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The Valenti Show

Best of the Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket: McGonigle's Debut, Season Predictions And Best Ballpark Food

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Detroit Tigers season in underway and started with a bang. Kevin McGonigle has a historical debut against the Padres, the guys make season predictions and the best ballpark food from all over Major League Baseball.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, 97-1.

0:01.7

Sun's starting to come up. It's baseball season. John is decked out in his custom Jansen Tiger jersey. He's got the old English D. Yes. You're going to be talking about ballpark foods coming up at 835. Okay, that's what's going to be a great conversation. You're ranking everything from a strikeout to a grand slam. Some new items at Comerica Park.

0:22.0

We'll do that at 835.

0:23.4

Tiger expectations all morning long.

0:25.5

Number of wins, the over under set at 85 and a half, and just how far does this team go?

0:30.2

248, 539, 97.

0:32.6

We're going to drill down on McGonagall, though.

0:34.5

Let's talk about the big story.

0:36.3

He makes the club expectations. Scott Harris says about the big story. He makes the club. Expectations.

0:39.3

Scott Harris says he's not coming here to be the savior. And I think they're doing a good job

0:42.3

trying to keep the pressure off of him. But John, you can only bottle up the excitement so much.

0:46.7

When you're the betting favorite to win rookie of the year and you start talking about the guys

0:51.7

that win that award, in the American League, the last three batters to win rookie of the year were not only very good players.

1:00.2

They were the best players on their team.

1:02.5

So last year it was Nick Kurtz, who hit 36 bombs and was a five-war player for the A's.

1:09.6

Oh, okay, best player on the A's. What's that saying?

1:11.9

How about in 23, Gunner Henderson, 28 homers, 814 OPS, 6-War player, best guy on the Orioles.

1:19.8

The year before that, Julio Rodriguez, he hit 284, he had 28 homers, 25 stolen bases, was a six-war player playing in center field.

1:28.5

The last three American League rookie of the year, bats are impact guys from day one.

1:35.0

So what's my expectation for McGonagall?

1:37.8

I mean, sky's the limit for this guy.

1:39.4

When you skip AAA, you are in that expectation that you will be an instant impact guy.

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