Do You Have Any Trust in Javier Báez?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The guys continue their Tigers Opening Day talk, focusing on Javier Báez, who's hitting 8th in the lineup today.
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| 0:00.0 | Over under's 80 and a half, I think we have a decently positive mindset. |
| 0:04.4 | Part of it is a division so bad. |
| 0:06.4 | Part of it is you bake into it that young players will get better. |
| 0:10.5 | But I just, I got a real hard time that they just don't seem to be trying or if you think they're trying not trying nearly as hard as we want them to |
| 0:22.3 | Now I asked you guys a question before the break trying nearly as hard as we want them to. |
| 0:23.0 | Now I asked you guys a question before the break, |
| 0:24.9 | what is more likely? |
| 0:27.5 | Harvey becomes average or Harvey is DFA June 1st and they eat the bill. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm gonna have to go, that Harvey becomes average. |
| 0:41.0 | Because if they have to prop him up there at the plate, |
| 0:46.1 | they're going to because they're not going to get rid of him. |
| 0:49.2 | Okay. |
| 0:50.2 | So given that scenario, he's done nothing in spring training to even say he deserves |
| 0:56.2 | to be in the starting lineup let alone on the team you could have left it at he's done |
| 0:59.8 | nothing he had I think one hit. Well, you know, one. |
| 1:04.0 | That's at least one. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a start. |
| 1:07.0 | But yeah, here, let me be positive. |
| 1:10.0 | Every journey, Mike, starts with that first step. |
| 1:12.0 | So maybe that was the first step. Thank you |
| 1:14.8 | Confucius. By the way if you want to know what he is projected to do using again I don't |
| 1:20.9 | think these are gospel but but streamers, zips, different projection formats. |
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