HOUR 2: More Thoughts, Calls on Tigers' Inability to Hit
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Mike and Rico start up the second hour right where they left off in the first, hearing from A.J. Hinch about Javier Báez's struggles and his inaction in taking him out of the lineup. They react again to what the Tigers manager had to say before continuing their conversation on what the Tigers refuse to do to make the team better. The guys take some more of your calls before Wojo and Riger join to wrap up the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Harvey now moves to 3 and 3 for 39 in the month of May. |
| 0:03.6 | No extra base hits. |
| 0:05.2 | Uh, lowest OPS plus that I think I've ever seen this deep into a season, |
| 0:09.6 | 19. |
| 0:11.4 | League average is a hundred. |
| 0:13.0 | 19. |
| 0:15.0 | That means you're 81% worse than a league average player. |
| 0:19.0 | It's unthinkable. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, as David likes to say in the Big Black Rumors segment, Open Wide. |
| 0:25.0 | Because we got some hobby for you. |
| 0:28.0 | Here's what AJ's telling you. |
| 0:30.0 | Get ready. Here comes the airplane. |
| 0:33.0 | There's a fine line between balance and then being disciplined and just sort of sitting |
| 0:37.8 | him next to me because sitting him next to me doesn't improve timing. And he does have a track record of getting hot and he has a track record of being cold. And those are those are sort of areas that we're trying to shrink the cold ones and lengthen the hot ones playing is is often the answer so the |
| 0:55.2 | benchings the ark because of failure the benching should be because of |
| 0:59.1 | effort or because of preparation or because of a lack of discipline or a lack of focus of some sort. |
| 1:05.0 | So as long as these guys are healthy, we're going to stay with them and |
| 1:08.9 | I'm going to sprinkle in some off days. |
| 1:11.7 | But to turn our back on them doesn't make them better. |
| 1:15.0 | And playing them doesn't make you better. |
| 1:20.0 | So I wanted to ask a question to you guys. |
| 1:22.0 | Can't prove it wouldn't't try to, it's pointless. |
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