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The Valenti Show

HOUR 3: Tigers' Concern Levels + Eugenio Suarez Trade Discussion

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico finished up today's show with a continuation of their conversation on how concerned we should be with the Tigers. Plus, they looked at the possibility that Scott Harris trades for Diamondbacks 3B Eugenio Suarez before they were joined by a fiery Pat Caputo in cross-talk.

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0:00.0

5 o'clock, good to have you with us.

0:03.3

Concern level time. Tigers get broomed out of Pittsburgh.

0:06.9

Gassly performance last night. Today was just as bad, honestly.

0:11.3

Just because there weren't the same amount of mental errors.

0:14.1

This lineup has fallen off a cliff. The pitching's no good.

0:17.7

You've lost 9 out of 10. And here's the issue.

0:23.6

Cleveland now can be within eight tonight. And when you look at the next ten games for you, the lead up to and through the

0:28.3

deadline, it's four against the oddest team in baseball, Toronto. It's three against the

0:34.6

Diamondbacks. It's three against Phillies. If you juxtapose that to Cleveland's next 10, it's Baltimore, it's Kansas City, it's Colorado.

0:45.4

Man, by the time I get back from Saratoga, you are talking about something here where this could look a whole lot different.

0:52.2

So we're asking you your concern level.

0:55.2

Scale a 1 to 10.

0:57.3

And look, I'm at a 4.

0:59.0

I think if you lose 9 out of 10, I don't care if you're the best team of baseball or not.

1:04.8

That's not a blip.

1:06.6

Now, they got an opportunity to stem the tide.

1:08.8

Go 5 and 5 over the next 10 and just cool out a little bit.

1:12.3

But I'll tell you, if they don't get this thing going here, this is going to get really uncomfortable.

1:17.7

Now, if you want an optimistic view, well, maybe this is them tasting their own blood for the first time,

1:24.4

and it will force them to be impactful at the deadline.

1:28.1

Something, Rico, you don't believe they're going to do.

1:30.4

I'm just trying to offer optimism, that if there is something good out of it, here's what it

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