00:02unbelievable 10 pitch battle for rookie kevin mcgonigal what a great eye he's playing like a
00:09vet battling fighting delivering and the tigers take two or three in the opening series of the
00:17season if you're looking for takeaways we've got them can i say he's the best hitter on the team
00:25leads him in hits and total bases and he has that approach at the plate in the big moment i
00:31would
00:31say it'd be right now it'd be between him and cole keith um and so cole keith had i mean
00:36in a loss
00:37kevin mcgonigal had three strikeouts and cole keith was two of three in that last game uh and and so
00:45it's between the two of them the most enjoyable one to watch is probably kevin mcgonigal yeah
00:51green and carpenter are one of 23 to start the season yeah and carrie carpenter has yet to actually
01:02but he's he's made connection on some foul balls so i watched a couple times but has yet to get
01:09a hit
01:11at his lead off you have thoughts on that i mean yes i do and it's we all know that
01:21eventually he's
01:21going to hit yes but until he does don't you want to have somebody up at the top of the
01:28order
01:28that is putting back the ball yeah i mean aj's explained it to us before they like forcing that
01:34decision the third time through the order because then carrie gets a third at bat against a righty which
01:39he typically does very well that's why they do it i know that's why they do it okay so who
01:46is
01:47who is getting that contact yes it's you're talking about mcgonigal yeah or cole keith right so put
01:53either if you don't want to put a rookie up there and to lead off the game which i think
01:57i would be
01:58fine with i obviously was fine with it last week when we talked about hey he's got to be in
02:02the top
02:03three um then put colt keith first and torres second and then mcgonigal third you're gonna have
02:14to make the adjustment until carrie carpenter finds his his swing this year it's gonna happen it just
02:19hasn't happened yet how big an issue are strikeouts we've seen 32 of them through three games averaging
02:26more than 10 a game because i i would note that that's a lot but i'd also point out that
02:34they're
02:35walking quite a bit too they're top five right now and walks with five per game i mean some of
02:40this
02:40is we are only talking about a three game sample size well one of the big takeaways for me over
02:44the
02:44weekend was hey you take two or three you know how you take two or three scoobel and valdez are
02:50as
02:50potent a one two punches it's as advertised right those two guys come and take the first two games and
02:55even though you lose the last one you just you move on you win your series and you move on
03:00open up the phones 248-539-9797 some tiger opening series takeaways they're gonna play tonight
03:06out west late start justin verlander will make his tigers re-debut against arizona it's gonna be a
03:14late one yep you stand up i'll get some of it i'm not gonna make it till 1 a.m
03:19it's uh first pitch
03:22so what 10 10 yeah and that's the other thing i could go on an old man diatribe i feel
03:26that way
03:26more doing this shift nobody ever starts on time in sports right yeah like a given it's gonna be 15
03:31minutes after the start time and all this i why don't they just adjust the start time i know that
03:38there's there's there's a lot of pregame that has to go into it and but if it's 10 10 and
03:44the the
03:45first pitches are going to be until 10 25 then just say 10 25 and let everybody else do their
03:49thing
03:50baseball's actually pretty good with the exact start time baseball's opening day can get a little
03:55weird because ceremonies can go long and things like that first pitches baseball's not normally
04:0015 minutes late but i routinely see it with like hockey when when abc has a hockey game it's like
04:04forget about it well the nfl is very good at being on time for when they say kickoff it's it's
04:09there
04:10so is it just really college basketball and i i get the same nba does it same arena um and
04:17you know
04:18in the tournament if you've got two games back to back yeah the first one goes long the second one
04:22gets backed up but the first one doesn't start until what 10 or 15 minutes later and in college
04:26football it's always like five minutes after and there's slides and all that crap some of this too
04:33is if you look on just whatever app you use like i use espn app it says seven o'clock
04:38piston start
04:39not a seven o'clock piston start it's a 7 10 start according to like the nba but then it
04:44doesn't
04:44even start at 7 10 sorry we don't need to go down this rabbit hole yeah anyway 10 10 tonight
04:50whenever they start verlander will have the ball tom takeaways from the opening series uh i mean the
04:58certainly with torque and green and carpenter they got to get it corrected fast because you'll see
05:03what happens saturday night which is two hits happen when mcgonagill doesn't deliver but the bright
05:09side i'm is my biggest takeaway right now with mcgonagill he leads the way but dylan and how
05:14about keith yeah keith actually has a higher batting average than mcgonagill right now if colt keith has a
05:20breakthrough this team's gonna be really really good well suddenly the the left side of the infield
05:27has your two best bats through three games
05:31and they didn't even go add one right well does mcgonagill count don't block the young guys
05:36look when you have a generational hitting prospect i'm more open to it when it's jace young we can't
05:40block that's why i bitched about it or trey sweeney right the other thing too just the firm foundation
05:45with the top two starters what they give up two runs right yeah valdez ran into a little trouble and
05:52got out of it i mean that's that's why you have those experienced guys that's a good lineup like san
05:57diego's got a very good line oh yeah but it's hard to take too big of a no no it's
06:04something to
06:05discuss just no the fact that they came out rolling you know i i that's a good sign they
06:10didn't have one of these stinkers or what i think there's three teams in the nle's that are oh and
06:15three you know something like that yeah and the mets our fans are already booing uh boba shet
06:21the diamondbacks are one of them and that's who they face for the next three games it's actually
06:25the nl west that it's got the three oh and three teams the schedule does set up nicely like right
06:29arizona st louis is expected to have a down year that's for the home you know home opener series
06:34coming up this weekend good chance to get off to a hot start it's been a lot of fun to
06:39watch this
06:39team and i can't wait until we have some actual normal start times where we get a chance to see
06:44more of this team and watch a complete nine innings i was bummed they didn't play yesterday i know we
06:51had other stuff to watch and whatever but you get in that routine and they're not gonna have a
06:55sunday off now until the end of the season yeah um it it it did seem weird that they would
07:01start
07:01the season off and and then all of a sudden hey no one's playing or they're not playing
07:04on sunday but hey get the travel day you go to arizona and um you know and and they they
07:10have
07:11another day off after the arizona series thursday they'll be off get ready for the home opener friday
07:16up all those days off early 248-539-9797 but watching mcgonagall at the plate
07:24it it we have taught we have heard aj and scott harris and everybody talk about professional at
07:31bats and then you see on was a friday night the 10 pitch at bat where it's he's following some
07:41balls off and then in the middle of it like you you have some that you see other guys chase
07:47that are
07:47out of the zone his ability to protect the zone and and be able to identify strikes swing at strikes
07:55let the balls go it's for such a young player i mean he's only 21 he's really has this feeling
08:03like
08:04he is when he's at the plate you kind of feel like it's a six or seven year vet because
08:10of his approach
08:11it's he won't give in on those breaking pitches even with two strikes he won't give you that that
08:19swing and miss that the pitcher's for yeah which is not something you like it's one thing to be like
08:24hey his approach is advanced for a 21 year old that approach and that at bat is something from
08:30a 25 28 30 year old a guy who's been around the league and gone through a handful of seasons
08:35and he's doing it after only a handful of games i mean it was a second game in the bigs
08:41right yeah
08:41not even a handful of games it's ridiculous text says guys some things that stand out from the
08:46opening weekend john's brother kenley jansen looked dominant in that friday appearance at a boy
08:51he did yeah hardly could touch him riley green cutting on this cutting down the strikeouts is the
08:572026 version of miggy being in the best shape of his life it's a work in progress guys
09:02uh torque green and carp collectively are three for 34 with like 15 strikeouts from an unnamed text yeah
09:12i mean it's i i do think those guys i have more confidence that carp and green are and i
09:22know we're
09:22coming off with what a 31 home run performance by torque last year but it's it's kind of been that
09:27roller coaster for him you know and the takeaway that i had with uh dingler keith and mcgonagill
09:35these are homegrown kind of harris guys okay and the approach was valuing the strike zone yep
09:43versus the guys carp torque and green holdovers were the holdovers and didn't go through the farm system
09:51that's scott harris's approach yeah that is a huge point i gotta it feels like weird because it's only
09:58three games so it's like how big a deal but that is a an interesting way of looking at it
10:02that line
10:03in the sand as they try to reset the identity of this baseball team own the zone all right coming
10:09up
10:09next we're gonna talk about our hockey team another no show get that wallet button ready oh boy and we'll
10:15talk taylor decker 702 because i don't know if you saw he met with uh justin rogers and he is
10:20not
10:20happy about how this thing went down with the lions it's 97 one
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