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The Valenti Show

Reacting to Scott Harris' Comments From Spring Training

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of their conversation on the Tigers, the guys get live updates from Spring Training, where President of Baseball Ops Scott Harris spoke to the media about potentially acquiring another bat among other topics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We have quotes from Scott Harris speaking with the media. We'll get to that.

0:04.8

Tiger Baseball pitchers and Catchers reporting. I know there's a football fog but guys get with it

0:09.4

baseball's here. Be here before you know it and the Tigers are acting like they can win this division.

0:14.3

Spencer Torkelson on the morning show saying, everybody knows we can win this division.

0:17.9

Yet I'm looking at the opening day projected lineup and I see a pretty big cavernous hole on the left side of the

0:23.7

infield. I know they're going for optionality but there's no third baseman.

0:29.1

Matt Chapman is a four-time gold glove third-basement unsigned, hasn't received a long-term

0:35.5

deal to his satisfaction.

0:39.7

Offer him a one-year deal, overpay him.

0:41.5

The Tigers payroll is less than a year ago.

0:43.8

Guys, they're cheaping out from a year ago. Why not sign a short term third base

0:49.5

option in Matt Chapman to round out this team, to actually give themselves the best chance to win

0:56.1

this division.

0:57.1

Like RICO, what am I missing?

0:59.3

Read the quote.

1:00.4

Here's the quote from Scott Harris, and this might be what we're missing

1:04.0

Asked if they considered adding a veteran bat quote we have a young hitter in the big leagues or pretty close to the big leagues at almost every position

1:10.6

We've got to commit to those guys there There aren't a ton of at-bats available for everyday players.

1:18.0

Subtitals. We're going young. We're going to give our young guys a shot at this and we're going to win with our guys.

1:30.0

You know it's funny last year the narrative was we can't call these guys up because the

1:35.1

big leagues are a big adjustment and they're going to fail and it might not be perfect.

1:40.2

Now you're relying on those dudes to win a division?

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