speaker 1: Keith col Keith did have three hits over the weekend,
28:40
Speaker 1: including a ribby, So uh, if where's it coming, I'll know.
28:48
Speaker 2: Stucks it stucks, not up.
28:50
Speaker 3: You know a couple I think, yeah, I think kind
28:53
Speaker 3: of a hold a couple more perplexing plays in the field.
28:56
Speaker 2: I guess just.
28:57
Speaker 4: One, uh weird one.
29:00
Speaker 2: He did have a couple of bats. He hit a
29:01
Speaker 2: couple of balls hard. He also hit a lot of
29:03
Speaker 2: balls back to the picture.
29:05
Speaker 3: I'm I'm yeah, like I'm still I think it's going
29:08
Speaker 3: to be in there with cold. He's finding ways to
29:10
Speaker 3: be somewhat productive despite clearly being off. But you're starting
29:14
Speaker 3: to see the frustration and I think on his face
29:16
Speaker 3: more and more. He does eventually have to hit the
29:19
Speaker 3: ball to right field. Kieran, That's what I'm kind of
29:22
Speaker 3: waiting to see, and it just hasn't happened yet.
29:25
Speaker 2: He's he's gonna have to get it figured out.
29:28
Speaker 3: But guess what, he didn't get sent down to Toledo,
29:30
Speaker 3: and guess what, he's not getting sent down to Toledo
29:32
Speaker 3: anytime soon.
29:34
Speaker 1: Well, let's we'll do a fan dual Sports Network players
29:38
Speaker 1: spotlight on one Labor Torres who did come back this weekend?
29:42
Speaker 4: Who did?
29:44
Speaker 1: We wasn't sure that was something was going to happen, Cody,
29:47
Speaker 1: but you know they made an official Brewer gets right
29:51
Speaker 1: before they play. The Brewers gets shit packed down to
29:55
Speaker 1: get hits. It back down to Toledo to make room
29:58
Speaker 1: for Labor. Labor for his his efforts at three hits
30:01
Speaker 1: in two games this weekend. The reason that he's our
30:04
Speaker 1: player spotlight is that, like, this is somebody who is
30:07
Speaker 1: a key part of your offense and all the you know,
30:11
Speaker 1: winning streaks or winning habits that have come have come
30:14
Speaker 1: largely without him because of the injury. So like it's
30:19
Speaker 1: I think it's still something that people need to see, like, oh,
30:22
Speaker 1: that is why he is Like he was a fifteen
30:26
Speaker 1: million dollar guy that the Tigers were willing to shift
30:29
Speaker 1: around their configuration in the infield. Four Uh So that's
30:32
Speaker 1: why he's a player spotlight, not because he hasn't done it,
30:35
Speaker 1: like like he's failed to do it. It's just that
30:37
Speaker 1: he hasn't done it just because of the injury. And
30:39
Speaker 1: he is a relatively everyday guy, so I wouldn't expect
30:43
Speaker 1: him to have very many il stints knock on wood there,
30:46
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been impressed with Glaber here and his baseball
31:11
Speaker 3: IQ I think has been a little bit higher than
31:13
Speaker 3: I would have expected.
31:15
Speaker 2: Like the defense, we've already seen hints of that.
31:18
Speaker 3: Actually, like not being very good at the base running,
31:21
Speaker 3: he's been like great on the bases, which isn't his reputation,
31:25
Speaker 3: but he has a very good feel for the game,
31:28
Speaker 3: it seems.
31:28
Speaker 2: I think he's been a good influence on.
31:30
Speaker 3: Some of the younger guys, even on Javier baias they're
31:33
Speaker 3: conferring before and after at bats. He's Yeah, Glaber is
31:38
Speaker 3: a pro. I've been very impressed in my little time
31:41
Speaker 3: around him. We know he's a good hitter bringing positive
31:45
Speaker 3: things to this team. If he's able to continue to
31:47
Speaker 3: stay to stay on the field, and if he keeps
31:49
Speaker 3: running the bases like this, that's one of the things
31:52
Speaker 3: that stands out from this series.
31:53
Speaker 2: Like Matt Wallner, Twins right.
31:55
Speaker 3: Fielder has a great arm, like ninety seven ninety ninth percentile,
32:00
Speaker 3: can throw the ball up to ninety seven from the outfield.
32:03
Speaker 3: Hearing the Tigers ran all over him, and part of
32:06
Speaker 3: that was just a mentality, if it's first to third,
32:08
Speaker 3: we don't care who it is we're sending them. Part
32:09
Speaker 3: of it was little things. I think it was torqu
32:12
Speaker 3: who tagged up. He tagged up because of how high
32:15
Speaker 3: the ball was hit in the air, they thought it
32:17
Speaker 3: would be. That's how closely they're looking at it. The
32:20
Speaker 3: higher the ball is, the difficult it's going to be
32:22
Speaker 3: for the fielder to generate momentum for the plate, make
32:25
Speaker 3: a quick release, make a strong thriller. So they saw
32:28
Speaker 3: that ball high in the air, they said, tork, here
32:29
Speaker 3: going he went. He challenged ballmer's arm, He scored the
32:33
Speaker 3: Tigers continue. They are doing a lot of these little
32:36
Speaker 3: things better than we have seen from this group before.
32:40
Speaker 1: Well, little things that are paying off right now and
32:43
Speaker 1: hopefully put you in prime position when you have something
32:46
Speaker 1: close to a complete team, which Laura knows.
32:49
Speaker 4: When that will happen.
32:50
Speaker 1: But if they can continue to stack series wins like this,
32:55
Speaker 1: they're going to have to be taken. I think they're
32:58
Speaker 1: taken seriously by all of the league, but I think
33:01
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to start looking at them in a
33:03
Speaker 1: slightly another tier at this continues, so we'll see what
33:06
Speaker 1: happens in Milwaukee, but back to back series wins against
33:09
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33:34
Speaker 1: very exciting and it's only April thirteen, so who knows
33:38
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