00:03picked up the win on Sunday took the series against the Texas Rangers got a big start on
00:09Saturday from Cater Montero too by the way didn't have elite stuff but still worked into the seventh
00:15inning and they're gonna need contributions from up and down the roster the injuries keep adding
00:20up Glaber Torres left the game Saturday with an injury the updated list of Tigers on the injury
00:26report right now Torres Will Vest Justin Verlander Zach McKinstry Javi Baez Casey Mize Parker Meadows
00:37which injury is the most concerning for you right now
00:43well so some of the long-term ones I'm not that concerned about in return in regards to Parker
00:50Meadows like it'll be nice to have him back it'll add to the rotation in center field you could say
00:55Javi Baez because his bat was really good to start the season and it does limit a little bit of
01:01what
01:01they can do you put Veerling up there you know in center or you know um and I don't want
01:07to limit
01:09what we're going to get from McGonigal I think the biggest one for me though is Casey Mize
01:14because it seems like year after year there's there's these patches where he's gone and he
01:20was pitching good he's you know what is it a 229 ERA yep and then you get days like we
01:26had yesterday
01:26now it came through a bullpen day and you're going to have bullpen days throughout the course of the
01:30season but without Melton being available and Job's not going to be available until August like
01:36if you get another injury or a guy gets a blister on his finger now all of a sudden that
01:42Casey Mize
01:43injury becomes a bigger deal and I don't think it's anything that's long-term it's not something
01:48that's going to be hindering him throughout the course of the year no but as we sit here today
01:51their weakness is the bullpen yeah and if you're starting pitching is taxed and you have to have
01:56more bullpen days then you're taxing a bullpen that's already guys that you don't really want to
02:01use too much right so you say Mize Gov I'm going to say Mize as well and again it's the
02:07the rotation
02:08of the depth and it's it's what's going off Flaherty that's the big thing for me right now it's not
02:13that JV's not pitching or who's eventually the five good news on Melton he's on track to come
02:20back late May still yeah but Casey Mize is gonna need to be more the first half of Casey Mize
02:27last
02:27year than the second half it was also an all-star yeah because this Jack Flaherty thing I just don't
02:31know I'm getting to a point where I see him as the scheduled starter and I'm kind of just like
02:37I know
02:37what I'm gonna get I mean didn't you almost anticipate exactly what happened Friday happening
02:42yeah I mean that's when it just becomes a point where how much longer can you keep doing it well
02:47I floated out that he ends the year in the bullpen maybe maybe you want to make that decision sooner
02:51but then who's the starter I mean I know but then that's the point is eventually Mize is back
02:56eventually JV's back eventually Melton's back eventually eventually late in the year Job is an
03:00option although coming back from Tommy John I don't know that he's going to be
03:04yeah I mean what type of innings are they going to get from him my point though is if those
03:08guys
03:09are getting healthy and you're shortening your rotation late in the year would Jack be someone
03:12who would benefit from hey you don't have to see guys three times through the order you can maybe
03:16dial up the velo a little bit empty out the tank in one or two inning spurts I don't know
03:21because
03:21you're right it's been ugly yeah and I mean it's just to a point here now because of the JV
03:26injury and
03:26the the depth of rotation which was supposed to be the strength of the team you we got yesterday was
03:32May 3rd it took till May 3rd to do a bullpen game right I mean we're already doing chaos if
03:38it's
03:38not Mize because I think I'd answer Mize like you guys because of the domino effect if not Mize is
03:43it
03:43vest yeah I would probably say vest because now we saw Kenley Jansen the last two times he was out
03:50and blown saves and you're putting you're taxing Finnegan more than you probably want to at this time
03:57of the year now he's got to be able to hold up and I don't have any doubt that he
04:00will but I like the
04:02the the the combination of having three guys there that AJ Hinch can pit you know pick from I just
04:07feel like when I see Flaherty I'm starting to watch Kenna Maeda um I'm not there yet
04:17wrong drop
04:18threw everybody off yeah I like wait what what point are you making
04:27I wish you would
04:31be better than his curveball lately yeah
04:36I'm sorry continue
04:45get the sausage fingers over here hit the wrong button my bad
04:51uh careful what the references um and so it's it yeah I I do have issues and concerns
04:59about Jack Flaherty just simply because you look at ERA and you look at you know are they just going
05:06to throw him out there and say hey we're going to get what we get and he's got to be
05:09an innings
05:09eater and you know hopefully this is a good day I don't want to go through the anxiety of hoping
05:16it's a good day for Jack Flaherty and it felt like maybe last year was every other yeah now it's
05:22every third two out of three is ugly and if you get the one out of three you're you got
05:27something
05:27you can work with 248-539-9797 back into Pistons talk coming up at 735 what did we learn about
05:33this
05:34team are you back on board
05:35are you back on board
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