00:01got stoney in today for john stoney in the rest of the week dear stoney coming up in less than
00:06an
00:06hour 7 35 we got the two grand slam i need stoney's help settling a media beef everybody
00:15loves a media feud oh yeah apparently my and so para's tweet yesterday did some numbers
00:20some of the beat writers did not like it oh and you're you're the godfather yes so you'll weigh
00:26on that uh speaking of the tigers yes got a win yesterday it is mazel time long way to go
00:34if capital i capital f if they're gonna get into this and make a run at this
00:41who has to step up most for this baseball team
00:47one is obviously i think spencer torkelson and uh one a not or in second place is
00:56pitching today and that's flarity you can't have a bump in your rotation especially with all the
01:02injuries that you have because once everybody gets healthy he may not even be part of the rotation or
01:07shouldn't be but you want everybody to play well because if they don't win enough games by the end
01:13of july at the deadline you want to trade as many as you can there's already an argument to to
01:18be
01:18trading now right but if they're gonna quote they did make a trade yes
01:25yes seabald's gone seabald for some well i think they were gonna end up losing him i know on waivers
01:31so they dfa yes end up just getting some minor league yeah arm in return anyway if they're not
01:37gonna wave the white flag yet if they're gonna have any shot to get back in this you say torque
01:43you say flarity we ask the listeners 248-539-9797 who's the guy that's got to step up and put
01:49a
01:49cape on and save the season and i think you had it right with torque because he plays every day
01:53yeah right or wrong he plays every day correct he's not a platoon player he's a right-handed bat
01:59i mean that's been circled and underlined for years and he's a number one overall pick and i've i've lost
02:06the belief that he'll ever be that guy right but he hit 30 home runs two of the last three
02:09years can
02:10we get that guy back the rest of the way because if you do that's a key ingredient and if
02:15you don't
02:15this thing's going to continue to be what it is a team that struggles to hit which means they struggle
02:19to go on runs and and the flarity points the opposite good pitching is how you avoid losing
02:25streaks right so i think hitting is what could get them on a win streak yes pitching is how you
02:30avoid
02:30losing streaks so you beat the angels you got a chance to win the series today but everybody's
02:33going to grimace when they find out who's pitching right and like i think he's pitched better
02:38lately i mean he just has that one crappy inning it seems every game where although the walks actually
02:46have gotten better the last few starts i believe but it used to be if you were going you know
02:53cash
02:53the ticket over under on walks it was always going to be like four and he was going to you
02:59know do at
03:01least five and a half six six walks a game yeah i the problem with him is his stuff just
03:07hasn't been
03:07as good like his velo's been down his fastball gets hit then you're relying on a slider which has
03:12been uh kind of a rough pitch up and down the last couple seasons that knuckle curve's cool when you
03:18can set it up right yeah but if you when he's on he's unhittable go look at all the strikeouts
03:24he has
03:24as you know but he he's so freaking inconsistent but yeah i mean if you look at like some of
03:30the
03:30advanced numbers opponents are slugging almost 600 against his slider
03:35and his fastball is actually his worst pitch by the numbers this season so it's not a surprise
03:39like if your stuff's no good even if one game he locates and one game he doesn't one game he
03:44walks guys in one game he doesn't it's a ticking time bomb right because once guys dial in and get
03:49their pitch see ya you said eventually he makes his way to the bullpen yeah if it's going to be
03:57this
03:57bad yes absolutely if he can figure it out you solidify the rotation right and you know what
04:02happened let's say let's say kenley's out for a while what do you do with that spot you put drew
04:08andrew andrew anderson's actually been pitching much better lately important yesterday too yeah
04:13and you put him in a in a short relief role i don't know i don't think you can afford
04:17to do that
04:17right no because you kind of need him in this flex spot yeah so so what's the back end of
04:22this bullpen
04:23i don't know it's when verlander coming back is he going to be in the starter is he going to
04:27be a
04:27long reliever let's map it out okay because scoobel's going to be back he's on a mission i think
04:32verlander's going to be back before scoobel it looks like okay but give me like the late june
04:37rotation the late june rotation a month from now what's the tigers rotation school okay scoobel
04:43should be back right is my is going to be back are we saying everybody's healthy basically this groin's
04:48not a month-long deal sure scoobel mys valdez um who am i missing oh montero no yeah montero
05:01and melton so not jv and not flaherty no so they're both being utilized out of the bullpen yes okay
05:09i wonder if for jack because you said there's always one bad inning his third time through numbers are
05:14terrible right is there an argument if he only had to pitch one inning he could
05:17dig a little deeper get a little more and then get the hell out of the way yeah i mean
05:22that's we've
05:22seen failed starters become decent relievers yeah maybe he'll he'll be an opener if they ever need
05:26one right or then i even heard somebody talk about the fact that would they be better off having an
05:31opener when he pitches and have him start the second inning get the first couple hitters out of the way
05:36yeah he doesn't have to face them three times that's the thought process with the opener yes so who's
05:41your rotation if healthy did you have melton in there yeah okay yeah i don't mind what you did there
05:46and i think it's important not to set the expectation that you're getting much of anything
05:49from verlander right great story everyone's seeing him wear the old english d and pitch at
05:55america park yeah he's 43 years old it's sanchez valdez and the three m's right yeah which means
06:04i'm not counting on flaherty for much it's got to be torque torque is the key to them being any
06:08degree
06:08of respectable the rest of the way if they're going to make any long shot run at this torque from
06:12last
06:13night has to be the torque we see more often the home run he had multiple extra base hits had
06:17three
06:17knocks all of a sudden you don't care about the strikeout because he delivered yeah now i saw a
06:22grimace from gov when i gave my rotation what which was did i having montero in there and not verlander
06:28was that uh upsetting or what no and i i really wasn't grimacing at you oh okay uh look i
06:36i some tiger
06:38affiliate problem probably i think flaherty stays in the rotation and i hate to say that but i just
06:44think that's reality is that because of veteran status and the money he's money because it's not
06:49based on baseball i mean ego to a degree i mean i think those things play but i guess this
06:54comes down
06:54to flaherty or montero yeah and montero has been much better much better you have a chance to win
07:00with montero now there's a shot like use a combo of the two yeah as the fifth starter well there's
07:05a
07:05shot melton you know it was a one game thing let's we have to hopefully but he was good last
07:11year and allegedly they wouldn't trade him to get a bat last year right and the thought is he has
07:18the
07:18stuff yeah he throws hard he gets swing and miss he's a young arm if that's a guy that's got
07:24runway
07:24that's a guy that should be getting better as the season goes so that's a guy you want in your
07:28rotation if you're going to be in it right now all bets are off if this team doesn't turn around
07:34because you're going to start taking guys out of this and that might be why jack stays in the
07:37rotation right is a combination of injury slash a scoogle trade or a mice trade or both you got to
07:42have five guys yeah and then who knows by august you might see a reappearance of jackson job
07:48that's right two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven if if if there's any chance
07:54tigers are going to get in this who are you putting um in that spot that's got to step up
08:00i think an important player and it's it's he's kind of a volatile guy around here
08:05gibbie called us about him is veriling i think veriling has to be better get at that average up
08:11to 250 260 a few more extra base hits and play smart he's going to play a lot because meadows
08:18isn't
08:18coming back anytime soon and bias has had a setback it's going to take longer and this center field
08:24situation with this team and you know the play he made the other night yeah i mean he didn't play
08:30last night and then aj wouldn't say specifically if it was he he was benched because yeah but he
08:38didn't start he was not in the lineup yeah did you you saw aj's answer yeah it was kind of
08:43word soupy
08:45so this was the quote i got time here uh again we have quote again we have a ton of
08:51conversations
08:52after games i'm not going to single him out as that's the reason he's not playing it's not a great
08:56matchup for most righties soriano's nasty on righties especially with sinkers we talked to him
09:01today about the speed of the play if everything is uh indicted on a mistake or an error in judgment
09:07or
09:07or a misjudgment you'd see that happen in the moment we address the things that we want to do well
09:12we do address the things that we don't do well it's unfair for maddie to hang him because of a
09:18mistake
09:18i'm playing the lineup we hope can beat the angels okay i understand he's not gonna put any
09:24of his players out to dry you're not gonna confirm yeah i benched his ass no yeah i mean i
09:29mean it
09:29just was weird that you know perez suffered nothing neither of them i know well veerling was
09:37what you believe yeah but to his point if you're gonna do it you do it in the moment you
09:42yank him
09:42from the game i'm surprised he didn't just believe martin reggie jackson well he did it with
09:46biaz it's he's done it before as the tiger skipper i know it's 97 one
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