HOUR 4: Valenti Defends Riger and Costa, Pistons Hire Trajan Langdon
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The guys start the final hour of the show with Valenti's fierce defense of Rinother and Costa, who have been criticized for wanting the Tigers to sign Matt Chapman, who was in a slump to start the year. It leads into another conversation about Detroit's hitting shortcomings. Then, they react to breaking news that the Pistons intend to hire Trajan Langdon as their head of basketball operations before David joins for today's "Big Finish".
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| 0:00.0 | All right, before I get into the AJ hinge comments, I just have to, I want to do this on behalf of two people I like at this station. |
| 0:09.0 | Jim Costa and Jeff Rieger. |
| 0:11.0 | I never got on this whole, we must sign Matt Chapman thing the way they did. |
| 0:17.8 | I was more able-bodied human being, please and thank you. Like whether you were a JD person or a Bellinger person or a Matt Chapman person and man I mean |
| 0:30.3 | Cookies and Riga have been just getting dunked on first couple weeks of the season when Matt Chapman wasn't very good. |
| 0:37.0 | And today Matt Chapman hit another home run. |
| 0:41.0 | Matt Chapman, right now Matt Chapman's war is 2.2. |
| 0:45.0 | Gold glove defense at third, 8 Homer's 28 RBIs, OPS plus of 120, like Matt Chapman's good baseball player and I think we all knew |
| 0:57.0 | look he's opting out he's not staying in San Francisco he wasn't staying |
| 1:00.5 | anywhere because he wants a big deal right so |
| 1:03.0 | Matt Chapman's killing it and I always I always wonder about this stuff is like |
| 1:08.8 | why is it okay to just dunk on people and then you never have to be like well may have gotten that |
| 1:14.8 | one wrong. Every day I sit here and it's like if I get something wrong first |
| 1:21.0 | person call myself an idiot or a moron, and I get plenty of things wrong. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm just, I'm fascinated as we sit here. |
| 1:28.2 | Yesterday we did this topic, Bobby Witt War versus the entire Tigers lineup. |
| 1:33.4 | Yep, that was a 3.3 to 1.1. |
| 1:37.2 | Matt Chapman's war right now, 2.2. |
| 1:40.8 | He doubles you. |
| 1:41.8 | Okay, he'd be your best player player factually on a wins above replacement level. |
| 1:45.6 | You wouldn't have to go at a Frankenstein and if I have to hear someone say but he's blocking |
| 1:49.3 | young at third well first of all that kid's still learning how to play third and the last I checked, he's not here. |
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