Reese Olson's Emerging Impact on the Detroit Tigers

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00:00So let's start with a pitcher.

00:04Let's go to Detroit.

00:05What do we have?

00:06Yeah, we got to start with Reese Olsen.

00:09You really got me on that last.

00:10That was very good.

00:11I got to say it was really good, but Reese Olsen has been really good for the Detroit

00:17Tigers.

00:18Reese Olsen, a guy in the minor leagues who struggled a bit, struggled with walks at times,

00:24strikeout rates always been interesting, but he is not always been the guy that you were

00:28looking for in terms of dependability, but it's an anything but.

00:31Now you might say to yourself, why do I want to pick up a guy who doesn't have a win yet

00:34on the season?

00:35My pitch is for the Detroit Tigers.

00:36Give the guy a break.

00:37Okay?

00:38It's not going to be a lot of wins here for the Detroit Tigers.

00:40This is not going to be the case.

00:42However, if you look at the numbers so far, besides that, a 209 ERA over those eight starts,

00:49a .99 whip, 47 innings pitch, 41 strikeouts.

00:54So again, we're a little under where we want to be, but we're close.

00:57We're in the ballpark.

00:59But in the last few weeks too, the last, you know, 15 games, just unbelievable in the pantheon

01:07of Tigers pitchers of lore, you know, we've been waiting for the Mises and the Mannings

01:12and all these guys.

01:13Well, scruples finally developed into something that was better than what anybody thought,

01:17you know, he would be.

01:18I'm not saying Reese Olsen is that next guy, but what I am saying is if you're looking

01:21for help with peripherals, if you're looking for a guy on two start weeks or good matchups,

01:25and we're going to talk about him later in the show, because guess what?

01:28He does have a two-star week coming up.

01:30Reese Olsen should not be available right now.

01:32And he's available in a lot more leagues.

01:34He's available right now in 40% of leagues.

01:35So if you're desperate for some pitching help, again, wind totals might be tricky, but at

01:39least while he's hot over these first eight starts, maybe you get another good eight starts

01:43out of him.

01:44Maybe this is just the new version of Reese Olsen, where he's not trying to, again, max

01:48VLO everything.

01:49And he's trying to just, you know, find a little bit more of that fine tune art craft

01:53of pitching.

01:55This version of Reese Olsen is the best one I've ever seen.

01:57It's far better than the minor league version, and he's young enough where you can believe

02:00that this could be just a developmental step.

02:02It's not two starts.

02:03It's not five starts.

02:04It's eight starts now.

02:06That's enough to make you notice.

02:07So ignore the lack of wins.

02:10Ignore all that.

02:11Look at the peripherals.

02:12The peripherals have been really good, and that portends to some positive moments here

02:17for Reese Olsen coming up in the second half.

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