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- 0:06Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
- 0:08Speaker 1: the Foul Terror Tator Network A for Tiger's podcast. I'm
- 0:11Speaker 1: Karen Snickley with me as always as a man who's
- 0:14Speaker 1: got grit. He does the grettest tea. He's Conny Stavin
- 0:18Speaker 1: Egg and how you doing?
- 0:19Speaker 2: Oh, I grit my teeth, bad man. And the Dennis
- 0:22Speaker 2: tells me, I gotta get like a mouthguard. But whatever,
- 0:25Speaker 2: I don't. I haven't been to the dentist in a while.
- 0:26Speaker 2: That's a whole other conversation. Uh, get the gritty Tigs
- 0:31Speaker 2: with a series sweep against the Chicago White Sox walkoff
- 0:35Speaker 2: fashion on Sunday, Spencer Torklessen of all people with the
- 0:39Speaker 2: walkoff hit pretty good vibes, just like the Dodgers were
- 0:43Speaker 2: really good. The White Sox are really bad. So those
- 0:47Speaker 2: are like two series that somewhat appropriately have canceled each other.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Out, canceled each other out. But also like if you're
- 0:58Speaker 1: looking at that those three games and the ones that
- 1:00Speaker 1: were in the balance, and one of the things that
- 1:01Speaker 1: I had talked about was like, Eh, you know, you're thinking,
- 1:04Speaker 1: if you want to just go to the end of
- 1:06Speaker 1: the season, how tight races are gonna be like you
- 1:09Speaker 1: kind of hope those balls bounce your way. This was
- 1:12Speaker 1: a game that the ball bounced your way. And I
- 1:16Speaker 1: don't want to take anything away from working the walks
- 1:18Speaker 1: there in the ninth and and Torque hits. That's not
- 1:22Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do here. But you know, the
- 1:24Speaker 1: odds are the odds, Cody like that the odds were
- 1:27Speaker 1: there's like nine percent chance of winning the game going
- 1:29Speaker 1: into the ninth anny. If you're a fan of win probability,
- 1:32Speaker 1: which I'm a fan of looking at it. I'm not
- 1:34Speaker 1: saying I'm a fan of it, but I do like
- 1:36Speaker 1: looking at it because it's kind of fun. Even it
- 1:38Speaker 1: was still only fifty percent chance when Torque was at
- 1:40Speaker 1: the plate, if memory serves. But like as with anything
- 1:45Speaker 1: early in the season, what we're doing is we're watching,
- 1:49Speaker 1: we're assessing, and we're trying to figure out if they
- 1:53Speaker 1: have meaning. And on the surface, sweeping the white Sox
- 1:57Speaker 1: doesn't have meaning. But like you have Carpenter go off
- 2:04Speaker 1: over the weekend and you and you have Torque, you
- 2:06Speaker 1: know have like that was a ninety six mile an
- 2:09Speaker 1: hour fastball, low low, and yeah it was middle, but
- 2:13Speaker 1: was middle in that that he sent down the line.
- 2:16Speaker 2: So wasn't hitting anything ninety six last year, he was
- 2:19Speaker 2: founding those pitches off were whipping because he was late and.
- 2:22Speaker 1: That was his only head of the game. So this
- 2:24Speaker 1: is the guy who was zero for four, came up
- 2:26Speaker 1: in a big spot and delivered, and and so like
- 2:29Speaker 1: you know, the person side of it, you feel great
- 2:31Speaker 1: for torqu We'll talk about him more later in the episode.
- 2:34Speaker 1: But it's like these kinds of things, you're looking for
- 2:37Speaker 1: things that are they sustainable. You're looking for sustainability, and
- 2:41Speaker 1: and that's a game that like all the elements are sustainability.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Like the preaching of dominating the strike zone, I don't know,
- 2:48Speaker 1: how about a couple of walks there to scratch in
- 2:51Speaker 1: or run seems like dominating the strike zone grit Sweeney
- 2:55Speaker 1: going down the line that that that's a great element
- 2:58Speaker 1: and and honestly, we can do this. We can do
- 3:01Speaker 1: this right now, Cody, because I was I was prepared.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I was prepared to be a little critical of Javier
- 3:08Speaker 1: Bias in the sense that, like you know, like it
- 3:11Speaker 1: just when I say looking for things, I just wasn't
- 3:14Speaker 1: seeing those things right. And I had like my notes
- 3:19Speaker 1: and stuff that I'm preparing for this podcast. And then
- 3:23Speaker 1: Hivier goes out and I no, no, not, Javier Haavey
- 3:26Speaker 1: goes out and has himself a three hip ball game,
- 3:29Speaker 1: makes a makes a fine tag like a classic Hobby
- 3:33Speaker 1: tag on a on a stolen base attempt, and and
- 3:36Speaker 1: has himself even played some center field. Nothing happened, but
- 3:39Speaker 1: he played center field, like has himself like a ball game.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna even like this is not gonna
- 3:44Speaker 1: be a critical moment for Hoavier Bias. Chances are there
- 3:48Speaker 1: will be time for that, but this was a day
- 3:51Speaker 1: that like the Tigers like flat out do not win
- 3:53Speaker 1: this game without Hoavier Bias. So like I think it's
- 3:57Speaker 1: I think I think him having a productive day is
- 4:00Speaker 1: worth just saying, you know what, hobby for a day,
- 4:03Speaker 1: as we say.
- 4:05Speaker 2: I hope someone told Hovey like this is the model
- 4:09Speaker 2: for you to be productive, for you to be contributing
- 4:13Speaker 2: to this team. I know no one wants to hear
- 4:15Speaker 2: nice things about Hobby buyas I'm not taking today as
- 4:18Speaker 2: some referendum that like he's back as an important member
- 4:22Speaker 2: of the Tigers. But if this relationship is at all
- 4:26Speaker 2: going to be sustainable, if his spot on the team
- 4:28Speaker 2: is at all going to be workable. He has to
- 4:33Speaker 2: do things like this. We're already seeing he's not a
- 4:35Speaker 2: true everyday player anymore. He has not his team's every
- 4:37Speaker 2: day shortstop. He actually seems to have handled that okay.
- 4:42Speaker 2: And then he comes out on a day like today,
- 4:44Speaker 2: like you just said, three hits, a stellar play in
- 4:47Speaker 2: the field got the Tigers an extra ninety feet on
- 4:50Speaker 2: the bases tagging up on a flyball to left. Like,
- 4:53Speaker 2: Hobby has these good instincts and although he's prone to
- 4:56Speaker 2: some boneheaded mistakes, he does a lot of little things right.
- 5:00Speaker 2: He has a supreme feel for the game. There's some
- 5:03Speaker 2: players on this team who don't have a great feel
- 5:05Speaker 2: for the game. Hobby Bias has a feel for the game.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Then he's playing center field. If he can be versatile
- 5:10Speaker 2: and if he can do little things, and maybe if
- 5:13Speaker 2: you don't have to station him in with a six
- 5:18Speaker 2: by his name every single day, maybe this provides some
- 5:21Speaker 2: kind of roadmap for like how you can keep carrying
- 5:25Speaker 2: Hobby on the roster, if that makes any sense. Like, again,
- 5:28Speaker 2: I'm not trying to say this is some proclamation, but
- 5:31Speaker 2: today was a good day for Hobby and I hope
- 5:33Speaker 2: we see a little bit more of.
- 5:35Speaker 1: That, Yeah, because like those over the course, like it
- 5:41Speaker 1: feels like we're like kind of talking ourselves into like
- 5:43Speaker 1: a bad situation. It is a bad situation, Like we're
- 5:46Speaker 1: not gonna like avoid like acknowledging that like per per dollar,
- 5:53Speaker 1: you're not getting a whole lot of production. All right,
- 5:55Speaker 1: that's so we all we all understand that. But as
- 5:58Speaker 1: this team is construct it as like the reality of
- 6:01Speaker 1: the situation exists that he is going to be on
- 6:04Speaker 1: this team. You need him to have games like today
- 6:07Speaker 1: because one of the things that happened this week, I
- 6:10Speaker 1: can't remember the game, but you know, listening to Dan
- 6:13Speaker 1: and Bobby talk on the radio and they're like, you know,
- 6:17Speaker 1: if he's gonna be in the line up, like specifically
- 6:20Speaker 1: against like lefties, like he just can't miss hanging breaking balls, yeah,
- 6:25Speaker 1: you know, like he just can't miss middle fastballs, Like
- 6:28Speaker 1: you like, you're gonna be able to quote unquote live
- 6:32Speaker 1: with Hobby if he's gonna take advantage of those mistakes
- 6:36Speaker 1: and and and he wasn't. But you look at the
- 6:38Speaker 1: numbers overall now for him, and it's like okay, like
- 6:41Speaker 1: without again making any sort of proclamation, like he is
- 6:46Speaker 1: technically patting three three three right now, so.
- 6:49Speaker 2: The Ducks see him drive the ball a little bit
- 6:51Speaker 2: here and sure seem really drive the ball authority. I
- 6:54Speaker 2: don't know that that would that that's coming back.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Well and again, like you, like you, maybe he's just
- 7:00Speaker 1: an old time ballplayer in every sense of the word.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Is that he reaches this age plateau and it and
- 7:06Speaker 1: it and it just kind of craters a little bit.
- 7:08Speaker 1: But today's a day that, like you, you would like
- 7:11Speaker 1: to have I don't know, over the course of the
- 7:13Speaker 1: season fifteen twenty, like you've kind of you kind of
- 7:19Speaker 1: feel good about the realistic chances of the team over
- 7:22Speaker 1: the like you know, making the postseason winning division. If
- 7:26Speaker 1: you get what this was King was.
- 7:28Speaker 2: It was almost old school Hobby, Like there wasn't the
- 7:30Speaker 2: Homers or anything crazy like like we maybe used to see.
- 7:33Speaker 2: But I remember when they signed Hobby talking to someone
- 7:36Speaker 2: in the industry and they were like, you know, he's
- 7:38Speaker 2: incredibly frustrating, but there's gonna be one game a week
- 7:41Speaker 2: he wins. You single handedly look full stretch say this
- 7:45Speaker 2: was single handedly that Hobby byas was a major player
- 7:47Speaker 2: in today's win.
- 7:49Speaker 1: For sure, and we're gonna talk about his counterpart at
- 7:53Speaker 1: shortstop here shortly right after this break.
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- 8:29Speaker 1: So, as I began this episode talking about looking for things,
- 8:34Speaker 1: they're sustainable trends and and and and like does my
- 8:39Speaker 1: do my eyes kind of match up with stats here
- 8:42Speaker 1: like this one? I don't know if it's sustainable. And
- 8:48Speaker 1: it did take me a little bit by surprise initially,
- 8:50Speaker 1: but then you think about it, you're like, okay, yeah,
- 8:52Speaker 1: that makes sense. I went and looked at this is
- 8:54Speaker 1: entering today, entering Sunday. I went and looked at the
- 8:57Speaker 1: team's uh war leaders. Obviously it's quite early for war,
- 9:03Speaker 1: but I just I just wanted to look at it,
- 9:05Speaker 1: all right, the stats there, I want to look at it.
- 9:08Speaker 1: And number one on this team in war is Riley Green.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Yeah kind of checks that check. Number two on this
- 9:16Speaker 1: team is one Tray Sweeney.
- 9:21Speaker 2: T would not have guessed it.
- 9:24Speaker 1: So the whole Tray Sweeney thing, like we didn't really
- 9:28Speaker 1: know how to grasp it like I would say this
- 9:32Speaker 1: entire calendar year, Cody, because we were like, well, you know,
- 9:35Speaker 1: like it was a fun moment, but it's not like
- 9:37Speaker 1: he did anything at the plate that you were gonna like,
- 9:39Speaker 1: you know, right home, right home, about and does the
- 9:44Speaker 1: best construction when you're going over these various moves that
- 9:46Speaker 1: the tires can make, is the best construction of this team,
- 9:48Speaker 1: Like this is Sweeney. And then even in the in
- 9:51Speaker 1: spring training, like we're really sure, you know, sure enough
- 9:53Speaker 1: he makes the team. Obviously he is your shortstop. And uh,
- 9:59Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you that, like he's coming out
- 10:02Speaker 1: and popping. He's popping a little bit now that I
- 10:05Speaker 1: kind of like go back and think like he's played
- 10:08Speaker 1: some tremendous defense. He's had some you know, he's had
- 10:12Speaker 1: a you know what it was it three or four
- 10:14Speaker 1: extra base hits, and you know, including a triple, almost
- 10:16Speaker 1: another triple, had a home run. He is quite valuable
- 10:21Speaker 1: to the Tigers right now. Just I'm just gonna list
- 10:23Speaker 1: off again, it's all very early. We all understand. I'm
- 10:26Speaker 1: just gonna list off some some stuff from his Baseball
- 10:28Speaker 1: Savant page, fielding run value ninety five percentile range, ninety
- 10:36Speaker 1: seven percentile. All right, well, okay, we get it. He
- 10:39Speaker 1: can feel a little bit at the plate. Bat speed
- 10:42Speaker 1: seventy five percentile, square percentage fifty five percentile. I know
- 10:48Speaker 1: fifty five is not great, but he's as like you
- 10:51Speaker 1: look at some other guys that you think would be
- 10:52Speaker 1: better than that, they're not. Like he's essentially middle of
- 10:57Speaker 1: the road and a lot of these offensive category with
- 11:01Speaker 1: stellar defense you can kind of win with the shortstop
- 11:04Speaker 1: is gonna be middle of the road and a lot
- 11:05Speaker 1: of offensive categories with stellar defense, you know. And that's
- 11:09Speaker 1: ought to say anything of his sprisbeed which is in
- 11:11Speaker 1: the eighty five percent tile. We saw that in the
- 11:13Speaker 1: ninth any today. So I just figure, I like, we
- 11:17Speaker 1: don't talk a lot Tray Sweeney. I think it's because
- 11:19Speaker 1: we don't know really how to talk about Tray Sweeney.
- 11:22Speaker 1: But I'm here to tell you he deserves to be
- 11:25Speaker 1: talked about. So here we are talking about Trey Sweeney.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Yeah, he's second on the team in the war because
- 11:31Speaker 2: he's playing plus defense at shortstop with an eight hundred OPS.
- 11:34Speaker 2: So that checks out, even though you kind of have
- 11:37Speaker 2: to look at those numbers to appreciate it. Again, incredibly
- 11:40Speaker 2: early in the season. There's a part of me that's
- 11:42Speaker 2: still worried about Tray Sweeney. We saw someme at bats
- 11:45Speaker 2: where he has looked a little bit overmatched, but I've
- 11:49Speaker 2: also been impressed. He's gone to the plate with a
- 11:52Speaker 2: pretty good plan, as have a lot of these guys,
- 11:55Speaker 2: and that might be worth talking about more later. He's
- 11:58Speaker 2: held his own against lefty. He's oddly enough, he's actually
- 12:01Speaker 2: hit left He's better than he has right eyes in
- 12:03Speaker 2: his time in the major leagues, and that wasn't necessarily
- 12:05Speaker 2: his minor league track record. Been really impressed with how
- 12:08Speaker 2: he's standing in against some left handed pitching. You know,
- 12:12Speaker 2: there's some swing and miss, but we've been reminded that
- 12:15Speaker 2: there's some pop in his bat. That's one thing that
- 12:17Speaker 2: Tigers liked when they acquired and they thought he could
- 12:20Speaker 2: hit for a little bit of power. You don't have
- 12:21Speaker 2: to hit for a lot of power at shortstop. If
- 12:24Speaker 2: you have a little bit of power, that can be
- 12:25Speaker 2: an advantage. And then in the field man he's he's
- 12:28Speaker 2: pretty clean and I kind of have always thought that
- 12:32Speaker 2: was still curious, like, all right, you know, he played
- 12:34Speaker 2: well in a smaller sample last year. He can we
- 12:37Speaker 2: call him a plus defensive shortstop and we need to
- 12:41Speaker 2: see more still before we can be confident in that label.
- 12:44Speaker 2: But he's playing very good defense right now at the
- 12:47Speaker 2: beginning of the season. So I mean, yeah, nine games in,
- 12:51Speaker 2: that's my assessment of Tray Sweeney. He's having a nice
- 12:53Speaker 2: start the year.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, again, it's all well, we all understand the
- 12:57Speaker 1: sample size and the cave eyt of it, but like
- 13:00Speaker 1: like we can only do with what's in front of us.
- 13:03Speaker 1: And last season he was worth point seven war all
- 13:07Speaker 1: right that for the Tigers. Right now he's at point five.
- 13:11Speaker 1: That's gonna change in one direction or another, but probably
- 13:15Speaker 1: both throughout the season. That's okay. But like he's he's
- 13:18Speaker 1: putting together. He's put together a really nice start to
- 13:21Speaker 1: the year. And and like I said, I just think
- 13:24Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning. And you know, sometimes as I kind
- 13:27Speaker 1: of as I try to reflect on some bias isn't
- 13:31Speaker 1: the isn't the right word, but just sort of like
- 13:35Speaker 1: check my gut a little bit sometimes and it's like,
- 13:38Speaker 1: you know, he was a first round pick, you know,
- 13:40Speaker 1: like I have to remind myself of that he was
- 13:42Speaker 1: a first round pick. Like it's not like Sweeney as
- 13:45Speaker 1: a prospect came out of nowhere. He was the first
- 13:48Speaker 1: round pick in twenty twenty one, so like it not
- 13:52Speaker 1: nothing all right?
- 13:53Speaker 2: So I think, are you worried about India bunyas at all?
- 13:59Speaker 1: I am worried Andy Banya is that I wasn't prepared
- 14:02Speaker 1: to talk about that today, but I can assure you
- 14:05Speaker 1: that the uh the brain biscuits are turning regarding the
- 14:10Speaker 1: Andy A. Banya's experience. And I did it, and I'll
- 14:13Speaker 1: tell you why I didn't want to talk about it today.
- 14:15Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about it today because he
- 14:17Speaker 1: had such a great day in the field on Saturday.
- 14:20Speaker 1: So uh so that's that's that. That's my inside baseball
- 14:25Speaker 1: right there. I was like, ah, maybe not the right time,
- 14:28Speaker 1: but can I am I going through?
- 14:30Speaker 2: I think it's worth being on the front end of
- 14:32Speaker 2: a little bit because he struggled for the duration of
- 14:35Speaker 2: the second half last year. And we all know how
- 14:38Speaker 2: you know, he's here to hit left handed pitching. He's
- 14:41Speaker 2: over for ten against lefties. He doesn't necessarily looked too good.
- 14:44Speaker 2: He has looked good at third base, which second base
- 14:46Speaker 2: customarily was his better position. I've been impressed with him
- 14:50Speaker 2: at third dating back to spring. But it's not inning leftiest.
- 14:54Speaker 2: He's playing its right, and we know that's not a
- 14:56Speaker 2: good matchup. I was glad, you know, he took a
- 14:59Speaker 2: huge walk in the night I ain't. That allowed the
- 15:01Speaker 2: set up tork and allowed the Tigers to win that game.
- 15:04Speaker 2: Kind of the problem that probably led to his demise
- 15:07Speaker 2: in the second half last year was he got real jumpy,
- 15:09Speaker 2: he got real aggressive. He wasn't seeing many pitches, so
- 15:13Speaker 2: even stay calm, even if he wasn't really facing a
- 15:17Speaker 2: premium strike thrower, was encouraging. But we got to see
- 15:23Speaker 2: some Andy hits against lefties soon where things could get
- 15:26Speaker 2: kind of awkward.
- 15:27Speaker 1: I can tell you with one hundred percent certainty that
- 15:30Speaker 1: the scenarios, all of them are on my radar and
- 15:35Speaker 1: on my brain. So I'm glad that you brought it
- 15:38Speaker 1: up because it makes me feel like I'm not crazy.
- 15:41Speaker 1: But yes, the Andy of Banya is part of it.
- 15:44Speaker 1: I am watching closely, I'll say that. And we haven't
- 15:50Speaker 1: learned that much about this team code, but we've learned
- 15:53Speaker 1: some things, and we will get to those things that
- 15:56Speaker 1: we think we've learned. After message from our sponsors.
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- 17:02Speaker 1: All right, so, as we talked about, it's only nine games, right,
- 17:07Speaker 1: but the Tigers are division leading Tigers right now, and
- 17:12Speaker 1: so we gotta we gotta assess why. We gotta figure
- 17:14Speaker 1: out what we learned because we spent all spring training
- 17:19Speaker 1: theorizing about this and speculating about that, and knowing that
- 17:25Speaker 1: there was only gonna be one way to tell if
- 17:26Speaker 1: we were right, wrong or different, and that was going
- 17:29Speaker 1: to be regular season. Now that we have had a
- 17:32Speaker 1: week plus of games, now let's see, let's just a
- 17:36Speaker 1: little little benchmark, Cody especially, you know, with the Yankees
- 17:39Speaker 1: coming to town. Let's assess what we learned. And I
- 17:42Speaker 1: think we got to start with the hero of Sunday
- 17:45Speaker 1: and that's Spencer Toorkalson. One of the most overwrought things.
- 17:50Speaker 1: And this is not a baseball exclusive thing, but overwrought
- 17:53Speaker 1: things in an off season is something about working hard
- 17:58Speaker 1: and adjustments and you know, whatever that might be. And
- 18:01Speaker 1: that was the selling point for Torque this offseason. It
- 18:05Speaker 1: started with the Scott Harris quote after the Torre is
- 18:08Speaker 1: signing where it's like, you know, I talked to Torque.
- 18:10Speaker 1: He's working, and he wanted to tell me how hard
- 18:11Speaker 1: he's working. It's like, okay, cool, he works hard.
- 18:13Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Well, I'm here to tell you. It turns out it
- 18:16Speaker 1: was awesome. It turns out that the swing change and
- 18:18Speaker 1: adjustment is real. He's got a one point five to
- 18:21Speaker 1: seven ops right now, three three twenty four excuse me
- 18:25Speaker 1: batting average, he's got the couple home runs, he's he
- 18:29Speaker 1: is the middle of your lineup, Cody, especially with Torkolsen
- 18:33Speaker 1: this early in the year, is some a bat that
- 18:36Speaker 1: you are relying on and has already played hero one
- 18:40Speaker 1: time this season. So I like, what do we learn?
- 18:43Speaker 1: We learned that it like this Torque thing as of
- 18:47Speaker 1: now April sixth is real, Like the adjustment is real,
- 18:51Speaker 1: and there's nothing that we can say right now that
- 18:54Speaker 1: says otherwise. Yeah.
- 18:56Speaker 2: All we can really go on is what we're seeing.
- 18:59Speaker 2: And I guess thirteen fourteen hundred other data points that
- 19:02Speaker 2: then that's what still has me scared. But what we
- 19:05Speaker 2: are seeing right now, I think Dan and Bobby said
- 19:07Speaker 2: this on the radio, like can he keep doing this? Well?
- 19:10Speaker 2: If he keeps swinging and making swing decisions like he
- 19:16Speaker 2: is now. Yes, he can keep doing this that. You know.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Someone said, like I need to issue a mia kulpa
- 19:22Speaker 2: if I'm going to get on the Spencer Tourgelsen bandwagon.
- 19:24Speaker 2: Maybe that's fair. I know I've been critical at Tork
- 19:26Speaker 2: at times. I've also talked about how hard it's been
- 19:29Speaker 2: with Tork because he's a good guy and the typic
- 19:31Speaker 2: player you want to root for, and it's easy to
- 19:34Speaker 2: ride that roller coaster and we're still on that ride. Baby.
- 19:37Speaker 2: I said, I didn't think Spencer Tourkelesen had a chance
- 19:39Speaker 2: to make the roster unless he made serious adjustments. He
- 19:44Speaker 2: there were injuries and he had the be ableity to
- 19:47Speaker 2: play a position other than first base. In DH Well,
- 19:50Speaker 2: Spencer Turklesen has made other adjustments. There were injuries that
- 19:54Speaker 2: helped him guarantee a spot on the roster, and although
- 19:57Speaker 2: we have not yet seen him play in the outfield,
- 19:59Speaker 2: the Tigers did add to his skill set. So he
- 20:02Speaker 2: has checked those boxes and that's why he's on this
- 20:05Speaker 2: team and the adjustments on the plate are why he
- 20:08Speaker 2: is playing well right now. Uh really is kind of
- 20:12Speaker 2: a game changer, because what do you need, you need
- 20:14Speaker 2: a a middle of the order, right handed bat. And
- 20:17Speaker 2: I've probably said this before too, but right now it
- 20:20Speaker 2: looks like you have one, and it's the guy that
- 20:22Speaker 2: almost got passed over. This is a funny sport, man.
- 20:26Speaker 2: It is just funny how things work sometimes. And yes,
- 20:30Speaker 2: we'll check back on this in May and June and
- 20:32Speaker 2: July and August in September. But one thing that also
- 20:36Speaker 2: stood out to me today when Tork hit the walk
- 20:38Speaker 2: off double, like his teammates seemed so happy, not just
- 20:43Speaker 2: to win, but they seemed happy for Tork, Like the
- 20:45Speaker 2: hugs and the backslaps he were getting, they like, you
- 20:48Speaker 2: could tell that I think that they are rooting for
- 20:49Speaker 2: this guy as well.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know the Riley Green quote. It always
- 20:53Speaker 1: comes back my Torq breaks like Riley Green never like
- 20:58Speaker 1: had like never lost confidence in Tork. And and I like,
- 21:02Speaker 1: I don't know what the numbers say defensively for him,
- 21:07Speaker 1: but I'm but like he he is the bailout. He
- 21:11Speaker 1: already has been the bailout a couple of times, you know,
- 21:13Speaker 1: playing first base.
- 21:14Speaker 2: Dude, that's kind of a great point. I don't know
- 21:18Speaker 2: what it is. He looks so much better defensively.
- 21:20Speaker 1: And we talked about talked about the double play, uh,
- 21:23Speaker 1: you know, after after Friday, and like, I don't know, man,
- 21:28Speaker 1: I know eventually there's gonna have to be some shuffling.
- 21:31Speaker 1: You're gonna have to play cold, keep that first base
- 21:33Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So I'm not I'm not like
- 21:36Speaker 1: living in delusion right now. But at the same time,
- 21:40Speaker 1: some of those plays we saw this weekend, how confident
- 21:42Speaker 1: are you Colts making him.
- 21:45Speaker 2: I don't think he turns that double play. It definitely
- 21:48Speaker 2: doesn't look if he does.
- 21:49Speaker 1: And we don't know how. We don't know his scoop capability,
- 21:53Speaker 1: Like we just don't know, like.
- 21:54Speaker 2: And we do know that that is towards one kind
- 21:57Speaker 2: of calling card on defense.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Yeah, so worth mentioning that would say, all right, uh
- 22:03Speaker 1: I had Baia's like adjustments didn't work. We're not gonna
- 22:07Speaker 1: talk about that now because so kudos to Hobbier. Uh,
- 22:13Speaker 1: I would say, well, we another thing we learned Cody
- 22:18Speaker 1: choice is validated by the front office in terms of
- 22:22Speaker 1: the pitching selection picture selection. I should say, like, Casey,
- 22:27Speaker 1: my again sample size, we don't understand Casey, my eyes
- 22:30Speaker 1: look awesome, all right, and my ada makes you think, well,
- 22:35Speaker 1: I'm glad he's not started, so like so like uh.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Kin has gone deck to not holding his glossy.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Yeah, so like that's that's something. And then you know,
- 22:45Speaker 1: they just kept adding to the bullpen in ways that
- 22:47Speaker 1: I think that I think, like even even though you
- 22:51Speaker 1: understood it, you're like, did did you really need to?
- 22:54Speaker 2: Yeah? Like that's all I felt about. Like what I said,
- 22:58Speaker 2: I was like, I've gotten you point where I just
- 23:00Speaker 2: trust the Tigers when they acquire a pitcher. So I
- 23:04Speaker 2: didn't necessarily think it was a bad signing. It was like,
- 23:08Speaker 2: I don't quite know if there's actually upside here, and
- 23:11Speaker 2: do you need them when you could have had Matt
- 23:14Speaker 2: Manning in your bullpen? No, I think I'd rather have
- 23:17Speaker 2: John Brevier right now.
- 23:18Speaker 1: So yeah, it looks like about that bullpen though, and
- 23:24Speaker 1: again there's you know, games happening as I'm doing these stats.
- 23:28Speaker 1: They're not all probably there's a chance that something could
- 23:31Speaker 1: have changed or whatever, but they lead baseball. The bullpen
- 23:34Speaker 1: bullpen specifically leads baseball and whip and fourth and opponent's
- 23:38Speaker 1: batting average all baseball.
- 23:41Speaker 2: So like, so that's with bow Briski not necessarily throwing
- 23:44Speaker 2: all that well.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Right now, sure, and again that's including the Maida experience.
- 23:49Speaker 1: So so yeah, I think I think pitching choices have
- 23:53Speaker 1: been has been validated. And just for the record, there
- 23:56Speaker 1: was not a choice that Maida was gonna be on
- 23:58Speaker 1: this roster. That choice was made eighteen months ago. So yeah, yeah,
- 24:02Speaker 1: that we're not including the best, you know, I mean.
- 24:04Speaker 2: So yeah, we're gonna be real, We're gonna be adults
- 24:06Speaker 2: about that one. Yes, Okay, I want to talk about
- 24:09Speaker 2: the plans at the plate though. Okay, this is just
- 24:13Speaker 2: it's it's kind of a hard thing to quantify, but
- 24:15Speaker 2: the numbers entering Sunday's game, the Tigers were seeing twenty
- 24:19Speaker 2: five pitches on average in the first inning. That was
- 24:22Speaker 2: best in baseball. They had scored I believe, thirteen runs
- 24:25Speaker 2: in the first inning, that was the best in baseball.
- 24:28Speaker 2: They didn't necessarily jump on Martin Perez as well as
- 24:31Speaker 2: they had some other starters and press pitches of contact.
- 24:35Speaker 2: But there is some something has been going on, I
- 24:39Speaker 2: think since last September, last August where Tigers hitters are
- 24:45Speaker 2: taking the hitters meetings into the game better. Like you
- 24:49Speaker 2: can see it's not just good at bats. You can
- 24:51Speaker 2: usually see some sort of theme in their approach, and
- 24:55Speaker 2: aj Hn Johnson says like game plans aren't team why
- 24:57Speaker 2: they're individualized. Of course that makes police sense, but usually
- 25:02Speaker 2: there's some theme against the posing picture, whether it's as
- 25:04Speaker 2: simple as we're going to make this guy work where
- 25:06Speaker 2: we're going to be aggressive, or we're not going to
- 25:08Speaker 2: swing at a slider and we're gonna jump on fastballs.
- 25:11Speaker 2: I just feel like you can see these things more tangibly,
- 25:14Speaker 2: especially early in games, than you really have been for
- 25:18Speaker 2: the duration of my time covering the Tigers. So I
- 25:21Speaker 2: kind of asked aj about that. I ask carry Carpenter.
- 25:24Speaker 2: Carrie probably got it right. He just kind of credited
- 25:28Speaker 2: that to experience. Get some experience, you get some confidence.
- 25:32Speaker 2: It's a little easier to stick to your plan rather
- 25:35Speaker 2: than coming out of your plan. It seems like the
- 25:38Speaker 2: Tigers and their coaching staff must be doing a good
- 25:40Speaker 2: job of presenting hitters with the right information and communicating
- 25:45Speaker 2: it well, because it just sticks out to me this
- 25:48Speaker 2: still isn't a murderer's row line up, even though they're
- 25:50Speaker 2: doing great statistically right now, but it seems like a
- 25:54Speaker 2: lineup that has a more calculated played approach and that
- 25:59Speaker 2: has been leading to good results so far.
- 26:04Speaker 1: So yeah, like the one of the things I'm kind
- 26:07Speaker 1: of waiting on to, Like, like as much as we
- 26:10Speaker 1: talk about being prison in moments all this stuff, I
- 26:12Speaker 1: do want to give more time to some of the
- 26:13Speaker 1: stuff like first pitch, attacking and and and some of
- 26:18Speaker 1: those metrics like it's fun, you know, and when Dan
- 26:21Speaker 1: and Bobby talk about him, and I'm sure Jason Andy
- 26:24Speaker 1: talking about him too, but I'm listening to the radio, uh,
- 26:27Speaker 1: like it's all fun and good. It's really interesting, but
- 26:29Speaker 1: I just don't know yet. But but again, you have
- 26:33Speaker 1: my attention on that kind of stuff because one of
- 26:36Speaker 1: those like baseball cliches like your first pitch is like
- 26:40Speaker 1: yet might be your best pitch? Like what if that's
- 26:43Speaker 1: like a trend that's kind of coming back, you know,
- 26:45Speaker 1: I mean like it's just like a million things that
- 26:47Speaker 1: could be so so I am. I am looking at
- 26:50Speaker 1: that as well. But you know, this is this is
- 26:54Speaker 1: an appropriate thing to talk about today. The gritty tig thing.
- 27:00Speaker 1: Big part of that was the base running. Well, like
- 27:03Speaker 1: like running is still in style. That's another thing that
- 27:07Speaker 1: I believe we have learned is that you know, is
- 27:09Speaker 1: this something that's really gonna carry over. And we and
- 27:13Speaker 1: we seen the we seen the downside to that a
- 27:16Speaker 1: couple of times. But you talked about hobby aer Hobby
- 27:19Speaker 1: taking you know, an extra ninety feet like that wasn't
- 27:22Speaker 1: no gimme right and and and so like we we
- 27:25Speaker 1: seen the Joey core like Joey Korr doesn't have any
- 27:28Speaker 1: other way. Riley Green almost like went too aggressively there
- 27:32Speaker 1: over the weeks.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Right, So I'm glad I looked. I normally don't even look.
- 27:36Speaker 2: I'm just so used to going that's good, that's good.
- 27:40Speaker 1: But it it's like that that's still part of this team.
- 27:45Speaker 1: That's still something that they view as a way is
- 27:49Speaker 1: carried over and it's still gonna be a way they
- 27:51Speaker 1: view to like get wins, right, to get runs to
- 27:55Speaker 1: get wins. And so, uh, we talked about how cool
- 27:58Speaker 1: this offense you know is right now relatively speaking, what
- 28:02Speaker 1: it could be with some health you know that comes back,
- 28:06Speaker 1: Like I think through it all, it's gonna be the
- 28:11Speaker 1: base running aggressiveness is going to be there because right
- 28:14Speaker 1: now I can't I don't know if I could say
- 28:15Speaker 1: like the defense is one hundred percent the same to
- 28:19Speaker 1: previous but I can say that the base running is
- 28:22Speaker 1: the same, speaking of defense and base running and hitting,
- 28:27Speaker 1: Ryan Kreidler, Ryan Kreidler. I like, again, I'm not this
- 28:32Speaker 1: is not me trying to be mean, but Ryan Kreidler's
- 28:34Speaker 1: Ryan Kreidler. I think that's something we learned. I don't think,
- 28:37Speaker 1: I like, I don't think we've seen any sort of
- 28:39Speaker 1: like huh. I wonder if there's like something there. You know,
- 28:42Speaker 1: he did have that one today that, like, you know,
- 28:45Speaker 1: from the TV broadcast, you thought, oh, you know, I
- 28:47Speaker 1: don't know how it looked like, you know, live in person,
- 28:50Speaker 1: it was a nearly one oh three exit V level,
- 28:54Speaker 1: a little bit up on the angle thirty nine degrees.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Uh.
- 28:58Speaker 1: You wanted that for him because you wanted him to
- 29:00Speaker 1: be able to do a little bit something offensively every
- 29:03Speaker 1: time to justifies the wrong word, but to give it
- 29:07Speaker 1: a little bit more credence to the fact that he's
- 29:09Speaker 1: going to be spending as of now a decent amount
- 29:12Speaker 1: of time in center field. I think we kind of
- 29:14Speaker 1: have a good idea of Ryan Kreidler, and that's somebody
- 29:18Speaker 1: that can be useful in certain areas. But I don't
- 29:20Speaker 1: know if you're asking for a whole lot. So that's, uh,
- 29:25Speaker 1: that's my point on that.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's tough, But we knew the bat
- 29:29Speaker 2: was a concern. We knew the bat was a question.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Right now the bat is a concern, and I think
- 29:35Speaker 2: there's a real argument to like, is the defense good
- 29:37Speaker 2: enough to make up for it? I guess that leads
- 29:42Speaker 2: to the natural question I've heard people asking it, like
- 29:45Speaker 2: who goes down when gliber Tours is back? I feel
- 29:48Speaker 2: like I've covered baseball long enough to like, I never
- 29:50Speaker 2: put too much stake into those questions, as you guys
- 29:53Speaker 2: probably know, because like, are we really just assuming Glaber
- 29:56Speaker 2: is going to be back right when that ten day
- 29:58Speaker 2: mark is over? You know, toxic labor recently seems like
- 30:00Speaker 2: he's doing well. He of course he wants to be
- 30:05Speaker 2: you know, he's gonna probably need a rehab game or two,
- 30:08Speaker 2: and then like we'll see, is everyone else gonna be
- 30:11Speaker 2: healthy by then? Will someone be a glaring candidate to
- 30:14Speaker 2: go down? I would feel like Kreidler's the most glaring
- 30:17Speaker 2: candidates go down right now. But then it's still like, well,
- 30:20Speaker 2: but they chose him for his defense, but bruh, you
- 30:24Speaker 2: can't send down Jahn. I mean, Jay Hen has done
- 30:27Speaker 2: nothing but show you this is why I should have
- 30:29Speaker 2: been on the team from day one. And then it's like, statistically,
- 30:34Speaker 2: Margo's actually been helpful, but he's not necessarily playing that much.
- 30:37Speaker 2: How does he fit and function on the roster? If
- 30:41Speaker 2: Glaber is back shortly and if everyone else is healthy,
- 30:43Speaker 2: it will be a very interesting decision.
- 30:46Speaker 1: So that's That's another that leads right into the next
- 30:49Speaker 1: thing that we learned is that Jay Hen is walk
- 30:53Speaker 1: god like. And it's not necessarily that he's the best,
- 30:57Speaker 1: you know, drawing walks or you know, he's he's been
- 31:00Speaker 1: earned a couple of times, like thinking that he got
- 31:02Speaker 1: the he got the fourth ball there, but the fact
- 31:05Speaker 1: that this guy has the walk equivalent of a bat
- 31:09Speaker 1: flip in his arsenal. It's a w it's a walk
- 31:13Speaker 1: god thing like j Head's walk God. It's entertaining us
- 31:16Speaker 1: hell to c ball four and then drop the bat
- 31:19Speaker 1: and it's like all like one motion, as if he
- 31:21Speaker 1: practiced to like take off the pads and like it
- 31:25Speaker 1: like it's it's perfect. It's it actually is like fun
- 31:28Speaker 1: to watch, like it is fun to watch him walk
- 31:31Speaker 1: so like, and and you know him at the front
- 31:34Speaker 1: of the lineup. He had to hit on Saturday to
- 31:36Speaker 1: get things going, like it's it pains me to think like.
- 31:42Speaker 2: You can't no, you can't, no. I would be I
- 31:46Speaker 2: would be very critical if it. I mean, he's hitting
- 31:48Speaker 2: leadoff for you, and he is bringing impact to the game.
- 31:54Speaker 2: I guess if you send down Kreiler, you're gonna have
- 31:56Speaker 2: to play Jay Hid in the field a little bit
- 31:58Speaker 2: more and we would have to see how that goes.
- 32:01Speaker 2: But man, it's fun to watch this guy take us
- 32:03Speaker 2: at bats. Mentioned the bat flip. Remember in Casey miz
- 32:08Speaker 2: bat flipped after a walk like twenty twenty one. It
- 32:11Speaker 2: was legendary. Someone brought that up to me and I
- 32:14Speaker 2: had like forgotten about it. I wish we had that
- 32:16Speaker 2: video uploaded. We should play You guys should go watch it.
- 32:19Speaker 2: That's that's really how it's done right there. But Jahn, Yeah,
- 32:23Speaker 2: I don't have much more to say other than he's
- 32:26Speaker 2: not a prototypical leadoff hitter, but he's a very modern
- 32:28Speaker 2: leadoff hitter. This guy works good at bats, takes his walks.
- 32:31Speaker 2: We know he has power. I wouldn't be surprised if
- 32:33Speaker 2: we start seeing a ball or to leave the yard shortly.
- 32:37Speaker 2: I just have a lot of very good things to
- 32:40Speaker 2: say about Justin Henry Maloy, and I think the whole
- 32:43Speaker 2: lineup looks better with him than it agree completely.
- 32:46Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our fan Dual Sports Network
- 32:51Speaker 1: player spotlight. I feel like we've talked a lot about
- 32:55Speaker 1: this roster, Cody, and we haven't gotten to this guy yet.
- 32:58Speaker 1: We mentioned him a little bit, but cold Keith col
- 33:00Speaker 1: Keith is somebody that I'm watching because it's it's quite
- 33:07Speaker 1: The start to the season is fascinating, fascinating, like he
- 33:12Speaker 1: has he leads the American League and walks. Cody, he
- 33:15Speaker 1: has twelve. He got another one today. All right, he
- 33:18Speaker 1: leads the American League and walks, but he's only got
- 33:19Speaker 1: four hits, and he is not getting great exit velow.
- 33:26Speaker 1: If you look at his Baseball Savat page, he is
- 33:28Speaker 1: not having good batspeed. His whift rate is not great,
- 33:33Speaker 1: square up rate not great. Like he He's actually kind
- 33:37Speaker 1: of across the board bat offensively right now, other than
- 33:41Speaker 1: obviously the getting on base aspect of walking, fielding bary mediocre.
- 33:47Speaker 1: But again, this is a guy that thought he's gonna
- 33:49Speaker 1: be playing first base, and as of this you know
- 33:51Speaker 1: first part of the year he's playing a lot of
- 33:53Speaker 1: second base. We all we saw it last year, so
- 33:57Speaker 1: there's no reason to like doubt Colt Keith. But the
- 34:00Speaker 1: point is that I think this lineup can be carried
- 34:04Speaker 1: for stretches by Carry Carpenter and Riley Green, and right
- 34:07Speaker 1: now we just kind of have to put like Torgelsen
- 34:09Speaker 1: in there to some extent. But you're gonna need Colt
- 34:13Speaker 1: Keith to be the hitter that he has been they
- 34:16Speaker 1: showed last season and that his entire professional career has
- 34:19Speaker 1: been hyped about like and I'm sure it will happen.
- 34:22Speaker 1: But that's but that's why it's the player spotlight, because
- 34:25Speaker 1: I want to see it happen sooner rather than later,
- 34:28Speaker 1: because he's not in any danger. But it's gonna look
- 34:33Speaker 1: bad to keep trying him out there at a certain
- 34:36Speaker 1: point when all these other guys are producing and maybe
- 34:38Speaker 1: a producer is getting sent down.
- 34:41Speaker 2: If that makes sense.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Am I calling for anything.
- 34:43Speaker 2: I'm just saying, let's do it. It's gonna be a
- 34:45Speaker 2: weird cold. Keith is not in any danger. He has
- 34:47Speaker 2: a four fifty seven to one base percentage. Of course,
- 34:51Speaker 2: he's not hitting the ball very well when you say
- 34:54Speaker 2: he doesn't get ex of you low. I saw him
- 34:55Speaker 2: hit one that left the ball that left the bat
- 34:57Speaker 2: at one oh wait, just two days ago, so like
- 35:00Speaker 2: it's in there. He's hit a lot of balls that
- 35:03Speaker 2: were not well hit, and I think he's battling that
- 35:06Speaker 2: right now. I think obviously entering the year, hitting for
- 35:10Speaker 2: a little more power, getting the ball in the air,
- 35:13Speaker 2: getting a little more exit. Vila was a focus for him.
- 35:16Speaker 2: It almost seems like made My theory, operating theory is
- 35:20Speaker 2: that he is he has tried so hard to improve
- 35:23Speaker 2: in those aspects that it's forsaken a little bit of
- 35:26Speaker 2: the things that makes him a very good hitter, which
- 35:29Speaker 2: is making good hard contact, which is being able to
- 35:34Speaker 2: handle multiple pitches and use the whole field. He just
- 35:37Speaker 2: seems very out of sorts, as we've talked about. Credit
- 35:40Speaker 2: to him for still being able to take walks and
- 35:42Speaker 2: not get overly jumpy. But the bat speed metric does
- 35:47Speaker 2: concern me because it's gone down from last year. His
- 35:50Speaker 2: average bat speed last season was seventy one point three
- 35:53Speaker 2: miles per hour, and this season right now it's sixty
- 35:56Speaker 2: nine miles per hour. I don't know why the guy's
- 36:00Speaker 2: bat speed has declined.
- 36:02Speaker 1: It feels like a lack of cohesiveness, like probably probably
- 36:08Speaker 1: a little bit unsure, you know what I mean. Like
- 36:11Speaker 1: it's just like maybe like an overthinking element. Could be
- 36:13Speaker 1: anything but at this But and again, this is not
- 36:17Speaker 1: a panic Cold Keith Players Spotlight. This is not a
- 36:21Speaker 1: should they we have a conversation Colt Keith player spotlight.
- 36:25Speaker 1: This is a it's gonna have to have the best
- 36:28Speaker 1: version of this team has Colt Keith mashing. All right,
- 36:32Speaker 1: So like that's and I'm looking to see it. So
- 36:35Speaker 1: that's why Cold Keith it is our FanDuel Sports Network
- 36:39Speaker 1: player Spotlight. You can use code Baseball thirty when you
- 36:44Speaker 1: go to FanDuel sportsnetwork dot Com slash packages to enjoy
- 36:47Speaker 1: an extended free trial. All right, Cody, that was that
- 36:53Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. I feel like we did
- 36:54Speaker 1: learn a lot. I feel like we learned.
- 36:56Speaker 2: We didn't even talk about Jackson job.
- 36:58Speaker 1: We didn't even talk about Jackson Joe. Uh and because
- 37:01Speaker 1: I didn't really have anything new to say. Uh, but
- 37:06Speaker 1: it is he looks he looks like I'm gonna credit
- 37:10Speaker 1: Mark Orosh. He had a good tweet about it earlier.
- 37:13Speaker 1: He said he's got elite major league stuff with like
- 37:18Speaker 1: triple A I'm a misquote him, but triple A command,
- 37:21Speaker 1: I think is what he said. So if I'm wrong,
- 37:23Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Execution, execution, something like that, and he goes,
- 37:27Speaker 1: that's why he's here talking about in Detroit, and that
- 37:30Speaker 1: is also true. So that's kind of how that that
- 37:32Speaker 1: would be how I feel about one Jackson Joe Good
- 37:35Speaker 1: on the Tigers to be able to again scrap together
- 37:38Speaker 1: or when when your starting pitcher hasn't had it, And honestly,
- 37:41Speaker 1: that's something we do not to spend a lot of time.
- 37:42Speaker 1: And we've gone along here, but like it's not like
- 37:45Speaker 1: they've gotten elite started pitching this year, the Tigers and
- 37:48Speaker 1: the and this five and four start like overall, like,
- 37:52Speaker 1: you know, gotten some pretty good but it's not like
- 37:54Speaker 1: you know that you know, we'll see if we.
- 37:57Speaker 2: We haven't got peaked Schoogle yet. Actually, Flirty's been very good,
- 38:00Speaker 2: even if the stuff hasn't been quite good. Reese hasn't
- 38:03Speaker 2: quite clicked like as much as you would want. We're
- 38:07Speaker 2: still waiting on Casey my start number two. So that's
- 38:09Speaker 2: a great point. What was expected to be the strength
- 38:11Speaker 2: of the team has been more pretty good kind of good.
- 38:16Speaker 1: They have not written started starting pitching to a five
- 38:18Speaker 1: and four start as I think a good way, a
- 38:20Speaker 1: good way to say all right, that was a lot
- 38:23Speaker 1: of fun.
- 38:23Speaker 3: Uh.
- 38:23Speaker 1: You guys can hit us up on xploming on his
- 38:25Speaker 1: Twitter at Cody Stapenhagen, I'm Matt Kieran, Underscore Steckley pot
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- 38:48Speaker 1: with us today. So for Cody Stapenhagen, I'm Kieran Steckley. Everybody,
- 38:51Speaker 1: have a great day.