00:01who is reporting that scott if you don't mind me asking uh ryan karchi who is the usc beat writer
00:08for the la times and it's been uh commented on by nicole our back as well okay says that uh
00:15usc
00:15and notre dame are in active discussions to resume their storied rivalry series
00:19a source tells the la times okay i that's great i love all rivalries preserved
00:28and nicole our back's uh addition to that was that she's been told that these conversations
00:33between usc and notre dame technically never stopped okay good college football kings over
00:39the weekend tweeted out the following today marks the halfway point of the college football off
00:44season the 2025 season 100 ended 111 days ago 2026 starts in 111 days that was yesterday so we've
00:53moved past the tipping point and start downhill towards college football yay um all right tigers
01:01what the hell man can anybody stay healthy can anybody stay healthy
01:09well carrie carpenter the latest one to go out after crashing into the wall and how he's got an
01:13ac joint injury that i don't know how serious it is but he's on the il um i hate to
01:21say it this way
01:22but it's not like he was doing a whole lot for the tigers anyway at this point right he's struggling
01:27like a lot of the tigers are struggling at the plate but it feels like he had all his home
01:31runs
01:31the first two weeks of the season or first three weeks of the season and has done very little since
01:35then it's it's it's kind of disturbing to see how how far off he's come you know torkelson hasn't found
01:44his stroke again after hitting you know the home runs in five straight games and um the only tiger and
01:50even mcgonigals come down um to mortal levels he's still doing way better than most right um and he's
01:58getting on base there's still this ridiculous clip but the only guy who's hitting for the tigers right
02:02now is riley green like dylan dingler's been in a slump so yeah i mean i i still think there's
02:09more
02:09predictable success for glaber and carpenter and javi and guys who are out right now then you know zach
02:18short but let me start that's actually well i mean like it these are they've got emergency
02:25emergency break glass some emergency break glass guys out there i don't know why zach short is still
02:30on the roster because mckinstry's back well have you refreshed twitter because i mean it feels like
02:36zach short gets released and then re-signed over yeah but and i understand what they did last week
02:41there was uh you know some manipulating of of the roster numbers to get him back but
02:49the the real reason that he's here is because okay you got an injury to javi as your shortstop
02:54fine well mcgonigals your everyday shortstop and i got mckinstry's healthy again why do they need zach
02:59short i i i didn't mind seeing someone like jace young in the lineup every once in a while because
03:06i feel like he's kind of deserved it and i i'd love that they gave gauge workman an opportunity
03:12because he absolutely deserves a chance i'm not is he a long-term answer i don't know
03:17well he was killing it down in toledo he's been a guy that's been on the tigers prospect top 20
03:23prospect list usually in the teens then he got rule fived to the cubs and then traded to the white
03:29socks and then the white socks weren't going to keep him up so he got returned to detroit
03:32in that weird rule five the way it can work out and then yesterday i mean he was he was
03:38in the
03:38same draft as torque yeah teammates out of arizona state and torque had singled and was on base when
03:45workman hit his home run and was there to greet him the sun devil teammates there at home plate
03:51and that that covet draft have you looked at that covet draft well it's what five players deep yeah yeah
03:58yeah but these were the five torque uh dingler yeah one second out of ohio they had a compensatory
04:05pick which was daniel cabrera which i think is out of baseball trey cruise gauge workman colt keith
04:13so they had four did all four of those guys play yesterday four guys from one draft well trey
04:19cruise didn't did he no he's not what you said no it's torque dingler oh sorry gauge workman
04:26colt keith yes all four played in the game yesterday i i mean i i have absolutely no way
04:32of saying this but i'm gonna say that's never happened in the history of baseball that four
04:37guys taking the first five rounds of a i don't know that that's true i completely made that up
04:43but uh yeah they all played yeah that's weird i think things getting real competitive there's a lot
04:49of guys at toledo that want their opportunity whether it's you know chase young who got that that
04:55little taste and actually did okay um now he's back down you know max clark wants to get up here
05:01at some point but you know he's he's struggled a little bit now at toledo is he's still hitting
05:07reasonably well on the season for his totals but his last few weeks not so much they've got a couple
05:12other players down there that are really want to have that opportunity max anderson's now back at
05:16toledo after being injured and then doing some rehab stints at the lower levels now he's back at
05:21at triple a uh but gage workman run with it man do what you can i mean if if he
05:28can just step up and
05:30timely i mean it'd just be a timely thing for him to hit if even if it's not sustainable he
05:36can play
05:36anywhere i mean he can play in the infield he can play in the outfield it's got all that versatility
05:40and meanwhile you know it's just it's it's a shuffling of guys at the bottom of the roster right
05:45because it's like okay is wentzel paris how long are we gonna you know see wentzel paris
05:49continue to struggle with the tigers at the this year i hey you were great last year for this team
05:55did some nice things but it's in baseball it's what have you done for me lately particularly if
05:59you're not one of the top 10 guys in the roster you know you're expendable there are other guys
06:04knocking on the door that want their opportunity i i like what i see out of how you lee i
06:08think i like
06:09how he's got the ability to hit to all fields he's an interesting player got some interesting power i
06:13don't again i don't know if any of these guys are long-term solutions but do they deserve to get
06:17more
06:18playing time now or deserve to at least get the opportunity and i think how you lee is running
06:22with it i hope gauge workman can run with it how you lease got that look of that you know
06:26when you
06:26talk about the look test i would look at him and go no unless that's all muscle unless it's just
06:31a
06:31little ball of muscle um but he's you know he tripled yesterday and he's an he's an intriguing
06:40player and that was we did track it back that was a michael lorenzen deal when how you lee i
06:44think
06:45was it single a uh and the tiger saw something projectable and here he is um which is which is
06:52great if he can help out but they need the regulars to step it up again they need dingler to
06:56be i mean
06:57didn't write a big hit last night but they need him to to be more consistent again torkelson's got
07:02to find the stroke again uh it can't just be riley green getting on base two or three times a
07:07night
07:07which is crazy he's on base percentage over the last like four weeks of the season it's like 460
07:13not bad yeah in the meantime i saw like a lot of criticism coming out over scott harris over this
07:19and i'm like how over what over the the struggles they're having with in spite of the injuries
07:26but like what i've seen is you know he didn't do anything in the offseason and i'm like well
07:30okay you might not like framper and you might not like kenley jansen but that's not not doing anything
07:35if you don't like the players that's one thing they have the highest payroll in the history of the
07:41organization right now and they did make signed a closer and signed a starter and you could say
07:48well i don't like those guys okay that's different than not doing anything well framper valdez has
07:54been great in i think it's five of his eight starts been good in in one other start and been
08:00horrible
08:00in two of the starts yeah so if it's going to be a 70 hit rate with him or a
08:0560 hit rate with him
08:06being great that's that's really good kenley jansen has been hit or miss uh but much more
08:13close to the 50 mark but last night was great sometimes when you need a guy to step up and
08:17they
08:17don't and like framper his last start when they had to get him out there they needed him to step
08:24up
08:24situation and then he doubled down and got himself suspended it made it even worse and that that sucks
08:30okay it's great when you step up and it sucks when you don't it he made a bad situation worse
08:36by
08:37throwing at a guy and getting himself and even if they were you know looking into his glove and all
08:41that and this is the game policing itself um it hurts and it it cranks up the intensity and the
08:47pressure on framper valdez to be better when he comes back i feel like people have given up but they
08:52they shouldn't because the division's terrible it just is they're the tigers are game and a half out
08:57three games under 500 and a game and a half out of first and if you're going to tell me
09:01they stay
09:02this distance or around this distance back and stay in this thing and start getting guys back
09:10although it doesn't look like jv's coming back anytime soon well that's not true uh he'll be
09:16back at the end of may well i guess he got transferred the 60 day to yell i i was
09:21a procedural
09:22thing because of trying to manipulate people that are um able to get back onto the roster what aj
09:28hinch said was there was no setback at all with him um that they're he's going to go through the
09:33progressions just as he has been he's he's he's fine but they needed to make this uh i thought it
09:38was going to be quicker than this well we thought initially sure but this isn't changing timeline from
09:43what last week when we got the good news on jv last week none of this has changed well i
09:49mean i just
09:50keep going back to at his age who knows i'm crossing my fingers i guess he's good in the
09:55second half of the season yeah two four eight five three nine 97 97 champion jump let's get him in
10:00in the meantime an mlb insider talks about what the tigers may do and it could surprise you we'll get
10:05to that today at 11 50 and does the scoobal injury really impact his his free agency apparently some mlb
10:15insiders think so and the result might shock you we'll get to that in the noon hour here on 97
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