Best of the Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket: Will The Bats Heat Up And Should The Tigers Pay McGonigle?

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Costa and Jansen, Karsch and Anderson and the Valenti Show with Rico all dive into the biggest issues surrounding the start of the 2026 Detroit Tigers season.

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0:00.0	Unbelievable.
0:01.6	Ten pitch battle for rookie Kevin McGonigle.
0:05.7	What a great eye.
0:06.8	He's playing like a vet.
0:09.3	Battling, fighting, delivering.
0:12.5	And the Tigers take two or three in the opening series of the season.
0:16.4	If you're looking for takeaways, we've got them.
0:21.1	Can I say he's the best hitter on the team?
0:24.0	Leads him in hits and total bases.
0:26.6	And he has that approach at the plate in the big moment.
0:28.7	I would say right now it would be between him and Cole Keith.
0:32.9	And so Cole Keith had, I mean, in a loss, Kevin McGonagle had three strikeouts and Cole Keith was two of three in that last game.
0:43.4	And so it's between the two of them.
0:45.9	The most enjoyable one to watch is probably Kevin McGonigal.
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:50.2	Green and Carpenter are one of 23 to start the season.
0:55.5	Yeah.
0:57.0	And Kerry Carpenter has yet to actually,
1:01.5	he's made connection on some foul balls.
1:04.4	Mm-hmm.
1:04.8	So I've walked a couple times.
1:06.1	But has yet to get a hit.
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