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Answering your questions about Tigers spring training · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger's Territory Party, the
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Speaker 1: Foul tourto nor Detroit Tiger's Podcast. I'm Kieren Steckley with
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Speaker 1: me is always a man who wonders if grapefruits taste
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Speaker 1: sour when they get upset. He's Cody Savinagg And how
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Speaker 1: you doing.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing all right, Kieren. I am back home for
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Speaker 2: a little bit after my first trip down to Lakeland.
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Speaker 2: I will be headed to the Dominican Republic with the
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Speaker 2: Tigers here in a few days, and then I'll do
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Speaker 2: a week in Miami of World Baseball Classic coverage, and
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Speaker 2: I'll be back in Lakeland for the final week of
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Speaker 2: spring training. So still plenty of stuff ahead, but I
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Speaker 2: guess it's nice, even though it's kind of back into
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Speaker 2: the cold for.
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Speaker 3: A little bit.
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Speaker 1: Well that's that's definitely the journalist, definite way of ramping up,
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Speaker 1: if you would, as the players are also ramping up.
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Speaker 1: And look, you know, we're not gonna obviously break down
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Speaker 1: every spring training game, but we're recording this Tuesday, early evening,
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Speaker 1: late afternoon, however you want to define it. And probably
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Speaker 1: a noteworthy occurrence today was one Max Clark getting the
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Speaker 1: start in left field and had himself an ending from hell.
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Speaker 1: Might might actually be the worst defensive ending of his
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Speaker 1: professional career. Now, I have not watched every Max Clark outing,
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Speaker 1: but I think that's probably a safe assumption. He was
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Speaker 1: credited with one air, it's really two. If we're doing
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Speaker 1: an evaluation, it was clear he just you know, couldn't
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Speaker 1: track the ball, whether the sun, clouds, you know, whatever, shades, eye,
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Speaker 1: black chains, whatever you want to attribute to he could not.
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Speaker 3: He could not track the ball.
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Speaker 1: And then he also had a swinging check swing strike
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Speaker 1: on a Joey Wentz fastball that ended with him on
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Speaker 1: his knee. So optically, not the best occurrence of Max Clark,
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Speaker 1: and we're not going to overreact to it. However, I
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Speaker 1: did think this is a time to do something constructive Cody.
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Speaker 1: And just like the aura of Max Clark is such
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Speaker 1: that when these things happen, it's kind of easy to say, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, Primadonna, Oh like that doesn't have his head
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Speaker 1: in the right areas, you know, should be more focused
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Speaker 1: on the game, the game, the game, you know whatever.
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Speaker 1: Over the past couple of years, and you know, especially
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Speaker 1: with this camp this year, you've had a chance to
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Speaker 1: just kind of observe him, talk with him. So I
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Speaker 1: think this might be a good chance to just kind
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Speaker 1: of quell. We've done it before, but this is fresh.
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Speaker 1: Like quell some of the like I would say, topical
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Speaker 1: concerns with Max Clark when it comes to the Max
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Speaker 1: Clark or getting in the way of the Max Clark
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Speaker 1: baseball player, it seems I'm not worried about it. But
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Speaker 1: you again, you've been around him, you've talked with him.
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Speaker 1: What's your you know what can you kind of shed
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Speaker 1: some light on for us?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I said just last episode, Max Clerk,
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Speaker 2: along with Kevin McGonagall, might be built pretty well to
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Speaker 2: handle himself when things get tough. We might figure out
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Speaker 2: what that looks like sooner than I was expecting. This
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Speaker 2: was just one rough inning, basically in a spring training game.
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Speaker 2: He lost a ball in the sun. Yeah, he was
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Speaker 2: wearing EyeBlack and sunglasses. Makes me think of the late
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Speaker 2: Jim Price talking about how al Kline never missed the
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Speaker 2: ball in the saw and even when he was six
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Speaker 2: years old. But like, like, I don't know, obviously a
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Speaker 2: tough inning might be good, right to have Max face
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Speaker 2: a little adversity here in his first big league camp.
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Speaker 2: It is not the end of the world. He's playing
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Speaker 2: left field, which is a position he doesn't even normally play.
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Speaker 2: Not you're to make excuses for him, but I do think, like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: having been around Max a little bit, it's tough not
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Speaker 2: to like him, man, regardless of what you think about
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Speaker 2: the chains or the tattoos. I think there is a
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Speaker 2: real ballplayer, you know. I think he's a real ballplayer
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Speaker 2: at hard. I think he loves the game. I think
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Speaker 2: he takes his craft seriously. The other stuff, the jokes
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Speaker 2: are gonna write themselves as not the first or the
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Speaker 2: last time he's gonna hear it, or we're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to talk about it. It will be interesting to see
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Speaker 2: what that looks like when he's put to the test
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Speaker 2: every single day at the major league level. If you're
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Speaker 2: not a top tier, elite player, can you get away
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Speaker 2: with the social media presence all that stuff, you know,
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Speaker 2: both from the fans, both from your teammates. That's gonna
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Speaker 2: be a question throughout Max Clerk's career. I'm just gonna say, like,
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think we should judge him unfairly
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Speaker 2: based off of that. I think this is a good player.
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Speaker 2: I think he's serious about baseball, and I do think
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Speaker 2: he has a good head on his shoulders from what
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Speaker 2: I have observed so far. So yeah, we'll see, we'll
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Speaker 2: see he's gonna bounce back. Not a great inning, not
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Speaker 2: a great day, maybe a good thing that he encounters
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Speaker 2: that right now, this earlier in his career in spring training.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I tend to agree from a thirty
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Speaker 1: thousand view perspective. And and look, we want more Max
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Speaker 1: Clark's in the game of baseball. We want more guys
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Speaker 1: that are unafraid to kind of be themselves and that
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Speaker 1: this is a drawback, and it doesn't mean that guys
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Speaker 1: that don't do this, you know, don't have like the
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Speaker 1: same passion and flair. And and that actually kind of
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Speaker 1: brings me to, you know, the the other guy there,
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Speaker 1: Kevin McGonagall, who once again got a nice little base
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Speaker 1: sit here to be to begin in the game opposite field.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't have what you would describe aura. And we've
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Speaker 1: we've talked about this before too. But now that that
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Speaker 1: story that you published, that you tease on our last
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Speaker 1: episode is now out there for everybody reading, I would
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Speaker 1: encourage everybody to go read it and it kind of
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Speaker 1: goes into who is who? And how is Kevin McGonagall
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Speaker 1: is how I would just kind of tease that. So
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Speaker 1: I wonder if you could just kind of take us
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Speaker 1: through your reporting and and and what you kind of
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Speaker 1: came out of the other side of this kind of
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Speaker 1: knowing about Kevin.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think it was an interesting look at,
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of to the goal was to explain
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Speaker 2: the making of Kevin McGonagall. How did this kid get
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Speaker 2: so good? How did he get so polished? McGonagall being
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Speaker 2: around him, Like a lot of people already know he
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Speaker 2: is very opposite Max Clark and that he's not as extroverted.
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Speaker 2: He's obviously not as flashy on the surface. He's a
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Speaker 2: little more mild mannered he is I don't even know
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Speaker 2: if he's quiet, but he you know, handles himself pretty professionally.
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Speaker 2: He gets more intense when he's out on that field though.
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Speaker 2: He is kind of the Chase Utley type player that
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Speaker 2: was his favorite player going up. That always gets mentioned,
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Speaker 2: and it always gets mentioned because it's real, like, you
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Speaker 2: watch this guy play enough, he gets the uniform dirty,
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Speaker 2: he plays hard. Where did that come from? Man took
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Speaker 2: about five minutes into a conversation with his father, Kevin
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Speaker 2: George McGonagall to get a pretty good sense. So that
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Speaker 2: was the focus of the story for the most part.
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Speaker 2: I spoke with his mother as well. I hope you
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Speaker 2: guys will go red. I don't want to spoil too much,
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Speaker 2: but I will say, you know, he had a dad
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Speaker 2: who was pretty old school, a little bit of tough love,
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Speaker 2: and I don't want that to be taken the wrong way.
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Speaker 2: Kevin George McGonagall in the story, he has some pretty
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Speaker 2: color colorful quotes. He says, I shoved baseball up his
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Speaker 2: ass for a lot of years, and he took to it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think we should be taking that the wrong way.
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Speaker 2: Was it Was he a tougher, more intense sports dad, Yeah, definitely,
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Speaker 2: But I don't think this was like some over the
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Speaker 2: top toxic thing. He had a kid who was talented,
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Speaker 2: who was willing to put in the work, and he
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Speaker 2: did his part to kind of maximize his son's talent.
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Speaker 2: Clearly that is paying off right now. But Kevin McGonagall,
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Speaker 2: you know, mild mannered as he is. His dad's a
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Speaker 2: kind of an older school Philly guy, a marine machinist,
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Speaker 2: used to work fixing water lines. Now he works on
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Speaker 2: navy submarines. That's kind of the cloth he's cut from, right,
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Speaker 2: Philly sub herbs, a little smaller town, maybe a little
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Speaker 2: harder edge. So when you see him on the field
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Speaker 2: and you see him playing with that edge, I think,
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Speaker 2: I think that's where it comes from.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a photo in there from Kevin. Kevin's youth
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Speaker 1: that you know, shows like how he basically learned how
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Speaker 1: to hit, and obviously you describe in the story and uh,
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Speaker 1: it was old fashioned. I'll say that old fashioned, old school,
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Speaker 1: and I loved it. I loved it because again, like
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Speaker 1: there's so many ways to become good, great, accomplish your dreams,
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Speaker 1: like all that stuff, and uh, and I like that
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Speaker 1: where we get that still exists as someone who it
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Speaker 1: was actually kind of depressing when I saw like what
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Speaker 1: year he was born. I was like, man, I am
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Speaker 1: getting up there in age A young a young guy
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Speaker 1: in the game.
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Speaker 2: Why I include born in two thousand and four?
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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, young a young guy, you know, coming of
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Speaker 1: age still in the old school way. So obviously a
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Speaker 1: lot more can be said about Kevin, and a lot
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Speaker 1: more will be said about Kevin as spring training and
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Speaker 1: this season continues. Probably the biggest news Cody that came,
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Speaker 1: you know, early in this week was the the announcement
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Speaker 1: that Trek Schooble will be pitching in only one game
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Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic. So you were there, like
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Speaker 1: he explained it or whatever, but like he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: pitching against Great Britain. He's you know, it's a one
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Speaker 1: and done thing. He might go back if they're in
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Speaker 1: the finals, just to kind of be there. But it's
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Speaker 1: clear that Trek Schooble took this as a great thing
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Speaker 1: to do, but it did not want to dominate his
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Is that like a fair way that
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Speaker 1: Trek was looking at this or like, what's your impression
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Speaker 1: cause because in fairness, he is not it's not putting
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Speaker 1: him in the best lights.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm struggling with this one. I think this is
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Speaker 2: an example of like being so close to it that
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Speaker 2: like I didn't realize this was going to cause the
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Speaker 2: uproar that it did. And that's partially because I knew
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Speaker 2: or it was like ninety percent sure this was the
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Speaker 2: plan and I had known that for a while. Just
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Speaker 2: wasn't something you know, I was able to report yet.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not surprised when Trek said he's only going
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Speaker 2: to pitch once in the World Baseball Classic. For better
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Speaker 2: or for worse. This is just how these things go
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Speaker 2: a lot of the time. Clearly it was important enough
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Speaker 2: to him that he wanted to go do it. I
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Speaker 2: do think it's fair to look back and see the
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Speaker 2: way maybe Trek, or maybe Mark Durosa or Tmosa or
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Speaker 2: MLB marketed this as though, oh, look, we have Trek Schouble,
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Speaker 2: we have Paul Skins. We're getting participation from the best guys.
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Speaker 2: As far as I know, they likely knew all along
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Speaker 2: Trek Schooble was going to pitch one game in pool play,
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Speaker 2: probably against Great Britain. So was this marketed somewhat disingenuously?
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Speaker 2: You know what? I think it was, And so I
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Speaker 2: do think it's fair to be critical from that aspect.
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Speaker 2: I just get the other side of it, in that
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Speaker 2: Trek scoubl is trying to win a World Series with
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Speaker 2: the Tigers. He isn't a contract year. There is some risk.
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Speaker 2: And the reason it was a big story when schoobl
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Speaker 2: and Skin signed up to pitch is because guys, historically,
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Speaker 2: especially American pitchers, just haven't done this. It's been hard
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Speaker 2: to get full buy in for the World Baseball Classic,
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Speaker 2: especially from pitchers, because it changes their routines and it
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Speaker 2: changes their workloads, and in an age with a lot
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Speaker 2: of injuries, guys are just afraid to do that. Teams
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Speaker 2: often don't do that. I don't think Scott Boris wanted
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Speaker 2: Trek Scoobel pitching a lot in the World Baseball Classic.
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Speaker 2: The Tigers obviously let guys participate. A J. Hinch talks
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Speaker 2: about how he played in the Olympics, but I think
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Speaker 2: if you gave them truth seerum, they would kind of
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Speaker 2: prefer guys just not do it for all these same reasons.
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's not a great look. But this
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Speaker 2: is just the reality. And I think Ken Rosenthal is
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Speaker 2: reporting that Paul Skans will pitch at least twice, which
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Speaker 2: is once more than Trek's scougle. But even Paul Skeen's
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Speaker 2: unclear if he would be pitching if the tm USA
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Speaker 2: makes it to the championship Game or something along those lines.
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Speaker 2: This is still an issue MLB in the World Baseball
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Speaker 2: Classic face. I don't know what the solution is. The
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Speaker 2: timing having it in spring training probably about as good
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Speaker 2: of a time as there is, but it clearly still
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Speaker 2: creates problems in getting full participation from guys. So this
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Speaker 2: is where we're at. Schooble's getting a lot of heat
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Speaker 2: for it. I do think some of that could have
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Speaker 2: been avoided if they just would have said from the jump, Hey,
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Speaker 2: I'd like to represent my country, but I don't want
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Speaker 2: to jeopardize my season and my team's goals, so I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna pitch once. If they would have said that from
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Speaker 2: the outset, I think that would have been like, eh, okay, whatever.
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Speaker 2: But now that it's coming out, now Trek's getting a
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Speaker 2: lot of heat.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I kind of liken it too.
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Speaker 1: You see this during college football bowl season where like
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Speaker 1: a guy like Cam Wore did this a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago, where he'll like play a first half, they
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Speaker 1: don't say anything, then all of a sudden, he's just
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Speaker 1: not playing in the second half of the game. Tyland
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Speaker 1: Wallace at Oklahoma State did that in his last bowl game,
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Speaker 1: which is like, I get it, you want to play,
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Speaker 1: but you don't want to You want to also minimize risk.
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Speaker 1: But I just kind of feel like the better way
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Speaker 1: to handle it is to be a little bit more upfront.
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Speaker 1: So uh, you know, Hindsight's twenty twenty on that he's
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Speaker 1: He's still gonna be fun to watch, and you know
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Speaker 1: mentioned tech schoolbl but we also saw him for the
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Speaker 1: first time in spring in some game action. He went
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Speaker 1: too innings, he allowed two hits, he had four k's. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it seems like he's all right, Cody. Seems like Terrek
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Speaker 1: Schooble is all right.
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Speaker 2: Looked pretty good to me. Looks like you picked up
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Speaker 2: right where we left off. He'll be okay, not too
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Speaker 1: Well, someone who's not going to be in the World
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Speaker 1: Baseball Classic, but you know, is quite an intriguing piece
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Speaker 1: in the Tigers rotation. We thought him four different roles
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Speaker 1: this offseason based on when he signed and things that
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Speaker 1: have happened. But that's a Drew Anderson who also pitched
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Speaker 1: two innings on Monday, allowed one hit, and he had
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Speaker 1: three strikeouts himself, Cody, So like, I don't know, Like
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to know a whole lot
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Speaker 1: about Drew Anderson. You saw him for a couple of
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Speaker 1: innings there, what'd you think, Karen?
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Speaker 2: I was pretty impressed with Drew Anderson.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: You know, I had watched him throw his live session
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Speaker 2: on the backfields, and I don't think he was totally
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Speaker 2: filling up the strike zone, but the kick change looked
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Speaker 2: really good and got a couple of really awkward swings.
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Speaker 2: I was talking to Trek Scooble for about something else
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Speaker 2: a few days ago, and he went out of his
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Speaker 2: way to mention Anderson's change up. He said, that's one
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Speaker 2: of the nastiest pitches I've ever seen. Pretty high praise
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Speaker 2: coming from Trek Scouble and then we saw it in
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Speaker 2: game action, and you know, his fastball was held at
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Speaker 2: ninety five ninety six through some nasty kick changes worked
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Speaker 2: in the rest of his arsenal, which aj Hinch said
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Speaker 2: is really important. He can't become just fastball change up.
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Speaker 2: You need to see slider, you need to see some
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Speaker 2: other stuff out of Drew Anderson. And it's only two innings,
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Speaker 2: it's only spring training. But from what the little we
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Speaker 2: saw man Drew Anderson, spring is off to quite the
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Speaker 2: nice start.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're looking for some positive notes there,
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Speaker 1: like obviously Drew Anderson is one to kind of keep watching.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's.
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Speaker 1: Let's go into the mailbag. Cody, you have some thank
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Speaker 1: you everybody who submitted a question. Try to fire as
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Speaker 1: many of these as we can. A couple of TV questions.
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Speaker 1: One of them, I believe I'm ninety nine point nine
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Speaker 1: nine percent sure on this, but yes, if you have
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Speaker 1: if you have MLB dot TV through T Mobile, I
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Speaker 1: believe you still will be able to do that. This
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Speaker 1: this next season, you know, given all the changes with
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Speaker 1: MLB dot TV, but I'm ninety nine point nine nine
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Speaker 1: percent sure that should go unchanged. But uh, definitely look
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Speaker 1: it up yourself if if.
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Speaker 3: You're unsure.
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Speaker 1: Still waiting on TV, you got a question about this
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Speaker 1: and something I'm curious in my mind when you know
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Speaker 1: when we're gonna get any inkling on when the Tigers
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Speaker 1: TV announcer plan is going to get announced, because uh,
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Speaker 1: you know it wor tring to see it trickol eating
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Speaker 1: through other teams. But we don't have any indications yet.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe in terms of like on it like yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think a formal announcement is probably coming soon. I
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Speaker 2: don't think they're going to be any huge changes. I
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Speaker 2: guess we'll wait until the formal announcement to see, but
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Speaker 2: I would expect that relatively.
18:22
Speaker 3: So Okay, this is a good question. I Uh, I
18:26
Speaker 3: think it's.
18:28
Speaker 1: I think it's one that you know, Worth's spend a
18:29
Speaker 1: couple of minutes on is from brook. When people say
18:33
Speaker 1: they're looking for good at bats, what does that mean?
18:36
Speaker 1: What separates a good at bat from a bat at bat?
18:39
Speaker 1: And how can we as fans begin to pay attention
18:41
Speaker 1: beyond just quote he worked the count, saw a lot
18:44
Speaker 1: of pitches.
18:45
Speaker 3: So what's a good at bat?
18:46
Speaker 2: Cody, Yeah, I think I think if a J. Hinch
18:49
Speaker 2: were on, he's just say, getting a good pitch to hit.
18:52
Speaker 2: Are you swinging at strikes? I think that's pretty simple.
18:55
Speaker 2: I do think in the major leagues it's a little
18:58
Speaker 2: bit different even from high school. Like high school, if
19:01
Speaker 2: you are you know, going deep into account and falling
19:05
Speaker 2: off tough pitches, like that's a good good at bad
19:07
Speaker 2: and some of that applies. But I think it really
19:10
Speaker 2: comes down to if you get a pitch on the
19:13
Speaker 2: heart of the plate, are you driving it? Are you
19:15
Speaker 2: are you chasing? It's basically don't chase. If you getting
19:18
Speaker 2: a two strike count, you do make the pitcher work
19:20
Speaker 2: a little bit. Now, especially in the era of ABS,
19:23
Speaker 2: you don't want to be swinging at balls and fouling
19:26
Speaker 2: off pitches that are outside the strike zone. That's something
19:29
Speaker 2: that's like not enough fans realized. Isn't really a thing
19:32
Speaker 2: in the major leagues, at least not to the extent
19:34
Speaker 2: that maybe you're taught growing up. But yeah, pretty pretty simple.
19:38
Speaker 2: What are you doing with the pitches that you were getting?
19:40
Speaker 2: Are you making good swing decisions. It can still be
19:43
Speaker 2: a good thing to work a pitcher, you know, for
19:46
Speaker 2: eight nine pitches in an ab If you're getting sliders
19:49
Speaker 2: on the outside corner and you're just folling them off
19:51
Speaker 2: until you get something maybe more in your wheelhouse, that's
19:54
Speaker 2: a good thing. But for as much as we talk
19:58
Speaker 2: about it, and you're right, as much as it can
20:00
Speaker 2: the kind of a mystifying concept, especially if you're not,
20:05
Speaker 2: you know, a super experience or die hard fan, it's
20:09
Speaker 2: actually pretty simple, like are you swinging at the right pitches?
20:12
Speaker 2: Are you driving the right pitches? I think that's really
20:14
Speaker 2: all it comes down to. I guess maybe something you know,
20:17
Speaker 2: situations play a factor. You know, if there's a runner
20:21
Speaker 2: on third, are you getting the ball in the air?
20:24
Speaker 2: Are you hitting behind the runner? Again, not always as
20:26
Speaker 2: much of a thing in the major leagues, but game
20:28
Speaker 2: situation can be something to consider in those instances as well.
20:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, the way I would answer this question is to
20:37
Speaker 1: pair foot pair ofphrase Andy Dirks where he says, you know,
20:42
Speaker 1: the best way to the best way to hit the
20:45
Speaker 1: curveball is to hit the fastball before you get the curveball.
20:48
Speaker 1: So that's your pitch to hit. Now you don't have to,
20:50
Speaker 1: you know, try to. You don't have to worry about
20:52
Speaker 1: the slider or the change or the or the curve.
20:54
Speaker 2: Must you're sitting spin.
20:58
Speaker 3: Maybe no, Yeah, there you go? All right?
21:00
Speaker 2: Uh?
21:02
Speaker 1: Actually kind of funny because we talked about it in
21:03
Speaker 1: the last episode. Is there who appears to be the
21:06
Speaker 1: most impressive first baseman behind Torq? Just from a defense perspective?
21:11
Speaker 1: And and this is not in the question from Mel,
21:14
Speaker 1: but the way I would ask it is like comfort level,
21:18
Speaker 1: like Colt Keith, Uh, Valencio, Jose Prastino, Jace Young, Tyrant, Like,
21:25
Speaker 1: you know, does anybody look like comfortable there besides Torque?
21:29
Speaker 2: Actually a good question because my quick thought answer would
21:33
Speaker 2: be no. And it's because they don't have a lot
21:36
Speaker 2: of depth at first base. That's probably okay. It's not
21:40
Speaker 2: a position like again, all the names we just mentioned,
21:43
Speaker 2: our guys who have another primary position Bersanio and Lorenzo
21:49
Speaker 2: at catcher, Jace Young at converted second basement, third baseman.
21:52
Speaker 2: Colt Keith has played a lot of different positions. I've
21:55
Speaker 2: only seen Colt working at third pretty much exclusively, maybe
21:58
Speaker 2: a little bit at second. I don't think i've seen
22:01
Speaker 2: him at first base at all yet this spring, Valencia
22:05
Speaker 2: can can factor into that equation, but Jase definitely still
22:09
Speaker 2: learning the position. Bersonio I actually think, looks if I
22:13
Speaker 2: had to pick someone, I'd say maybe Bersonio saw him
22:15
Speaker 2: working on the backfield with Miguel Cabrera. But none of
22:19
Speaker 2: those guys are natural, you know, plus infield defenders by
22:23
Speaker 2: by any means. So maybe that is something to watch
22:26
Speaker 2: if you know, God forbid Torque were to get hurt
22:29
Speaker 2: or something. A who's the next guy up? Maybe it's
22:32
Speaker 2: just cool Keith, he's been there before. But behind that,
22:35
Speaker 2: who is your other option? And how comfortable are they
22:37
Speaker 2: really at first base?
22:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, something you almost hope doesn't have to be a thing,
22:43
Speaker 1: But you know, baseball, Baseball's a game played by humans.
22:46
Speaker 3: You never know. All right? This is from Z.
22:51
Speaker 1: Day, Yeah YouTube names love him? What's the hell status
22:56
Speaker 1: of Todd Madden and Sawyer Gibson long? And what's your
22:58
Speaker 1: outlook for each of these guys? I try to pull
23:02
Speaker 1: up the injury report while.
23:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, to that time, add and appears to be healthy.
23:07
Speaker 2: He's already been you know, throwing live sessions, throwing off
23:09
Speaker 2: the bomb, still ramping up a little bit. I think
23:12
Speaker 2: we've talked about him some, but again important or maybe
23:16
Speaker 2: not completely write him off. This is a guy who
23:19
Speaker 2: is probably going to stretch out as a starter, could
23:21
Speaker 2: always pitch out of the pin if needed. The guy
23:23
Speaker 2: that was well regarded did some good things for the
23:26
Speaker 2: Tigers at the tail end of twenty twenty four. Last
23:29
Speaker 2: year was a broken year for him, so he feels
23:32
Speaker 2: a little bit forgotten, but I would certainly keep an
23:34
Speaker 2: eye on him. And then Sawyer Gibson long that was
23:37
Speaker 2: you know, several injuries at of surgery. Came to camp
23:40
Speaker 2: with an oblique strain that I think set him back
23:43
Speaker 2: a little bit. He is back to throwing, back to pitching,
23:47
Speaker 2: but I would venture to say a little bit behind
23:51
Speaker 2: entering this camp. You know, he's one of those guys
23:55
Speaker 2: who factors into the conversation as depth starter. He's someone
23:58
Speaker 2: that Tigers have liked a lot in the past, but
24:01
Speaker 2: the injury thing has also been real. I think he
24:04
Speaker 2: really needs to stay healthy and you know, out the
24:07
Speaker 2: arm surgeries out of the way, some of the little injuries.
24:11
Speaker 2: Is he going to be able to overcome those? Are
24:12
Speaker 2: those recurring issues? Is it going to get to a
24:15
Speaker 2: point where Hey, if your neck is a one hundred percent,
24:18
Speaker 2: you just need to pitch through it. I'm not sure,
24:20
Speaker 2: but I think that's something to keep in mind with
24:21
Speaker 2: Sarwyer Gibson Long.
24:24
Speaker 1: So I'm just reading from the injury report Sawyer Gibson Long.
24:28
Speaker 1: This is from today, the February twenty fourth Sawyer Gibson
24:31
Speaker 1: Long expected to throw or scheduled to throw a bullpen
24:35
Speaker 1: session today being Tuesday, February twenty fourth, And ty Madden's
24:39
Speaker 1: on on here. So ty Madden is, you know, just
24:41
Speaker 1: based on this, he's good fullg No, he's healthy, all right?
24:47
Speaker 1: Next question, who is the team to beat in the
24:51
Speaker 1: American League this season? Also, give me your dark horse.
24:54
Speaker 1: That's from Adrian. It's hard for me. I'll answer to
24:57
Speaker 1: this first go. It's hard for me to just go
24:59
Speaker 1: against the Yankees because the Yankees are always kind of
25:01
Speaker 1: right there with respect to Seattle and in Toronto. Obviously,
25:06
Speaker 1: my dark horse is a team that I'm low key
25:09
Speaker 1: kind of like things to get dicey, Kansas City, what
25:13
Speaker 1: if what if they take the jump? You know they
25:16
Speaker 1: had they had the post. They were in the postseason
25:18
Speaker 1: two years ago, so like that, Kansay's a little dark
25:22
Speaker 1: Horse for me, what if Bobby Wit becomes like a
25:24
Speaker 1: force force, you know what I mean.
25:25
Speaker 2: So I think certainly in the AL Central there's a
25:29
Speaker 2: lot of talk about the Guardians and that they know
25:31
Speaker 2: they're their reigning champs, But I would, you know, the
25:33
Speaker 2: Royals could do some things make the Tigers a little
25:36
Speaker 2: bit uncomfortable. I'd say Blue Jays is the team to
25:39
Speaker 2: beat just because they went to the World Series last year.
25:42
Speaker 2: They have some dudes who can hit, they have some
25:44
Speaker 2: guys who can pitch. They're a good team just based
25:47
Speaker 2: on the fact that they were American League champions. I
25:51
Speaker 2: think they are the team to beat. I think Tigers
25:54
Speaker 2: are right there in this conversation, but dark Horse. I
25:58
Speaker 2: instantly look at two teams that really under achieved last year,
26:02
Speaker 2: one being the Baltimore Orioles. Can they bounce back, have
26:05
Speaker 2: they done enough to solve their pitching, and what will
26:07
Speaker 2: they get out of their young hitters. I don't know,
26:10
Speaker 2: But if Jackson Holiday gets healthy and takes a leap,
26:13
Speaker 2: if Adlie Rutchman bounces back, if someone like Heston Kershstad
26:18
Speaker 2: finally can find their niche watch out they added Pete Alonzo.
26:22
Speaker 2: I mean they could be nasty. Then the Texas Rangers.
26:27
Speaker 2: A couple of really tough years for the Rangers after
26:29
Speaker 2: winning the twenty three World Series. But they had the
26:32
Speaker 2: best pitching staff in the game last year, which is
26:35
Speaker 2: which is easy to forget. There are some pitchers over there,
26:40
Speaker 2: and they added McKenzie Gore this winter. They did some
26:42
Speaker 2: things to reshape their roster. I don't know if it
26:45
Speaker 2: was enough, but that offense has also underachieved dramatically the
26:50
Speaker 2: past two years. Wyatt Langford young and only getting better.
26:54
Speaker 2: Evan Carter can he be healthy? Can he take the jump? There?
26:57
Speaker 2: Looking for? That's a team I would not write off
27:00
Speaker 2: either the Orioles and the Rangers.
27:05
Speaker 1: I just wanted to clear the record, Like obviously, I
27:07
Speaker 1: know Bobby Wood Junior is a force force, but I
27:09
Speaker 1: was just trying to project like jumps for the team
27:11
Speaker 1: as a whole.
27:12
Speaker 3: I was just looking at it again, this is the
27:13
Speaker 3: problem with the Royals.
27:14
Speaker 2: It would be like, Okay, you have Bobby Witt, you
27:17
Speaker 2: have Sal Perez, Vinnie Pasquentino. Who else is making noise
27:22
Speaker 2: on that team? I'm not sure saying guys can't do it?
27:25
Speaker 2: Michael maybe Jacks.
27:26
Speaker 1: Maybe Jack's the guy maybe Jack's the guy he figures
27:29
Speaker 1: it out and then they have, like you know, more
27:31
Speaker 1: thump in the middle of their order to go with
27:33
Speaker 1: all the other aspects of the team. We'll see I
27:36
Speaker 1: teams keep an eye on all. Right, let's this is
27:39
Speaker 1: from west side. Do you see any changes in the
27:42
Speaker 1: usage of Carry Carpenter in right field less than last year? More?
27:46
Speaker 3: What do you think?
27:48
Speaker 2: I think I think the Tigers would like for it
27:51
Speaker 2: to be more or in the outfield overall. Again, A J.
27:55
Speaker 2: Hinch has mentioned Carry Carpenter is gonna see a little
27:58
Speaker 2: bit time in left field this spring and maybe even
28:00
Speaker 2: in the regular season. Carpenter's health is a concern. We've
28:03
Speaker 2: talked about that and the hamstring strains, but I think
28:06
Speaker 2: he might play more in the field this year, and
28:09
Speaker 2: I think the reason is because Riley Green could see
28:12
Speaker 2: more time in the DH spot, which could lead to
28:14
Speaker 2: more time for Carpenter in the field. That is not
28:18
Speaker 2: a great situation to be in if you're the Tigers
28:20
Speaker 2: having two young, talented hitters who both need DH time.
28:25
Speaker 2: But I think it is their reality and I think
28:28
Speaker 2: keeping Riley Green healthy on the field, effective, feeling good
28:32
Speaker 2: is going to be a pretty high priority. The best
28:36
Speaker 2: way to make that a more palatable arrangement is if
28:38
Speaker 2: Kerry Carpenter can also be healthy and hold his own
28:41
Speaker 2: in the outfield.
28:45
Speaker 1: Is from John Quinn. Do you think the Tigers will
28:47
Speaker 1: pick up a third baseman before the start of the season.
28:52
Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to go get a name
28:54
Speaker 2: that's going to excite you. But I may mentioned last
28:56
Speaker 2: episode there might be room for like a right handed
28:59
Speaker 2: in with some experience, or like a waiver claim or
29:03
Speaker 2: a small trade like Zach McKinstry a few years ago.
29:08
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about the Tigers have six outfielders
29:10
Speaker 2: plus McKinstry plus Baias on this roster right now. If
29:14
Speaker 2: they wanted to bring up a right handed infielder, you're
29:16
Speaker 2: looking instantly at Max Anderson. How you lee guys who
29:22
Speaker 2: are still very young, who also would not be playing
29:26
Speaker 2: every day if they were in the major leagues? Would
29:28
Speaker 2: that be best for their development? Mike, the Tigers at
29:31
Speaker 2: the end of camp kick around the idea of bringing
29:33
Speaker 2: in a right handed infielder, you know who doesn't make
29:37
Speaker 2: another roster I wouldn't. I'm not saying that's gonna happen,
29:40
Speaker 2: but I could see there being room for that on
29:43
Speaker 2: this team.
29:45
Speaker 1: One hundred percent something they're looking for to see if
29:48
Speaker 1: it's a possibility there, I guess confidently say that it
29:52
Speaker 1: is from Ron Garrett. Do the Tigers use the Tragic
29:56
Speaker 1: Tragic i'ving traject TECHNOLRAJ traject system?
30:07
Speaker 2: Know they do. I wrote about that last year actually,
30:11
Speaker 2: so if you google Tigers traject you can hopefully read
30:14
Speaker 2: a story about it. They have one at Camerica Park.
30:16
Speaker 2: It is a huge part of their game day and
30:19
Speaker 2: even in game prep. Pretty much every team has one
30:22
Speaker 2: of these. Now I'm not sure if there's still a
30:24
Speaker 2: couple who do not, but it is a machine that
30:27
Speaker 2: has really taken over baseball foryone who's not familiar. Traject
30:30
Speaker 2: is pretty much the most high tech pitching machine you
30:34
Speaker 2: can imagine. It can simulate. It basically plays a I'll
30:38
Speaker 2: call it a video of a pitcher's release. You can
30:42
Speaker 2: type in Paul Skeens and suddenly you will be facing
30:45
Speaker 2: Paul Skins and it can replicate the exact spin rates
30:48
Speaker 2: and arm angle on all of his pitches. It does
30:52
Speaker 2: that for pretty much every pitcher in the American League
30:54
Speaker 2: except Rogers, the extreme submarine guy. It can't replicate his
30:59
Speaker 2: release so everyone else, though, it can replicate really really
31:04
Speaker 2: high tech hitters. You know, if Jami Jones knows he's
31:08
Speaker 2: going to face a lefty, he can go in game
31:11
Speaker 2: and simulate at bats against that lefty, which I'm almost
31:15
Speaker 2: surprised MLB hasn't tried to legislate around. But it is
31:19
Speaker 2: a real thing and the Tigers are big users of it.
31:23
Speaker 1: All right, Well, speaking of Jamai Jones, this might apply
31:26
Speaker 1: to him, maybe maybe not. We've talked about it before,
31:29
Speaker 1: but this from Nathan, Lots of guys overachieved last year,
31:33
Speaker 1: which probably means some regression is incoming. Seems to be
31:37
Speaker 1: a couple of guys who could have a bounce back year.
31:39
Speaker 1: But I this is Nathan am concerned with how the
31:42
Speaker 1: offense will look. How confident are you, guys? How confident
31:46
Speaker 1: are you in the Tigers offense?
31:50
Speaker 2: I guess a traject machine can cost anywhere from three
31:53
Speaker 2: hundred to five hundred thousand dollars, generally a three year lease.
31:58
Speaker 2: If I were a major league player, be trying to
32:00
Speaker 2: get one of those at my house, and I would
32:02
Speaker 2: just face Scooble and Paul Skins every day, and you
32:06
Speaker 2: would never have any excuse for regressing serious that you
32:11
Speaker 2: don't hear about guys using these in the off season
32:13
Speaker 2: because it's still like not not that accessible of a
32:16
Speaker 2: thing yet, but I think it will be. Why have
32:19
Speaker 2: your coat? You know, Riley Green talked about less feel
32:22
Speaker 2: good days, more competitive days. Why have some coach pitching
32:25
Speaker 2: to you? If you could just face Arrek Scuoble, like
32:29
Speaker 2: you know, you want to practice how you play. That's
32:33
Speaker 2: the thought I had. Anyway, what was the question, who
32:36
Speaker 2: are regressing?
32:39
Speaker 1: No, it's just like every team there's regression candidates, there's
32:42
Speaker 1: bounce back candidate's.
32:43
Speaker 3: How confident are you in the offense?
32:46
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we talked about this all winter long.
32:49
Speaker 2: I am. I think the even though the last couple
32:54
Speaker 2: of months of the season were actually really bad and
32:56
Speaker 2: suggests there's a low floor for the offense, I think
32:58
Speaker 2: the floor is high. I don't think this is going
33:01
Speaker 2: to be a bad offense. I think get worse. It's
33:04
Speaker 2: a middle of the pack offense. But I'm certainly not
33:07
Speaker 2: as confident as the Tiger's front office that it's going
33:10
Speaker 2: to be better than it was last season, because, like
33:13
Speaker 2: you said, there were just so many guys who had
33:15
Speaker 2: good years. Surprises in the first half from Hovey, Baiaz
33:19
Speaker 2: and Zach McKinstry. The Tigers ranked eleventh and run scoring.
33:24
Speaker 2: I view them as probably an offense that's going to
33:27
Speaker 2: finish right around there. Again, they do have enough young
33:31
Speaker 2: hitters that it's possible to see them raising the bar.
33:34
Speaker 2: If Riley Green hits for average in addition to power,
33:38
Speaker 2: if Torque has a good another good year, if col
33:40
Speaker 2: Keith takes the leap, if you get the good version
33:43
Speaker 2: of Parker Meadows like, there's some things that could happen
33:46
Speaker 2: that could make this offense better. But I think it's
33:49
Speaker 2: it's asking a lot out of a lot of different guys.
33:51
Speaker 2: You're fending off regression, you're asking for some of the
33:55
Speaker 2: same type of surprises you got last season. That's why
33:58
Speaker 2: I don't have an extreme degree of confidence. That's why
34:01
Speaker 2: I think if the Tigers can have a good but
34:03
Speaker 2: not great offense and elite pitching, they are still a
34:07
Speaker 2: real force to be reckoned with.
34:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, the way I would classify it is I'm confident
34:13
Speaker 1: in how they designed the team overall, including the offense
34:17
Speaker 1: like and and you have to and the process that
34:21
Speaker 1: goes into that. So like, you know, probably not going
34:23
Speaker 1: to have six All stars again, but like, can you
34:26
Speaker 1: be a more solid all round offensive team longer? I
34:30
Speaker 1: feel like that's certainly in play. And Parker Metto is
34:32
Speaker 1: obviously the key for a lot of this stuff. All right,
34:36
Speaker 1: this is from contains peanuts, So it contains peanuts.
34:40
Speaker 2: Why does this guy use your real names? Come on now,
34:45
Speaker 2: CP for sure, thanks for listening, thanks for watching. We
34:49
Speaker 2: appreciate your question.
34:51
Speaker 1: Why do you suppose the Tigers found ken Lee Jansen
34:54
Speaker 1: more appealing than Pete Fairbanks, who often who ultimately went
34:58
Speaker 1: for a fraction more in a one year deal. He's
35:02
Speaker 1: just a remind everybody had to make sure I got
35:04
Speaker 1: this correct. It was a one year, thirteen million dollar
35:07
Speaker 1: contract with the Miami Marlins Pete Fairbanks.
35:12
Speaker 2: This is a good question, and to be honest, I
35:15
Speaker 2: don't know the answer to it. I certainly know the
35:16
Speaker 2: Tigers had a lot of interest in Pete Fairbanks, has
35:19
Speaker 2: did some other teams. When they initially signed Jansen, I
35:24
Speaker 2: kind of figured Fairbanks might be getting more years, maybe
35:29
Speaker 2: something that Tigers were uncomfortable with. That's not how it
35:32
Speaker 2: went down. One year, thirteen million. Makes me wonder if
35:36
Speaker 2: Detroit just was not his preferred destination. I guess thirteen
35:40
Speaker 2: aav even though they what Kimley Jansen's getting ten this year?
35:44
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
35:46
Speaker 3: Yes?
35:47
Speaker 2: Okay, so maybe you know that was a little higher
35:50
Speaker 2: than the Tigers were willing to go. I don't know
35:52
Speaker 2: what exactly happened, but certainly certainly interesting. Nine million and
35:59
Speaker 2: there's a two million buy out of it. So he's
36:01
Speaker 2: basically guaranteed eleven this year. Yeah, oh yeah, I you know,
36:08
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like the money was the factor, and
36:10
Speaker 2: it's maybe he was holding out for something else. Smart crash.
36:13
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what happened. Makes me wonder if
36:15
Speaker 2: Detroit was not fairbanks preferred destination though.
36:19
Speaker 1: Well again, like you know, we talked about the the
36:21
Speaker 1: quality at bat thing, like you know, you know, being
36:24
Speaker 1: able to choose the right pitch or whatever, and free agency,
36:26
Speaker 1: you gotta choose the right time, both from the team
36:28
Speaker 1: perspective and the player perspective to you know, read the
36:31
Speaker 1: market well enough to you know, get the desired result.
36:34
Speaker 3: Sometimes he's swing, sometimes he missed, sometimes he hit.
36:36
Speaker 2: So soon, you know, this guy's been a closer. Did
36:40
Speaker 2: he want to stay a guaranteed closer? Maybe that maybe
36:43
Speaker 2: that plays a factor as well.
36:45
Speaker 3: Could be how's Glabor look?
36:47
Speaker 1: I'm gonna paraphrase one of these questions, like how how
36:51
Speaker 1: does Glabor look? That's obviously a key for this season.
36:54
Speaker 2: I know, you know, I haven't seen a ton. Glaber's
36:57
Speaker 2: a veteran, so I think he knows the ramp process.
37:00
Speaker 2: I don't think he's full pedal to the metal here
37:04
Speaker 2: in the early days of spring training. I haven't seen
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Speaker 2: him doing a ton. He's taken his live vps, still,
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Speaker 2: finest timing, he's taken in field whatever. You know, he
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Speaker 2: looks healthy, he looks in good shape. But I don't
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Speaker 2: know that I have a ton of observations on Glabor
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Speaker 2: at this point. Otherwise, I think the hernia things in
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Speaker 2: the past. So I think it'll be good to see
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Speaker 2: him out on the field as things ramp up, and
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Speaker 2: maybe we can get a little better idea of where
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Speaker 2: he's at, what kind of year to expect from him.
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Speaker 3: All right, and then this is like this is from Ian.
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Speaker 1: This is a great just like quintessential spring training question.
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Speaker 1: Thoughts on players usage in spring differing from end season. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we see a lot of positional movement exploration in the spring.
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Speaker 1: But one thing I noticed today so Tuesday, is that
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Speaker 1: Jamia Jones again a lot of reps against Righty. So
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Speaker 1: do you chalk some of this stuff up to anything
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Speaker 1: or is it just like get guys reps however they are,
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Speaker 1: you know, not really kind of squeezing in situational stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's reps. I think it's a way
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Speaker 2: to make sure Jamia Jones sees right handers in the
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Speaker 2: regular season, or excuse me, in spring training, or carry
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Speaker 2: Carpenter sees lefties in in spring training. Some of these
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Speaker 2: at bats that may not be guaranteed as the regular
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Speaker 2: in the regular season. This is a good chance for
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Speaker 2: dudes to get that experience. You have them work on it.
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Speaker 2: We talked. I think last episode Jami Jones being maybe
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Speaker 2: the tigers most one dimensional piece. They're gonna play him
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Speaker 2: in the field. I think a good amount this spring.
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Speaker 2: They might have him see Righty's a good amount this spring.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean either of those things are gonna happen
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Speaker 2: in the regular season, but I think they want to
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Speaker 2: get him exposed and like learn what they can see
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Speaker 2: if there are ways to make him a little more versatile.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, the way I've thought about in my head,
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Speaker 1: and I think the way I'm gonna kind of speak
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Speaker 1: about it from here on out is like aj Han,
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Speaker 1: to the best of his ability, does not want to
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Speaker 1: be beholden to a damn thing. And so if you
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Speaker 1: can get if you can get Jami Jones at least
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Speaker 1: a little bit more.
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Speaker 3: Of a comfort level.
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Speaker 1: I mean this from AJ's perspective against Ridy's in the field,
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Speaker 1: like that's that's that some honestly.
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Speaker 3: It might be more for aj than anybody else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Jami's leaving for the World Baseball Classic soon,
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Speaker 2: so the Tigers are just kind of playing him as
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Speaker 2: much as possible and basically just see him and get
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Speaker 2: him ramped up for the WBC.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap up with this one from Ken,
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Speaker 1: another quintessential spring training question. I know it's too early
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Speaker 1: to panic, but outside of McGonagall and maybe Clark, I'm
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Speaker 1: not seeing a whole lot of improvements so far in
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Speaker 1: the quality of AB's this spring compared to the last
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Speaker 1: few months of the season. When should I panic?
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Speaker 2: I mean, did I make a joke when Riley green
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Speaker 2: with three times in this first spring of that? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I did. No one is allowed to panic until May first,
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Speaker 2: all right, not even spring training. We got to get
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Speaker 2: into the season before there's any panic. Sure you would
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Speaker 2: like to see some differences in approach and blah blah blah,
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Speaker 2: but we haven't even seen the Tigers, you know, play
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Speaker 2: their guys enough to have any takeaways at all. At
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Speaker 2: this point, it is way too early to even think
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Speaker 2: about panicking.
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Speaker 1: So, like I said last last week, you just want
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Speaker 1: to have a couple of feel goods in there, man,
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Speaker 1: I get.
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Speaker 2: That you would. Yeah, you would not be thinking about
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Speaker 2: panicking if you know there are just a couple of homers,
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Speaker 2: if Riley or park Parker meadows great example, we're making
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Speaker 2: some noise early in camp, Yeah you might feel a
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Speaker 2: little better. So I I see where the spirit of
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Speaker 2: that comes from. But let's have some patience. It'll be
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Speaker 2: all right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it just it's a sign of investment and investment
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Speaker 1: in the team, and also just like the stakes of
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Speaker 1: the season in general. So one hundred percent get where
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Speaker 1: that's coming from. And and thank you everybody who submitted
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Speaker 1: a question. I believe I got to almost all of them.
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Speaker 1: If I didn't get to yours, I'm sorry. We'll we'll
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Speaker 1: do another one of these definitely before the season starts
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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, well a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: good thought provoking questions there anything else Cody before we
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Speaker 1: jet out of here?
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Speaker 2: Uh no, I think that's all I got good questions, guys.
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