Rico's Plan To Fix Javy Báez
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Rico proposes a plan to "fix" Javier Báez, who has had a less than ideal Spring Training.
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| 0:00.0 | Rico Beard has an idea how to fix one of the problems in Detroit |
| 0:06.2 | and this man is a problem. Listen, when you are forced to look at spring training |
| 0:12.3 | stats, it's no big deal. |
| 0:14.4 | Spring training guys are working on things, their numbers, their numbers might not look good, |
| 0:18.9 | it's no big deal. |
| 0:19.8 | However, it's impossible to ignore the numbers of one, Harvey or Baez, who after two awful seasons |
| 0:26.4 | in Detroit and opting out and being owed 98 million bucks over the next four years, |
| 0:32.0 | Harvey Baez in the spring in 14 games. |
| 0:36.0 | I did not even think this was possible. |
| 0:39.0 | 35 at bats, |
| 0:41.0 | hobbies hitting 0.086. So he's hitting under 100. I always like to check the |
| 0:48.1 | OPS. He has a 191 OPS. Like a league average OPS is like 720. |
| 0:54.5 | Harvey had an OPS of under 600 last year. |
| 0:57.9 | His OPS is 191. |
| 1:01.0 | His slugging percentage is 0.86. |
| 1:05.0 | So his batting average and his slugging percentage are the exact same number. |
| 1:10.0 | And of course people are talking and you're stuck with Harvey for four more years and he's been an absolute train wreck |
| 1:15.9 | What did you say the OPS is? |
| 1:17.9 | 191 |
| 1:18.9 | Okay. Yes, it's a bad situation and A.J. Hinch went in the morning show Kaste and Janssen and said listen |
| 1:27.3 | He's our shortstop. We're gonna move him down in the order and eventually the tigers might be forced to make a move with Harvey but |
| 1:34.4 | RICO Beard my radio partner for the day you got your move already you got the |
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