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The Valenti Show

Taking Your Calls On Torkelson + Tigers' Win Today

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The guys go to the people to hear what they think about Torkelson potentially being the Tigers' X-factor + their reactions to Detroit's win today.

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0:00.0

Great to have you with us.

0:02.0

Tigers, hot as a firecracker, winners of five in a row, seven out of eight,

0:06.2

Dust the Yankees today.

0:07.9

Scoobel, perfect.

0:09.3

The offense actually showed power and no defensive butchery, complete performance.

0:15.1

The question is, and I know we had a brief moment with you guys before the game yesterday,

0:19.5

we want to do at least kind of bookended after today, Torkelson, another home run.

0:24.7

If this is Spencer Torkelson, A, what's your level of believability in it, faith in it?

0:30.2

But B, isn't this the difference between 84 and 90 wins?

0:35.7

That if this is the right-handed bat you didn't sign,

0:38.9

if this is the happy accident,

0:40.6

if this is that weird cosmic baseball post-hyped sleeper breakthrough,

0:46.6

maybe it changes how we think about them.

0:50.3

And I also, I don't want to put two topics together,

0:53.7

but if Casey Mize is real, I mean, that all of a sudden now, you're pitching staff.

0:59.3

First of all, I need nothing from Job.

1:00.7

You can leave.

1:01.7

It would be scoops, Flaherty, Olson, Mize.

1:06.1

There's no pressure on a fit starter in any world, in any rotation, anywhere.

1:11.1

And that could be Alex Cobb and Job.

1:13.8

Get ready because you're not ready right now.

1:16.7

That's what we're asking people.

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