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The Valenti Show

Best Of The Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket: Bregman Talks Tigers, Avila Knew Baez Was Regressing And Best Ballpark Food

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

From Alex Bregman saying he expected to be a Tiger this season to Al Avila talking Javy Baez regression before he signed with the team. Also, the best new ballpark food in baseball.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tiger baseball less than a week away. How about that? And I feel like the buildup for this season

0:06.3

isn't really there. Injuries to Parker Meadows and Matt Veerling,

0:11.6

Veerling, who was the backup plan to Bregman, who they didn't land in free agency, right?

0:15.3

Now we're pinning our hopes on bias and torque playing bigger roles, guys at the fan base

0:20.3

didn't even want to have on the roster

0:22.3

at this point. And I feel like a lot of the talk on the run up up to the season is pessimistic.

0:28.3

Right? Whether you want it to be true or not. I think most fans have had this black cloud over

0:33.1

the start of the tiger season. And they're coming off of a playoff appearance, a playoff series win, one went away from

0:39.1

the ALCS.

0:40.3

And I don't feel like we've talked about this team as a team that can get to the next

0:43.9

level based on the off season.

0:46.0

But ESPN has their breakout candidates for this year's baseball season.

0:50.0

And they list the Tigers fourth among all baseball to have a breakout season.

0:56.7

So I wonder, what are we missing?

0:59.5

Let us know, and I have some theories and ways that the season could break right for the team,

1:04.2

but what do you guys think?

1:05.1

If the Tigers do have a breakout, what would lead to that?

1:09.4

What are we sleeping on as we get to the start of the season

1:12.7

here? 248, 539, 9797. So if that is to happen, I think there needs to be a nerve that wakes up

1:24.8

for Parker Meadows sooner rather than later. So he only misses like a month, we'll say.

1:29.5

Um, I'm hoping.

1:30.1

Ideally less.

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