Grading The Tigers' Offseason Thus Far
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, David, let's check the text communications. |
| 0:03.8 | I do want to mix in just a conversation because, look, it's heavy on pistons. |
| 0:09.9 | The report from the athletic, they ain't going to do nothing at the deadline. |
| 0:13.2 | This was a nothing burger trade today, Jaden Ivy, for, I think it's fair to say, David, check me if I'm wrong here. |
| 0:20.3 | Fair to say people are underwhelming, underwhelmed, bordering on annoyed by this trade. |
| 0:26.9 | And really the backdrop, too, is why is it every trade deadline in every sport or every offseason? |
| 0:34.4 | We're always told lower our expectations. |
| 0:36.6 | We're not going to be involved. We're not going to be involved. |
| 0:40.0 | We are not going to be aggressive. Maybe next year. So asking the question why, and does that impact? |
| 0:47.7 | Look, the teams are winning, but they don't feel championship good. So that's been the conversation. |
| 0:55.2 | David, if you could just queue up real quick, |
| 0:57.6 | actually no, I'm doing this wrong. |
| 0:59.5 | You go, you're right, you go text first. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm wrong, you're right. |
| 1:03.5 | Record that. |
| 1:04.7 | Me, wrong, you, right. |
| 1:07.0 | Read the text and then I want to play some John Paul Morosi audio for people and welcome in some |
| 1:12.5 | Tiger conversation. David first. Guys, I still have hope. Another trade is coming. Levert plus |
| 1:19.3 | herder plus Sorik matches MPJ salary without giving to bias. I still have hope. Manifested. |
| 1:26.6 | Look, why do you think I said earlier, the deadline isn't here yet? |
| 1:30.3 | All I said is, hey, I view Michael Porter Jr. as, like, the free world would say that's an aggressive move. |
| 1:39.0 | I don't put them in the classification of highly aggressive. |
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