HOUR 4: Báez's Impossible Feat Revisited
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Rico spend the final hour of the show revisiting their Javier Báez conversation from earlier in the show, further contemplating how the Tigers have yet to move on from him. Then, Wojo and Riger join the guys to wrap the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Five o'clock, good to have you. |
| 0:02.0 | Beautiful afternoon, Odyssey.com, rewind, you missed anything. |
| 0:06.0 | We've, we've said it all and we want to bring it full circle. |
| 0:10.0 | I have a number, even though tomorrow is sports by the numbers. I have a number and I I wonder if the number represents |
| 0:21.5 | a great deal of your angst with your Detroit Tigers. |
| 0:24.7 | Look, let's face it, they're not terrible. |
| 0:28.0 | They're just not good. |
| 0:30.0 | And there are a lot of us who by the numbers I could say to you if they had spent and done some things |
| 0:38.1 | they'd be five six games better like on a war perspective basis and And if you've done that... |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, that's not hyperbole. |
| 0:44.4 | No, it's just... |
| 0:45.4 | Right, so it's hard to be happy no matter how much they ask us to be. |
| 0:51.6 | So the question was, okay, here's a number. |
| 0:55.0 | RICO texted me something last night and it got me to go down the wormhole and do a little research. |
| 1:01.0 | The number I'm about to give you is 462. What is 462 |
| 1:07.2 | represent you might ask? That's Harvey Baez is OPS and OPS is a very good metric in my world and there are more complex ones. |
| 1:18.0 | Maybe ones in your mind that are better. Maybe OPS Plus, where Ballpark Factor plays a role. The point I'm making is it's |
| 1:24.4 | slugging percentage and on-base percentage. It really just boils down to how good of |
| 1:28.2 | an offensive player are you? He's 462. For context, if Harvey Bayes finished the season with that OPS, it would be a percentage point higher than the single worst OPS in the modern history of Major League Baseball. |
| 1:50.0 | To Hal Lanier in 1968 with a 461. |
| 1:56.9 | Now if you want to be technical and go 460, |
| 2:00.8 | I'd have to go to 1908 and I just rendered that data non-relevant. |
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