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Detroit Tigers Final Spring Training Mailbag · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network, a Detroit Tiger's podcast. I'm Kieren
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  Speaker 1: Sechley with me as always as a man who was
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  Speaker 1: still waiting on his diamond necklace from Max Clark.
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  Speaker 2: He is Scoty stevenagg and how you doing.
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  Speaker 3: That's good. I think that would be outside a company
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  Speaker 3: policy to accept a gift to that large from a source.
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  Speaker 3: I think the limit is twenty dollars. Uh, so we're
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  Speaker 3: we're way over that, although maybe you get one from
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  Speaker 3: like a vending machine or something. Even that would be
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  Speaker 3: somewhat of an eth cool gray area. So yeah, well,
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  Speaker 3: got to hold my journalistic standards here.
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  Speaker 1: Was it was quite the uh quite the moment there
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  Speaker 1: for the Tigers obviously Trek schoolbls, Trek School bull and
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  Speaker 1: Max Clark one of the top prospects in baseball, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a we accept you type deal
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  Speaker 1: from from School bulls End or whatever, like we're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you are part of the family in a
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  Speaker 1: in kind of like a weird way. And and the Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know how every team is or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but the Tigers, I feel like over the past seven
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  Speaker 1: eight years, I've always kind of done a good job,
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  Speaker 1: like the players, of kind of bringing in the prospects
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  Speaker 1: and making them feel like part of the organization. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: every single time a hitter that just got drafted with
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  Speaker 1: take BP in Camerica, you guys would report on Miggy
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  Speaker 1: being like.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know we need you or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I know he did for Riley and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and that's cool, Like that's something that you know, is
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  Speaker 1: sort of the beauty of the game in the more
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  Speaker 1: cynical sense. Like my first thought was, well, these guys
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  Speaker 1: ever be teammates. There are varying factors that will determine
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that over the next couple of years, Cody,
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  Speaker 1: But if they do end up being like stewards of
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  Speaker 1: the organization together at the major league level, that would
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  Speaker 1: be one of the moments that we'll look back on
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  Speaker 1: fondly and possibly not so fondly, depending on what happened.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, moving up, everyone who doesn't know what we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about, Max Clark bought Trek Scouble a chain. Scooble
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  Speaker 3: had said on non request, yeah, some interview that he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to want. He actually said he wanted the MC one,
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  Speaker 3: but Clark got him on with the TS initial it
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  Speaker 3: was pretty cool, and did talk to Terrek a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about it afterward. I just kind of like what
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  Speaker 3: he said about, like, we want Max to be himself.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the good things about our culture. We
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  Speaker 3: want guys to be comfortable. And as we had talked
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  Speaker 3: about a week or so ago, he pointed out, like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a grinder too, Like if you don't
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  Speaker 3: think he is, one thing I appreciate about him is
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  Speaker 3: he's diving into the details, like he works really hard.
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  Speaker 3: So at least in theory, the players seem to respect
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  Speaker 3: Max Clark, just like we've heard from every coach everyone
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  Speaker 3: in the organization.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of enthusiastic high fives. When we had a
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  Speaker 1: sack fly in his first you know, major league spring
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  Speaker 1: training game here a couple of weeks ago. That again
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  Speaker 1: one of those moments we could look back on a
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  Speaker 1: couple of year like that was the beginning of something
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  Speaker 1: we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: In regards to the more near future, we do have
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  Speaker 1: a decision. The Tigers have decided on their five that
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  Speaker 1: they are going west with that west with that's fun
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  Speaker 1: to say, uh, consecutively. That would be Casey Mice and
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  Speaker 1: that would be Jackson Joe to round out the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: That obviously means kent to Maida will be in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to him in a second. But Cody, this
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  Speaker 1: this is why spring.
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  Speaker 2: Like what we do is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're Ryan's stories throughout you know, the winter
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  Speaker 1: and then into spring, and it's like what the tires
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  Speaker 1: gonna do at the end when the decision is made,
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  Speaker 1: it just seems like a very simple and I want
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  Speaker 1: to say easy, but like the decision to make.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like the decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: And so therefore, like not shocking or whatever, that Jackson
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  Speaker 1: job will start the season in the rotation, that Casey
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  Speaker 1: Mice with his spring with all the stuff that he
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  Speaker 1: had worked on, will be in the rotation. And Kentamaeta,
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  Speaker 1: who did have himself a nice spring and I think
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  Speaker 1: should get credit for that. Again, we'll talk about him
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  Speaker 1: in a second, go into the bullpen. This all just
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  Speaker 1: feels like the right moves for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 3: Maith, yeah, I agree, this is how I had it projected.
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  Speaker 3: This is what seems to make the most sense. I
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  Speaker 3: think by the second half of camp, it was pretty
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  Speaker 3: clear it is gonna be hard to keep Casey Miyes
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  Speaker 3: off this roster and Jackson job. I think the prospect
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  Speaker 3: promotion incent have always loomed pretty large over this. I
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  Speaker 3: do ask myself if that didn't exist, if the Tigers
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  Speaker 3: didn't have the capability to get an extra draft pick,
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  Speaker 3: or if he didn't have the capability to finish as
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  Speaker 3: a top two Rookie of the Year vote getter and
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  Speaker 3: earn a full year of service time, would he be
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  Speaker 3: in the big leagues right now? So what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the stuff is electric, But as we talked about in
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  Speaker 3: our last episode with Austin Jackson, like he's got hit
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  Speaker 3: around a little bit, He's still struggling to put away
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  Speaker 3: guys with two strikes. There's a world where I think
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  Speaker 3: if these things didn't exist, you could argue, let's stash
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  Speaker 3: him in Toledo, let's accrew an extra year of service.
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  Speaker 3: In a way, this is why this is a really
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  Speaker 3: good rule, and simultaneously, the upside of job is pretty
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  Speaker 3: hard to deny. I think he left just enough room
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  Speaker 3: to make you question it. Cater Montero pitch just well
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  Speaker 3: enough to, you know, keep things like somewhat uncertain heading
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  Speaker 3: into the final days, but when it comes down it
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  Speaker 3: all checks out. I think Job had to be in
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  Speaker 3: the rotation the prospect promotion instead of really made it
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  Speaker 3: to where he had to be in the rotation. Montero
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  Speaker 3: showed some good things, but just as much has some
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  Speaker 3: command issues I think still too iron out. And then
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  Speaker 3: Casey Mies look Ken Tomaida would probably be in this
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  Speaker 3: rotation had Mines not really pushed and really made a
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  Speaker 3: compelling case. Even though mya is heading to the pin,
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  Speaker 3: he's finishing with like twenty three strikeouts one walk or
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  Speaker 3: something to that effect in spring training, and all in
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  Speaker 3: all a pretty good spring for one kintam Eta. At
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  Speaker 3: the same time, I think you feel just more comfortable
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  Speaker 3: having him in the pin and then off that really
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  Speaker 3: excited to see what Casey Mice is going to do.
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  Speaker 3: He had a good spring last year, it didn't fully
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  Speaker 3: translate to the regular season. He had an even better
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  Speaker 3: spring this year, and I'm a little more convinced it
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  Speaker 3: can translate. If he keeps throwing the splitter like this,
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  Speaker 3: if the slider remains good, if he can miss bats
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  Speaker 3: like he has through most of the spring. But it's
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  Speaker 3: almost like starting all over again with Casey Mins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think the.
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  Speaker 1: It's important to acknowledge like the upside that's that feels
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  Speaker 1: like you don't typically use the U word with guys
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  Speaker 1: that had you know, college pitchers drafted that high and
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  Speaker 1: then have kind of gone through the major league career
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  Speaker 1: that Casey has. And I includes injuries as well, but
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  Speaker 1: it still does feel like there's upside with him. And
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna incorporate thank you everybody who sent
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  Speaker 1: us questions via via X for a mail bag episode
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  Speaker 1: as we are in opening week. Like I said on X,
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  Speaker 1: Austin was cooking, so we just kind of let him
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  Speaker 1: go and that was like, we'll get to these questions later,
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  Speaker 1: So go go watch list in the episode if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't already. But one of the questions that we got
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  Speaker 1: was like, is Casey gonna like keep all these like
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  Speaker 1: variations slider variations, you know, you know, like or is
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  Speaker 1: he gonna like focus more and have like be like
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  Speaker 1: a true three four pitch guy? Uh once once the
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  Speaker 1: game's count do you have any kind of read on that?
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  Speaker 2: Not fully?
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  Speaker 3: You know, his last outing against the Red Sox, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't have full pitch tracking so it was a little
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  Speaker 3: hard to tell. You know, some of the pitches. What
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  Speaker 3: did they classify as the slider with more depth he
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  Speaker 3: definitely used several times and it began to look really good.
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  Speaker 3: That seems to be the one that has kind of
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  Speaker 3: clicked for him this and then he's still throwing the
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  Speaker 3: traditional bullet slider. He has one. I guess that's more
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  Speaker 3: of a sweeper, a little more horizontal. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: we haven't seen as much of that, But then you
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  Speaker 3: could also argue like the sweepy one and the depthy
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  Speaker 3: one like which is which It can be kind of
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  Speaker 3: hard to tell, but I think we've seen a bigger
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  Speaker 3: slider that he has had success with and the bullet
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  Speaker 3: slider that he's kind of thrown before. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at more two sliders first three sliders for
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  Speaker 3: the most part. But yeah, maybe has one in his
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  Speaker 3: back pocket if he wants to throw something that looks
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  Speaker 3: really big is totally designed just to get a chase.
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  Speaker 3: He could still maybe break that out in a certain circumstance.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's good that he's continued having success.
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  Speaker 3: He's having all morphed into one breaking ball that has
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  Speaker 3: just met they've kind of gotten better really throughout camp,
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  Speaker 3: he's gotten a little more feel. It has to translated
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  Speaker 3: to the regular season, but I'm leaving spring training pretty encouraged.
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  Speaker 3: The secondary pitches really, especially the splitter. Like we talked about,
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  Speaker 3: it's been this great mystery. The splitter has been dynamite
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  Speaker 3: all spring. It's been now three four five outings in
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  Speaker 3: a row. I really hope that translates to the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: It changes everything, and it's more like the Casey Miz
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  Speaker 3: that the Tiger's drafted in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think to kind of tie a bow
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  Speaker 1: on that, it seems to me that this is an
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  Speaker 1: outcome that you can that you would build a rotation around.
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  Speaker 1: Basically is that like we at the back end, we
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  Speaker 1: can have a Casey Mize with this kind of potential
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  Speaker 1: still untapped, and it makes it makes your rotation just
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  Speaker 1: that much stronger as other guys kind of ascend and
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  Speaker 1: it's like not necessarily a knock on him that he's
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  Speaker 1: like in the back or whatever. So I just think
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  Speaker 1: that's that's good to know. And we're gonna get some
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  Speaker 1: more mail back questions including who what's it like socializing
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to touch on Montero just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more Cody, because we did get a question it's
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, it's a mood point, but it
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  Speaker 1: turned out not to be true from Patrick McCulloch, who
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  Speaker 1: basically asked, like, why didn't we believe Montero was a
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  Speaker 1: more viable candidate to start the season in the rotation? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there was based on last season, based on the spring.
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  Speaker 1: There's really nothing that he did that that like made
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  Speaker 1: us kind of dismiss it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was more circumstantial.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I wonder like if you
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  Speaker 1: could shed some light on like how the organization views him.
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  Speaker 1: And basically what I'm getting at is, like, let's just
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  Speaker 1: say ma Ata gets hurt. Is that a situation where
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  Speaker 1: they would want Montero or they're gonna like just keep
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  Speaker 1: him stretched out starter period? But you know, timing of
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  Speaker 1: that that could dictate you know what that is or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just kind of curious what you see as
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  Speaker 1: Montero's like more immediate role slash focus before inevitably guys
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  Speaker 1: get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: And you gotta like fill in start gaps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to be clear. I like cater Montero.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think it was higher than some people
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  Speaker 3: you know on him this off season. I would have
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  Speaker 3: had him above Casey Mice in the pecking order. But
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  Speaker 3: like we just talked about, Casey Mice came out and
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  Speaker 3: really reasserted himself. That and awayment kind of bad news
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  Speaker 3: for cater Montero. So in terms of his chances to
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  Speaker 3: make the rotation, that would have been one of my questions, Like,
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  Speaker 3: who you taken out Job? I guess, like, but you're
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  Speaker 3: really going to take out Jackson Joe. It was just
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  Speaker 3: hard to see there wasn't There's not the PPI, the
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  Speaker 3: eternal factors that there are with Job. He hasn't looked
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  Speaker 3: quite as sharp as Casey Mice. And then kind of
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  Speaker 3: conversations I've had with officials and people around the Tigers
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  Speaker 3: all spring is that like they really like cater but
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  Speaker 3: they do see him just needing a little more polish,
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  Speaker 3: a little more development, repeating the mechanics attacking hitters. He
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  Speaker 3: is still prone to maybe some elevated pitch counts or
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  Speaker 3: just at bats the drag one too long a little
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  Speaker 3: bit still learning how to best use his stuff in
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  Speaker 3: a way. That's encouraging because they think there's even more
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  Speaker 3: to unlock with this guy. He always seemed out of
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  Speaker 3: these guys, the one who maybe had the most to
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  Speaker 3: benefit by starting the year in Toledo. They definitely want
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  Speaker 3: to leave him stretched out. You know, we'll see if
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  Speaker 3: there's a bullpen opening or whatever, but I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he would be the first guy they would call upon.
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  Speaker 3: Even maybe ty Madden has more of a relief profile.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, out of Chafin, hurd Er, Hanafy, two
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  Speaker 3: of those guys probably are going to start the year
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  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues. So I think there's a good
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  Speaker 3: chance we could see Montero eventually slot in as a
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  Speaker 3: starting pitcher. They're going to leave him in that role
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  Speaker 3: until circumstances dictate otherwise. It's a good spring for Montero.
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  Speaker 3: Was encouraging. He was just up against some some really
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  Speaker 3: tough competition that kept him from ever profiling is like
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  Speaker 3: a favorite for a roization spot.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll keep him with a pitching thing that we do.
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  Speaker 1: Got to get to some hitter questions, but we'll stay
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  Speaker 1: on pitching here for a second, this is from Nick
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Stern.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, it's the the Jackson job.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff is all fun right now, However, like there are
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  Speaker 1: going to be times where he struggles. We've seen everything
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  Speaker 1: not be as sharp, you know, in spring and and
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  Speaker 1: you talked about how like yeah, it's it's a funny
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  Speaker 1: Natzas quote or whatever, but like you know, we did
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, the tigers are wanting a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more precision there, and that's fine, that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at a lot of projections for Jackson Joe,
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  Speaker 1: you see like e Ras in the four sixes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you see you know the K the k per nine
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  Speaker 1: in the low seven to low eights, Like you probably
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  Speaker 1: would like a little bit better than that, right, So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: trying to put it mildly.
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  Speaker 2: So so I guess kind of do you do you have?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to put you in a weird
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  Speaker 1: spot because you're probably gonna end up voting on this
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  Speaker 1: award later, but do you have like an idea of
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  Speaker 1: the like the floor for a Jackson job And is
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  Speaker 1: this a situation weirdly that will benefit him that he's
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  Speaker 1: not like a Skeens guy where he's and I mean
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  Speaker 1: that in a way, he's not immediately asked to be
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  Speaker 1: the face of a rotation and an organization the sports,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so like he could kind of just kind
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  Speaker 1: of be he could just kind of be himself, for
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  Speaker 1: lack of a better term, probably for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in his professional life. Even even if he is going
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  Speaker 1: to carry the tag of number three overall pick and
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  Speaker 1: and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You have an idea of a floor for Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: I think the floor can be pretty high, even I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure he's gonna be lights out from day one.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're leaving Spring a little less amped about
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  Speaker 3: job than we would like to be. The lack of
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  Speaker 3: swing and miss or finishing guys on strike three. We
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  Speaker 3: entered camp knowing that was like an issue, and he
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  Speaker 3: talked about adopting the curveball as a way to combat
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  Speaker 3: that issue, and it was like, all right, this guy
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  Speaker 3: gets it. He's making changes, he should be better, and
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  Speaker 3: his Spring outings he still was kind of running into
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  Speaker 3: some of the same issues, not putting guys way and
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  Speaker 3: giving up some loud contact. I think that is a
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  Speaker 3: reminder one thing I have always said, like, I think
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  Speaker 3: there are gonna be some ups and downs. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's have some dominant outings. He's gonna have some outings
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  Speaker 3: where he gets tagged for six. Right, is still pretty high.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think he can be even better than that.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be with Chris Fetter and Robin Lund every
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  Speaker 3: single day. There should be a world where he gets better.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's all gonna be fun in games,
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  Speaker 3: but so I'll say this, I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: an up and down first half and I think by
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  Speaker 3: the second half. By the end of the season, he
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  Speaker 3: might be the second best pitch your team, because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the stuff is just there. He clearly has some more
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: to learn, some more to figure out, but the sheer
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: talent is pretty undeniable. Once he kind of makes that
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: next level adjustment, man, he could be pretty special. So
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: you know, i'd liked I think at one point i'd
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: said like a three five era. I could see if
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: it was higher based on what we've seen this spring.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: But I also think they're gonna be smoutings that that
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: it all clicks and that he kind of wows everybody.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree real quick. On Casey mis we had
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a question like how good is he going to be?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Give your most optimistic take. I mean, I think he
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: could be your third guy. That's like my most optimistic take.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: That's my most optimistic take. I don't for all the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: reasons that we already discussed, so like I want to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: move along here, but I did want to acknowledge that
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: from Brian Morosi real quick.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: There's still the chaos option of Casey mii's closer, right,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: wouldn't that be fun? I'm probably not gonna happen. But
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: if you're just looking for like a fun scenario. If
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I think we're gonna talk about Alex Cobb in a second,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: if he gets back and miraculously everyone is healthy, and yeah,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: maybe Mis has been good but not great, or Job's
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: just been lights out, like I don't know for as
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: much as Mis has earned to the right based on
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: why you've done this spring to stay a starter, if
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you're just looking for getting weird in the second half
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: of the season, I don't hate the idea.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Well you said the magic word there, Cody Uh. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: was reading your story which is on the Athletic can
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: go read it if if you haven't already about Miz
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and Job and it's all this like feel good stuff,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you know, two guys on similar paths but different points
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: in their career. Obviously, you know, make the team or
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: make the rotation, I should say, and it's like, oh great,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: but my mind is automatically going back to this old
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Alex cop thing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So I was like, so I asked you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: It's like, so we know their policy on six man rotations,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: but like, what, ha does this feel good hockey dory
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: stuff when Alex Gott is healthy? Yeah?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I know, I just brought it up earlier, but it's
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: also like, who use Alex Codsen kind of out of sight,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: out of mind. He is throwing bullpens, but sounds like
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: he's not going to be ready to go by the
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: end of April, and then you're probably looking at a
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: reap star, so you're pushing that into May. I would
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: say again, like, you'd be extremely fortunate if you have
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: your top five guys all still healthy at that point
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: in time. I don't think the Tigers would ever really
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: want to do a six man rotation thing for very long,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: but it is worth considering. There's gonna be some restrictions
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: on Job's innings at some point in time, so maybe
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: there's a world where you could build that in a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: little bit. I don't engage Hinch wouldever want to limit
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: his bullpen like that for more than a week or two.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: So I'm just not that worried about it. Like it
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: is kind of telling how you feel jacked about the
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: rotat right now. It's like, oh, there's another guy they
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: signed and paid fifteen million, and yeah, you could argue
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: like he's gonna come back and you're gonna have to
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: pitch him and it's gonna make your rotation worse.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I still think Alex Cobb can be pretty good if
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: he's healthy. I don't know how he's gonna slide in.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I'm also just not that worried about it. We ask
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: this right now, and then you know, we're one hamstring
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: or a elbow away from like you'll be very thankful
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Alex Cobb assume coming back.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, a lot of times, these
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: things work out the way that they are intended to.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to a j Hen question. Basically,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you know this from Steve Cook. You know what kind
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of season do you view for him? And I think
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that is dictated by what kind of role does he get?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And so I'm kind of changing your question a little
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: bit there, Steve, But I think we'll get to the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: same place, which is I think I think I'm on
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: want with like do stats or whatever, but I think
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Justin might end up being like AJ's like favorite guy
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to write in. Like I think I think that's like
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I think Aj is gonna he's gonna be like, uh,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like the manager's hitter, you know what
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like, you know, like it's just like all right,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put him up here. And I know, you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: especially against lefties, which go look up what he did
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: against lefties, you know, small sample size last season. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: think there might be excuse me, sorry, he might be
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: one of your most valuable hitters, not the best, but
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: like one of your more valuable presences at the plate
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: this season. And like we're gonna look back and think, like, yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: it was kind of silly that there was like a
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: real possibility that he wasn't gonna make the team coming out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I can see the world where Jahn finishes like third
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: on this team in home runs. Okay, I'm not quite
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: ready to like plant that flag, but it's not that
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: hard to envision Uh, if he gets the at bats,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: he has some good power and he gets on base.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he has a home in the field,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: will his defense be good enough to justify even you know,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: writing his name in the lineup often. But I'm pretty
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: optimistic for Jay Hen. I think there's a pretty a
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: pretty high I know we're talking about floor and ceiling
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and upside. It sounds like we're doing an NBA Draft
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: profit podcast today, but like, I think there's a pretty
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: high ceiling maybe for Justin Harry Malloy this year. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: don't I'm not comfortable, like yeah, pegging exact stats or anything,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: but I'm kind of bullish on Jahn entering the season.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So along those lines, we got a couple of questions.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: One of them was from Andrew Hamilton about and Brad
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Moyer chimed in as well about basically like trading for
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a right handed bat off podcast. I've asked you this
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: at various times during spring. It's like, are you hearing anything,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and you've basically been like, you know.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Also, the question I come back to I was like,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: who who I've said with Taylor Wards, the one name
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I like, he ain't going anywhere, and you could get
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: some fringe guy. Even looking at the guys who were
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: when waivers or opt out of minor league deals. Right now,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: it's like Garrett Hampson, who's a little bit of a name.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: He might be familiar with, and then it's like you
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: look at him and he what's he bring you? He
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: can play the infield, he doesn't get on base, he
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: doesn't really hit. I just don't think he's an upgrade
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: over anything you have. It's kind of a Ryan Kreidler type,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: really less power. Probably Brandon Drury who two years ago
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: was great and then last year was negative to war
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: more of a corners guy. Is that Is that an
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: upgrade or would you rather give it bats to jayhen
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: and to Torque and for as much as you have
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: some glare holes and let's be real that there are
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: some areas on this team offensively, I'm pretty concerned about.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna be easy to just go
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: upgrade based like at this point in the year. So
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I think I think the Tiders would be more comfortable
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: rolling with young guys than going out and making some addition. Now,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't rule out like maybe there's some guy Scott
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Harris loves that. We just haven't identified, you know, the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: mckin street type. That guy could be out there, but
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to be trade for anyone
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: of notes anytime soon.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: So, like the name Kobe Mayo gets thrown out and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: uh and I'm just gonna I'll just lay it out
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like this. I just don't think Baltimore is in the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: business of dealing deal their assets.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Also, what are you trading for? I saw someone saying
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Matt Manning. I think I think the Orioles want Matt Manning.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I promise you they don't.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It would probably not work out, But I just like
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: he just turned twenty three in December. Like there there,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: there's a I just don't see it now, Like I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: would love for.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Kobe Mahmo's a great name. Let me be clear, that's
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: a I asked who that's a great name. Unfortunately, a
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: name that if Orioles don't like to trade their prospects,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: what sort of capital would you give up? It would
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: have to be more than Matt Manning hard to see
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: it playing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It'd be a lot of stuff that you would have
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to be you would be uneasy about including it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Trade This phrase like that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: This is from Joe Ramp under the Radar Prospects. I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: love this question because it allows us to talk about
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: some guys that you know, we don't necessarily get a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: chance to all the time because they're not like the headliners.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And also, like I think allows us to just like
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: not have to say, like, you know, how great could
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Bax Clark be or whatever, and then basically set yourself
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: up to be wrong. So I like this question. Two
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: names came to mind, Cody, and then we'll go to you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I thought Jake Miller was a lot of fun in
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that Future uh not Futures Game, but the Spring Spring Breakout.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Uh, he was a lot of fun.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: The watch left handed six', two like it's a guy
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: who's still still. Young like that was that was THAT
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: i didn't know much about, him but he looked like
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: he looked like a guy that, like all, right, WELL
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: i gotta follow this guy a little bit. More and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: then second, ONES i want to do a picture and a.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Hitter it's not necessarily like under The radar as much as,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: LIKE i just GOTTA i just gotta follow this guy all.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: YEAR i gotta figure out what what what the what
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the deal is and That's Max. ANDERSON i remind, You,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Cody Max anderson was a second round pick in twenty twenty,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: three like not not, seventh you, know like he was
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a second round. Pick I'm i'm pretty sure they gave
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: him north of a million, dollars, uh you know after drafting,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: him and he Was he's a college, guy didn't necessarily
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: profile to like have a, position but like.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: The, bat the, bat the, bat the.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Bat.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Uh he also so that's.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Righty so you, know theory like if he could turn
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: into something that might give you a little bit more.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Balance as of, now he he hasn't like popped or.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Whatever he's in the twenties as he keeps kind of
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: going down the prospect, rankings but a lot of that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: has to do with like some of the great talent
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that has been brought. In that's, okay he's a lot
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: younger than you. Think he just turned twenty three a month.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Ago so as a college, HITTER i was, like, oh
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: is he already like twenty?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Four LIKE i don't.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Know he hit two seventy In West michigan last year
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and he was also an eerie for five, Games so
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: don't really have anything to take from.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That i'm just.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Curious he's a guy who has dabbled in every infield
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: position except for a, Shortstop So i'm, curious like whether
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: they try to make him do some third. Base he
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: played a lot of that At. Nebraska is he a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he's just gonna have to be a first baseman and
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: have to hit his way to the.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Majors i'm just.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Curious SO i think that qualifies as under the.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Radar, yeah and we've seen some That sanderson is spring
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: not super highly, touted but kind of an interesting. PLAYER
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: i had immediately point To Troy, melton who pretty soon
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: is not going to be considered under the. Radar if
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you look at fangrafts top. PROSPECTS i like their lists of.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Lots they tend to be a little bit different and
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a little more brutally honest in their scouting. Reports fangrafts
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: love Some Troy melton just LIKE i. Do they have
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: him as the tigers number six. Prospect he had a
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: FIVE era In eerie last. Year counting numbers weren't. Good
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the stuff is pretty nasty, though upper nineties, fastball crazy.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Extension that's WHAT i really. Like he gets down the.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Slope he's, tall grades out really highly. There he's got
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a good change, up he's got a good, slider, curveball
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: still learning. Pitching The tigers have really altered his. Mix
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: last year seemed like a, learning, growing adjusting, year AND
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: i think The tigers are kind of counting on him
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: to take a pretty big leap and maybe be pushing
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: toward big league time this. Season he's my. GUY i
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: really like another, name just off the top of my,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Head Shuffle. Bind he was drafted NUMBER i think seventy
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: two overall last year out of high. School one of
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: those guys you know we haven't, seen easy to kind
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: of forget, about but a pretty high upside there's that word,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: again pitcher WHO i really liked at the time of the.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Draft i'll be interested to see him throw in his
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: first pro.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Season that's an above slot. Guy you're, right seventy two
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: overall gave him just under one point eight, million so,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: like not not enoughing investment, There Cody so so, YEAH
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: i think that's a good like reminders there and, THIS
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: i don't even know if we would even consider this
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: guy like a prospect or, Whatever but in terms of,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: DUDES i just loved watching in spring training games whenever
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: he got his, Opportunity Patrick LEE i got WAS i just,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: fun really was.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: FUN i have no idea if he has any, future but.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah but every TIME i watched, HIM i was, like,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: yo WHAT i just like watching him play. Baseball so,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: like you, know he looks like he's gonna be in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: an eerie to start the. Year but you, know there
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: are a couple of funny, moments like the visiting announcing
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: team would be like how you lead with a diving
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: catch and center Field it's, like, well now you just
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: saw The lee and you know went to the top prospect.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Lead there's another guy Named, Lee Patrick lee who's laugh
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: on the.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Watch so good good question.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: There speaking of the great how You, lead check out
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: The fangrafts scouting report on. Him it pairs with some
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: of the Things i've been seeing. Hearing they have a
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: ranked number fourteen on The Tiger's, list which is not
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: exactly what you, want and questions basically his ability to
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: hit fastballs hit. Velocity so he's still missing heaters at
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: an average rate and hasn't even been exposed to a
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: lot of big league calibert velocity. Yet for as much
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: AS i like How You, lead for as much as
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: The Detroit tigers love them, somehow you, lee he's going
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: to have to get on time and hit some fastballs
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: and triple a for kind of the best version of
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: how you lead to come to. Fruition.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: YEAH i think it's gonna be a Good we're gonna
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: get a good lookmus test about how much they do love,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: him because, like how, soon what, circumstances especially if they
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: pull them more highly than some. OTHERS i think that's
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting to. Watch all, right let's. This
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: this is not a mail back, question but we have
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: now gone to it BECAUSE i got carried away with
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: pictures and and and some other. Stuff thank you everybody
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: who did send us a. Question and yes we. Have
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: we will get to the socialization of the beat gang
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: over there In, detroit but we do have to talk
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: About Parker Metos, cody who is h four weeks away
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: from being four weeks. Away, No i'm, SKINNED i just
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: made that. Up but he's getting tested and they seem.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Like a little.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: AS i would, SAY aj came across as as optimistic
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: as one can, be given that this is a nerve
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: issue in the throwing arm and there's nothing really to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: do except, wait and that's not necessarily me, thinking, oh
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: OKAY i have.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: No, idea but it. Did at least we did get
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: some sort of. Update we'll be waiting For Parker meadows
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: for at least another month and you, know probably.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: More, yeah it's not really good, news you, KNOW i
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: think everyone was hoping it'd be quicker than. That even
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: once we all accept and once The tigers, accepted he
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: wasn't going to be ready for opening. Day but the
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: latest test came back the nerve specialist out In phoenix
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: recommended four weeks of. Rest so that means we're Pushing
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: parker just being up to the point he's able to
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: throw into Late. April, now the optimism you mentioned comes
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: in because he's still able to work, out, run even
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: do some light. Hitting, basically they're hoping that he won't
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: need as big of a ramp up as if he
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: were completely shut. Down But i'm still, Thinking, okay he gets,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: up he's, throwing make sure you build almost like a picture,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: like build his arm back up. Properly even though he's
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: able to do some light. Hitting you gotta have him
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: face real, pictures reel at, bats upper level pictures it's
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: gonna be more than like a three game rehab, ASSIGNMENT
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: i would. Think so now you're probably talking Mid may
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: at the very, earliest and that's assuming four weeks is
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: actually all all it's gonna. Take we still don't. Know
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: so you push that a little, further you're talking To,
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: june then you've missed too much two months Of Parker.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Meadows it's really unfortunate for a guy coming off a great,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: year for a guy who's very valuable to the. Team
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: you got to hope that this timeline doesn't get pushed
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: back anymore than it already.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Has, yeah it's the timing of it is something That i'm,
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  Speaker 1: like are we overreacting because at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: season and then like By june it's like didn't really
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: matter because guys get hurt, anyway but like the anticipation
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of everything just kind of ups the ante and then
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: just the mystery of, it uh makes it makes.
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  Speaker 3: It a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Worse so we'll, see we'll have to. See uh it's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: good that he get maybe he's got. It maybe there's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: SOME vr simulator that he can, do like get his timing. Down,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: yeah it's like a nice little story about. That in
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the ATHLETIC i think would be would be fun to.
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  Speaker 1: Read all, right it's.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Finally, Here, Cody Robert james this for.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: You we FINALLY i remembered and got into what is
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: it like just like hanging out with the guys who's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: bylines that we read So Chris, Pukowski Jason Jason, Beck Evan,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Petzel evan Wood berry like everybody else that's involved in
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: The tigers. Beat so many great, writers so many great
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: people that, have, like you, know to be on top
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of the. Team what's it like hanging around these?
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  Speaker 2: Guys? Man like you, know Is bokowski?
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  Speaker 4: Like is?
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  Speaker 1: He is?
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  Speaker 2: He LIKE i P a's or? Something you, Know like.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: What what you got to give the people a little
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: bit of an idea of what what these guys are?
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Like you travel with them a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot you you're hanging out OR i won't say like
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  Speaker 1: hanging out we'll, see but like you're in the same
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: area on the road a. Lot like what personify these
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  Speaker 1: guys for?
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  Speaker 5: Us?
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  Speaker 3: Cody, uh if we were like A, patreon we could
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: have some sort of like exclusive. ACCESS i could like
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: say more Like tiger territory off the record or. Something but,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: no like a very interesting dynamic in a baseball beat
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: is that you do spend more time with these people
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: who are both friends and also competitors then you do
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: like maybe your family or. Whatever for parts of the.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Year it's a lot of. Time these are the people
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  Speaker 3: in your, orbit and every beat is a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: DIFFERENT i have observed other, beats or WHEN i was
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: an intern on The Texas rangers at the. Time it's
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: changed over there, Since but like people would not look
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: each other in the eye like it was. Crazy there
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: was like deep. Hatred and then there are beats The
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Minnesota twins come to do like everyone is just buddy.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Buddy they like transcribe quotes and share them in a
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: big document and all will go out to dinner every
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: single night and it's friendly and that's, great but it's,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: like is there a line where this gets too? FRIENDLY
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: i think The tigers beat is kind of in between.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: THAT i think everyone respects each, other is friendly with each,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: other on good terms with each, other spend a lot
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: of time talking with these, guys but there's really not
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a lot of socializing or much of much of anything
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: outside of the work. SETTING i think the, question the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: original question was like have you ever been to a
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: strip club With chris, mccoskey So I'LL i never. Have
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: that's just the. Truth chris is a great guy with
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: a ton of respect for. Him chris tends to kind
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: of do his own thing when he when he's on the,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: road he keeps to himself a. Lot the other guys
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: every now and, then you, know if there's an airport
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: bar or hotel, bar, like maybe there'll be a little.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Bit BUT i kind of wish they were a little
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: more of the social. Factor i'm probably just a little
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: more down to go out and hang than maybe some
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: of the others on the. Beat SO i don't know
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  Speaker 3: if that fully answers the, question but that that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the. DYNAMIC i. WISH i WISH i could get these,
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  Speaker 3: out these guys out a little more, often If i'm being.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Real, YEAH i MEAN i can SAY i didn't you,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: KNOW i was there every night of winter. MEETINGS i
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: DIDN'T i didn't See, uh how.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Many Other tigers writers did you?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: SEE i Saw chris. Once he just kind of walked by.
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  Speaker 1: Me he was he seemed like a man on the.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Mission SO i respected, that, Uh AND i think that's.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: It so, There, yeah that's, uh That i'll just kind
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  Speaker 1: of leave that.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: There, uh all, right a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Fun all, Good all good, Guys all good.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Guys, yeah, awesome, good good to. HEAR i, think uh
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: there so uh anything else coding for? Me jet out of.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Here, no you, KNOW i think we've been waiting on
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: that question for the last two.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Years.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah you can check back In tiger's Territ sorry
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: after dark when talk more about. That, no that's ALL i.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Get that's how you know it's time for the regular
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: season to. Start, yea let's. Go it is a little
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: bit of a bittersweet feeling leaving spring. TRAINING i talked
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: about how it gets. Long it's kind of a. Grind
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: sometimes it gets, boring but then it wraps up and
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: you're kind of like there's something still kind of magical
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: about like the new beginnings And baseball under The sun
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: and all that fun. Stuff it feels a little strange
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Leaving lakeland every.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Year, yeah that's, true and going out west and it's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: gonna you, know seeing The World series champs and all that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Stuff the season is gonna start real, fast real real.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Fast so happy all beinning week. Everybody we made it
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: well a little, Programming, no we'll have, like you, know bold,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: predictions that kind of, stuff you, know, fun fun little
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: season preview On wednesday and Then thursday Night friday. Morning
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: however it works, out we'll do a podcast reacting to one,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: game so it'll be super, overreaction super like, intense you,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: know based on what happens in that first, game looking
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: forward to that and doing this out this. Season so
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