Latest / Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast / The Tigers keep rolling & Tarik Skubal keeps believing
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- 0:09Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
- 0:12Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network Detroit Tiger's podcast. I am Kieren
- 0:15Speaker 1: Steckley with me as always as a man who has
- 0:18Speaker 1: vinyl in his shoes because he's always on the record,
- 0:21Speaker 1: he is Cody Stavenhagen.
- 0:22Speaker 2: How are we doing right, Kieren?
- 0:25Speaker 1: We're back at it, back at it and look, hey, man,
- 0:30Speaker 1: like I keep in my head, I keep trying to
- 0:32Speaker 1: come up with like new little phrases for this team,
- 0:35Speaker 1: like you know, to replace like gritty Tigs, you know,
- 0:38Speaker 1: and it's just like a fun little exercise and it
- 0:40Speaker 1: changes like game the game. And for Thursday night, the
- 0:45Speaker 1: one that I came up with was the the play
- 0:48Speaker 1: it out Tigs because that's really what we're talking about.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Which was so much less exciting, even though it's spot.
- 0:54Speaker 1: On fair enough, but that's really what everything that this team,
- 1:01Speaker 1: the conversation comes down to, is play it out or
- 1:05Speaker 1: potentially not play it out. But like today was a
- 1:08Speaker 1: game like play it out, like Meltain's on the mound,
- 1:10Speaker 1: doesn't have his best stuff, gives up the two running
- 1:12Speaker 1: home late and then it's like, man, are you really
- 1:15Speaker 1: about to put up a blank spot in this game,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and then James Autman Cody James Outman with a three
- 1:24Speaker 1: run bomb to give him the lead, game gets tied,
- 1:28Speaker 1: and high a League gets a single, gets the second
- 1:30Speaker 1: Dingler delivers.
- 1:31Speaker 3: It's a four to three win for the Tigers.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Like five and two says the All Star Break twenty
- 1:36Speaker 1: seven and sixteen, since June one, play it.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Out, Cody, like like, can we play it out? Can
- 1:43Speaker 3: we play it out?
- 1:44Speaker 2: Well, they're going to play it out. They're going to
- 1:47Speaker 2: play all the games like they will play them out.
- 1:50Speaker 2: There were so many things that were typical Tigers. I
- 1:53Speaker 2: told someone before the game, like Randy Dobnak, this guy
- 1:55Speaker 2: who was in their system last year and it was
- 1:57Speaker 2: terrible and it seemed like he'd be out of baseball,
- 1:59Speaker 2: and now he resurfaced and he's doing all right. And
- 2:02Speaker 2: a few outings like this seems like someone who's just
- 2:04Speaker 2: gonna shut him down, And sure enough he did for
- 2:07Speaker 2: five innings, Randy Tomnack, and then they came alive. Then
- 2:10Speaker 2: it's James Outman popping a random three run home or
- 2:13Speaker 2: just like how you lead did the night before, And
- 2:15Speaker 2: I actually love Yeah, barely got out, but I actually
- 2:19Speaker 2: love when the contributions are coming from kind of all
- 2:22Speaker 2: over the place. That's what I think good teams do.
- 2:26Speaker 2: That's what the Tigers for the good parts of last
- 2:28Speaker 2: year did. It was it was unexpected, guys, it was surprises.
- 2:32Speaker 2: You haven't had any surprises this year. How you lead
- 2:35Speaker 2: is maybe becoming one of them, James Outman, the scoreboard
- 2:39Speaker 2: numbers aren't great, but man, he's done some productive things
- 2:42Speaker 2: for this ball club, and none bigger than tonight, of course.
- 2:46Speaker 2: And then you hand the lead right back. Seemed very Tigers.
- 2:49Speaker 2: You're both wild pitch, a guy's advancing to third, boom,
- 2:52Speaker 2: he scores off Drew Anderson and but kind of unlike
- 2:56Speaker 2: the Tigers of May, they're they're finding ways to win
- 2:58Speaker 2: some games too. Out it's two strike hits, those things
- 3:02Speaker 2: that I don't know if you can really explain, but
- 3:05Speaker 2: it just seems like more things are going their way,
- 3:07Speaker 2: and suddenly they're becoming a fun team again, which is
- 3:12Speaker 2: which is good to say because it hasn't been like
- 3:15Speaker 2: that for so long.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying about, Like it's kind of
- 3:20Speaker 1: hard to explain, but like, at the same time, the
- 3:25Speaker 1: simple explanation is they are a good team right now,
- 3:29Speaker 1: Like they just are a good team. They're not a
- 3:32Speaker 1: great team. You can argue about World Series contenders, whether
- 3:36Speaker 1: it's good enough to come out of the whole blah
- 3:37Speaker 1: blahlah blah.
- 3:38Speaker 3: But this is.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Certainly a large enough sample size with that June one
- 3:44Speaker 1: date and with all the stat metrics and where they
- 3:46Speaker 1: rank in Major League Baseball to say this is a
- 3:49Speaker 1: good team. And one step further, because I actually think
- 3:52Speaker 1: this is probably more crucial, is that this is a
- 3:55Speaker 1: well functioning team, which we did not see for a
- 4:00Speaker 1: good portion of this season prior to June one. It
- 4:03Speaker 1: just did just did not look like a well oiled machine.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I think I used that phrase in different varieties a
- 4:08Speaker 1: lot on this podcast. And you're right about having contributions
- 4:13Speaker 1: from guys like Outman and then again even Lee like that,
- 4:16Speaker 1: like that go ahead run does not happened without him
- 4:19Speaker 1: getting a single up the middle and then having you know,
- 4:23Speaker 1: you know, it resulted in out, but just like the
- 4:25Speaker 1: right kind of out that Lee is able to advance
- 4:28Speaker 1: to second and it's not a double play type situation
- 4:30Speaker 1: when Riley Green grounds out the second base and it's
- 4:33Speaker 1: like all those little things you know, hell, even let's
- 4:37Speaker 1: go to the first inning. Well, the drop thirst stright.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Have you ever seen this before? You've watched a lot
- 4:41Speaker 1: of baseball. I've watched a lot of baseball, even though
- 4:42Speaker 1: we're not old men.
- 4:43Speaker 2: I think i've Yeah, I've seen it in high school.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Certainly not in the major leagues. I've not seen that.
- 4:49Speaker 2: I think it's happened twice in the last five years.
- 4:52Speaker 2: We looked it up after the game, and I think
- 4:53Speaker 2: the okay, the other one was like there was something
- 4:56Speaker 2: very some variation where it still wasn't quite the same play.
- 4:59Speaker 2: So no, pretty rare to have a drop third strike,
- 5:03Speaker 2: two to one put out at the plate to end
- 5:06Speaker 2: an inning. Dylan Dingler, by the way, did not even
- 5:09Speaker 2: know the batter swung, so he didn't know what happened.
- 5:11Speaker 2: He goes to get the ball through at home, sees
- 5:14Speaker 2: Melton not tag him and is like wow, and he's like,
- 5:18Speaker 2: oh no, he was out. Okay, So that actually explains
- 5:21Speaker 2: why why the play went down the way it did.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, because even Bobby Scales on the radio was
- 5:27Speaker 1: was saying like, why don't you just throw.
- 5:29Speaker 2: The first Melton like I should have been yelling one.
- 5:34Speaker 2: I don't really know why I wasn't that was a
- 5:36Speaker 2: mistake even though he made this great like athletic play.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yeah first, yeah, and you know, and and potentially dangerous
- 5:45Speaker 1: play for a lot of people involved him with the
- 5:47Speaker 1: jump and the you know come down and then obviously
- 5:49Speaker 1: with the runner there like that, you know things right.
- 5:52Speaker 2: I don't want to speak this into existence, but if
- 5:54Speaker 2: it were may Trey Meltan probably his ankle taken out
- 5:57Speaker 2: on that play or something, but it's things are going much.
- 6:01Speaker 3: Better, yeah, exactly.
- 6:03Speaker 1: And then and I should note like in terms of
- 6:05Speaker 1: like the small things and the well functioning things that
- 6:07Speaker 1: are going on with his team is also like the
- 6:10Speaker 1: last you know play of the game. And I'll quote
- 6:14Speaker 1: Bobby Scales again a level listening to Bobby on the radio,
- 6:17Speaker 1: the slowest six three one double play I've ever seen.
- 6:22Speaker 1: And that's and that's.
- 6:23Speaker 3: How you get out of a little bit.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Of you know, that wasn't great theory either. Good things
- 6:29Speaker 2: sell these Uh. He's on the Victor Martinez program here,
- 6:32Speaker 2: just trying to squeak by for a little bit longer.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Yeah, which and and and like you combine, like we
- 6:41Speaker 1: know where the royals are at and obviously they're they're down.
- 6:44Speaker 1: You know, Bobby what Junior on the I l for
- 6:46Speaker 1: the first time in his career. Like we we understand
- 6:49Speaker 1: all of this, but this is coming off the heels
- 6:51Speaker 1: of a victory in Chicago against the Cups. So like
- 6:54Speaker 1: we combine everything here. That's why I say, like this
- 6:57Speaker 1: is a good team. The Cubs have won three straight
- 6:58Speaker 1: series Cody to that, prior to that Tiger series and
- 7:02Speaker 1: you know prime Time like all these like elements here,
- 7:05Speaker 1: Torquet's a bomb, Like these are the elements of good teams.
- 7:09Speaker 3: And that and that.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Thought percolating around my mind is what probably gives me
- 7:17Speaker 1: like the greatest level of angst regarding the next whatever
- 7:23Speaker 1: two weeks or whatever is because like I do believe
- 7:25Speaker 1: this is a good team. I do believe that this
- 7:27Speaker 1: is a team that you can throw in the mix
- 7:30Speaker 1: and kind of see what happens with anybody in the
- 7:32Speaker 1: American League. But I don't know if that opportunity is
- 7:36Speaker 1: going to present itself. And there's a lot of factors
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- 9:16Speaker 3: That's uh.
- 9:17Speaker 1: That would be the lead in a lot of and
- 9:20Speaker 1: a lot of other days, Cody, but today was not
- 9:24Speaker 1: every other day. And of course it has to do
- 9:27Speaker 1: with Tarek Schoogl. And of course it has to do
- 9:29Speaker 1: with Trek Schoogle trying to like explain what his life
- 9:34Speaker 1: has been like. And I think we've done a good
- 9:36Speaker 1: job of going in depth. I think you have done
- 9:40Speaker 1: a good job of writing about it. It was your
- 9:42Speaker 1: story that was percolating around the baseball world today and
- 9:45Speaker 1: then and then Trek Schoogle came out and addressed I
- 9:50Speaker 1: guess I would say misnomers that came about by people
- 9:54Speaker 1: who didn't feel the need to fully grasp the situation.
- 9:59Speaker 1: I think that'd be the nice way of me putting it,
- 10:02Speaker 1: So I guess if you could just kind of take
- 10:04Speaker 1: us through the reaction that you got from the story,
- 10:09Speaker 1: which obviously had a lot of good information in it,
- 10:11Speaker 1: and then sort of like watching Schoogle in the clubhouse
- 10:16Speaker 1: kind of explain further things that I guess didn't, in
- 10:21Speaker 1: my opinion, need to be explained all that much further,
- 10:23Speaker 1: but apparently they did, so like take us in that
- 10:25Speaker 1: scene because it's it's polarizing either way.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, I don't know. Trek Schoogle said a
- 10:33Speaker 2: lot today, Trek school has said a lot in recent times.
- 10:38Speaker 2: I guess I guess we'll just kind of go in
- 10:40Speaker 2: order here. One of the first things he said, someone
- 10:43Speaker 2: just asked him point blank, like would you prefer to
- 10:45Speaker 2: be traded or not? And he said no. He said,
- 10:49Speaker 2: I think we have a chance to win the World Series.
- 10:51Speaker 2: I've said that since spring training. That's never changed. That
- 10:54Speaker 2: belief in this team has never changed throughout the whole season.
- 10:57Speaker 2: He seemed to make sure to include going into bring
- 11:00Speaker 2: training the whole off season. I've never been more motivated
- 11:03Speaker 2: to try to win a World Series for this city,
- 11:06Speaker 2: the team that drafted me in twenty eighteen and helped
- 11:08Speaker 2: develop me. Of course, all this was coming off the story.
- 11:14Speaker 2: For anyone who didn't listen to our last episode, I
- 11:16Speaker 2: wrote a long story about Trek school and kind of
- 11:19Speaker 2: this juncture in his life and what it is like
- 11:22Speaker 2: when you kind of achieve what you've always dreamed of
- 11:26Speaker 2: and worked very hard for, which is being at the
- 11:28Speaker 2: top of air craft, the top of your sport. Everyone's
- 11:30Speaker 2: talking about you. You're the center of attention, and kind
- 11:34Speaker 2: of the costs and the drawbacks that come with that.
- 11:37Speaker 2: Over the course of the conversation I had with Trek
- 11:40Speaker 2: for that story, he mentioned the fact that he probably
- 11:45Speaker 2: would have gotten an MRI in January when he knew
- 11:48Speaker 2: something was wrong with his arm. But Trek said there
- 11:50Speaker 2: were also other factors in play. I was going through arbitration,
- 11:53Speaker 2: the decision by the organization to take me to court.
- 11:57Speaker 2: I think that probably had some impact subcontinent, so as
- 12:02Speaker 2: we kind of knew, that quote took on a life
- 12:05Speaker 2: of its own, which is really funny because if you
- 12:09Speaker 2: read the story, I kind of went to great links
- 12:11Speaker 2: to frame it a certain way, and all this firestorm
- 12:16Speaker 2: did was reinforce the point of the whole story, which
- 12:20Speaker 2: is that everything Google says or does becomes this huge thing,
- 12:24Speaker 2: and that's got to be a weird thing as a
- 12:26Speaker 2: human being to navigate. I would assume a lot of
- 12:30Speaker 2: people who probably just saw the quotes and didn't actually
- 12:33Speaker 2: read the whole story. But of course, when ninety seven
- 12:36Speaker 2: one gets a hold of it, and then social media
- 12:38Speaker 2: gets ahold of it, these things happen. I wasn't necessarily
- 12:40Speaker 2: surprised by that, so of course, you know, the reaction
- 12:45Speaker 2: was not good. It seemed like the tone I saw
- 12:48Speaker 2: the most was people kind of saying, well, that was
- 12:50Speaker 2: greedy or selfish of Scooble to withhold information from the
- 12:56Speaker 2: team that he was hurt just so he could make
- 12:59Speaker 2: more money in arbitration. And I think Scooble definitely took
- 13:04Speaker 2: exception to that based on some of his quotes Thursday,
- 13:09Speaker 2: he referred to the thing being blown up, blown out proportion.
- 13:12Speaker 2: He said, things people say about me just aren't true.
- 13:16Speaker 2: To be clear, I did talk to Terrek a little
- 13:18Speaker 2: bit one on one, and I'm going to keep most
- 13:20Speaker 2: of that between us, but he wasn't really upset with
- 13:22Speaker 2: me or the story. It was definitely more toward the
- 13:25Speaker 2: public reaction. I think the idea that he was being
- 13:29Speaker 2: self interested. This is another thing he did kind of
- 13:32Speaker 2: want to clarify the reason he didn't get an MRI.
- 13:35Speaker 2: He thought he was trending in the right direction, which
- 13:38Speaker 2: makes sense, like he was still throwing, he was starting
- 13:40Speaker 2: games in spring training. He went through with the WBC.
- 13:43Speaker 2: As much of a fiasco as that was, he still
- 13:45Speaker 2: pitched in it. He pitched games in the regular season,
- 13:49Speaker 2: so he didn't, you know, he thought things were getting
- 13:52Speaker 2: better up until the point that they weren't. So that's
- 13:56Speaker 2: kind of what happened there. And this is another one
- 14:00Speaker 2: that kind of baffles me. Like again, I wasn't really
- 14:02Speaker 2: surprised that people reacted strongly to the quote, but I
- 14:05Speaker 2: think everyone might benefit a little more by putting yourself
- 14:08Speaker 2: in Trek Scooble's shoes. It's it's January. You're up for
- 14:14Speaker 2: a big promotion at work. You're up for a big
- 14:16Speaker 2: raise you really like. I don't know if someone told me, hey,
- 14:22Speaker 2: you might not be able to write for six weeks,
- 14:25Speaker 2: you know, if something's wrong with your wrist, and I
- 14:28Speaker 2: wouldn't really like that. You know, you're working on a
- 14:30Speaker 2: big project with your company, your teammates that you care
- 14:33Speaker 2: about and you love and some feels a little bit
- 14:37Speaker 2: wrong in your body, but you think you can probably
- 14:39Speaker 2: push through it. You think you're gonna be okay. That's
- 14:42Speaker 2: basically what Trek Scoogle did, and I think that's personally
- 14:46Speaker 2: probably what I would have done in a situation with
- 14:49Speaker 2: his stakes. Sure, the money is a part of it.
- 14:52Speaker 2: I do think the Tigers are part of it too.
- 14:54Speaker 2: You're trying to pitch, you're trying to make your maybe
- 14:56Speaker 2: it's your last hurrah in Detroit, whatever. You have a
- 14:59Speaker 2: good team trying to win the World Series. For some reason,
- 15:03Speaker 2: that point is lost, and I do think, you know,
- 15:06Speaker 2: Trek felt like that. It's kind of common sense that
- 15:09Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons he didn't get the MRI,
- 15:12Speaker 2: mostly because he didn't feel like he had to, And
- 15:15Speaker 2: of course there were all these other factors swirling in
- 15:18Speaker 2: the background. So we can talk about that a little
- 15:21Speaker 2: more if you have any questions, Kieran. But the other thing,
- 15:24Speaker 2: of course, he said, because it is Derek in every interview,
- 15:27Speaker 2: is interesting. Someone asked, you know, did that arbitration hearing
- 15:32Speaker 2: change your relationship with the front office for better for worse?
- 15:38Speaker 2: Derek said, of course, when you take a player to arbitration.
- 15:40Speaker 2: There's not a ton of positive things that come out
- 15:42Speaker 2: of that process. Relationship wise, that's pretty obvious. He said.
- 15:47Speaker 2: His relationship with the coaching staff, the players, his teammates,
- 15:50Speaker 2: that didn't really change. He says, as far as going
- 15:53Speaker 2: through that process and sitting in that room, you guys
- 15:56Speaker 2: should go experience that for yourselves. So again, kind of
- 16:00Speaker 2: common sense, kind of obvious. Players don't like to be
- 16:03Speaker 2: taken to arbitration. That can cause some hard feelings. However,
- 16:07Speaker 2: most players don't say that out out loud. School Bole
- 16:09Speaker 2: finally said that out loud, seems like obviously there is
- 16:12Speaker 2: still some weird feelings regarding the Tiger's front office.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:20Speaker 1: So in regards to the arbitration piece of this, uh,
- 16:24Speaker 1: that one did stick out to me partially because the
- 16:28Speaker 1: Tigers really tried to frame the entire thing as them
- 16:31Speaker 1: just kind of going through the like essentially riding.
- 16:34Speaker 3: The company line.
- 16:36Speaker 1: They portrayed it as we, you know, we we we
- 16:40Speaker 1: did not argue against school bl We just argued with
- 16:44Speaker 1: precedent like that was. That was the public position that
- 16:48Speaker 1: they maintained and agree with it, disagree with it whatever.
- 16:53Speaker 1: If school Bol feels the need to say that then
- 16:56Speaker 1: that means that that whole thing was not portray to
- 17:00Speaker 1: the extent that it could have been in order to
- 17:02Speaker 1: uh have the whole like no real hard feelings aspect
- 17:06Speaker 1: of it, especially when.
- 17:08Speaker 2: To be clear, that was a weird one too, because
- 17:10Speaker 2: it seemed like neither side was very interested in negotiating,
- 17:14Speaker 2: including Schooble side. Yeah, so like I.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Like school, they were acting. Both sides were acting their
- 17:21Speaker 1: own interests, which is what arbitration is. And like obviously
- 17:24Speaker 1: schoogl and Boris Code knew that this was a you know,
- 17:27Speaker 1: literally a big ass literally the biggest ask of like
- 17:30Speaker 1: all time, right, so like like this, like I feel
- 17:34Speaker 1: disappointed that that is still lingering in general because I
- 17:39Speaker 1: was under the impression that that was just kind of
- 17:41Speaker 1: like kind of business as usual type deal. But having
- 17:45Speaker 1: said that, I understand where he's talking talking about with
- 17:49Speaker 1: arbitration feeling, because like that whole thing is we love you,
- 17:57Speaker 1: but we don't love you this much.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Like that's that's that have to pay you more than
- 18:02Speaker 2: David Price eleven years ago or whatever it was.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Yeah, So like like the very nature of it and
- 18:08Speaker 1: and it's it's literally a it's not public but like
- 18:11Speaker 1: a more like more parties involved, setting of here's why
- 18:18Speaker 1: you're not worth what you think you're worth like that, Like,
- 18:21Speaker 1: you know, normally this is just happens between agent and
- 18:24Speaker 1: front office and not really a whole lot kind of
- 18:27Speaker 1: percolates out of that. But because it goes to arbitration,
- 18:30Speaker 1: because more people are involved, because you're Trek schoobl and
- 18:34Speaker 1: you're the you know, best picture in baseball, Like this
- 18:36Speaker 1: thing gets blown up really high, more so than it
- 18:39Speaker 1: normally would be. So like I empathize and like obviously
- 18:45Speaker 1: agree with his logic there, but I just wish that
- 18:48Speaker 1: tells me that there was a error in communication about
- 18:51Speaker 1: how this went down. If the fact that this is
- 18:54Speaker 1: lingering now and it's you know, late July. But regardless, uh,
- 19:00Speaker 1: I understand it affecting him. I understand him wanting to
- 19:03Speaker 1: push through because look, like I don't know, like tak
- 19:08Speaker 1: School has very recently been criticized for not pushing through enough, right,
- 19:14Speaker 1: not demanding to stay in the game.
- 19:16Speaker 3: When aj Hinch comes to the mound, you know, like
- 19:18Speaker 3: he's not pushing hard enough.
- 19:20Speaker 1: And this whole elbow thing was literally an example of
- 19:24Speaker 1: him trying to push through, right, and and and and
- 19:28Speaker 1: then and and and and kind of figure it out
- 19:31Speaker 1: on the fly, because like he just had an experience,
- 19:35Speaker 1: he says it all the time. I just hadn't experienced
- 19:37Speaker 1: anything like that. He No one thought there was anything
- 19:40Speaker 1: largely wrong with him prior to the MRI, prior to
- 19:45Speaker 1: the diagnosis and all this stuff, right, So like that
- 19:48Speaker 1: like there's no there's no malice here, you know what
- 19:52Speaker 1: I mean, Like he wasn't like, oh, it'd be better
- 19:55Speaker 1: for me to like miss time in my contract year.
- 19:57Speaker 1: That would that would be that would be good for
- 19:58Speaker 1: my reputation and you know, my asking price here in
- 20:01Speaker 1: a couple months or in free agency. So I hate
- 20:03Speaker 1: the fact that anything that even remotely goes in that
- 20:07Speaker 1: direction is characterized by Terrek Schouble because, as I've said repeatedly,
- 20:14Speaker 1: it just seems like a separation from reality that it's
- 20:17Speaker 1: hard for me to even get to that bridge. And
- 20:19Speaker 1: no matter how many times he explains it, and no
- 20:21Speaker 1: matter how many times you and your fellow media members
- 20:25Speaker 1: articulate it, well, it just kind of seems like there
- 20:29Speaker 1: are people that are kind of predisposed right now to
- 20:34Speaker 1: look at Terrek Schooble through a lesser light, and that.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Is I think there are a lot of people kind
- 20:40Speaker 2: of looking for confirmation, bias, right whatever. For some reason,
- 20:43Speaker 2: they've got an idea of Schooble in their head, and
- 20:45Speaker 2: so when they see something that can confirm the picture
- 20:49Speaker 2: they have in their head, they take it and they
- 20:52Speaker 2: run with it. As I kind of tried to write about,
- 20:55Speaker 2: that's a weird part of modern fame and modern existence
- 20:58Speaker 2: and not something I'm sure it really existed before the
- 21:01Speaker 2: social media era. So like that's where we're at now.
- 21:06Speaker 2: It is interesting now, it's one thing after another. How
- 21:10Speaker 2: to credit he keeps he keeps showing up, he keeps
- 21:13Speaker 2: answering the questions, he keeps answering them quite honestly, probably
- 21:17Speaker 2: to a fault. So we want honesty and we want transparency,
- 21:21Speaker 2: but then when people get it, it gets used against them,
- 21:24Speaker 2: which is why a lot of athletes, a lot of celebrities,
- 21:27Speaker 2: a lot of public figures aren't honest and aren't accessible
- 21:30Speaker 2: and just stay boring stuff all the time. So I
- 21:32Speaker 2: obviously appreciate Scoobl's interactions, but it does seem like he's
- 21:36Speaker 2: twisted himself in some knots, Like maybe he's just trying
- 21:40Speaker 2: to explain things and think if he keeps explaining it,
- 21:45Speaker 2: it will get people on his side. At this point
- 21:47Speaker 2: in Detroit because he's likely leaving the Tigers either via
- 21:51Speaker 2: trade or eventually via free agency. I don't think people
- 21:54Speaker 2: want to hear it anymore. And I guess, you know,
- 21:58Speaker 2: I kind of get that from the perspective of a fan,
- 22:01Speaker 2: but I think there's a very strange thing in sports
- 22:03Speaker 2: where people lose all empathy and humanity, like when when
- 22:08Speaker 2: they when they are sports fans, and I don't know,
- 22:13Speaker 2: there's a lot going on with this whole situation.
- 22:17Speaker 1: I want I want athletes to be authentic. I want
- 22:22Speaker 1: athletes to to to to be able to talk to
- 22:25Speaker 1: you guys in the clubhouse and you know, come on
- 22:28Speaker 1: podcasts and you know all these things. I want them
- 22:31Speaker 1: to not be cookie cutter. And Trek Skoogle is not
- 22:34Speaker 1: cookie cutter, and so I hope that that that he
- 22:36Speaker 1: never changes in that regard because that in so many
- 22:40Speaker 1: ways he is refreshing his story, his style, and then
- 22:43Speaker 1: just kind of the way he carries himself is the
- 22:46Speaker 1: embodiment of really what is probably like kind of the
- 22:50Speaker 1: best type of high profile athlete that we have in
- 22:55Speaker 1: maybe an old sports certainly in baseball and I don't
- 22:57Speaker 1: want I don't want I don't want to lose that.
- 22:59Speaker 1: So so it's kind of parlay at Fuward. You mentioned
- 23:02Speaker 1: that at the top about how you know he doesn't
- 23:04Speaker 1: want to be traded, and we've talked.
- 23:05Speaker 3: About this before. He believes they can win the World
- 23:07Speaker 3: Series and you know, all this stuff.
- 23:12Speaker 1: He do you believe him when he says that he
- 23:14Speaker 1: believes they can win the World Series because that if
- 23:17Speaker 1: you want to talk about consistency, that has been a
- 23:20Speaker 1: consistent message throughout And again he's not saying this when
- 23:25Speaker 1: the Tigers are sixteen and twenty seven since the June
- 23:29Speaker 1: one date. There are twenty seven and sixteen and five
- 23:32Speaker 1: and two since the All Star Game. So these are
- 23:35Speaker 1: actual tangible things that like, I believe, I believe him
- 23:40Speaker 1: when he says that because of A how he is
- 23:43Speaker 1: and B how the team is playing.
- 23:45Speaker 2: Yeah, it does remind me of you know, Nick, another
- 23:49Speaker 2: athletes who was probably honest to a fault, Nick Cassianos,
- 23:52Speaker 2: And in twenty nineteen someone asked Nick a similar question,
- 23:55Speaker 2: and Nick being Nick, basically said, well, like, what do
- 23:57Speaker 2: you want me to say? I say anything other than no,
- 24:00Speaker 2: I don't want to be traded and the headline is
- 24:01Speaker 2: going to be Castianos wants to trade, so like, yeah,
- 24:05Speaker 2: what's Trek school is supposed to say? But I do know,
- 24:08Speaker 2: I do think he believes that to some degree, because hey, yeah,
- 24:13Speaker 2: this team is pretty good, and especially with Trek Scooble
- 24:16Speaker 2: and this pitching staff, they have a rotation capable of
- 24:21Speaker 2: giving teams real fits. Now, it's obviously a long shot.
- 24:25Speaker 2: It's against the odds. And someone even said, you know,
- 24:27Speaker 2: the odds say if you were traded somewhere else, you'd
- 24:30Speaker 2: probably have a better chance to win the World Series?
- 24:32Speaker 2: Is that alluring to you? And Schoogle said, well, I
- 24:34Speaker 2: don't know if I believe the odds. And you know,
- 24:36Speaker 2: I was on a team that had zero zero point
- 24:39Speaker 2: two percent playoff odds and we made the playoffs. But
- 24:41Speaker 2: YadA YadA. Like no, I think I mostly believe him.
- 24:45Speaker 2: I think he's kind of kind of mostly saying the
- 24:47Speaker 2: correct things to say here. But I don't think it's
- 24:50Speaker 2: completely unfounded. Like I've said before, I don't think he's
- 24:52Speaker 2: like going home and telling his wife and kids, Hey, like,
- 24:56Speaker 2: I really hope I get traded so that you guys
- 24:59Speaker 2: can have to move and we'll live out of a
- 25:01Speaker 2: hotel for a couple of months, or that I won't
- 25:03Speaker 2: see you guys for a couple of months, or that
- 25:06Speaker 2: you know, I won't get to finish this, this kind
- 25:09Speaker 2: of journey I've been on with these teammates that we
- 25:11Speaker 2: came into the year, you know, thinking we were going
- 25:14Speaker 2: to see it through. So they yeah, that's how I
- 25:16Speaker 2: feel about that. I mostly believe it.
- 25:21Speaker 1: I'll summarize it this way. If there's anybody on the
- 25:24Speaker 1: team that has seen the way that they've played since
- 25:29Speaker 1: June one and looks around in the clubhouse and.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Sees Schoolble or if you're school bl.
- 25:34Speaker 1: You see mys, you see Melton, you see the way Montero,
- 25:38Speaker 1: especially the way he pitched on Wednesday. Wis not going
- 25:40Speaker 1: to give him enough credit just because we don't have
- 25:42Speaker 1: enough time, but he was excellent. And you see Dylan Dingler,
- 25:45Speaker 1: and you see Kevin McGonagall, you see Riley Green and
- 25:48Speaker 1: you and you believe in a J.
- 25:49Speaker 3: Hinch. It's like, if you don't like leave.
- 25:54Speaker 1: That, then then then then then then I don't really
- 25:56Speaker 1: think you belong in the clubhouse.
- 25:58Speaker 2: So that's actually a good point, Kieran, And maybe especially
- 26:01Speaker 2: for someone with a story like Derek scouble one d
- 26:03Speaker 2: one offer ninth round pick. The best athletes I've been
- 26:06Speaker 2: around have delusional degrees of confidence. You pretty much have
- 26:11Speaker 2: to to make it at that level. You have to
- 26:14Speaker 2: actually think you're capable of doing something that other people
- 26:18Speaker 2: didn't think you were capable of. And most of these
- 26:21Speaker 2: guys are wired like that. They really are.
- 26:24Speaker 3: Yeah, and so and again there's a lot.
- 26:27Speaker 1: There's a lot that can happen between now and the
- 26:29Speaker 1: trade deadline, but also not a lot because the games
- 26:32Speaker 1: are getting fewer and fewer, but the Tigers keep winning,
- 26:35Speaker 1: so we will see how that plays out. All right,
- 26:38Speaker 1: we are going to get to a quick break and
- 26:40Speaker 1: then afterward, did aj Hinch tell us who his core
- 26:45Speaker 1: bullpen guys are these past two days? That next, But
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- 28:23Speaker 3: All right, coming back here real quick about the confidence thing? Uh, Like, are.
- 28:27Speaker 1: You able to gauge like Yu Lee and like his
- 28:31Speaker 1: like kind of like does he feel like a more
- 28:33Speaker 1: confident guy bouncing around?
- 28:35Speaker 3: Because? Uh, he should? Like, yeah, I.
- 28:39Speaker 2: Should for sure. He's basically said to his mont right,
- 28:41Speaker 2: he's a little intimidated early on in the big leagues
- 28:44Speaker 2: and now he's now he's not He's he's certainly playing
- 28:46Speaker 2: like he belongs.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, like and I and I we've
- 28:52Speaker 1: talked about Lee, you know, a couple of times now,
- 28:54Speaker 1: so I don't want to be too repetitive, but I
- 28:56Speaker 1: will say, I do you talk about guys being themselves?
- 28:59Speaker 1: I do like how his style of play has been
- 29:02Speaker 1: the same throughout and you know, if you watch him
- 29:04Speaker 1: in the minor leagues and and even when he was struggling,
- 29:07Speaker 1: like he's played the game hard the same way consistently
- 29:10Speaker 1: that that's an attractive style of play.
- 29:13Speaker 3: And uh, I don't have the.
- 29:15Speaker 1: Stat cast for this, Cody, but I imagine he has the
- 29:18Speaker 1: highest exit ve low on the team in terms of
- 29:22Speaker 1: tossing the bat after you make contact. I don't know
- 29:24Speaker 1: if they I don't know if they tracked that, but
- 29:26Speaker 1: it has to be has to be best on the team.
- 29:28Speaker 1: So good on, Good on Lee, and good on the
- 29:30Speaker 1: Tigers for for you know, for staying with him and
- 29:33Speaker 1: knowing that it's in there and being rewarded. He seems
- 29:36Speaker 1: like he comes up with multiple big plays every game
- 29:40Speaker 1: whenever he's in there.
- 29:41Speaker 3: So good on lead.
- 29:42Speaker 1: All right, uh five to one win on Wednesday and
- 29:48Speaker 1: a four to three win on Thursday. Things that were
- 29:51Speaker 1: in common, Cody, is that on back to back days,
- 29:54Speaker 1: AJ Hinch went with some combination, now not exclusively, but
- 29:57Speaker 1: some combination of Drew some Drew Anderson and Kyle Finn.
- 30:02Speaker 3: Again.
- 30:02Speaker 1: Now there's other guys in each two games. Jansen on Wednesday,
- 30:06Speaker 1: wax Back and and uh Holton sorry on Thursday. But
- 30:13Speaker 1: those three guys he's using each time. And AJ is
- 30:17Speaker 1: the king of what do you want me to say? Like,
- 30:20Speaker 1: look what I do?
- 30:21Speaker 3: And and Somers came in there in a safe situation.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Now he only got one out.
- 30:26Speaker 1: But the fact that he was in there, I was like, oh, okay,
- 30:30Speaker 1: you know on a back to back day, right, So like,
- 30:33Speaker 1: is this is this kind of the core?
- 30:34Speaker 3: Now? Do we have like a core three for Tiger's
- 30:38Speaker 3: bullpen options?
- 30:39Speaker 4: Like?
- 30:40Speaker 3: Is that what AJ's telling us?
- 30:43Speaker 2: I think if I were a J. Hinch, I would
- 30:46Speaker 2: really be hoping you have a different core bullpen in
- 30:48Speaker 2: about ten days. Yeah, to answer the question, kind of yes,
- 30:54Speaker 2: it's worth noting Tyler Holton has seemed to rediscover something
- 30:58Speaker 2: and has been very good as of late. But these
- 31:01Speaker 2: are the guys he's going to because these are the
- 31:03Speaker 2: guys he has. Some people like Summers have done some
- 31:06Speaker 2: things to earn it, and again it's still been pretty
- 31:09Speaker 2: hit or miss. So I know, I just take that
- 31:14Speaker 2: immediately to I don't know, man, if the Tigers are
- 31:16Speaker 2: going to be for real, if they're gonna win the
- 31:18Speaker 2: World Series or make the playoffs or even stay afloat,
- 31:23Speaker 2: it's bullpen still needs some patching, and that gets really interesting.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Maybe the most insightful thing I've seen all week was
- 31:32Speaker 2: the MLB trade rumor story that mentioned if the Tigers
- 31:35Speaker 2: exceed the luxury tax, which literally they're so close to
- 31:39Speaker 2: the luxury tax right now, we're not sure if they're
- 31:42Speaker 2: over it or under it, because it depends what projection
- 31:45Speaker 2: you go by, and none of them are perfect. Any
- 31:50Speaker 2: comp pick from a qualifying offer would move from after
- 31:53Speaker 2: the first round, too, is it after the fourth round.
- 31:56Speaker 2: So basically that means let's say you keep every and
- 32:00Speaker 2: you add a couple of relievers and you go over
- 32:02Speaker 2: the luxury tax, and then Scooble walks at the end
- 32:05Speaker 2: of the year and Myz walks at the end of
- 32:07Speaker 2: the year. Instead of gain two comp picks after the
- 32:09Speaker 2: first round, you get much less valuable draft picks. So
- 32:14Speaker 2: even if you want to do the I guess if
- 32:17Speaker 2: you do the thread the needle thing and you move Scooble,
- 32:19Speaker 2: you'd probably be okay. But if you were at all
- 32:21Speaker 2: keep Schooble and really make a run for this, I
- 32:23Speaker 2: think you have to add, which I think means you
- 32:26Speaker 2: might have to take away salary from elsewhere. Jack Flaherty
- 32:30Speaker 2: making twenty million could certainly be a candidate there, So
- 32:34Speaker 2: that could get really interesting. Is that the more I
- 32:37Speaker 2: watch this, I mean, it doesn't change like you have
- 32:39Speaker 2: a lot of things going for you, but to really
- 32:42Speaker 2: pull this off. I think you're gonna have to feel
- 32:44Speaker 2: better navigating the last three ish innings of games, and
- 32:49Speaker 2: I just don't know that you have the horses to
- 32:50Speaker 2: do that on a sustained basis right now.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Yeah, the confidence meter, it's not great A lot with
- 33:00Speaker 1: with the calls to the pen, I will I will
- 33:03Speaker 1: say that.
- 33:03Speaker 3: Well, speaking of.
- 33:08Speaker 1: You know, ads at the deadline or later in the season,
- 33:12Speaker 1: this segment is called ideas that I had that got
- 33:15Speaker 1: scratched because of what happened in the game. I was
- 33:18Speaker 1: prepared to do a whole thing about like James Outman,
- 33:22Speaker 1: is it just kind of time to.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Start the Max Clark cluck.
- 33:28Speaker 1: You know, he's batting, He's on a good stretch right
- 33:32Speaker 1: now in July and he had a base it again today.
- 33:36Speaker 3: He's hitting lefties at a good clip.
- 33:38Speaker 1: Obviously, I don't have all the metrics in front of
- 33:40Speaker 1: me in terms of velocity and like you know, and
- 33:43Speaker 1: bat speed and like all this stuff, but like the
- 33:46Speaker 1: counting numbers are good for Max Clark. The athlete profile
- 33:50Speaker 1: is obviously there. You would believe he could play adequate
- 33:53Speaker 1: center feel at the major league level. And I was like,
- 33:56Speaker 1: should they just kind of replace Clark with Outman real
- 33:59Speaker 1: quick and just kind of to get a spark that way.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Not gonna do that conversation on data. Outman hits a
- 34:05Speaker 1: go ahead home run. But the point remains is is
- 34:10Speaker 1: there any thought to like a Clark being an ad
- 34:14Speaker 1: to this team if they're kind of going for it,
- 34:18Speaker 1: you know, in a way, because I do believe there
- 34:21Speaker 1: is merit to that discussion, especially considering with a CBA up.
- 34:27Speaker 3: In the air.
- 34:28Speaker 1: You just just don't really know how these things are
- 34:30Speaker 1: gonna play out, and maybe maybe Max could give you something,
- 34:34Speaker 1: and with the team not being deep as we've seen
- 34:37Speaker 1: this year, I want guys that can give me something,
- 34:41Speaker 1: So like I just kind of wanted to just kind
- 34:44Speaker 1: of like introduce that topic.
- 34:46Speaker 2: Yeah, well, as Max Court continues to really heat up,
- 34:49Speaker 2: it's an interesting thing to talk about. I don't think
- 34:53Speaker 2: it's gonna happen like next week. You're gonna have Hobby
- 34:55Speaker 2: Baias back shortly, and that may be you I'll be interested.
- 35:01Speaker 2: Would they get rid of Outman then and have Hobby
- 35:03Speaker 2: play center every day or would they value Outman enough
- 35:07Speaker 2: to where they sought another solution. I'm not sure. The
- 35:11Speaker 2: Clerk thing, it is funny We've talked a lot about
- 35:13Speaker 2: Max Clark and kind of the imperfections, and someone had said, like,
- 35:17Speaker 2: is Max Clark almost become underrated? And I kind of
- 35:20Speaker 2: think that's actually pretty fair. I think we've kind of
- 35:22Speaker 2: obsessed over his game so much that we forget he's
- 35:25Speaker 2: a top ten Keith Lock actually just dropped him to thirteen,
- 35:29Speaker 2: but he's a top thirteen prospect in the sport. This
- 35:32Speaker 2: is a really good elite tier prospect who will see
- 35:38Speaker 2: what the future holds. But you know, you can't ask
- 35:41Speaker 2: for much more in a promising young player. His year
- 35:44Speaker 2: has been a little bit up and down. He's still
- 35:46Speaker 2: really young. I don't I have a hard time seeing
- 35:50Speaker 2: the Tigers calling him up before, you know, the very
- 35:53Speaker 2: end of August. I just don't think they're going to
- 35:56Speaker 2: burn his rookie eligibility. If they're really in it and
- 36:00Speaker 2: really going for it, maybe they'll bring him up. And
- 36:03Speaker 2: if they're really not, maybe they'll bring them up just
- 36:06Speaker 2: to let some young kids play. But it's still hard
- 36:09Speaker 2: for me to see them punching that button. You know.
- 36:13Speaker 2: But before then, especially given you have hobby, maybe there's
- 36:17Speaker 2: a world that you could get Parker Meadows back. We
- 36:19Speaker 2: don't know a ton about his status, but I think
- 36:24Speaker 2: especially the presence of Hobby Bias is another option in
- 36:27Speaker 2: center field, gives them incentive to continue to take things
- 36:30Speaker 2: slow with mcclark.
- 36:32Speaker 1: I think it's one hundred percent accurate that the Detroit
- 36:35Speaker 1: fan base says like he is now underrated in terms
- 36:38Speaker 1: of how he's just how he's discussed locally, and part
- 36:42Speaker 1: of that is just how great Ken McGonagall has been
- 36:45Speaker 1: this year and then and then you know, just having
- 36:48Speaker 1: Clark and Triple A, all the injuries the center field
- 36:50Speaker 1: and the Tiger's never really given that the light of
- 36:53Speaker 1: day that they will call him up nationally. He is
- 36:54Speaker 1: not underrated. I believe he is properly rated nationally. And
- 36:58Speaker 1: I have the numbers up right now, three sixteen in
- 37:00Speaker 1: the month of July with a nine to seven nine
- 37:03Speaker 1: ops against lefties this year Cody two seventy nine with
- 37:06Speaker 1: a seven seven seven ops. So again there's obviously more
- 37:11Speaker 1: in depth numbers. I would explain things further, but you
- 37:15Speaker 1: have to kind of say that he has done his
- 37:18Speaker 1: job and he deserves credit for state, you know, being
- 37:21Speaker 1: at stabilizing presence in Toledo and kind of like giving
- 37:25Speaker 1: everybody like the idea of like what he potentially could
- 37:28Speaker 1: be as he you know, probably not easy to see
- 37:31Speaker 1: Kevin McGonagall. Have happy for him, obviously, but not easy
- 37:34Speaker 1: to see someone who's trying to get like your peer
- 37:36Speaker 1: in your entire professional career and one of your good friends,
- 37:39Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he's here and you're still
- 37:41Speaker 1: trying to get there.
- 37:42Speaker 3: So so yeah, I just don't think it's the craziest idea.
- 37:45Speaker 1: If we're gonna if we're gonna go nuts this year,
- 37:48Speaker 1: that would be in the category of why not. And
- 37:53Speaker 1: then also I would I would say in regards to
- 37:56Speaker 1: the luxury tax threshold.
- 37:58Speaker 3: Kind of sounds like a cap.
- 38:00Speaker 1: So like baseball already already kind of has a cap
- 38:02Speaker 1: that you know. I'm just just saying, just saying kind
- 38:05Speaker 1: of already has a cap if you have that of
- 38:07Speaker 1: those kind of penalties. So just wanted to just wanted
- 38:10Speaker 1: to put that out there. All right, that's about it all.
- 38:15Speaker 1: I have Cody, but I haven't given my trade percentage,
- 38:17Speaker 1: So I'll wrap up this twenty seven percent chance has traded.
- 38:21Speaker 2: It's gone down. You're wow, dramatic.
- 38:25Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's he like, look, he wants he wants
- 38:28Speaker 1: to be in Detroit, so he says, and the team
- 38:31Speaker 1: keeps winning. Uh, we didn't just come off a was
- 38:34Speaker 1: it eleven to two or whatever loss with two position
- 38:38Speaker 1: player pitchers.
- 38:39Speaker 3: So I'm feeling a little bit better.
- 38:41Speaker 2: You don't. You don't think Scott Harris read his comments
- 38:44Speaker 2: about the arbitration thing and was filled with so much
- 38:47Speaker 2: personal rage that he's just now looking to trade him
- 38:50Speaker 2: for anything he can.
- 38:53Speaker 3: Uh.
- 38:54Speaker 1: If there is a personal rage version of Scott Harris
- 38:58Speaker 1: and there's video available, I will pay for said video
- 39:01Speaker 1: because I would love to see it. No comment, and
- 39:07Speaker 1: with that we will get out of here. You guys
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- 39:20Speaker 3: Know what to do.
- 39:21Speaker 1: We appreciate all of you, so for code Stapenhagen, I'm
- 39:24Speaker 1: Kieran Steckley. Everybody, have a great day.