Valenti On Alex Cobb: "It's A Disastrous Signing"
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, and about sums it up, Jeremy. |
| 0:01.4 | Let me give you some breaking news. |
| 0:04.3 | Let me show you my surprise face. |
| 0:07.3 | Per AJ Hinch, Alex Cobb, has another setback, |
| 0:12.0 | and now they're going to take another 30 days to evaluate them. |
| 0:18.1 | And I, maybe it's a bad perspective, but look, we were having this conversation |
| 0:24.7 | to start the year. We're having the conversation in May. We're having the conversation a month |
| 0:30.9 | before the trade deadline and how, hey, if Cobb pitches and pitches well, it'll affect my viewpoint |
| 0:36.3 | of needing a starter. |
| 0:44.1 | To now, I mean, we're sitting here on August 26th and I'm done. |
| 0:44.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | And it truly is a disastrous signing. |
| 0:52.2 | I mean, first of all, congrats to Alex Cobb. |
| 0:55.0 | You got paid $15 million to do nothing. |
| 0:58.3 | If a guy pitches and gets hurt, that's one thing. |
| 1:01.8 | You never actually perform the act of pitching. |
| 1:06.8 | And look, it clearly, the team was bothered. |
| 1:08.7 | But, you know, let me take you back to May. |
| 1:10.5 | Do you remember this Evan Pettled story? Pettett sold and I had Evan dig this up it it shows you the team is very sensitive to it |
| 1:17.1 | let's let's we're all adults now look Evan pettzel this was on May 9th drama today at |
| 1:23.5 | Comerica the tigers cleared the press box during Alex Cobb's live batting practice session, |
| 1:28.7 | including two independent reporters. The TV crew was forced to stop setting up and leave. |
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