00:03I blew the game open Tiger scored a couple late 5-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves Dan Dickerson
00:09on the call headlines not really the loss it's 101 62 the headlines couple injuries
00:14AJ Hinch with updates on Casey Mize and Javi Baez
00:38so there's the Mize part right which you hate to see but hopefully it's hopefully it's not long
00:46maybe a missed start maybe two hopefully nothing more than that if at anything
00:50Javi Baez was a different situation kind of a scary like I don't know if he was trying to slide
00:54or got caught in between and then ended up sliding but it's an ankle injury and here's AJ's thoughts
01:25yeah I had to leave on the cart they'll do an MRI assuming he misses some time here what's the
01:30solution because you know what I'm gonna bring up yeah I mean everybody's gonna bring up Max Clark
01:37and I don't know if the Tigers are gonna bring up Max Clark I know he's hitting well at AAA
01:41he had
01:42not a stellar uh spring training so I don't know if he's taking the jump that they needed to see
01:49from the opportunity to face you know basically major league pitching even though it was spring
01:54training versus AAA and it's I think we believe he'll be up at some point this year and maybe it's
02:02just gonna be rushed along because they simply need a warm body yeah he's hitting 303 with a 370 on
02:09base and an 820 OPS in 25 games at AAA he's got just shy of equal walks to strikeouts so
02:17again
02:17that approach that they really like yeah it would feel like if Javi's gone for let's say they put
02:25him on the IL and needs to miss a couple weeks or something and you already don't have Parker
02:29Meadows who's the center fielder day in and day out like you can get by playing Vierling there
02:36right you can play when so Perez there right the issue is with Vierling his bat has yet to come
02:42alive right and if if you're just simply playing him for defense then why don't you give Max Clark
02:48a try and I and I know that okay we all remember the the game where he the sun was
02:53in his eyes and
02:54he missed a couple of fly balls and you know okay fine he's a good defender he is a good
02:59defender
03:00and if you think there might be an upside to have it is bat in the lineup if it's going
03:06to be better
03:06than Vierling which is a complete gamble we have no idea but I don't know that it could be worse
03:11exactly right you're not asking him to be a 300 hitter at the major league level can he be a
03:16guy that
03:17hits 240 and walks and plays good defense and occasionally you know ball gets in the gap and it's a
03:23double
03:23or a triple yeah I think that would be the ask of Max Clark if he came up here right
03:27and I mean to ask a
03:28kid like that to be able to come up and can he just have the eye not that he's not
03:33going to be
03:33Kevin McGonigal all right so let's just hit that button right now you can't get spoiled like everybody
03:38that comes up is going to be the best player on the team this is hey he's gonna he's gonna
03:42be on
03:42base 24 of 25 games um no but if he has what we what we know from Scott Harris to
03:51protect the strike
03:52zone and value the strike zone does he have the ability to draw walks he's going to have some
03:57strikeouts everybody does but can he put path to ball like that's going to be the big question
04:03so Scott Harris was on MLB Network yesterday now this is before the injury and he said we're not
04:09ready to bring him up yet does the injury change that probably not okay and Clark has been struggling
04:16the last week numbers are coming back down to earth okay so probably not happening I think it's
04:22fun to speculate sure uh well they will add somebody from AAA if Javi goes on IL oh yeah for
04:29sure well
04:29and but but see that's the thing is is everyone is asking the question which is why we're talking
04:35about it about Max Clark to your point if he's in the middle of quote-unquote a slump do they
04:43give
04:43him another week to 10 days see how Javi's doing how long he's going to be out and see whoever
04:51else
04:51they bring up what do they add to this roster and if it's if it's not a plus then maybe
04:57in 10 days if
04:58he's back you know hitting above 300 in AAA maybe that's when you bring him what do you say I'm
05:04asking you to speculate what do you think their timeline is for Clark like do they want him up
05:08mid-summer I think I think that's a pretty strong quote from Scott Harris we're not ready to bring him
05:15up yet meaning the most important thing when it comes to Max Clark he needs more at bats and playing
05:21time in the minor leagues like so I would say maybe they call him up before September call-ups or
05:28whatever I know those rules have changed a little bit recent years because you're thinking like post
05:32trade deadline oh yeah yeah okay and it I don't know my gut feeling is we don't see him this
05:39year
05:39until late call-ups two four eight five three nine 97 97 by the way McGonigal on base again last
05:47night yes he was just check that box hey hey you know ran it out we got a power surge
05:54coming up at
05:54635 what do you mean it's the offseason what do you we got a post-draft power surge John Jansen's
06:00top teams in the NFL now that we're done with free agency and now that the drafts in the rearview
06:05mirror
06:05a lot of work going into this one a lot of additions a lot of subtractions we'll see if I
06:10can get all of
06:11it wrapped into to one segment and still give you guys enough time to to comment
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