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Detroit Tigers Close April With Powerful Win · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network at Tiger's Podcast. I'm here Steckley
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  Speaker 1: with me as always a man who I had one
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  Speaker 1: hundred of them, like my chances against the Gorilla. He
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  Speaker 1: is Cody Staveds.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing good, Tarn. A nice little win for
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  Speaker 2: the Tigers today, right?
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  Speaker 3: I about the Hobby bayas Grand Slam a Colt Keith Homer.
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  Speaker 3: My bold prediction it wouldn't take until May twenty fourth
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  Speaker 3: for Colt to Homer this year.
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  Speaker 2: It did take until you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, April thirtieth, but hey, he got it out of
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  Speaker 3: the way and it was good and kind of important
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  Speaker 3: to see. And the Tigers avoid the sweep from the Astros.
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  Speaker 3: Now you got the Angels, now you got the Rockies.
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  Speaker 3: You want to improve that road record. You have a
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  Speaker 3: few games going coming up that should give you a
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  Speaker 3: chance to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, today was was oddly a like a
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  Speaker 1: sets of urgency A little bit you could tell like
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't a whole lot of fooling around.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You obviously you get down what's one pitch in? Right?
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  Speaker 1: You get down one pitch in and you get the
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  Speaker 1: lead back quickly with that cold Keith monster shot, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, not just any old home run that like
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  Speaker 1: you said, that was good to see. And then and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, kind of Hobby doing Hobby. That's a
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  Speaker 1: ball off the plate, that's that's a pitch that you
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  Speaker 1: know in triple A. It's not resulting in a home
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  Speaker 1: run a whole lot, you know, but you you give
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  Speaker 1: Hobby an inch and he takes a mile. Sometimes sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you give him an inch and he swings for a mile.
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  Speaker 1: But right now it's all positive for Hobby. He's a
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  Speaker 1: basically a three hundred. We're gonna talk about him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later because I think there's a larger picture
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  Speaker 1: thing with with Hobby that nobody's talking about that I
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  Speaker 1: think is worth just kind of like, you know, throwing
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  Speaker 1: out there, thrown out there a little bit. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good tease right there. So but yeah, seven four
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  Speaker 1: victory today Wednesday goes you feel good going to Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Angels of Anaheim. And and I thought I thought
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  Speaker 1: today like he kind of needed to get like a
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  Speaker 1: different dose of an experience. So what I mean by
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  Speaker 1: that is you were down early, like I said, earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and then you take the lead and then you it's
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  Speaker 1: you fending them off, as opposed to what happened on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: where you're you're down the majority of the game and
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  Speaker 1: then you kind of make this late little comeback. This
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  Speaker 1: was by no means a you know, seamless victory that
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  Speaker 1: did get dicey there for a little bit. Tommy Ganley
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  Speaker 1: comes in, U shuts the door down. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we just start with Jackson Joe because he
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  Speaker 1: was our FanDuel player spotlight, and and Jackson Joe continues
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  Speaker 1: to kind of be a guy that is figuring out.
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  Speaker 1: And I almost and I don't know him personally, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anything about his like personality or anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: but I almost don't want him out there with a
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  Speaker 1: big lead. It was in his in his young career,
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  Speaker 1: and his young career, it's already happened twice where he's
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  Speaker 1: early on gotten a big lead his first start of
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  Speaker 1: the season, and this just this just happened there. Because
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a natural human element to being up
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  Speaker 1: seven to one, and and I think, and especially on
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  Speaker 1: the road, like the crowds out of it, there's not
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  Speaker 1: there's not like as much on every pitch and I
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  Speaker 1: and both those happened on the road. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of want to see him like kind
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  Speaker 1: of pitch in tighter situations as much as possible early on,
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  Speaker 1: because I think that's gonna pay off more down the line.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked, we talked about him, you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: all thinking about stuff with him down the line yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna pay off for him down the line a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more than you know get you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to just kind of starve off any desperate attempts during
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  Speaker 1: blowouts or whatever where there's just so much time and
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  Speaker 1: then you and then the calculation with the bullpen is
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  Speaker 1: ever changing because it's like do we really want to
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  Speaker 1: use these arms? Oh now, now we have to start
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  Speaker 1: using these arms. And I just I want to see
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  Speaker 1: him pitch in tighter games, if that makes sense. This
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  Speaker 1: is like when when you're still in April and now May.
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  Speaker 1: That's just a theory I have.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to see him pitch in general.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I get why the Tigers did this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pushing him back, but twelve days between starts. Today he
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  Speaker 3: looked to me like a guy who hadn't thrown in
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  Speaker 3: twelve days.
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  Speaker 2: He was just a little bit rusty.
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  Speaker 3: I think four walks that we're kind of the killer
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  Speaker 3: for his day. He didn't use the curveball at all,
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  Speaker 3: or he threw one, which I guess was part of
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  Speaker 3: the game plan. Heston's got a pretty right handed lineup,
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  Speaker 3: but that's still kind of waiting for that pitch to
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  Speaker 3: click that was supposed to be the big thing for
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  Speaker 3: him hasn't quite happened yet. I didn't have any other
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  Speaker 3: strong feelings about his outing. It was fine and stuff
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  Speaker 3: was good at times. He threw a lot of sliders,
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  Speaker 3: but the execution was far from per and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's because he looked a little bit rusty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, again, he looks rusty and then you have a
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  Speaker 1: big outing and again like there's just like I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see him kind of pitch under more pressure when
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  Speaker 1: you haven't pitched in twelve days, I guess is a
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  Speaker 1: way to put it back.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the offense shouldn't score runs or what Well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they could do it for riees Olsen, who's got
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  Speaker 1: a career with the Tigers having great run support, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like Jackson's cost spoiled if you think about it. Uh
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  Speaker 1: so so Yeah, I mean I understand you got to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and you got to execute either way.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of what I'm looking for for big things,
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  Speaker 1: being that AT's April thirtieth, big things down the line,
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  Speaker 1: I want him in as many tight situations as possible.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. So, yeah, go ahead and score
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  Speaker 1: the runs, but you know, I just want to see
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  Speaker 1: Jackson in those specific type of situations, especially when there's
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  Speaker 1: we're in the midst or we just finished like some
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  Speaker 1: pitching rotation reconfiguration, and now we're going and we will
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  Speaker 1: have some more moving forward, and we'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh here in a little bit. Uh, we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about the hitting side, because you don't score seven runs
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  Speaker 1: without having some good hitting. After a word from our sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: with this, Cody, what was the more significant first not
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  Speaker 1: for what it did for the game, But in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what you're liking to see and what and what
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  Speaker 1: you hope if you're the Tigers, which you hope it
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  Speaker 1: turns into better first home run of the season, the
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  Speaker 1: Bias or the Colt, what do you think's what's.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Cold Keith because he crushed the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, it was a pull side shot in
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  Speaker 3: the air. That's the thing. The best version of Cold
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  Speaker 3: Keith needs to do more for as well as Hobby
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  Speaker 3: Buyas has been playing. And look, the homer counts all
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  Speaker 3: the same as a Grand Slam. It was awesome. I
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  Speaker 3: had a forty degree launch angle. It was only a
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  Speaker 3: homer in four major league parks. He's really thinking the
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  Speaker 3: Crawford boxes. There's still kind of a question like how
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  Speaker 3: much power can Hobby generate? In a way, good to
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  Speaker 3: see him get on the board with the homer, but
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  Speaker 3: in a way, it's like that ball barely got out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, one of the shortest left fields in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't really answer the question as much as Cold
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  Speaker 3: Keith's shot does. Obviously being able to replicate it is
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  Speaker 3: the big thing here.
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  Speaker 2: But I think col Keith needed that.
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone needed to see that from cold Keith
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  Speaker 3: and just the fashion, you know, the no doubt shot,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that was I just think it stood
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  Speaker 3: out to me, you know, it seems like a reminder
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  Speaker 3: of what he can do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that. You're because
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  Speaker 1: you're coming in coming into the season and what we're
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  Speaker 1: seeing just in general is a lot different. But regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what we've experienced this season and what the expectations
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  Speaker 1: were to try to get the best version out of
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  Speaker 1: this team. Both involved Colt Keith's bat working well right
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  Speaker 1: and and and and still is kind of a guy surprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of a guy without like out of place
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  Speaker 1: with with the with the way that he had been
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  Speaker 1: hitting or lack thereof, and the not really having a
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  Speaker 1: true position because Laborer's obviously at second Spencer you gotta
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  Speaker 1: play at first base because he can't play anything else,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't really get away with, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: the Colt Keith that we had been seeing as you're
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  Speaker 1: pretty regular DH, Like, I just so like that that's
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  Speaker 1: something that you hope kind of turned into something. And
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  Speaker 1: you said Anaheim and then after that Colorado, those are
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  Speaker 1: two of the worst pitching teams in baseball. Anaheim has
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  Speaker 1: a four point eight eight e RA as a team
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  Speaker 1: and Colorado has a five point three ERA as a team.
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  Speaker 1: So you're hoping that this is kind of the start
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  Speaker 1: of something. Maybe it's I know it's still technically April
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  Speaker 1: when this happened, but maybe it's just like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: he got his month slump kind of like out the
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  Speaker 1: way a little bit, and then once the calendar turns
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  Speaker 1: to May, he starts to figure a couple things out.
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  Speaker 1: You know who has figured some things out, or at
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  Speaker 1: least when it comes to playing in Houston, is one
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  Speaker 1: Riley Green. And so, like, you know, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of analysis to be had other than Riley
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  Speaker 1: Green is on. He's on. He's hot seven for twelve
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  Speaker 1: in this series. Cody obviously with the two home run
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  Speaker 1: game on Monday, and I mentioned the two home run game.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we've talked about it a little bit already, but
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  Speaker 1: today was kind of like it was it was him
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  Speaker 1: being like, we got this full version, full spectrum version
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  Speaker 1: of Riley Green as a hitter in this series. And
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  Speaker 1: I and that's and that's what I am most encouraged
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  Speaker 1: by because we know that there's contact skills there. We
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  Speaker 1: know that there's power skills there, and we know that
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  Speaker 1: there's like kind of the ability like the ability to
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  Speaker 1: the hit ability is there right just overall you combine it,
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  Speaker 1: and we got that this week. I would have been
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more concerned if he was just all
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  Speaker 1: or nothing power to strike out. I would have been
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  Speaker 1: concerned if we still didn't see a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: power that we hadn't been seeing. This is the first
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  Speaker 1: time since the very beginning of the year that he
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  Speaker 1: had seven hits in a three game span. So it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about a month basically the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year, beginning of the season, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about a month where he hadn't really been
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  Speaker 1: able to string together and we got the full Riley
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  Speaker 1: Green spectrum there and and that's and that's something that
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  Speaker 1: I was very glad to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just looked like he was staying on the ball
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  Speaker 3: better can he keeping that front shoulder in, keeping the
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  Speaker 3: head down on the baseball, and as a result, he
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  Speaker 3: was driving it a little bit. We're still at a
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  Speaker 3: point in the year where you can change the scoreboard
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  Speaker 3: numbers pretty quickly. For as brutal as a lot of
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  Speaker 3: April felt a few good games. Riley's now hitting I
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  Speaker 3: think two sixty one. The ops is back up over
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  Speaker 3: seven point fifty, and you kind of have a feeling
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  Speaker 3: this could be the start of a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a prolonged tear. He's certainly capable of going on. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: huge for this team. We talked about them being put
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  Speaker 3: to the test a little bit. A great way to
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  Speaker 3: ace that test is to get Riley Green going. I
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  Speaker 3: don't have a tonative analysis beyond that. I was waiting
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  Speaker 3: for this to happen, and now here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and all of this stuff that we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about over the past month or whatever, we can turn
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  Speaker 1: the page and say that we have now witnessed the
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  Speaker 1: greatest April. And I'm including the March games because they
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  Speaker 1: it's not really any point to talking about their March record, right,
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  Speaker 1: like the greatest April of the aj Hinch era. That
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  Speaker 1: so they're nineteen and twelve. They scored one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty five runs. That's by far better than any output
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  Speaker 1: that aj Hinch Tiger team had had done. There's some
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  Speaker 1: you know, eight to nineteen in his first year. Next
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  Speaker 1: year seven and thirteen, like sixty four runs in the
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  Speaker 1: month of April and twenty twenty two, like just like
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  Speaker 1: some bad, bad, not great watching baseball and now and
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  Speaker 1: I kind of bring that up because it's in the
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  Speaker 1: grand team of things, like relatively meaningless. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, I feel like we now have the perfect encapsulation,
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  Speaker 1: like the full five finger imprint of AJ Hinch on
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  Speaker 1: this team, where the team is playing exactly all these
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  Speaker 1: things that we had heard for years. We were wondering
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  Speaker 1: whether that they would Hey, when you got better, you're
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  Speaker 1: still going to do it. Be how s word is it?
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  Speaker 1: And now we have all those coaching points working in
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  Speaker 1: unison with an AJ Hinch team that has one of
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  Speaker 1: the best records in the American League going into the
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  Speaker 1: second month of the season. So as we go into May,
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's worth noting.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know kan the last time the Detroit Tigers
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  Speaker 3: won eighteen games in the month.
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  Speaker 1: Of April, I'll say two thousand and.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve, nineteen eighty four. Oh, anything happened, pretty good year.
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  Speaker 2: It was a nice year for the ball club. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you said.
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  Speaker 3: Five finger imprints, so you know, just one finger each
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  Speaker 3: year AJ was able to lay on this team. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's a great April, it's encouraging, it'll probably be good
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  Speaker 3: for attendance at the ballpark all summer. We've talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the reason I'm probably more encouraged than ever. The
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  Speaker 3: reason this team has pretty quickly kind of won me
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  Speaker 3: over is the fact this isn't even their football club,
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  Speaker 3: Like they're gonna get some of their best players back. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: that comes to the caveat like will Riley Green stay healthy?
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  Speaker 3: Will Cary Carboner stay healthy? Does your pitching stay healthy
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  Speaker 3: when you get Meadows Beerling back? But the fact you've
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  Speaker 3: done this and played this well with Hobby Bayaz in
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  Speaker 3: center field, with Zach McKinstry playing every single day, playing
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  Speaker 3: a ton against left handers, it's just really impressive. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure there will be a loll at some point this year,
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  Speaker 3: but big picture, you can still see this kind of
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  Speaker 3: going up as the year goes along.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and baseball has a way of kind of
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  Speaker 1: making you forget about some of the things like how
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  Speaker 1: shorthanded they are. And I'll be honest, like I was
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: reading Ken the Rosenthal's Calumn General Baseball Call, big part
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: about that in the about the Tigers, and I had
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like, I just forgot. I feel ashamed
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  Speaker 1: to admit this. I kind of forgot about Jake Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: like like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never thought I would say that.
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  Speaker 3: But Dingler has stepped in looked completely capable, and Thomas
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  Speaker 3: Nido is like we've talked about it before. He's like, allegitate,
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  Speaker 3: backup Jake in a way hasn't really been missed at
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  Speaker 3: least on the field that much, which is kind of
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  Speaker 3: a testament to Dylan Dingler and and a testament to
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: the Tiger's death.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So like there's there's at various points three to
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  Speaker 1: four like starters that you're that you're out with with
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  Speaker 1: without I should say, And here you are, nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: twelve going into May, and you hope, you hope that
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  Speaker 1: it becomes like a really good road trip because as
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  Speaker 1: we talked about yesterday, all these road trips have been
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  Speaker 1: against playoff teams or playoff like fringe teams. Now you
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  Speaker 1: go to Anheim, which was a nice story for a second,
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  Speaker 1: but they and I hope Mike Trout's okay. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the update I saw he left the game today.
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  Speaker 1: That means okay, so I hope he's okay, obviously for
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  Speaker 1: a million reasons. Uh. And then Colorado is you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of speaks for itself. There don't nothing else needs
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  Speaker 1: to be said about that. So you hope that that
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  Speaker 1: wraps up pretty pretty well for the Tigers. Now we
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: are going to talk about a roster configuration element that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I just want to throw out there. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: theory that I want to throw out there. No one
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  Speaker 1: else is talking about it. I just want to see
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  Speaker 1: what Cody thinks about it. But first, a word from
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming back here, Cody Hove here bye. I
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: have planned on talking about this before he hit the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Grand Slam today and is the headliner of the wind.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Are we sure his shortstop days are done? Because the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Tray Sweney piece of this the what's the calling card
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of having Tray Sweeney as your every day shortstop right now?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Dairy defense?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: In theory defense, he is in the thirty two percent
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: tile in range is according to Baseball Savants, nineteen percent
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: tile in arm strength. His fielding run value is in
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the forty one percentile. And as I pull up his
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: fielding stats here in a second, uh, it's it's not
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's not something that somebody who is hitting what's he
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: hitting right now? It's not Parker Meadow's level defense at shortstop.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: So we we we had kind of because of all
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: these other elements that have been going on. We was like,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you know, hobby and center Hobby at their base by
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the way out, but at above average for Javier at
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: third bases, two one in center field, and a very
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: obviously short time time frame catch percentage expectancy plus six
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: above expectancy, so plus six percent for Javier in center field.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So just putting that out there too. So there's range,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: there's instincts blab while we've talked about it, he might
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: be needed at shortstop because you can't right now. You
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: obviously got to pick your spots of your aj just like
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: you do for basically every player not not in the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: top three of your of your hitting hierarchy. But right
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: now I'm finding it hard to just have to put
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: swingy in the lineup when Javier is hitting this way
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and if you get veering back, you don't. Everyone assumes
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: he's gonna maybe go to third base right now. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to play much third base
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: because McKinstry's gonna go back some third.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Base'll we'll see if Jase Young stays up.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I think these are you know, people keep asking me
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: what happens when Beerling gets back, or even Manuel Margo
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: might be the first guy back if the Tigers do
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: choose to activate him and put him on the big
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: league roster.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Jahn is the guy who could go down.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: He's hitting blow two hundred, although he's still taking walks
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: three sixty six OBP, and he's above one hundred WRC
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: plus and you kind of know he's just scratching the
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: surface of what he can do. So I don't know
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: that I love that Jase is a guy who you
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: go down. I don't think the Tigers are going to
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: be looking to pull the plug on Tray Sweeney. But
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: you know, when you get two or three of these
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: guys back, it could be a conversation. Right now, Javier
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: is playing well, and I think at the very least
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: you're gonna want to keep him active, engaged a little
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: more of a time share at shortstop between Hobby and
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Sweeney certainly seems like an option to me. Labor is
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: going to be playing second base most days. I don't
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: think we're gonna see Abby there thirds within the realm
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: of possibility may be center still, but like if his
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: bad is still producing to some degree, no, I think
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: we can see Hobby a lot at at shortstop.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, again, something that we had kind of like written
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: off a little bit.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: The majority.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: And the weird thing Keran is they probably can't do
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: like a traditional platoon because Tree Sweeney's hitting very poorly
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: against right handed pitching and he's hitting well against left
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: handed pitching. So I don't know exactly how that would work.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: There are some strange roster wrinkles coming up. I'm not
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: even sure that Tigers know exactly what the plan of
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: action is going to be until they get there.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which hopefully this is kind of the month that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: everybody kind of had pencils. Then you start to get
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you know, Vera Lain, you know, hopefully you get the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: medical update that he's gonna start some rehab assignments and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and he's not the only one that we'll talk about,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: but it's it's it's something, it's something that ties in.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: We asked for a couple of questions, Thank you guys
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: for sending it in questions, one of them addressed right here,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: because we kind of already have when er Lan returns
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: as automatic that young is sent down or is it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: possible based on hobbies doing Sweeney or Keith will be
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: sent down. And and what about the Manuel Margo piece
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of this? Uh, I don't see the Keith element. Well,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I still don't see. Hopefully, like I said, he gets
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: he gets going with the bat. But the Sweeney thing
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I think is up there is anything. I continue to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: be impressed based on expectations with Young in the field.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And I just think eventually, if you want to use
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: get the best use out of Young as an asset,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you have to give him major league run like that.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: It's the only way you're ever going to figure out
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: if the bat truly has some playability. So like, if
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: not now, then I don't really know when if that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: makes sense. So that and then the margou tough to say,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: tough to say. He had such he was here and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: gone so quickly that like he did have moments like
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I I saw the I saw, I saw the vision
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: when he was playing. But do you feel like you
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: miss Margo? You see what I'm saying.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: So if I if I ran the team and I don't,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I don't, I think I'd send Margo to Toledo. That's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: no offense to to Manuel. It's just I think you
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: summed it up, holl Do you really miss him right now,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Who do you want to take off the roster to
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: put Manuel on. It's a hard time seeing it some
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: of these other like this is why it's hard. Keith
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: is not going to Toledo still, It's taken aim while
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: to pick it up. We he did just omer, but
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: like he is someone who's not fitting well in the
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: roster puzzle because of circumstance right now. And I think
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Jayhen that's how you's man. They really don't like playing
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: him in the field, so he's not functioning super well
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: in the roster puzzle. But you have too much invested
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: in Keith there. J In I think is certainly susceptible,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: but there's some upside there. There's some sensation to give
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: young runway. But I think he's very much susceptible. If
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I were running the team, I think I might send
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Trey Sweeney down before any of those guys. But I
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: think they like Tray Sweeney to the point he's gonna
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: be He's gonna be like the new Zach McKinstry. The
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: guy everyone's including myself, is kind of trying to take
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: off the roster and he's just gonna stick around because
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: they really like what he can do, He's gonna have
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to pick it up.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I think at the plate a little bit.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Obviously the field has to be more reliable, but I
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: think you know what's in there with the glove where
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: there's more of a question with the bat. So to
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: answer that question, I like, I guess my answer is
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I wouldn't say it's one hundred percent
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: lock that Jayce Young is going down, but maybe I
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: kind of still get the feeling that's the most likely scenario.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: But we'll see if the Tiger's front office, you know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: gets gets creative once again.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll move on to another question because this question
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: is all about creativity and it has to do with
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Alex Cobb speaking about a side album. Out of Mind
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: is from Martin Boomstra. Previous question from Ron Garrett Shout
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: everybody sent us something. Alex Cobb will eventually be coming back.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: The Tigers have a high performing five person rotation with
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Montero as the sixth starter. Slash call up what happens
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: when Cobb returns? Could he be in the bullpen? That's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a fifteen million dollar question. What happens when returns?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: You don't pay guys fifteen millions to just go to
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the bullpen. But there's not a picture you can take
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: out of this rotation right now. And I think that
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: all adds up to the Tigers probably are in a
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: huge hurry to get Alex Cobb back up. The last
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I heard on this, the team itself was didn't really
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: have a plane of action because who knows what things
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: are going to look like in another month or whenever
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: he might be ready to be active. Also, it sounded
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: like he still wasn't moving well like the ball's coming
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: out okay, but maybe the lower half, the mechanics or
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: just the speed he's moving down the slope is a
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: little bit of a concern right now. So man, we're
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: gonna see I mean, I don't I don't want to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: wish this one, Alex Cob. Okay, I'm not wishing this one,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: ox Cob, But could you see a world where it
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: hits our inbox one day Alex Cobb has encountered a setback.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Just kind of has that feeling about it too.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And if he does get up here, like I say,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I think that's one of those things that could work
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: itself out, someone else is going to get injured, someone
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: else is gonna pull up handstring or a groin. You
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: might need a little spell of Alex Cob, But Alex
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: cop has to get healthy and be knocking on the
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: door to be activated before there's any like urgency to
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: this discussion.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of how the Tigers themselves
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: feel about it right now.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a that's a really good answer,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: because a really good answer for something that we literally
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: just don't have the ability to answer. Uh. This this
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• 27:18
  Speaker 1: mckinstrin Zach McKinstry, excuse me, h, getting overexposed. But what
• 27:22
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• 27:26
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• 27:32
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• 27:39
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• 27:42
  Speaker 1: six average like and ops plus so uh so yeah,
• 27:51
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• 27:54
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• 27:58
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• 28:01
  Speaker 1: But I do feel like some of the I understand
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the premise of that question, and that question is right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: But I think the answer to that question is it's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: all gonna happen naturally regardless because a like he he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the hot hand is being written right now by AJ.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: But also AJ is not just going to put him
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: in situations where he is like highly likely to fail,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Like what this this balance that AJ has struck is
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: going to continue and eventually he will cool off or
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: he'll go on to have a really surprising Hall of
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Fame career, one of the two. But Zach McKinstry is
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: likely going to cool off and he'll settle into a
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: role that we more or less know Zach McKinstry to have,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and that will be okay too, right. So I just
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: think like the answer to this question is it will
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: definitely just happen naturally.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I think that's a good answer to the question.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: And I think the return of Matt Vierling in itself,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: McKinstry's playing time will probably go down a little bit.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: But the amazing thing is, Karen, he has not been overexposed.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yet he's been playing almost every day, and he's writing
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: a ten game hidden streak, and most remarkable, he's in
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: three ninety three with an ops above a thousand against
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: left handed pitching. If you want to would have told me,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: like Zach McKinstry's gonna have a great April, he's gonna
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: crush righties, I would have been like, Okay, I believe that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I would not have thought he'd be playing every day
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: against lefties and destroying lefties. That seems like something that's
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: bound to correct. But if pitchers have changed their attack
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: against mckinsrey, I haven't necessarily noticed it, and it sure
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: does not seem to have phased him yet. So whatever
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the point of overexposure is, we are not there at
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: all yet with McKinstry.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: To your point, it might work out well where just.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: When he starts cooling down, you're gonna have some reinforcements
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: and there's not gonna be that urgency to play him
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: every single day. But he continues to kind of defy expectations,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: and and that's a great testament to him.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It's been a ton of fun to watch, and he
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: deserves all the credit.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: For it, all right, it would not be you know,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: like NBA playoffs are going on right now, so everything
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the LA The Lakers play tonight, so we don't know
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: what happens in that series. But everything Lebron, you have
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to bring up Jordan, right, It's just like play the hits,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you know, for the for the algorithm and for for
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the ratings. So it's not a Tiger's mail bag. Why
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I bring that up. It's not a Tiger's mail bag
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: without a schoobl extension question. So so so this question
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: we got to play the hits. This question is Uh.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It's kind of regarding the Ilich Scott Harris relationship. If
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Harris it's from Oscar High Tower. If Harris goes to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Illach and says, this contract is worth it both money
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and on the field results wise, and I want to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: sign I Bean, Harris wants to sign Schooble long term.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: What does Ilich say?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And you know, basically, would he trust Scott Harris? And
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: at instance, if you're willing to sign off on thirty
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: year old Alex Bregman for that long of a deal
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: with no emotional attachment to the guy, I kind of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: feel like if Harris went to Illage. Illage would sign
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: off on this, But you're you're there, You see these people,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you know, you talk to them in some capacity over
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the years. I'd be more curious what your thoughts are.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll be honest. I don't have much insight
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: into the mind of Chris Ilitch. I can give you
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: a lot of insight on all these other factors. Hard
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: to know, but I think I think the fact that
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Tigers offered Bregman six years does just change like my
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: perspective a little bit. If Ilich is willing to do that,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: why wouldn't he be willing to sign a scoopl extension.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be talking a little bit of a different
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: ballpark in terms of the money. I mean, you'd be
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: talking four hundred, four hundred and fifty million, maybe more
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: like it could be a massive, massive deal. Assuming Terrek
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: stays healthy and continues to pitch at an all star
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: to cy Young level. It's going to be maybe a
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: record contract for a pitcher because he's going to be
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: worth it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure Chris Ilich would tell Scott Harris, no,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: you can't do that, especially when the team continues to
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: play well. Especially when you don't have other contracts weighing
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: you down, like in that time frame. By the time
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: we're on that side of the Schooble deal, Hobby will
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: be long gone. But I keep coming back to I
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: don't the ball is not really in the Tiger's court
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: here since Schoogl's court and more importantly it's in Scott
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Bors's court. It's not impossible. It just feels like a
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: low personage chance that any offer would be would be
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: accepted by their camp. But or at the very least
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: they'll say, hey, that's a great offer. We're still going
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: to go to free agency. And then maybe it'll be
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: up to the Dodgers and the Yankees and the you
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: know whoever else in the Cup years time to see
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: if they want to beat what the Tigers could put
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: on the table. It's a weird, tricky situation. I think
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Chris Olich and Scott Harris could do you know, could
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: put forward great effort to extend Schooble. If that still
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's gonna happen, and it might not ultimately
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: be their faults.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Sure, and you know, Schoolble ninth round pick. Multiple arm
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: injuries both pre and during his professional career. He's gonna
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: want to maximize his his value. And I think we're
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• 33:35
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• 33:38
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• 33:40
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  Speaker 1: Margo and uh and Alex Cobb in there there. They
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: haven't been the player spotlight because they haven't been active.
• 34:25
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  Speaker 3: my brain did not even retain all that information. Bo
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  Speaker 3: Briski through a rehab outing Wednesday. I think he just went.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was a shorter one. John brebyus scheduled
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  Speaker 3: to throw a bullpen session. Alex Cobb completed a bullpen session.
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  Speaker 3: He's got another one coming up Friday. Manuel Margo beginning
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  Speaker 3: a rehab assignment here Wednesday evening. Parker Meadow is not
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  Speaker 3: quite there yet. When soil Perez. He has advanced to
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  Speaker 3: tea and coach flips in the cage. I gotta love
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  Speaker 3: that level of detail. Matt Vierling is still progressing in
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  Speaker 3: the throwing program. A name we haven't been talking about
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  Speaker 3: a lot that I'm just going to bring up you
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  Speaker 3: didn't mentioned as part of the spolight saw your Gibson
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  Speaker 3: Long Hm Swawyer gifts Along is making some nice progress
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  Speaker 3: through a live bullpen session and sounds like he could
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  Speaker 3: be ready at some point this summer. Now have to
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  Speaker 3: come straight back from Tommy John and just shove in
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  Speaker 3: the major leagues, right. It doesn't happen very often, but
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  Speaker 3: let me just tell you, being around Camerica Park, I
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  Speaker 3: keep hearing this guy's name, Tiger's personnel aj Hinch, like
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  Speaker 3: they seem excited about getting Sawyer gifts Along. Matt Vierling
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  Speaker 3: was talking about facing him, and he was like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what the radar gun was reading, but it
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  Speaker 3: looked like that ball was coming out hard for a
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  Speaker 3: guy who's still in the road to recovery from surgery. So,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to throw another question in the air,
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  Speaker 3: what happens when Sawyer gives and Long gets back? I
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  Speaker 3: guess the good news is you don't have to put
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  Speaker 3: him in the major leagues right away, But it just
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  Speaker 3: sounds like we could see him in Detroit at some
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  Speaker 3: point this summer, and it sure sounds like the Tigers
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  Speaker 3: kind of have low key high expectations for.
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  Speaker 1: Very good nuggets up this podcast wrap up April here
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  Speaker 1: following us along for the first month of the season,
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  Speaker 1: and we got a ton more to talk about as
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  Speaker 1: this summer on fold. So for Cody Stapenhagen, I'm Karen Steckley. Everybody,
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