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The best part, you decide how Noom fits into your life, not the other way around. Sign up for your trial today at Noom.com. That's N-O-O-O-M dot com to sign up for your trial today. What is happening? Welcome to the PlusPitch Podcast. You're more impinging podcasts from Pitchells.com. My name is Nick Pollock. Today we're going to talk

about the Detroit Tigers along the way of me talking about all 30 starting pitching rotations in the majors. Check out these podcasts every single day on the Pitchell's Podcast Network. And of course, at the Plus Pitch Podcast. Make sure you subscribe to your favorite one and leave a rating a review on iTunes. They go a long way for us. If you're unaware, I'm recording these in early December. So I don't know all of the signings and all the trades and stuff. But I will say with the Detroit Tigers. Oh boy, I expect at least one to be made. One signing from, I mean, they don't have much depth. And we're going to talk about all of that. Not to mention, I'm trying to get into the rhythm of doing this. I didn't do it for the Rockies because it's the Rockies and they go to the Padres of the first four and then they go to the Dodgers, which is hilarious. But I do want to talk about early season schedule. Why? Because if you are going to pick up or draft any of these, you want it to be a situation where you draft a guy that you want to start the opening weekend.

Now, the Detroit Tigers are getting the Tampa Bay raised. Keep that in mind maybe for some Matt Manning.

I think I would start Edward Rodriguez for that.

But I don't know if I want to watch Spencer Turnbull in his start back unless I'm confirmed for the, for spring

training, all that stuff.

So we'll get into it.

But just keep in mind, first three games are against Tampa Bay.

And the next three after that are the Astros.

So if they are the number four or number five, the Tigers, absolutely not.

Do not pick them up for those two starts.

Okay.

So I imagine somebody signs to the Tigers.

That would make either Matt Manning or Spencer Turrbal the number four, which would mean that they would get the Astros in the further first start, which would mean I don't want to draft

them whatsoever. So keep that very much in mind if you're going to go after Spencer Turnbull and 12-teamers, I think you shouldn't go after him. But let's start from the top here as we normally do. Edward Rodriguez last year, very odd season. Coming into the year, we were anticipating a very good one because he had all these terrible peripherals, a really high babb, but left on base rate was bad and so on and so forth.

And going from Detroit, sorry, from Boston to Detroit, where they just signed, Baez, and they should have a better defense and all of this, and increases strikeout rate to 27%. We were thinking, high hopes here. Well, 4 or 5 ERA crossed 91 innings, 133 weapon, and 18% K rate. and was, A, he got hurt and then went AWOL. And then he came back and guess what? There was final 9 starts of the year. In 2019, the entire season, Eduardo Rodriguez, a 381 ERA with a 133 whip. Guess what he did in those final nine starts? 381 ARA with a 133 whip. It's kind of what E-Rod is. And watching him a little bit more today on Twitch,

when I uncovered a bit,

I mean, I think we should really just be thinking of Eduardo as one of those Toby types

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