00:02duncar scott anderson 971 let's get to your phone calls we go to battle creek and dennis
00:07you're on 971 hello dennis uh you guys uh kind of stole my thunder about the the prospects down
00:16at triple a like park but also we got like uh max anderson um i think his name is brent
00:23or
00:24brian callahan uh there's valencia who's been called up i i'm i'm very happy that we're playing
00:31really good baseball but i really question like like the outman guy love his defense but you can't
00:38be running a guy out hitting 150 when you're chasing a playoff spot yeah and my concern the
00:45only concern i have with that is it okay every game is so damned important right now yeah can
00:51they afford to leave him there even if it's only gonna be for four or five more games because
00:54you're expecting hobby to come back like does it make sense to go out and get somebody else to play
00:59it or just kick him out of the lineup bring up like say a max anderson and then you're playing
01:04veerling in center field until hobby comes back does that make more sense exactly and i mean
01:09trades are great they're fun to talk about um but i think we all have to admit trades are not
01:16always
01:17successful even for a guy who's hot on his own team and then you trade for him and he doesn't
01:23adjust well for whatever reason i've seen that happen over the years where you know you you send
01:29your top pitchiest prospect or one of your top prospects to go get him and then he hits 200 for
01:34you where he was hitting 300 for somebody else well it's always a gamble but but is it a gamble
01:40worth
01:40taking and and i think if you're look if you're going to trade tarik skuble you're going to get
01:45something pretty good in return you have to believe that that's the case i don't know if i
01:50trade skuble though because i mean you know i i love my and but he's continually getting hurt with
01:57tweaking something this tweaking something that clarity's velocity is down i mean he was you know
02:05touching 90 91 last night um so i mean if we're gonna go for it i'm okay with getting the
02:12cop picks
02:13and and putting kids in the farm system um keep skuble make some switches maybe sub out montero for
02:21and put clarity in the pen but call it some of the kids i mean like you said clark can't
02:26do much
02:27worse than outman is doing if he can field okay and i you know i feel like we need to
02:32get down to
02:32toledo but if we if he can field the baseball at a a i want to say better than respectable
02:41clip
02:41and and you can count on him in center field to make some plays for you then i think the
02:46the clark
02:46for outman swap would be easy as far as the pitching's concerned i watched every pitch of
02:54jackson jobes start the other night for erie and he had filthy breaking stuff he was regularly touching
03:04100 on the gun he was changing speeds between 83 and 100 miles an hour the potential for him to
03:10be a
03:11factor here is pretty high i think he you know given that he's coming off an injury so you don't
03:20know
03:20where he is with his confidence and his his uh you know belief that he can throw every pitch and
03:27maybe the time off he hasn't grown a whole ton but he was getting the baseball in the postseason two
03:32years ago right i mean so he he had done enough leading up to that point to be trustworthy i
03:39think
03:39he is worthy of another look and i'll tell you what the question i have is he is he worthy
03:45of a look
03:46at closer is he worthy of handing him the baseball because i don't games are so important i don't want
03:54them to experiment but at some point with with kenley jansen you just have to wonder it it's amazing
04:03that he hasn't given up a run in six outings because he's putting runners on base like crazy and and
04:10last
04:10night was one of the greatest houdini acts i have ever seen he had no command he was facing a
04:163-0 count
04:17on bregman with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth in a tie game and somehow willed four
04:25strikes but if you look at the last one the pitch that bregman swung at that was ball four and
04:32that
04:32was supposed to be in the upper away quadrant of the strike zone and it was up and in like
04:37he missed that
04:37spot too so there might have been some good fortune there but whatever he got the job done
04:45but do you trust kenley jansen i do not i don't trust him at all and i i'm all for
04:52trying to find
04:53a better option um and i i we're gonna have to wait and see who becomes available i don't think
05:01it's
05:02something that you can trade for right now i think that's just something where any team that has
05:05a high-end bullpen arm to move they're going to hang on to that until the trade debt right up
05:10to
05:10the deadline to get the best the best price for it and that would make sense if that's what you're
05:16going to do but the tigers tigers have prospects to give if for the right players that's why i've
05:21been bringing up mason miller for a couple weeks if san diego finds himself out and they want to move
05:25that piece and he's not a rental because he's here for three years after this if they're somehow able
05:31to get in a discussion with san diego about mason miller it's likely to cost you max clark and
05:37others and i think it'd be worth it because it's not it's not just for this year you want to
05:43know
05:43something funny about that and as we you know try and solve the the tigers um you brought this up
05:49a
05:49couple weeks ago you've been you've been eyeing this move for a while evan who runs our website
05:55sends out little clips and you know i'll see some of the reaction we get to the clips
06:01that one got the most reaction i'd seen in a long time people either saying yes do it or you're
06:07an
06:08you're an idiot you can't do that it's my idiot i can't do that because i don't think it's possible
06:13or because they wouldn't want to give up some of that we got some of that it's not possible some
06:17of
06:17it was you don't give a clark for mason miller uh it's not worth investing big in this team stuff
06:22like that but there was a lot of reaction to it um you know you're getting one of the best
06:27closers
06:27in the game the padres are now what two and a half games yeah are they two and a half
06:31out of the wild
06:32card check i've been there for the last week or so so they're kind of in the same position as
06:37the
06:37tigers i don't i don't expect them to pull the plug but they need they need a reboot in a
06:42way they
06:43need to add more more prospects is what they need to do the the padres i mean if i were
06:47if i were scott
06:48harrison i'm trying to sweet talk this deal the tigers have some players they can give them for
06:54their farm system to try to restock that and one that's ready to play in the majors well it would
06:59be in what is a seller's market one of the boldest moves a team could make and given the fact
07:04that
07:05the padres emptied their system to get miller my guess is they're going to ask the tigers to do the
07:09same to give him up and um it might be to the point of unreasonable but then again you don't
07:17know
07:17unless you ask no and what would the tiger what would the tigers look like if they had him on
07:23the
07:23back end of the bullpen this year feel a lot more confident and it would slot some other guys you
07:28know
07:28back into different positions although the number one guy it slots back is kenley jansen and i'm not
07:33sure where where he really fits but i will say this in an era of people calling and complaining about
07:38our teams not going for it it would be one of the most absolute aggressive go for it moves a
07:44detroit
07:45team has made in a long time is he available is he available that's another one question
07:51i would say as it stands right now probably not i would guess that the padres aren't planning on
07:56being sellers at this given time the way it feels like the tigers aren't planning on being sellers
08:01at this given time a lot can change in a week a lot can change in 10 days a lot
08:05can change in in
08:0614 games look at the red sox have done and all of a sudden it doesn't seem like it would
08:10make any
08:10sense for the red sox be moving on from roldis chapman or others right yeah but let's be clear
08:16um the teams that have sort of been identified as sellers and the athletic did a piece yesterday
08:20about who the likely sellers are of the six they listed five have bullpen arms to sell there you go
08:28and and we know how that goes at the at the trade deadline everybody that is in contention wants
08:34bullpen arms yeah and again tigers have prospects and this is why i think you can do a buy and
08:39sell thing
08:40i'm still looking to i'm looking to move scoobal and when the team i always look at as a dodgers
08:46because how deep they are well the dodgers just announced that showy otani is not going to be
08:50pitching for the foreseeable future they wanted to concentrate just on the hitting and okay well
08:55that opens up a rotation spot for the dodgers and on top of that they got catcher issues well
09:02last i checked the tigers have catching not only catching prospects but they've also got
09:07you know a backup catcher right now that has plenty of experience that an experienced staff
09:11would like to have if they were to move jake roger well that would be one hell of a sell
09:15move
09:15if you were giving him a starting pitcher and a catcher but you can then there's a path to your
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