Why SHOULDN'T The Tigers Trade For Bo Bichette?

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Mike and Rico continue their Bichette conversation, wondering if there are any reasons why the Tigers shouldn't trade for him.

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0:00.0	All right, we'll get some ticket texts.
0:02.5	Get to the calls.
0:03.3	Jeff Passon had a trade target for every team.
0:05.6	And I have no disagreement.
0:07.2	Tigers, there's going to be a bunch of relief pitching available.
0:10.1	I'm not telling you it'll be cheap.
0:11.5	They need a high leverage reliever.
0:13.5	Not in a sense of this is Mariana Rivera, hit the inner Sandman.
0:17.8	No, you're going to juggle who closes out games.
0:20.1	I want to give AJ one more weapon
0:22.3	in the late innings. And obviously I want a reliever. But we've talked about a right-handed bat.
0:30.2	And for passing to say Bobauchette expiring contract, Red Hot in May, it's a prove-it
0:37.1	situation. He's going prove-it situation.
0:38.0	He's going to play big-time games, going to presumably play play playoff baseball.
0:42.4	He's still, in general, an 800 OPS player.
0:47.1	How do you not do it?
0:49.8	And I don't want to hear I'm blocking somebody.
0:52.0	Who am I blocking?
0:53.3	It just depends if he had enough of Trey Sweeney.
0:56.5	And it doesn't mean,
0:57.2	Trey Sweeney can't play a little bit here or there.
0:59.4	But, I mean, what are we talking about?
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