Second hour of the program. Welcome back ex Susan Bros. Throughout the Great
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get involved in case you missed it. Yesterday, Tigers win another one run
affair and they beat the Dodgers win the series from the Dodgers. Really impressive
for Detroit. By the way, Justin Henry molloy another pinch hit. So
I mean there's some correct buttons being pushed by what I consider to be a
really good manager in aj Hinch. And I'm not saying he deserves all the
credit, but he gets a lot of blame when pitching chain don't work out,
when pitch hitters don't work out. But Zach McKinstry had happened the other
day, right, it happened the other day with Andy A. Banyez,
And it happened yesterday with Justin Henry malloy. So credit where credit is due,
and Detroit hits the All Star break three games under five hundred, but
having won three straight series and eight of ten games overall. Their first round
draft pick eleventh overall is Bryce Rayner, a shortstop from Harvard Westlake High School
who is committed to Texas. MLB All Star festivities begin tonight in Texas.
Carlos Alcarez wins the Wimbledon Championship in straight sets. Just out of curiosity.
I ever noticed other tournaments call it the men's final, and at Wimbledon Trent
they called the Gentleman's Final. Yeah, I love that, just one little
subtle thing. It's a little subtle detail that makes Wimbledon a cut above the
rest. That seems like you gotta wear white. It's played on grass,
It's a beautiful spectacle. Do you say when you say a cut above,
do you mean that? Sincerely? Are you being snarky there? Oh,
I'm sincere And I'm a tennis fan too. I just Wimbledon definitely feels different,
more prestigious. I've become more of a tennis fan. I think it's
I think there's a lot of pompous belief there, the whole Gentleman's Final,
like there's so much better than everybody else. Well that I don't mind the
white, I really don't. I don't mind the wearing all white. I
think it looks really cool and classy and so on and so forth. Although
you see people in the stands with baseball hats and a lot of them warm
backwards, which to me doesn't bother me. But it just goes against the
whole snootiness of what Wimbledon almost stands for. I'm sure it is the most
prestigious, just like I would guess the Masters is the most prestigious. That's
a great comparison, you know. I don't know, man, I just
there's something about the whole oh and gentleman's final, like I can understand that
pious. It's just anyway, Alcarez was unbelievable, Yes, and what I
tweeted this out, What a what a way for Djokovic who lost in straight
sets in case people were wondering, And he's he's only lost in straight sets
in a Grand Slam final, like I don't know, four or five times
total anyway, and one of them was to Alcarez before, so it's happened
twice to him and al Choris is four and oh Grand Slam finals, But
uh, what a way? For him to on the postmatch interview give credit
where credit is due, and I tweeted, you know, Rory McElroy could
could learn something here. Now it is a different situation and it's not like
Djokovic is going to walk off the course, jump into what's round car and
say goodbye. Right. McElroy did that but at the US Open. But
you know he was sitting there waiting and watching it finally happen for Deshambo.
He was only a group ahead of him. Though, I don't want to
continually go back and rip on Rory McElroy, who did not win the Scottish
Open by the way over the weekend. I just I thought it's something that
I tweeted out and I thought Djokovic was very classy in the way he handled
his defeat. Robert McIntyre, speaking of that, wins the Scottish Open birdie's
on eighteen I think it was about an eighteen to twenty foot maybe a twenty
two foot birdie putt. He's the first native scott to win his country's Open
title since Color Montgomery in nineteen ninety nine, and just the second ever so
to finish at eighteen under par. Pretty impressive. And a lot of emotion
there, which I thought was and it was just fantastic. So good for
him. Now they get ready for the British Open. It's coming up,
it's coming up quickly. I don't know if he becomes one of those guys
who is the favorite or not. But it was a great story. That's
one of the things that you got to remember from McElroy in case you were
wondering, finished tied for fourth. The highest Americans were Sahithi Gala and Colin
Morikawa. They were both at fourteen hundred park Okay. Over the weekend I
noticed this. ESPN Plus had written a story about the best bargains and those
who overpaid in basketball for the NBA free agency. They wondered why certain players
were picked up by certain teams for a certain amount of money, so for
best bargains on the market, they felt Chris paul Out a one year,
ten and a half million dollar deal going to the San Antonio Spurs was a
really good deal. Caleb Martin for the Sixers four years, thirty two million,
eight million in additional unlikely bonuses was a good pickup for Philly, all
right. A couple others too that you probably don't care about which extensions were
good value. Jonathan Isaac for Orlando. And then they have most head scratching
deals, one of them Caleb Martin former team Miami after he turned down a
lucrative deal from Miami, and a couple others. And here's one that involves
the Pistons, Tobias Harris a two year, fifty two million dollar deal.
This is what made us scratch our head two. Okay, we also prefaced
it by saying, look, not good in the postseason, but he is
not going to be in the postseason with Detroit. Sorry, I mean that's
you can call it negative. You can say, oh, you're being a
hater and all that other stuff. That's fine. Yeah, this just in
shep. You should not bet the ranch on the Pistons to do any sort
of make any sort of noise in the playoffs. You're not making up twenty
two games, right, You're just not. I mean it's a lot.
Look, I think the NBA playoffs, I think there's too many teams anyway,
all right, there's ten teams they got the play in and all this
other stuff. You had a team that was ten games under five hundred,
the Atlanta Hawks, make the playoffs or the tournament if you will. Why
people think more is better is beyond me. I'm one of the rare guys,
one of the few guys who didn't want the twelve team college football playoffs
system either. I think less is more for me. Okay, now doesn't
mean I can't change my mind. You could sway me. You can change
my mind. Is it a quality over quantity thing for you? Yeah?
It really like I don't who wants to see the Bulls or the Hawks in
the playoffs last year? Both teams well under five hundred just not deserving as
far as I'm concerned. And you may say, well, in the West,
that means you would have taken two teams out Sacramento and Golden State who
were ten games above five hundred. Look, I just I don't think there's
nothing redeeming there. There just isn't. Now what's the right number? Great
question? Does it really make much of a difference if two teams are not
there that play in game? If you will Sacramento and Golden State, Chicago
and Atlanta, how does it hurt to have another game? Give them?
Everybody should know it's just a money grab. How do you not know that
there's nothing redeeming about that. I'm sorry anyway, So we know that's not
going to happen, okay, but we do know that it was a little
bit of an odd dare I say, unique and strange pickup for the Detroit
Pistons. Here's what they write. His contract is a rich one, especially
when there were no teams outside of Detroit willing to throw big money at the
former six Ers forward. The Kouter argument is Detroit had to spend ninety percent
of its salary cap to reach the minimum salary four. That's not why you
do it. Don't get me wrong. Harris fits the timeline of the Pistons
trying to compete now really while also preserving flexibility in the near future. Averaged
seventeen points a game without EMBIID. He shot thirty two and a half percent
from deep. Do you agree with that? That's I think that when it
boils down, Chep, that's what it is. He's a good three point
shooter. You put them around Kate and the Pistons had to spend their money
somewhere, and you team them with a couple of other three point shooters who
you've just picked up, including Tim Harroway Junior. That should help when we
come back though, because we're up against it. We will get into the
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This Pistons projection, for example, I found it. I did find
it very interesting yesterday. Have you seen how the Yankees have struggled as of
late? By the way, Trent Oh, Yeah, it's yeah, it's
been. It's been a problem for him. They found a different way to
lose yesterday. This when I when I see these games and I noticed some
of the problems other teams have, I always remind myself of what's what's going
on with with my favorite team? Right? And you see how difficult it
has been for the Yankees as of late. There's still only a game back
in the division, but both Baltimore and New York have been struggling a lot.
Baltimore had lost a lost five or six in a row. Yankees had
dropped I don't know, eleven of thirteen, eleven of fourteen, something like
that. It was tough. It's been tough for both of them. It
shows you how challenging it can be, and the challenges and the toughness that
it requires for a team to be able to hang in there. Baltimore found
a way to win yesterday. Did they find a way or did New York
gift wrap it. New York gift wrapped it. There's no doubt about that.
In case you missed it, the Yankees were up five to three.
They had gotten a home run by the name of Ben Rice. He had
a three run homer in the top of the ninth off Craig kimbrel Uh to
take a lead, a five to three lead. Then the Orioles come up
and with two outs they've get they get the bases loaded and an air by
Anthony Volpi, the shortstop who's usually very surehanded. Okay, ground ball,
routine, ground ball to him and he boots it. Ryan Mountcastle just a
just a it's just a simple I don't want to say simple. It's a
routine grounder that should have ended it could have just flipped it over a second
instead. The Vulpy makes it five to four, keeps the bases loaded.
Then Cedric Mullens comes up and he punches one to left field. Now it
is it's borderline routine. But Alex Verdugo, with two outs run and basis
everyone's running no matter what. He doesn't want it to drop in front of
him or it at least wants to keep the ball in front of him.
So the winning run doesn't score. He breaks in, the ball carries over
his head, he falls down on his belly, in his face, it
drops over him to run score. Baltimore walks it off and they win at
six to five. We have brought up time and time again, ever since
baseball season started. We have brought up the good teams in baseball. I've
done it, probably too often for your liking, but I'm comparing the Tigers
to certain teams who have everyday players, and the Yankees are one of those
teams I've brought up. I brought up Sodo, I brought up for Dugo,
I bring up Volpi, I bring up Judge, I bring up Rizzo
when he's healthy, so on and so forth. Okay, And I say,
that's the reason this is a team that I don't know how many wins
they had at the time. When I use the example of right now,
they got fifty eight wins, whild you take that? You damn right,
you'd take that. You and I would both take that for the Tigers.
Absolutely, fifty eight wins at the All Star break, please, you'd be
tied for first Bay or first place in the Ales Central. Because Cleveland's got
fifty eight wins. But the point is I bring these teams up, understand
and know this. They've got issues too, They've got problems. The Phillies
just gave up eight home runs to arguably the second worst team in the American
Lake yesterday. You don't think there's problems there. Absolutely. You don't think
the Texas Rangers, who are the defending World Series champions, have problems.
Yes they do. They're under five hundred. I mean we can go on
and on Cleveland, Okay, just detry beat them in a series three out
of four. I mean we can go on and on other teams they're experiencing.
I understand that you and me to a certain extent, and Trent,
you don't care. Wese aren't your teams. How many times are you,
as a as a parent, see a kid doing something wrong, your kid
wants to do it, You're like, you're not doing that, and the
kid says, well, Jimmy's doing it, And what do you say,
Jimmy's not my kid. Right, you don't care because Jimmy's not your kid.
Okay, you don't care because the Yankees not your team. That's fine.
I understand that, and you're right. I'm just telling you to try
and keep it in perspective. And I have to remind myself of the exact
same thing when things are going going wrong. Understand that even the best have
issues, even the best teams have something go wrong. Now, how extended
is it, how problematic is that is a discussion for perhaps another day,
But there was a time there for as good as the Yankees were or are
and have been, probably never good enough. They did lose six of seven
games. They did have an extended problem, but they have a margin for
error. You get thirty thres you could still look back. The media can
talk to Aaron Boom right now and say, you know what your team has
lately really struggled. What's been the problem. He can talk about it,
and he can acknowledge it, but he would also say, please know this.
We have the most wins, tied for the most wins in the American
League, fifty eight. Baltimore's got fifty eight, Cleveland's got fifty eight.
There's only one team that has more wins than we do in all of baseball.
I'm trying to look at it from a glass half full. He can
turn around, he could say, you know, we have thirty three roadkills
this year by far and away the most in baseball. Yes, we've gone
through some tough times, but we also have in terms of runs going differential,
the most and the best in the American League and the second most in
all of baseball. There are things that they have built up. It's almost
like a big credit card, right. They have built that up and you
can fall back on that. The margin for air is better there where the
other teams they don't have that margin for error. Specifically, I'm talking about
the Tigers. They haven't been able to build that up. You did maybe
at five and oh. When you start at five and oh or six and
oh or whatever, it was. Hell, that's a long time ago.
Those are things that you and I don't remember. And when things like that,
when things like this come up, it makes me really think long and
hard about the people who strongly recommend you trade Trek Scooble. And I'm not
saying you should or shouldn't. I'll be the first to admit a couple of
years ago I said I would what he's done this year would give me great
pause. I would explore it. There's no doubt about that. I would
explore it to try and see what exactly you could get. If you could
get three high end players who are major League ready right now, who you
believe are going to be key contributors to your company, to your franchise for
the next five to ten years, I would do it. I don't know
if that deal would be there. Baltimore's looking for pitching, but they've also
said they're not going to do it at the expense of losing their core guys.
But the reason I bring that up is because I recognize that every team
goes through issues, but you need even though you may need that buffer,
even though you may need that margin for air, the guys who help you
and prevent the long extended losing streaks and help you close or keep that margin
for air on the positive side, are really strong all star type players,
and he's obviously one of them. All right. I promise when we come
back, I will get to the NBA the team's opening wind total. SI
dot Com came out with this the other day, the projection of the number
of wins. Maybe I think, just maybe you might be surprised at what
they think the Pistons will provide. We'll get to that when we come back
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Others from the Harvard Westlake High School with the Tiger first round pick Bryce
Rayner, start A, Brennan Bosch, Pete Crow, Armstrong, Jackflow,
Already, Max Freed, Lucas Gilito. What do you think? I know?
I'm with you, who really truly knows kid's got talent? Though you
can tell most first rounders do. But this kid looks like he's I mean,
the swing is beautiful and the numbers are there for sure, it's going
to be a while. And I think that's the frustrating thing with a lot
of Tigers fans. It's going to be a while for Max Clark. We
knew it was going to be a while for Jackson job who's accelerating, and
it looks like it's going to be a while for this guy. Thirty five
after the hour, Welcome back, ex'es and bros. Phone number on the
Meyer Hotline eight sixty six, eight three eight forty eight forty three. The
text line is Sports Radio twenty one thousand. Let's hit that Meyer hotline,
Trent. Who's up for us on this Monday morning? We've got Paul from
Grand Rapids wants to talk some Tigers. Paul, good morning. How is
your weekend? Hey, great man? How about yours? Good Thanks for
listening on ninety six point the game? What's going on? So? First
of all, I think the Tigers team can make a run here in the
second half, And honestly, I want no part of trading Jack Clarity,
Eric Spoobowl any of those guys. I think Harrick Schooball is special and I
think he's kV two point. Oh well, let's anadvertion of JV. And
he is the best picture we've had since Berlander. And I would really really
just love to just keep this poor around and just just build around these guys.
I mean, at some point you gotta say enough is enough with the
future, the future, the future, the future. You gotta start winning
baseball games now. You gotta start establishing and winning culture right now. And
I think we're right there, man, And you know some things I'd like
to see, you know, I'd like to see Jake Young come up trying
help this team here in the second half. You know, I'd like to
see Parker Metals get healthy and it, you know, makes make so make
the contribution. Portlson poorn on him, I think he's saying, but I
mean, I really do think this team is capable of making it a second
half runs. Yet what do you think did you feel that way when they
lost ten of thirteen in the middle of June. No, but they've changed
my mind and I'm ready to get hurt again. Yeah, who has changed
your mind specifically? And when did you change your mind? I have for
the series against the Guardians, who I really don't think that they're that good
of a team. By the way, I don't think they're not. You
know, they they're a beneficiary of having played Oakland and LA you know,
a bunch at the beginning of a season. I think have had their record
a little bit here. You know, I think they're they're going to have
a massive ball off here in the second half. But I mean, you're
just seeing the young guys. But man, he's been unbelievable until Bretz spent
a nice surprise. I mean, you know, the young guys are up
here and they're doing it. And you know, I I've been raging about
both. Man, I really love this kid. I I think he's a
cornerstone piece. I think he uh, I think he's going to be a
stunt. He struggled vitally to start off the here. But you know,
unlike Spencer portleson his room here, you know, he's he's absolutely just destroying
the ball here in the month of July. And you know, unlike Torkle
says well cold Keith has absolutely just destroyed it at every single level he's been
in. You know, yeah, I'm excited. Yeah, I don't blame
you. I think he's a big reason. I look, I said this,
I've said this for two months. He's gonna hit. I mean,
it's it's just been proven he's going to hit. You can make the argument
that torkleson Is can hit homers because he's done the same at every single level.
But you said a few things there that have piqued my interest, and
I give you credit. I suppose you could also say, I mean,
did you think the Tigers got off to a great start because they played Chicago,
who's the worst team in the American League, and arguably the worst team
in all of baseball. I try to make sure, like you said,
you don't buy into Cleveland. I think a lot of people felt that way,
or maybe perhaps still feel like you and don't feel that way. I
would remind you they beat Seattle two out of three, they beat Baltimore two
out of three. They have some quality wins there. I think the Tigers,
with their recent wins over Cleveland specifically, and by the way Cleveland beat
them two out of three earlier this year, and against the Dodgers, there
are certain correct me if you think I'm wrong here, there are certain wins
against certain teams that have credibility in your eyes that change your mind. It
might be Cleveland, although you just said you don't think they're all that good,
so I don't know why it would be Cleveland. I think it's the
Dodgers series more than it can't be Cincinnati, because Cincinnati was under five hundred
when they were playing Detroit, and even though they had won three or five
in a row, it doesn't matter to you. It can't be Cleveland because
the Guardians don't have your respect. You said they're going to fall off,
and you think you don't think they're that good. So it has to be
the Dodgers, right, absolutely, it is. Well, I would remind
you this. I don't think there's a reason for me to try and convince
you otherwise because I give you credit and I think I think it should bring
some hope, especially when you get a bad Toronto team right after the break.
But I would remind you the Dodgers going into the series against Detroit in
the previous ten to twelve games had the worst ra and among the worst pitching
in all of baseball over a previous two week span. Going into that series
against Detroit. That's not a knock on the Tigers win. Give credit where
credit is due. The Link comeback was unbelievable. Saturday Ice comeback win too.
They deserve it. It just it's not enough for me anyway to believe
that they have turned the proverbial corner. Are they going to catch up to
the teams that are ahead of them? I don't see that happening. And
this is coming from a guy who picked Detroit to win the division before the
season began. I just don't you know. I mean, remember we remember
something. Detroit played the White Sox, the Mets, and the A's at
the beginning of the season, and by the way, the A's beat them
in that series. And we're trying to tell we're going to try and tell
people that, well, we don't believe Cleveland because they were the beneficiary of
playing certain teams at the beginning of their season. Detroit did the same damn
thing. You know what I mean, No, I respect it, I
respect it, but you know, I just they are you know, I
think the Fighters have won one or the last fourteen games and you're just starting
to see things come together. Outstanding staff, I think, and you know
it's it's it's keeping us in games. And you know, I respect your
opinionship. I mean, you know, I respect you, and you're you're
a great baseball mind and you're you're really smart when it comes to a lot
of this stuff. So you know, I'll take get your you know,
I'll take your opinion as well, and you know, respect it. But
I I honestly, I'm just tired losing. Man. You got to give
us something to hope for. Eventually. Yeah, I'm glad you said.
Let me ask you the one more thing, Jack Flaherty, you said you
you would keep you so you would sign him to an extension, right,
because he's gon one year deal? Okay, how any idea that? Because
three years? Three years? And it's because guys come here and they turn
their pitching careers around. It seems like Hurst Peer is the best of what
he does when it comes to you helping guys revive their careers. And there's
not a better organization in baseball that develops pen like we can we develop additionally
then? I mean, you can make the argument with goal keep making,
but do we develop pitching? Yes, we absolutely do. And you know,
it seems like Clarity's comfortable here. He has that level of respect,
and he has that level of comfortability with Chris Better, and you know,
I really think that he can keep doing what he's doing. I think it's
sustainable. I think, you know, I think it's good enough to say,
hey, at least give this guy a two to three more years if
it doesn't work out. It doesn't work out, but like, what are
you going to get another future piece that may or may not work out?
Like I've had it with that, There's no guarantee that whatever you get for
Clarity is going to pan out and be good. Even if they put up
douty numbers in the minor league. That doesn't need anything. We have a
proven commodity on the mound right now that is pitching some of the best baseball
of his career because he's comfortable with the organization and he's comfortable with Chris Better,
and Chris Better picks something. I don't what, but he picked something
with Jack Clarity and he's only twenty eight, So that tells you something too.
So I look, I tend to agree with you, and thanks for
the phone call. I love the passion. I love the positivity more than
anything else. I'm not trying to take that away from you. I would
argue that he's had better seasons, okay, for example this twenty nineteen campaign
in Saint Louis. But I hear where you're going. If you're not going
to trade him, I would sign him. I don't know if three years
would be enough at age twenty eight, honestly, I really don't. But
I like where your head is. At least you're thinking ahead of time,
right, I mean you, anytime we have these conversations, you got to
think what would he be worth? They're paying him fourteen million this year.
Would you pay him for fourteen million over each of the next three years.
I don't know. I mean, he might not take that with the type
of season he's having. The only thing I would push back on would because
there's no sense go ahead. I didn't know you're still there. One,
because there's no salary cap in baseball. Yeah, there is no salary cap
in baseball. Yeah, but there is a luxury tax. Number one,
and the Tigers aren't even close to that. That's number one. Number Two.
You do have an owner who has proven he will not spend money,
So you and I can talk about that as much as we want and believe
in it, because I believe in it too, all right, So if
you wanted to sign him to a three year, forty two million dollar contract,
you and I would think that's good value personally if I were his agent,
and I think if you were his agent, you would expect more.
Okay, you would expect more than three years forty two million dollars for a
twenty eight year old who seems to be pitching well and seems to like it
here, you would get more than that, But you have an owner who
doesn't appear and you would. I use this as an example because he's got
one hundred and seven million dollar payroll. Spend the money. Yeah, we
thank Paul for the call and grand Rabbits talking Tigers. I think the principle
he's getting at that I actually agree with Shep is you finally have someone or
a couple players that are exciting and fun and competent. And I know a
lot of it is with the pitching staff, but you want to hang onto
that. I mean, because we've had we've had a few seasons now in
a row where it's just been miserable. We haven't been even close to five
hundred baseball in Detroit around the fourth of July or the All Star break the
last few years, and this year you are so I guess it's just you
want to hang onto that, and it can sort of cloud your vision a
little bit, and maybe you're not thinking towards the future so much because you're
enjoying this little taste of victory. I'm with you. I'm with Paul one
hundred percent of that, all right. Flairty twenty eight, Schooble twenty seven,
Olsen twenty four, really good stuff, right, I Mean, that's
a trio that's among the best in the American League. You got to find
a fourth. I don't know if it's mys I don't know if it's Manning,
I don't know if it's job, I don't know if it's Madden.
It's not my aida. I was just gonna say, all right, so
you got to find a fourth and a fifth, and then you got to
hope they're healthy. But they've got some pitching within the system. It's not
as simple though. First of all, let me just push back on one
thing he tries. Is not the best team in developing pitching talent. They're
not. Cleveland is better. The Dodgers are better. There's no doubt about
that. That is blatantly obvious. They've done a really good job of it.
And I think Chris Fetters among the best pitching coaches in all of baseball.
That Robin Lund has helped him, no doubt. So I'm not going
to question that at all. But I don't think they're the best. And
he's right about Cole Keith love his hit tool, it's going to be there,
like Riley Green. It's amazing how things can change in a month,
like Riley Green. Right, But and this is a big butt. You
need more every day power, every day power, and you need more everyday
players. That is a given. Now, if you want to bring up
eventually a Jace Young and put him at third base, and you need to
find a shortstop because Baia enough is enough, right, you better hope Torkosen
comes back as your first basement. I think you need a catcher, and
then we're talking about something here. How do you get them? That's a
bigger question. I don't know if we necessarily have the answer to that with
this team, because you want to hold onto the pitching, and I understand
that, I totally do. Just make sure if you're going to hold on
to Jack Felharity, you better make sure you sign him or you have an
idea of what he wants and it works within your parameters, because the last
thing you want is to have to deal with the Michael Fulmer and the Edwado
Rodriguez situations when you could have traded them and you could have got something decent
and you didn't and then watched them leave. Rodriguez left Fulmer your trade and
you didn't get anything for him. Well. Also, Scott Harris really needs
to evaluate whether or not he thinks what Jack flarerty is doing is sustainable,
not the fans. He needs to decide what he thinks is fair, because,
I mean, chef. We saw this with Spencer Turnbull a couple of
years ago. We saw with Matthew Boyd a couple of years ago, where
those guys were pitching pretty well, but they're playing a little bit over their
skis and Alavila didn't make the move right. Right, Turnbull, I'm not
so sure. I don't think there was necessarily a market for Turnbull. That's
fair. He was, I mean there was. I don't think many people
cried when he was gone. Let's put it that way, all right.
Flerty's different. Flerity, first of all, is established. Turnbull was not.
Flerity has proven himself and he is a really good teammate that players really
like and appreciate. Now at twenty eight, can he continue to do what
he's doing? Look, the era is there, right, You'll take a
three era. The durability for the most part, you gotta make sure he's
healthy. He's got sixteen starts, but he's had some back issues. You
worry about a little bit, a little bit of a track record with his
injuries. So twenty twenty three pretty damn good. But he had problems in
twenty twenty two. He had problems in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty.
You know, you always throw out the best year of his career was twenty
nineteen, when he's twenty three years old. He made thirty three starts,
he went eleven and eight. He had an era below two point eight.
He threw one hundred and ninety six innings. But I would just remind you,
anytime you're a general manager, you take all that stuff into consideration.
As good as he was back then and as good as you may think he
has been now, he has never been a guy who gives you a ton
of innings. I'm not trying to be a downer. I'm not trying to
be a negative guy, and I'm not trying to squash your enthusiasm. I
love it. We feed off that kind of stuff. I'm just giving you
some facts. He's never been the type of workhorse kind of guy that often
teams teams would cove it. So when you look at one hundred and ninety
six innings as a career high, I suppose and today that'd be good,
but that was, you know, five six years ago. Now in fairness.
Trek Schoubl hasn't been that guy either. He's never thrown one hundred and
fifty innings in a season. I'm not saying I don't agree with Paul,
because I do. I would see what Jack Flaherty wants. But if it's
over what you're willing to spend, if it's irresponsible, then you trade him.
You may not like that, but you do. You have to look
toward the future on keeping Schooble long term, and you're gonna have other guys
like Riley Green, for example. And the only reason I bring that up
is because of the proven track record of the owner. That's all. Those
are things you have to keep under consideration. Take that into account. I
like Cole Keith a lot. He's gonna hit and he's gonna continue. And
I said that, I think Riley Green's gonna continue to hit. I'm gonna
stick with I think Spencer Torkosen's gonna hit with power. I think he'll be
back up and it'll be and he will be able to hit with power.
I think I think a guy like Jayce Young is a guy who makes a
lot of contact. To me, those are good trends. We're just tired
of waiting. That's the difference. Back with the third hour of Exies and
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