HOUR 2: Rico's Báez Plan, NCAA Tournament "By The Numbers"
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The guys dedicate almost the entire second hour of the show towards Rico's Javy Báez "plan", which includes sitting the infielder until further notice. They take your calls on the plan, how you feel about Báez going into the regular season, and more throughout the hour. Then, Rico has another NCAA Tournament "By the Numbers".
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| 0:00.0 | Rico Beard has an idea how to fix one of the problems in Detroit |
| 0:06.2 | and this man is a problem. Listen, when you are forced to look at spring training |
| 0:12.3 | stats, it's no big deal. |
| 0:14.4 | Spring training guys are working on things, their numbers, their numbers might not look good, |
| 0:18.9 | it's no big deal. |
| 0:19.8 | However, it's impossible to ignore the numbers of one, Harvey or Baez, who after two awful seasons |
| 0:26.4 | in Detroit and opting out and being owed 98 million bucks over the next four years, |
| 0:32.0 | Harvey Baez in the spring in 14 games. |
| 0:36.0 | I did not even think this was possible. |
| 0:39.0 | 35 at bats, |
| 0:41.0 | hobbies hitting 0.086. |
| 0:45.2 | So he's hitting under 100. |
| 0:47.2 | I always like to check the OPS. |
| 0:49.2 | He has a 191 OPS. |
| 0:51.4 | Like a league average OPS is like 720. |
| 0:54.0 | Harvey had an OPS of under 600 last year. |
| 0:58.0 | His OPS is 191. |
| 1:01.0 | His slugging percentage is 0.86. |
| 1:05.0 | So his batting average and his slugging percentage are the exact same number. |
| 1:10.0 | And of course people are talking and you're stuck with Harvey for four more years and he's been an absolute train wreck |
| 1:15.9 | What did you say the OPS is? |
| 1:17.7 | 191 okay. Yes, it's a bad situation and aJ. Hinch went in the morning show, Costa and Janssen and said, |
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