Why Are Tigers Content With Doing Nothing?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Another day, another rant from Valenti about how the Tigers aren't doing enough to compete this year. And spoiler alert: he's still fighting for them to acquire J.D. Martinez.
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| 0:00.0 | I just feel like this team's close to competing. I think the offense has been morbid for more years than I care to admit. |
| 0:06.5 | And even with the young players, I think we're all excited about Colton Keith being the the |
| 0:10.9 | starter at second to begin the year year even if the young players are good |
| 0:14.8 | you have to crawl out from being the 28th or 29th offense. |
| 0:19.4 | Why is this franchise content with doing nothing and why is Scott Harris given the |
| 0:26.4 | leeway of a GM who's brought three world series to a town why is Scott Harris |
| 0:32.2 | being treated as a genius when look last |
| 0:35.6 | last year's product they won 78 games and duct taped it together and figured it out |
| 0:40.9 | yet all that payroll come off the books. You got a lower |
| 0:44.2 | payroll this year than last year. You're 55 million dollars below league average and |
| 0:49.2 | I'm sitting here groveling. I'm playing a banjo on a milk crate on the corner for J.D. Martinez. |
| 1:01.6 | You know what I mean? That is, that's how low the standards are here. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, when you put it that way, it does sound ridiculous. |
| 1:08.0 | Help me, I'm poor. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm begging for a one-year $15 million expenditure. |
| 1:14.0 | And you're sitting there with a ton of money. |
| 1:16.5 | You're not even close to League average. |
| 1:20.0 | But they don't say nothing when they sign a pitcher hasn't been any good in five years and Jack Flaherty |
| 1:24.4 | Go ahead they've ordered people saying yes to j-D should have signed him two months ago |
| 1:29.5 | Should have went after Bellinger as well afraid that Harris and the Illich combo is never going to spend money. |
| 1:35.8 | Look, the Bellinger thing is not a hill I will die on. |
| 1:40.3 | It is a tougher fit. |
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