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3 Good Things, 3 Bad Things From Tigers' First 6 Games · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory with
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Speaker 1: me again, Rohuilio Castillo. Raj, how are you doing doing?
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Speaker 2: Fantastic beautiful weather outside in Metro Detroit. I'm half kidding,
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Speaker 2: but it's getting leased to be warmed up for tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you guys are listening to this, Friday morning
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Speaker 1: should be a beautiful day. Maybe a record for warmest
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Speaker 1: home opener. We'll see if that comes to fruition and
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Speaker 1: if that rain can hold off until Saturday. Until then,
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Speaker 1: in to preview the home opener, we'll go through a
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Speaker 1: series in Arizona that was not so good. Tiger swept
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Speaker 1: at the hands of the Diamondbacks. There were some things
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Speaker 1: maybe to like and also some things probably not to like.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we will just start right there, Raj, what kind
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Speaker 1: of stood out to you this series?
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Speaker 2: Well, Habibaiez is offensive struggles. Last year he got off
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Speaker 2: to We had around three thirty last year, around the
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Speaker 2: same point in time. But this time he looks like
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Speaker 2: the hobby bias as frustrated Tiger fans just swinging wildly
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Speaker 2: at things, just the matter of how many times the
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Speaker 2: both sides of play he just looked lost at But
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Speaker 2: that still start really stood out to me because of
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Speaker 2: course the Tigers offense in general, but bias really out
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Speaker 2: of all the players that were there, just kind of
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Speaker 2: given back in those old habits that we thought he
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Speaker 2: got rid of.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, we're gonna touch on Hobby a little
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Speaker 1: bit more later and kind of how that relates to
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Speaker 1: the bigger infield puzzle. But clearly the big takeaway the
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Speaker 1: Tigers were scoreless and thirty four of thirty six innings
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Speaker 1: in Arizona. Now, the two innings they did score, they
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Speaker 1: had five runs and then six runs, so they leave
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Speaker 1: you look at the overall run production, it was okay,
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Speaker 1: But like I said toward the end of our last episode,
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Speaker 1: there's something still in the DNA of this team where
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Speaker 1: I think they were just prone to stretches like this,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know what that means for the whole season.
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Speaker 1: I kind of wrote on the athletic like what ended
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Speaker 1: up just like vomiting my own thought process because it's
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Speaker 1: so hard to know what to make of baseball games
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Speaker 1: in April. Just because the Tigers had a couple scoreless
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Speaker 1: games probably doesn't mean they're doomed for the whole season.
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Speaker 1: They might just end up with a better offense than
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Speaker 1: they had last year. At the same time, it was
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Speaker 1: not fun to see so many old habits kind of reoccur,
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Speaker 1: just so many empty at bats after empty at bats.
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Speaker 1: Carry Carpenter off to a really rough start, still, Riley Green, Spencer,
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Speaker 1: Torgelsen off to a rough start. I think with Green
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Speaker 1: and Carpenter in particular, it's worth noting the Tigers are
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Speaker 1: facing a really long line of right handed starters. This
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Speaker 1: would kind of be a time to juice some of
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Speaker 1: those numbers up, particularly if you are Kerry Carpenter and
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Speaker 1: hitting right handers is what you do. Tigers probably aren't
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Speaker 1: going to face a right hander until Kansas City, which
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Speaker 1: is basically still a week away, so there's still some
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Speaker 1: opportunity at hand. I don't think Carry Carpenter is going
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Speaker 1: to be thrust from the order, but he's chasing a lot.
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Speaker 1: Talking to Carry, he was pretty calm about it, said
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Speaker 1: he tried to adjust some things. Whatever those adjustments were,
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Speaker 1: they haven't worked. Is there anything else that stood out
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Speaker 1: to you about just how bad the offense was at
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Speaker 1: times this series?
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Speaker 2: One home run, I mean one run, one home run
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Speaker 2: in the entire series, and that was against the right
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Speaker 2: handed pitching. I guess lefties didn't get too many at bass, granted,
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Speaker 2: but it was only about at two to eleven. But
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Speaker 2: the twelve doubles, a lot of them came off Cole
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Speaker 2: Keith's bat. But yeah, I know, Arizona's got that funky
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Speaker 2: center field where it looks like it just seems like
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Speaker 2: everyone complains about Comerica Park, and rightfully so. It's a
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Speaker 2: deep center field. But the way that wall is back there,
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Speaker 2: I can't stand it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why that line is so high. You
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Speaker 1: basically have the green monstering center field. It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how that's not talked about more often.
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Speaker 2: But no one home run for against right handed pitching
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Speaker 2: so far. You batt in two fifteen. You know, the
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Speaker 2: strikeouts are there, the ops plus you're looking at under
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Speaker 2: one hundred. It's pretty grim right now, especially when you
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Speaker 2: mentioned the scoreless part of it. But it's when they
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Speaker 2: even had runners on scoring runners in scoring position. Just
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Speaker 2: the was it the two lend whatever that abbreviation is
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Speaker 2: Tigers threatened to do that score was apparent across the board. Again,
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Speaker 2: it just seems like we go through this once a year.
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Speaker 2: Cody where it's like they have a month or two
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Speaker 2: stretch where they just cannot get guys when they're running
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Speaker 2: and runners in scoring position to score.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a little bit strange, I guess in
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Speaker 1: the spirit of not overreacting, and I'll point out Cole
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Speaker 1: Keith was a few inches away from having two home
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Speaker 1: runs in that series. Actually, as a bold prediction, I
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Speaker 1: say the Tigers will hit two home runs Friday and
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Speaker 1: the home opener and bump their season home run total
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Speaker 1: bite more than double. Also, like a Glabor tourres line drive,
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Speaker 1: if that's a few feet in the their direction, that
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Speaker 1: ball is through. Kevin McGonagall scores rather than get doubled up.
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Speaker 1: Tigers have a hit with runners in scoring position, and
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Speaker 1: maybe the outcome of that series finale is different. Now,
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Speaker 1: obviously baseball, you're gonna have outcomes go in your favor
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have outcomes go against you. That's why
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Speaker 1: you want to have good at bats, put the ball
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Speaker 1: in play, put the ball in play hard as much
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Speaker 1: as possible to give yourself the best chance. And that's
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Speaker 1: really my takeaway. The Tigers just didn't give themselves many
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Speaker 1: good chances, and the ones they did. They didn't quite
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Speaker 1: get the balance. They didn't quite get those extra few
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Speaker 1: inches or feet that could make all the difference. But
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Speaker 1: you did mention Cole Keith, who continues to be off
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Speaker 1: to a really good start, and that was a huge
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Speaker 1: goal for him after getting off to terrible starts his
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Speaker 1: first two seasons. He's stinging the ball. The bat speed
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Speaker 1: is up. We talked about that a little bit. I
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Speaker 1: asked him about that. He said he actually wasn't sure
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Speaker 1: why his bat speed is up. It wasn't like he
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Speaker 1: did a bat speed program or anything. But he's clearly
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Speaker 1: pleased with it. He's he's stinging the ball. What do
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Speaker 1: you make of cold so far?
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Speaker 2: You know, I the in addition to the bat speed too,
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Speaker 2: it's just the x evelossities up significantly and it's not
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Speaker 2: getting He's not getting these like blop singles. He's hitting
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Speaker 2: the ball hard no matter where he goes. And even
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Speaker 2: on the field too. I think that we don't give
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Speaker 2: enough credit for We mentioned this before in the podcast,
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Speaker 2: but I think he does a good job on the
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Speaker 2: left side of the infield when he gets the opportunity to.
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Speaker 2: And so he had a pair of assists in the
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Speaker 2: San Diego series. But I just I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: mention that again that I think he's when he as
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Speaker 2: long as he's regularly in the lineup, he's he's said,
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Speaker 2: safely in every game except the opening game, So I
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Speaker 2: think the comfortability is there too, Yeah, to put these
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Speaker 2: gather these quality at bats. He doesn't. He's not striking
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Speaker 2: out at an alarming clip or anything like that. And
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Speaker 2: he's one of the few players on the Tigers right
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Speaker 2: now that looks confident when he goes up there and
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Speaker 2: there's looks like something's going to happen. And Yeah, if
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Speaker 2: he was at any other ballpark, I think he would
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Speaker 2: have had maybe another home on to maybe you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe two or three homeless this series. But I think, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think this weekend we're gonna see some more of
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Speaker 2: that power on display.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, with Cold, it's interesting the average exit velocity ninety
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Speaker 1: two point nine miles per hour. Right now. It's probably
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Speaker 1: a little too early, too small of a sample to
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Speaker 1: take any huge conclusions away from that, but I would
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Speaker 1: just say that's what you want. You want to see
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Speaker 1: Cold Keith hitting the ball hard. This is a big,
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Speaker 1: strong guy who somewhat notably hasn't had great bat speed,
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Speaker 1: hasn't had tremendous exit velocities in the major leagues. I
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Speaker 1: know that's something he's looked at before, Like that extra
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Speaker 1: two to three miles of exit velocity between eighty eight
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Speaker 1: and ninety one or ninety and ninety three. That can
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Speaker 1: make a pretty big difference on how you're going to
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Speaker 1: fare on your quality of contact. For a guy as
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Speaker 1: strong as cold Keith, he should kind of be hitting
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Speaker 1: the ball this hard. I know he's struggled in the past,
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Speaker 1: maybe getting stuck on his back foot or little things
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Speaker 1: with his bat path that would cost him a little
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Speaker 1: little bit of that power that exit velocity. So far,
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Speaker 1: the signs are pretty pretty good with Colt. Now, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: I was just going to say that The one last
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Speaker 2: thing is that he is playing like a corner infielder,
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Speaker 2: and that's I think that was his pro I mean,
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Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like that
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Speaker 2: was his kind of profile coming up, and so that
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Speaker 2: is I think a big part of why that he's successful,
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Speaker 2: because I think he also has a supposition now with
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Speaker 2: the Tigers in the future where he's going to be at.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one last point before we go to break, but
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Speaker 1: I'll be interested see how A. J. Hinchkin figures the
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Speaker 1: lineup this weekend against the Cardinals. We already saw him
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Speaker 1: make the switch from Kerry Carpenter in the leadoff spot
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Speaker 1: to Colt Keith in the leadoff spot. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: going on, and one of the things of having Kevin
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Speaker 1: McGonagall on the roster it makes Colt a little bit
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Speaker 1: of an awkward fit. We've talked about that, like how
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Speaker 1: many at bats are available at third? Now you can
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Speaker 1: dhm a lot? Do you want him dhing a lot?
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Speaker 1: Would you rather have Carpenter dh? So in some ways,
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Speaker 1: getting cold in the lineup every day if you're going
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Speaker 1: to play, say Javi Baias, isn't the easiest thing. We're
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Speaker 1: also going to talk about that a little bit bit more.
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Speaker 1: But one of the reasons aj was able to drop
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Speaker 1: Carry Carpenter, the much discussed Carry Carpenter leadoff hitter, is
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Speaker 1: because the Diamondbacks and not have a single left handed
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Speaker 1: pitcher in their bullpen, which was crazy. So that whole
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Speaker 1: idea of setting up the nineteenth at bat, forcing a
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Speaker 1: decision on the other manager, maybe pinch hitting mid game,
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Speaker 1: that was kind of taken out of the equation with
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Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. So despite Carrie's struggles, I'd be interested to
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Speaker 1: see if AJ bumps him back up there or if
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Speaker 1: he just rolls with Cole Keith knowing that if the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals bring in a left hander in the sixth inning,
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Speaker 1: that could really neutralize cold. He had like a four
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Speaker 1: hundred ops against lefties last year. That's another thing that's
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Speaker 1: going to be we're gonna have to keep an eye on,
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Speaker 1: is how will Cole Keith hit left handed pitchers. We'll
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Speaker 1: Now, all right, Raj, we are back here. You want
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Speaker 1: to move into a little pitching talk, absolutely, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's do it. We're gonna start with one of the
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Speaker 1: bad things from our takeaways. A rocky first outing for
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Speaker 1: Justin Verlander. I gave up five runs through two innings.
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Speaker 1: He was able to scrap and survive to get a
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Speaker 1: little bit deeper in that game, but just three and
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Speaker 1: two thirds, not very much. The Diamonbacks had an average
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Speaker 1: exit velocity of ninety three point five miles an hour.
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Speaker 1: The translation for that is they were hitting everything hard.
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Speaker 1: Look talking to Verlander after that outing, he was well
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Speaker 1: aware of what it meant. He was not pleased with
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Speaker 1: any of his pitches. The fastball velo was ninety three ish.
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Speaker 1: It was okay, but he wasn't spotting it, couldn't spot
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Speaker 1: the curveball. The slider didn't have a lot of bite.
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Speaker 1: So a classic April baseball A dilemma once again, like
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Speaker 1: what do we take away from this. Does this mean
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Speaker 1: anything or can we call it a one off even
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Speaker 1: though Verlander is in his age forty three season.
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Speaker 2: I think it's more of like a one off, because
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at the way the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 2: played that Series two that you know, Hench was sayin
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Speaker 2: this is a team that's patient and then they went
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Speaker 2: first pitch again, Casey may so, I think the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 2: were addressing the strategy accordingly. This is a team that
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Speaker 2: has leave three or four silver sluggers they had last year.
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Speaker 2: This is a very good offensive team. And you look
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Speaker 2: at guys like Corbyn Carroll, all those guys were just
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Speaker 2: hidden hitting the ball really hard against land missiles. It's okay, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 2: he was in a lot of piss missiles and every
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad I can say it, but no, it's
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Speaker 2: they really were able to no matter what he was
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Speaker 2: in the account that he couldn't get ahead at all.
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Speaker 2: And the Diamondbacks are very patient hitters with that, and
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Speaker 2: they they took advantage of it all day. And I
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Speaker 2: we're still seeing that Verlander we saw in Toronto not
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Speaker 2: too long or in Dunedin where everything was just getting
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Speaker 2: skied and if it wasn't for the wind in duneed
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Speaker 2: and held allowed three or four maybe five from runs.
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Speaker 2: I'm not exaggerating when I say that, and in the
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Speaker 2: spring training outing, so I just think it's just him
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Speaker 2: working things out. And against the Cardinals on Sunday night,
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Speaker 2: that's going to be another test for him because this
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Speaker 2: is a team we'll get through soortly that can also
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Speaker 2: hit the ball pretty well, but there's no Diamondbacks. So
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Speaker 2: I came really impressed with how the Diamondbacks took a
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Speaker 2: different approach to each tire pitcher this series.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a good observation that you know, they
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Speaker 1: strike out nine times against Casey Miyes and then come
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Speaker 1: back and strike out only three times against Trek Skuble,
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Speaker 1: largely because they went back to kind of being aggressive
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Speaker 1: early incounts and just trying to put the ball in play.
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Speaker 1: As it pertains to Verlander. Like again, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to overreact, but I am a little bit concerned because
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Speaker 1: he's really only had one outing so far that was
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Speaker 1: his final outing in Lakeland this spring where he really
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Speaker 1: looked like he had much going with his stuff. The velos.
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Speaker 1: He isn't great, but it's still there. He's not throwing
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Speaker 1: eighty nine, so maybe that's a reason for encouragement. I
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Speaker 1: think a reason for encouragement is a simple fact. He's
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Speaker 1: justin Verlander. He knows he was bad, he didn't sugarcoat it,
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Speaker 1: and he talked about going to work for solutions. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he had Chris Fetter and Robin Lund sitting on the
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Speaker 1: couch waiting for him to finish his interview, and as
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Speaker 1: soon as he finished his post game, they got up
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Speaker 1: and I think went to the video room and got
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Speaker 1: to work trying to figure out some solutions. He's clearly
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Speaker 1: not going to be content with this, but the stuff,
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Speaker 1: the location in particular, is going to have to be better.
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Speaker 1: Where this could get a little bit weird. I do
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Speaker 1: think it's worth noting like this is Verlander. Everyone wants
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Speaker 1: to go see this guy. Everyone wants to go see
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Speaker 1: him dominate. He is forty three. I think he can
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Speaker 1: still be a solid pitcher, but adjusting expectations might be important.
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Speaker 1: He is a number four and number five in the
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Speaker 1: rotation for a reason. At this point. I don't know
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Speaker 1: that we're going to see him go seven innings, eight
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Speaker 1: innings a whole lot this year. You want him to
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Speaker 1: be a solid backing guy who can get you two
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Speaker 1: times through the order, and I think he's certainly capable
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Speaker 1: of that, but it'll have to be a little bit
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Speaker 1: better than he was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd rather see this now early in the season
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Speaker 2: than we're seeing this in September when games might be
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Speaker 2: a little closer. It matter, and so it just get
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Speaker 2: the kinks out. Look just like in San Francisco got
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Speaker 2: also a slow start last year, as we talked about,
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Speaker 2: he didn't win a game for a while, and so
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Speaker 2: I think if his if he's getting back to doing
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Speaker 2: at least five, as you said, maybe just five innings,
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Speaker 2: all the need for him just to do the qualifier
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Speaker 2: for that quality start stat then I would be fine
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Speaker 2: with that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, on the flip side of Justin Berlander, Casey
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Speaker 1: miz after a not very good spring, came out and
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Speaker 1: was terrific in his first outing nine whiffs with the splitter,
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Speaker 1: which this blows my mind, that's the second most in
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Speaker 1: his entire major league career. The pitch that got him
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Speaker 1: drafted one one that we have probably discussed for hours
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Speaker 1: over over years doing podcasts. Sometimes it's his best friend,
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's his worst enemy. When mis is as best.
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Speaker 1: The splitter is, that is his best friend. And what
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Speaker 1: I like most was not only that he got some
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Speaker 1: whiffs with it, but that he was throwing that pitch
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Speaker 1: consistently almost every time, similar velocity, similar downward action, really
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Speaker 1: good against left handed batters. He's worked on it a
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Speaker 1: lot against right handed batters and was somewhat effective. Although
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Speaker 1: he faced more lefties lost switch hitters in that Diamondbacks lineup,
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Speaker 1: he had pretty good fastball command. We'll see what's ahead,
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Speaker 1: but especially after a rocky spring, I think it was
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Speaker 1: important to see Casey Maes get off to a good
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Speaker 1: start to the season.
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Speaker 2: I thought those splitter looked the best I've ever seen it. Like,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know that sounds like he's had some
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Speaker 2: better strekeout days and but with wise, but the splitter
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Speaker 2: was dancing. It was able to get both sides of
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Speaker 2: the plate very effectively against lefties, where sometimes I think
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Speaker 2: he is sometimes splitter floats in there he gets hammered.
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Speaker 2: Not one single card. Contact was very limited. I think
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Speaker 2: the x lossy was very very small even when he
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Speaker 2: got on that when Federal him out there to kind
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Speaker 2: of cal him down. After that, still, I think the
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Speaker 2: entire time, he was able, he was efficient. That's the
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Speaker 2: reason why I thought this is out was his best
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Speaker 2: outing because before when even when his splitter was working,
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Speaker 2: he kind of labored through a little bit, but he
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Speaker 2: was able to be efficient and get those strike swings
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Speaker 2: and missus. And so that's going to help the Tigers
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Speaker 2: big time because if you can do both and able
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Speaker 2: to help your bullpen, which there was a way, but
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Speaker 2: but I really thought that myes had he was able
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Speaker 2: to throw that on command, and that is why the
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Speaker 2: Tigers drafted him because that splitter, that is what that's
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Speaker 2: to me in addition to you. Then there was a
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Speaker 2: strikeout to where his splitter was so good that he
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Speaker 2: had a strikeout. I forgot who it was. It was
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Speaker 2: on top of the zones like eighty nine miles an
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Speaker 2: hour because they were sitting on everything that was down below,
17:50
Speaker 2: and he was a spot that it was like some
17:52
Speaker 2: sort of maybe it was a knuckle curve that didn't
17:55
Speaker 2: go anywhere or something, but it was something like under
17:56
Speaker 2: nineteen miles an hour top of the zone. They swung
17:59
Speaker 2: right through it. That right there is how good a
18:01
Speaker 2: splitter was because it was able to set up his
18:03
Speaker 2: other pitches and the Dimonbacks thought they were gonna get
18:07
Speaker 2: the splitter and they end up getting some else.
18:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I always say this, but
18:12
Speaker 1: Miz's whole arsenal is better when the splitter is splittering. Look,
18:16
Speaker 1: fastball command is huge for him, but even his fastball
18:19
Speaker 1: hitters have to honor it more. I think it changes
18:21
Speaker 1: their eye level if he can go fastball up, splitter down,
18:25
Speaker 1: and then sometimes he works in that freeze you ninety
18:28
Speaker 1: four at the bottom of the zone. He has the
18:31
Speaker 1: two different sliders that he can have some success with,
18:34
Speaker 1: and I think those pitches can be a little more
18:36
Speaker 1: potent when the splitter is working, just because there's a
18:39
Speaker 1: different look. So let's see once again. I just can't
18:43
Speaker 1: quite quit. Casey Mize. You didn't mention the bullpen. I
18:46
Speaker 1: don't know how much there is to say, but that
18:48
Speaker 1: Tuesday game was certainly rough. I'm going to chuck this up.
18:53
Speaker 1: So sometimes that just happens with bullpens. Wolvest didn't have it,
18:56
Speaker 1: didn't have his command, Kenley Jansen left to cutter over
18:59
Speaker 1: them middle and a rookie crushed it. Not what you're
19:02
Speaker 1: looking for, but you're gonna have some games throughout the
19:05
Speaker 1: course of the season where you blow saves, I'm gonna
19:09
Speaker 1: chock this up to get one of those out of
19:11
Speaker 1: the way early. Do you think there's anything more to it?
19:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you on that, because, I mean,
19:17
Speaker 2: Fernandez was a guy who literally was He's that top
19:20
Speaker 2: ten prospect. He just went up there and had a
19:23
Speaker 2: game of his life and he had a White A
19:24
Speaker 2: debut and it just happens. I Mean, the only thing
19:27
Speaker 2: that was concerning was Fittinggan, who doesn't really walk a
19:29
Speaker 2: lot of it, has had two walks. Yeah, but you
19:32
Speaker 2: can also talk that up to the Diamondbacks being a
19:34
Speaker 2: very patient team when they need to be, so Yeah,
19:38
Speaker 2: I'm not really concerned. It's just a matter of get
19:41
Speaker 2: the spring like, just the spring training stuff out of
19:43
Speaker 2: the way.
19:44
Speaker 1: Yeah. I do think the finn again walk rate is
19:47
Speaker 1: somewhat concerning. He's been a pretty good strike thrower throughout
19:50
Speaker 1: his career, but as he starts using the splitter more,
19:53
Speaker 1: as he's trying to incorporate the slider more, that might
19:56
Speaker 1: have an effect on his command and how often he
19:58
Speaker 1: walks guys. He's used to being a really high percentage
20:01
Speaker 1: fastball guy who can kind of dot the zone and
20:04
Speaker 1: try to mix in something else as a put away.
20:07
Speaker 1: But if he's going to be using his secondary offerings more,
20:11
Speaker 1: what does that mean? And that puts even more of
20:13
Speaker 1: a premium on his fastball command. I think that's something
20:16
Speaker 1: worth watching going forward. Another thing to watch going forward.
20:20
Speaker 1: Let's just circle back. We've already hinted at this the
20:22
Speaker 1: infield puzzle.
20:23
Speaker 2: Man.
20:24
Speaker 1: I think this is really interesting. A lot of people
20:26
Speaker 1: are already mad at seeing Hovey Bias at shortstop. I
20:31
Speaker 1: want to kind of try to explain what the Tigers
20:34
Speaker 1: seem to be thinking here. I think Hovey Bias has
20:36
Speaker 1: been playing shortstop in part because he's hobby biased, in
20:39
Speaker 1: part because of this. I say stability in theory, stability
20:44
Speaker 1: that he can bring the commanding presence he has some
20:48
Speaker 1: of the plays. He already had an out at the
20:49
Speaker 1: plate that just not everyone makes. But he also has
20:53
Speaker 1: three errors. The return of the Hovey Bias throwing errors
20:56
Speaker 1: is here. That was an underrated thing he really cut
21:00
Speaker 1: down on last year. Two years ago he made nineteen errors,
21:03
Speaker 1: and last year, although he didn't play as much shortstop,
21:06
Speaker 1: only seven errors and sixty two games. He's already at
21:10
Speaker 1: three in what five games at shortstop, So that's not
21:13
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. And I think the easy thing
21:17
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are gonna throw out is like, well,
21:18
Speaker 1: why is Kevin McGonagall not just at shortstop every day?
21:23
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason Hovey Bias is at
21:24
Speaker 1: shortstop is about Hovey bias, and I also think part
21:27
Speaker 1: of it might be about Kevin McGonagall, because as for
21:31
Speaker 1: as much as he has impressed defensively, that question of
21:35
Speaker 1: is he and every day shortstop still looms. We always
21:38
Speaker 1: say teams tell you more with their actions than they
21:41
Speaker 1: do their words. I think the fact Bias has been
21:44
Speaker 1: at shortstop tells you they're not sold on Kevin McGonagall
21:47
Speaker 1: as an everyday shortstop impresses as he's been some of
21:51
Speaker 1: the nuances. I actually think his footwork at short particularly
21:55
Speaker 1: has taken a little bit of a step back from
21:57
Speaker 1: being really impressive at the beginning of so Spring Toy's field.
22:01
Speaker 1: It's some more balls on his heels and that puts
22:04
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have the momentum going toward first
22:06
Speaker 1: base for the throws. That's why we've talked, you know,
22:09
Speaker 1: is his arm of forty five? Is it a fifty.
22:11
Speaker 1: I think it's a forty five when he's on his
22:13
Speaker 1: heels a little bit, and maybe a fifty when he's
22:15
Speaker 1: fielding with more proper technique, even like cutoffs going out
22:20
Speaker 1: to the proper depth. Some of that they're still looking
22:22
Speaker 1: at and being like, all right, we want to ease
22:24
Speaker 1: the burden on McGonagle and maybe help our whole team
22:28
Speaker 1: by having him at third more where he has really
22:31
Speaker 1: good at third, And even though the arm is still
22:33
Speaker 1: a little bit of a question over there, I think
22:36
Speaker 1: it's just a little more reactionary, and he has the
22:38
Speaker 1: reactions to make that work. But the more you're gonna
22:41
Speaker 1: do this, you live with like, Okay, how long of
22:44
Speaker 1: the leash does Hovey Bias have? How many at bats
22:47
Speaker 1: can you give him? How many at bats can you
22:48
Speaker 1: play him? If Colt Keith keeps raking, is he going
22:51
Speaker 1: to have to play third more? At what point do
22:54
Speaker 1: we see Zach McKinstry at short where he graded out
22:57
Speaker 1: really well. There are just a lot of questions, and
22:59
Speaker 1: I think this is going to kind of evolve really
23:02
Speaker 1: through the whole season, but maybe even the next month
23:04
Speaker 1: in terms of like what this looks like, what infield
23:07
Speaker 1: alignment the Tigers are actually most comfortable with. Do you
23:11
Speaker 1: have any questions about this, Roger or any thought on
23:14
Speaker 1: what the team should be doing to make this work
23:16
Speaker 1: the best?
23:18
Speaker 2: You know? The one question I do have is if
23:20
Speaker 2: you look at how are they going to when is
23:23
Speaker 2: it at some point that Bias goes back out into
23:26
Speaker 2: the outfield too? Because if Parker Metals continues to struggle,
23:28
Speaker 2: do you put them back in the center field and
23:31
Speaker 2: have you know the alignment from there? You can put
23:35
Speaker 2: McKinstry in a short a Gongo at third also, I
23:40
Speaker 2: mean same time, you can also play first base, I
23:42
Speaker 2: mean adequately, So if tots and struggles, there's a lot
23:45
Speaker 2: of plug and play options they can do. But yeah,
23:49
Speaker 2: my question is when are they going to consider bias
23:52
Speaker 2: put in the outfield, because you know, you're already hearing
23:55
Speaker 2: like you know, Parker's kind of off to a slow start,
23:57
Speaker 2: So then it's just like, well, are you gonna put
24:00
Speaker 2: bias back there? Is maybe buy is more comfortable in
24:03
Speaker 2: the outfield than he was in the infield. I mean
24:05
Speaker 2: he did play I believe he played more in the
24:08
Speaker 2: outfield than he did in the infield last year. So yeah,
24:11
Speaker 2: so maybe that's just an adjustment for him right now,
24:13
Speaker 2: getting back into the infield and then getting back in
24:15
Speaker 2: the swing of things a little bit with that. But
24:18
Speaker 2: we all know too that we talked about this numerous
24:21
Speaker 2: times last year, the question, well you know that tours coming.
24:25
Speaker 2: If tours didn't sign, we know for a fact that
24:27
Speaker 2: mcgonaga will be at second because McGonagall is a better
24:30
Speaker 2: second baseman than he is at least in my opinion.
24:33
Speaker 2: Then he like, he's looked good at third, and there's
24:35
Speaker 2: no disputing that whatsoever. But like I said, just see
24:38
Speaker 2: him at short sometimes last year was like, you know,
24:41
Speaker 2: there's some questions about that, but again mcgonagaal is such
24:44
Speaker 2: a quick learner and I'm not just I'm not poop
24:46
Speaker 2: going anything he's done. But you have the ability to
24:51
Speaker 2: have three or four different guys in the infield right
24:53
Speaker 2: now that will allow you have greater position flexibility and
24:55
Speaker 2: that's a luxury that most teams do not have and
24:59
Speaker 2: attackers have currently right now. So I would like to
25:01
Speaker 2: see when if bias goes out there, how how is
25:05
Speaker 2: it going to work. And if he looks more comfortable
25:07
Speaker 2: out there, you know, maybe just leave him out there.
25:12
Speaker 1: Well you make you a great point rush, and that's
25:15
Speaker 1: a reminder of how many moving parts there are because
25:17
Speaker 1: some of that is linked to Parker Meadows. If Parker
25:20
Speaker 1: Meadows is hitting, we may not see any Hobby Bias
25:22
Speaker 1: in center. But if Parker Meadows is not producing, at
25:26
Speaker 1: what point does that become a discussion. On the other hand,
25:29
Speaker 1: at what point Matt Vierling only has eight at bat
25:31
Speaker 1: so far, would you or rather just have Matt Vierling
25:33
Speaker 1: in center field than Hobby Bias? Personally, if Hobby's not
25:37
Speaker 1: hitting at all, I almost think that's the answer, But
25:41
Speaker 1: then that means not a lot of playing time for Hobby,
25:43
Speaker 1: So how do you sort that out? And your point
25:45
Speaker 1: about McGonagall at second is really good too, And I
25:48
Speaker 1: also want to be clear, I'm not knocking Kevin McGonagall. Gosh,
25:51
Speaker 1: this guy is just exceeded my expectations defensively, But it
25:55
Speaker 1: kind of comes back to what I've always said, which
25:57
Speaker 1: is like, to be a plus shortstop at the major level,
26:00
Speaker 1: that part is really really high. Kevin McGonagall has gotten
26:04
Speaker 1: himself from being like can he even play there, to like, no,
26:07
Speaker 1: he can play there and probably be adequate, But to
26:10
Speaker 1: be plus every day shortstop like, I'm just not sure
26:14
Speaker 1: that's ever gonna be quite his profile, seeing the arm more,
26:18
Speaker 1: seeing the footwork like, I can't agree. I think second
26:22
Speaker 1: is probably where he fits best. And that leads to
26:24
Speaker 1: another interesting question. We've already seen like an in game
26:27
Speaker 1: situation where aj Hinch has moved has gone Hovey Baias
26:30
Speaker 1: at second while McGonagall is at shortstop, and that in
26:34
Speaker 1: itself is kind of counterintuitive, but it does seem like
26:39
Speaker 1: for all their focus on versatility, the Tigers, especially with
26:43
Speaker 1: young players, are kind of trying to simplify things a
26:45
Speaker 1: little bit. They only want McGonagall focusing on the left
26:48
Speaker 1: side right now, but is that gonna come at at
26:52
Speaker 1: you know, to their own demise at some point when
26:55
Speaker 1: they have the better shortstop playing second base. That's just
26:59
Speaker 1: one of the interesting things about their approach and all
27:02
Speaker 1: they ask of guys. They want everyone to play all
27:04
Speaker 1: these positions, except it does seem even like with Matt
27:07
Speaker 1: Vierling who hasn't been playing third, or Cole Keith who
27:09
Speaker 1: hasn't been playing second, I think they're they're starting to
27:13
Speaker 1: rain that back in a little bit and try to
27:14
Speaker 1: make it easier on players. But there are also downsides
27:19
Speaker 1: that come with that, So anything else you want to
27:22
Speaker 1: note on that front.
27:24
Speaker 2: So as far as I feel this too, is it's
27:26
Speaker 2: just a matter of simplifying for them because it allows
27:30
Speaker 2: it to slow down for them defensively. Or is it
27:33
Speaker 2: just a matter of like just getting it just a
27:35
Speaker 2: comfortability thing because yeah, yeah, because I was wondering too
27:39
Speaker 2: if that kind of would change across the organization, even
27:42
Speaker 2: down to the minor leagues. But it just I was
27:44
Speaker 2: just kind of curious because they have, like you know,
27:46
Speaker 2: for example, High we listed at third and they put
27:49
Speaker 2: Young at first base, but Young hasn't I don't know,
27:53
Speaker 2: Young hasn't played first base yet in Toledo as yet.
27:55
Speaker 2: So I'm just kind of it just maybe they say
27:58
Speaker 2: they're going to do it, but they Yeah, I'm not
28:00
Speaker 2: really sure where that is right now.
28:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're starting to see. Maybe it depends
28:05
Speaker 1: on the player. I think with McGonagall, they are trying
28:07
Speaker 1: to get him comfortable. He's already got the weight to
28:11
Speaker 1: the world on his shoulders. Maybe if they see it
28:14
Speaker 1: as Okay, we have Glabor who's going to play second
28:16
Speaker 1: base as long as he's healthy. One hundred and fifty
28:19
Speaker 1: times this year you know, we're just not gonna put
28:22
Speaker 1: that on Kevin's plate. Now for a more veteran player
28:25
Speaker 1: like a Matt Vierling, why is he not playing third
28:28
Speaker 1: base or even you know, they've asked a lot of
28:31
Speaker 1: Cole Keith all of two years, but he's been playing
28:35
Speaker 1: at different positions all of those two years. I think
28:38
Speaker 1: they they are taking into account the psychological factor a
28:42
Speaker 1: little more, which was actually one of my questions in
28:44
Speaker 1: like twenty twenty two when they first started having guys
28:47
Speaker 1: play all these different positions, like, well, is that good
28:50
Speaker 1: for their development? Is that good for their psyche? I
28:53
Speaker 1: was actually really skeptical of it for a while, and
28:56
Speaker 1: then they had so much success with it that I
28:58
Speaker 1: just shut up. But I wonder if there has been
29:01
Speaker 1: some player feedback or maybe even just a little deeper
29:04
Speaker 1: like now that they have so many guys who are versatile,
29:07
Speaker 1: it's kind of trying to find a little bit of
29:10
Speaker 1: a balance. I think with McGonagall, that's got to be
29:13
Speaker 1: a big factor for someone like Jace Young, though I
29:16
Speaker 1: don't know, like they seemed really enthused about having him
29:18
Speaker 1: at first and even if something happens at the big
29:21
Speaker 1: league level, you know, mid season just the idea that
29:24
Speaker 1: young could play multiple positions, could be a left handed
29:27
Speaker 1: bat at first base. Aj Hinch would probably use either
29:31
Speaker 1: word like skill set or toolbag. Just having that in
29:34
Speaker 1: this tool bag, whether he's doing it every day in
29:36
Speaker 1: Toledo or not, still still can probably make a difference.
29:42
Speaker 1: All right, let's go on to some final thoughts here
29:45
Speaker 1: the home opener, it's a party. I hope you guys
29:48
Speaker 1: enjoy your tailgates. I'll be making a little lap around
29:51
Speaker 1: the stadium before the game to say hi to some folks.
29:54
Speaker 1: Big day in Detroit. Frember Valdez is going to be
29:56
Speaker 1: pitching a guy again we just haven't probably talked about
29:59
Speaker 1: enough because he's so rock solid and stable. You have
30:02
Speaker 1: the Cardinals coming to town. This in theory, you want
30:06
Speaker 1: to win to a three against the Cardinals. Man, they're rebuilding,
30:09
Speaker 1: they don't have a great roster. What are you looking
30:11
Speaker 1: at from the Cardinals?
30:12
Speaker 2: Uh?
30:13
Speaker 1: What else is important to you? Opening weekend?
30:15
Speaker 3: Raj?
30:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have to really win tomorrow. I think that
30:19
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's I hate sound.
30:21
Speaker 1: Like must win, must win game.
30:24
Speaker 2: You know so many degrees and you know all these
30:27
Speaker 2: little cliches that come with it. But they are. They're
30:30
Speaker 2: going against the Cardinals for whatever reason. We all know
30:33
Speaker 2: historically speaking from two thousand and six. Uh, the Cardinals
30:37
Speaker 2: have pissed Tiger fans off for a long time because
30:40
Speaker 2: you know, things like the Cardinal way and the way
30:42
Speaker 2: they do things, even uh they're broadcaster who you know
30:46
Speaker 2: call the infamous Game one sixty three and Chip carry. Uh.
30:49
Speaker 2: There's so many little things with the Cardinals that maybe
30:52
Speaker 2: it's just me, but I digress. But no, you know,
30:55
Speaker 2: like I, you know, you have a guy in JG.
30:57
Speaker 2: Weatherhole and this is a good I like this team
31:00
Speaker 2: a lot that got Mason win. We were talking about
31:02
Speaker 2: beforehand that Jordan Walker's off to a good start. So
31:06
Speaker 2: I don't think they should take the Cardinals lightly, but
31:08
Speaker 2: I think getting off to a good start tomorrow winning
31:11
Speaker 2: winning on tomorrow, and they're doing it with uh, Mama,
31:15
Speaker 2: silence for Mikeley Lowlidge. There's so many It's a national
31:18
Speaker 2: holiday in Detroit and it's gonna be warm, So there's
31:22
Speaker 2: gonna be what over two hundred thousand people possibly downtown tomorrow.
31:25
Speaker 2: That is, the buzz is gonna be big. You know,
31:28
Speaker 2: we're the same thing, Chris and I are doing laps around.
31:31
Speaker 2: People are inviting us to to tailgates, and we're gonna
31:35
Speaker 2: be doing some cool stuff. But yeah, it's the Tigers.
31:38
Speaker 4: Really.
31:38
Speaker 2: If they can go out win tomorrow, I think that
31:40
Speaker 2: puts a lot of pressure off the team and they
31:42
Speaker 2: feel like they can just get back and then have
31:45
Speaker 2: their own heads a little bit. In terms of the offense,
31:47
Speaker 2: and so I think if if Valdaz does what he's
31:50
Speaker 2: supposed to do, get the Cardinals pound the ball on
31:53
Speaker 2: the ground, Tigers can scratch off a few runs, get
31:56
Speaker 2: a big home run. If they could get a big
31:57
Speaker 2: home run early, that would be huge. I think just
32:00
Speaker 2: to get the offense cobwebs shaking those off, I think
32:04
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a good, good, good time. And then
32:06
Speaker 2: before it goes back to four degrees by Sunday.
32:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, rain on Saturday, cold night game on Sunday. What
32:13
Speaker 1: could go wrong?
32:14
Speaker 2: Now?
32:14
Speaker 1: I hope everyone out there enjoys Friday. If you're out sailgating,
32:17
Speaker 1: shoot me a message. I'll try to come say hi
32:21
Speaker 1: before we leave. Roger, you're an expert on the minor leagues.
32:23
Speaker 1: We got a rather long minor league injury report today.
32:27
Speaker 1: Any other any big takeaways? You think people should know about,
32:30
Speaker 1: and any other thoughts on what you've seen down on
32:33
Speaker 1: the farm so far.
32:35
Speaker 2: So Andrew Sears, who was a who's a really big
32:38
Speaker 2: surprise last year, came out and did very well, is
32:42
Speaker 2: not gonna be scheduled to start the season in Eerie
32:44
Speaker 2: and Ari's rotation. As Chris and I were talking about,
32:47
Speaker 2: it's a Dave de Browsie special. It's just a bunch
32:48
Speaker 2: of veterans down there and not really like Prospect Haven
32:52
Speaker 2: in terms of their pitching staff right now. But yeah,
32:55
Speaker 2: that is Calva. Salsado's not gonna start the year. He's
32:59
Speaker 2: got a torment. His is the in terms of like
33:04
Speaker 2: Lakeland's gonna be has really fun. You know, we have
33:06
Speaker 2: like Kyle Willispoon who got drafted last year. That's gonna
33:09
Speaker 2: be a fun rotation. Same thing with West Michigan who
33:12
Speaker 2: is defending champs, Max Clark who just hit another double
33:15
Speaker 2: about an hour ago. That's his believe, his fourth double.
33:19
Speaker 2: And Valencia, who who snaps off a brutal one for
33:24
Speaker 2: twenty two start, look really lost in the plate, just
33:27
Speaker 2: got a double today. So Toledo, the Toledo Bullpen, it's
33:32
Speaker 2: a nightmare right now. It's it's really it's a it's
33:35
Speaker 2: a nightmare right now. But I will say Rieky Alaska
33:38
Speaker 2: continues to look well in spring, so that for those
33:41
Speaker 2: people are checking in on that, Ky Madden had fifteen
33:44
Speaker 2: swings and missus in his first appearance and Kaya Materio's
33:47
Speaker 2: looks really well. So West Michigan's starts on Thursday and
33:53
Speaker 2: the rest of minor league schedule starts on Friday. So
33:55
Speaker 2: this is a time of year where you know, my
33:57
Speaker 2: wife barely sees me and just gonna be the case.
34:00
Speaker 2: And but yeah, there's Max Clark is. Max Clark has
34:03
Speaker 2: been seeing the ball really well. And we had a
34:06
Speaker 2: chance to talk to him about the double he hit
34:08
Speaker 2: off Jack Wyninger, who's the mess prospect who he struggled
34:13
Speaker 2: with it against last year, and he said that it
34:15
Speaker 2: was like a good dismissial for him just to get
34:18
Speaker 2: that hit. So but he's also good defensively. He's had
34:22
Speaker 2: two outfield assists and honestly, yeah, Clark's gonna be fine.
34:26
Speaker 2: And that's really for fans out there to Louis home
34:31
Speaker 2: opener is on Tuesday. If you get a chance to
34:33
Speaker 2: go down to Toledo before uh check it out because
34:36
Speaker 2: they have some good, interesting bats. It's just a matter
34:38
Speaker 2: of them coming together.
34:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, the things I've heard from Scouts and some other
34:42
Speaker 1: people in the industry right now is like the fact
34:45
Speaker 1: that Tigers have cater Montero and assuming Troy Melton gets
34:49
Speaker 1: back to health, like that could be a pretty big deal.
34:52
Speaker 1: Just have those sixth and seventh starters. But there are
34:55
Speaker 1: some real concerns about the other pitching depth in this organization, especially,
34:59
Speaker 1: I mean, Drew Anderson has not been quite the guy
35:02
Speaker 1: he was in spring so far. If you have a
35:03
Speaker 1: couple of things go wrong in the bullpen, where are
35:06
Speaker 1: those reinforcements the nasco? You know, maybe maybe all it
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Speaker 1: takes is a guy like that to pop a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's a pretty big concern is just
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Speaker 1: the depth and the pitching depth and the upper levels
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Speaker 1: of the miners. You mentioned Sears. That's a guy I've
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Speaker 1: been really had circled this year in part because of
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Speaker 1: things you guys have said about him. I know the
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Speaker 1: organization is high on him, so unfortunate to see him
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Speaker 1: not being one hundred percent ready to go out of
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Speaker 1: the gate and then Mexico olveto Yeah, bro, Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: unfortunate too, and that that's a guy who you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll be a McGonagall level prospect,
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Speaker 1: but is that a you know, are they going to
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Speaker 1: be glad they got kind of the two for one
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Speaker 1: Yost and Olivetto package, because I wouldn't be shocked if
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Speaker 1: Oloveto ends up being a pretty nice player. Malachi Witherspoon,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned people think he could rise through the system
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Speaker 1: pretty quick. In a college pitcher who maybe not the
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Speaker 1: world's greatest stuff, but seems like he has a good
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Speaker 1: feel for pitching, so I'm certainly interested in him. And
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Speaker 1: then Max Clark. You want to see all the good
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Speaker 1: things we can from Max Clark, but word, do the wise.
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Speaker 1: Don't call for Parker Meadows to go down or Carry
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Speaker 1: Carpenter to go down next week to bring up Max Clark.
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. Let's give this thing some time.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Cody. It should be a public service announcement
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Speaker 2: on every single show from here on out. Just calm down,
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Speaker 2: Calm down. Every time there's a Clark highlight we put
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Speaker 2: on our maybe we're guilty of it, but every time
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Speaker 2: we do show some ol Clark they're Oh, look at
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Speaker 2: Parker Metals is doing. Calm down, folks. It's just six
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Speaker 2: games in all right.
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Speaker 1: Tiger's been scoreless for thirty four their past thirty six innings.
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Speaker 1: I predict because of how baseball works, they will score
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Speaker 1: in the first inning during the home opener and maybe
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Speaker 1: even hit a couple home runs. We'll see if that's
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Speaker 1: enough to calm people down at least for a day. Everyone, Hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Thanks for tuning in for Rajaleo Castillo.
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Speaker 1: I'm Cody Stavenhagen. Hope you guys have a great home
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Speaker 1: opening day.