00:00all right we said we get to some tiger stuff they got shut out last night actually i didn't
00:06watch the ninth inning they did get shut out right yeah they got shut out they had four freaking
00:11hits well the funny thing is i'm pretty sure they got shut out because i flipped away
00:16as they were going to the top of the ninth and i wasn't gone for long and i came back
00:23it was post-game coverage and i'm like well that was quick uh yeah aj was on this morning with
00:31the
00:31morning show and look um this team's a little bit in survival mode right now i think we all
00:38understand what's going on it's injury after injury after injury and that's this is a lot of bad luck
00:45glabor torres now placed on the 10-day disabled list um he's got an oblique strain the scoobal thing he
00:53did have surgery and it sounds like two months minimum um so there is a chance that it could be
01:00on the shorter side they don't know they won't know until it responds aj's response to that this
01:04morning was kind of funny he's like look man i you know we can't we can't tell you how long
01:09it's going
01:09to be right now we hope and think it could be two months but they really don't know but they
01:16you know
01:16i mean there's guys starting to go through return to play protocols and throwing and and you know
01:21between melton and jv they'll be getting some guys back but right now they're just hanging on man and i
01:27i'm not i don't know that maybe people are mad out there you could be frustrated but i'm not sure
01:33there's anyone to be mad at no i'm not mad at this point i'm i'm a little frustrated the offense
01:39lacks consistency i know that their overall numbers look a little bit better than than average but
01:44um like last night they had four hits boston had four hits you know both starting pitchers
01:52actually pitched pretty well it's remarkable when you look at the the stat lines comparing
01:57sunny gray to jack flaherty sunny gray pitched five shutout innings give up four hits and two walks
02:02and only struck out two flaherty was actually really good he went five innings gave up three hits
02:08in one walk but uh four runs two of them were earned because he had a error from colt keith
02:15but
02:15he struck out 10 like jack flaher i think he struck out the first five guys in the game awesome
02:20he was
02:21looking great had control of the zone his velocity was good he was you know putting it on the outer
02:26rails or on the bottom part of the zone he looked great and then both bullpens
02:32toss four innings of no hit baseball there were no hits after the fifth inning none from either team
02:39so it just one of those games and it's but it was a bad series they get swept by boston
02:45who was
02:45not a good baseball team you know boston was 13 and 21 uh going into the series uh and the
02:53tigers were
02:5418 and what 18 and uh 17 uh going into the series and obviously things have changed now they've got
03:00kansas city over the weekend in kansas city we'll see if they if that can be better fortunes for them
03:06they seem to play the royals pretty well uh lately so hopefully the bats can get back to it um
03:14but we
03:14taught we spent so much time talking about the pitching staff and you know we'll see where they're
03:18at you got cater montero going tomorrow night he's pitched very well um and he's pitched well enough
03:25where i think it's in the discussion if do you trust him now to be a full-time rotational guy
03:33or
03:33is he just a placeholder he's doing a great job as a placeholder and some guys that's what they are
03:39and that's fine that's how they're defined but you know he's still relatively young he's got a
03:44litany of pitches he can use and he seems to have put things together very nicely this year
03:50do i trust him not particularly long term but i kind of have to well circumstances we don't have
03:58any other choice a little bit yeah i mean at this point he's healthy he's a healthy guy with major
04:04league experience i mean right now they could put out chuck money and and it would be better choice
04:10than some of the the no i know but but but he's a major league pitcher like charlie morton from
04:17last
04:17yes uh the the fact is if they don't do anything like add to the roster and some names have
04:26started
04:27to get floated out there that could be available but if they don't do anything then you're probably
04:34probably they're probably going to take on water for some time here well i'm intrigued that first
04:40you know finding out the labor taurus is going to spend time in the il okay that meant that jace
04:45young
04:46gets an opportunity to come back because i was disappointed that he got sent down i understood
04:49why it was that he was sent down because i wanted this is a first round pick and i've always
04:55got a
04:56place in my in my heart for the first round picks these are the high draft capital guys you want
05:01to
05:01see them succeed and jace young hasn't gotten a a great opportunity as of yet to really make it and
05:07he's also not young you know he's he's well literally his last name is young but he is
05:13he he's he's he's an older player right i mean it's not like he's 30 but it's time for him
05:20to to
05:20either you know do it or get off the pot right and i want to see him get that chance
05:25here at the
05:26major league level and do something we've seen him hit the ball pretty hard and i want him to succeed
05:33desperately he almost had a two rbi you know base hit last night but a great play by the right
05:37fielder to to dive for the catch and make it um but maybe that's a silver line that happens with
05:43claver taurus being out problem is claver taurus is a guy who just gets on base but give somebody
05:49else an opportunity and this roster is going to be in flux both the lineup and the pitching staff
05:56uh until you get to the second half of the season there's lots of auditions going on and
06:00there's lots of injuries that are happening names that have been floated out there if they try to
06:04get into the trade market and i don't know that any of these make sense for the teams that that
06:10whose names like one of them might sandy alcantara the pitcher from miami is there that team is not
06:18expected to compete and he he makes a lot of money but it makes a lot of money in the
06:25future
06:26you know he's a 17 million dollar payroll player now 21 million dollars next year
06:31the guy who was at one point dominant his career and now is you know he's a three and two
06:37record
06:37with a 4.01 era and a 4 a 1.28 whip 30 years old you know it's a lot
06:44of money to take on for
06:45players under contract the next two years mitch keller at pittsburgh well pittsburgh's like
06:50flirting with being in a wild card chase here i don't know that they're going to want to give up
06:53on a
06:53guy right mackenzie gore at texas mackenzie gore at texas is another player he's a rental
07:01but if you're texas and you're a game out of first in that division because right now that division is
07:09a lot like the american league central the team in first is a 500 record cleveland's 500 detroit's a
07:17game back at 18 and 20 the athletics 500 at 18 and 18 texas is a game back i don't
07:24know if any of
07:24those teams are trading any of those guys well maybe alcantara because they want to get out from
07:28under the salary but do we want to take on that salary well if you're getting i mean there's a
07:34high it's high risk high reward with him right because he has been so good in the past and yet
07:38okay he's also had some issues but mackenzie gore is a guy's got a high era right now four six
07:44seven
07:44he hasn't had an era under four in three seasons yeah it's been since 2024 it was 3.9 otherwise
07:50it's always been above four um but not i mean it was his career era is 4.22 it's not
07:56awful but it's
07:57also i mean certainly not ace not number two starter stuff it's not number three starter uh numbers either
08:03but what he does is he strikes guys out and they the tigers really liked that 45 strikeouts in 34
08:09and
08:10two-thirds innings he's always been a more strikeouts than innings pitched kind of guy
08:15i could see it but you're right alcantara is probably something more along the lines what
08:21they would look at because if if miami's looking at dumb payroll that's the way to go uh a name
08:26texter says injuries have definitely been killing the tigers but even before the injuries they were
08:29only playing 500 baseball there are a lot of concerns with this team in all areas their record was
08:35around 500 remember they started the season four and nine okay and then they got their act together
08:41and they were playing well above 500 when the injuries started to come and it killed all their
08:46momentum so i don't see them like i thought they were trending in the right direction we're going to
08:52take over this division but alas it didn't happen should we start calling for the firing of the tiger
08:58strength and conditioning coaches here we go yep uh next text the tigers injury struggles are clearly
09:07the fault of the detroit lions strength and conditioning coaches that's funny 248-539-9797 we got open
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09:21that
09:21at noon carson anderson 97 one
