How Are Tigers Serious About Winning If They Employ Javier Báez?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In the context of the Tigers' plans with Tarik Skubal, Valenti questions Scott Harris's and the organization's ambitions to try to win.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I was just thinking about this, David. |
| 0:04.8 | I mean, and I have to be honest too is like part of the reason I can't get excited about the winning beyond the math. |
| 0:11.6 | Beyond Reese Olson's injury being to me crippling because now you're just out of |
| 0:16.3 | options in the rotation. |
| 0:18.4 | We talk about if we keep Schoobel how you got to start acting like a serious baseball team. |
| 0:25.7 | And you juxtapose it with, for the people who go, look, I want to buy, I believe, we're |
| 0:32.3 | going to make a run. |
| 0:33.5 | Okay, I'm not mocking you. I'm being serious here. |
| 0:36.5 | How can I take your team seriously |
| 0:39.7 | when you trot out Hobby Baez every day? |
| 0:42.3 | So I wanted to just... when you trot out Hobby Baez every day. |
| 0:43.2 | So I wanted to just have some fun with you for a minute. |
| 0:47.7 | So wins above replacement, right? |
| 0:49.6 | So where do you rank as a player in a holistic fashion like do you help your team or hurt your |
| 0:55.4 | team so that the top short stop for instance and again some of these guys they'll play |
| 1:00.0 | multiple positions some guys are just all short but I gunner Henderson's a |
| 1:04.4 | 6.3 war player he's your league MVP. All right no that's not fair. Bobby |
| 1:08.7 | wit is what you hope Jackson Holiday turns into also not fair but Bobby Witt is a 6.2. |
| 1:14.0 | Ellie Delacruse, 4.5 war. Francisco Lindor, Carlos Carreya, |
| 1:21.0 | Mookie Betts, Willy Adamus. |
| 1:23.3 | These are all guys above three and a half war. |
| 1:26.8 | David, I'm going down the list now. |
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