The Tigers clawing back again. Torque labels this ball to the left center field,
cannon fire into the camp and we're tied again. That is the sound.
That's the sound that you love to hear on the bet of the spencil
Torko center. That means that he did everything right. The rhythm, the
timing to two pitch is a fastball, and what do you do? You're
making pay and Torques across that ball to the left center tie this ball game
up. All right, Welcome to Xies and bros. On this Friday.
We've made it through the week. And that was, of course the sound
of ballet sports and the Tigers game last night or yesterday and they're lost to
Texas. Spencer Torkelsen coming through to tie things up. But Detroit again.
The defense yesterday, what did we say? We said, well, you
know, the defense really isn't that bad. They had three errors, but
you know they've made eight on the year. Are they really one of the
worst defensive teams in baseball? That's not even the point. They made three
more errors yesterday and one was a mistag by Jill or Shechella. How he
missed that is still quite honestly a little puzzling, or Sheella with an air,
Veerling with an air, and Cole Keith with a second straight game with
an air. Again, what we discussed yesterday was that maybe you're not necessarily
overall concerned right now, but as these things build and as you watch this
team play, at some point you form an opinion. Now when that is
is really up to the individual. I try not to form an opinion too
quickly on a baseball team this early in the season. Nineteen games in now
ten and nine on the year roughed up Jack Lighter, who couldn't control his
fastball, but still couldn't come away with the win because of their defense.
Rightley Green gets a couple of hits, Mark Canna gets a couple of hits.
Carry Carpenter with a big hit too, but he also had three strikeouts,
one to end the game. Or Selle had a couple of hits,
Baya's had a couple of hits. I think it comes to a point where
you say to yourself, it's not whether or not this team is good,
it's whether or not this team can win. Can this team win the division?
I think that's what many people are trying to answer and they're in Minnesota
for a weekend series tonight. A Minnesota team that is struggling offensively too,
a Minnesota team that is five games under five hundred, a Minnesota team that's
lost four in a row. For me, I sometimes look at a team,
or oftentimes look at a team, and then I start to measure it
against others. I don't know how you judge a team. I respect it
however it is you feel without being too emotional and too knee jerk. That's
the hard thing about sports. It's almost impossible, quite honestly. But when
you look at a baseball team and you see they're starting five, and you
see their starting rotation, and you see their bullpen starting five, they're starting
nine, eight really, and then they're starting rotation their bullpen, and you
ask yourself, how many of those guys do I want on my team.
It's easier done in basketball, but because you just seeing the five guys the
entire time. But in baseball, how many guys would you want this guy
starting at third base for your team? Would you want this guy starting at
shortstop for team or the team they're playing? Do you want my guy the
guy who's on your favorite team? The team you're following compared to that.
Do you want Spencer Charcoal Center, Carlo Santana. We'll use the Minnesota series
since it's coming up. Do you want Edward Julian or Cole Keith? You
want Willie Castro or Geo Orshella. I'm plugging him into third base if that's
all right. You want Carlo's Correa who's now on the tendail or Kyle Farmer
or Jave Bayez, want Alex Kirloff, Carrie Carpenter. That's how I look
at it, and when you look at Texas, of course, probably unfair
because Texas is the defending world champion, but it's not like it's a team
built on superstars. They're paid like it, but are they superstars? Would
you call Kyle Seeger such pretty damn good player. I'm not a huge fan
of him individually in my discussions with him, but he's a pretty damn good
player than three or four already. Marcus Simeon, Hell yeah, really like
Marcus Simon. He went three for six yesterday. Good young player in Evan
Carter. You like him? He's only twenty one years old. Hard to
judge right now? A Dooley Scarcia absolutely. Wyatt Langford loved him coming out
of Florida. Jonaheim, I think Jonaheim is one of the better catchers in
all of baseball in terms of all around game, defensively and offensively. But
if you also look at them, you recognize they've got some guys maybe you
wouldn't want Aodie Taveres Duran. Not sure about Smith, right, I mean,
it happens certain pictures. Okay, I don't know enough right now about
Josh Smith. Travis Jankowski is a good fill in guy. I mean so,
I guess my point is if you build it with everyday players. And
I'll go back to this constantly, so you can roll your eyes if you
want, But I think it's a point worth making. I've established it and
I'm going to use it as an example on a pretty regular basis. This
is why you want everyday players. Question is due the Tigers have enough good
everyday players. Monday morning we might be talking about something completely different. After
a weekend series sweep against Minnesota. Don't know, the skeptic in you could
say, eh, Minnesota's have very good You're supposed to do that hard to
sweep a team when you're of the Tigers inflexibility. Maybe not so much with
Texas, who's already established themselves as a really good team and lead the West
right now thanks to winning three out of four. Maybe it's a little bit
easier for a team like the Yankees, who after a good starter, Baltimore,
who's got good young talent. Cleveland's playing well again for crying out loud,
they went again last night, Atlanta. We're seeing the same We're kind
of seeing the same teams in a regular basis, aren't we. Yeah.
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CBS sports articles recently, I ran into this one from an author by the
name of Matt Snyder who writes about baseball, and he's kind of writing allowed
discussing a baseball game with friends about the number of scoreboard information he gets in
baseball, and I'm wondering what people think of this too. There's a lot
of information in baseball. There's more numbers in baseball than really any other sport.
You can almost you can get into a rabbit hole, and it's hard
to get yourself out of it. The different things and situations that players face,
and that you can then project, what's he batting in a one to
two count, what's he batting with runners on first and second? What's he
batting against the fastball? How many times is he going to write? What's
his numbers when he's ahead, and account what's the tendency of the pitcher.
It's constant. As a guy who called baseball for over five years, trust
me when I tell you this, you can get lost. It can be
really challenging on what to decipher is really important at that moment in time.
Well, because it's so damn numbers driven teams broadcasts some broadcasters feel like everybody
wants to know all of it. Here's what you have on the screen.
If you're watching baseball. You've got the game. You've got what is called
the score bug that tells you Tiger's four ranger seven, top of the eighth,
what's the count? You see the diamond in the middle of it,
and when there's a colored base in yellow, that means a man's on.
It's giving you the score, it's giving you the inning, it's giving you
the teams, it's giving you the count, and it's giving you the situation.
That's just on the screen. Then on the bottom third is what is
called the scroll that is giving you information on what's taking place in the world
of sports. As you know it scores from around Major League Baseball. Something
may have happened that's important in the NHL, there is an individual who is
in charge of that and they tailor that scroll to that market's needs. So
in Detroit in the fall, you might see a big high school football game
final, you'll see college football game finals. Of your interest, or what
we think is your interest, might be a little different in other markets.
So you get that idea. So you have that all going on, and
then you have at least in Detroit or in the regions that carry Balley sports
obviously not Pittsburgh, not Seattle, not San Francisco, not Chicago, not
Philadelphia. They're either Root or they're NBC owned. But what you'll get is
what's called the bally bar, and that will give you a specific piece of
information of the situation that is taking place. Now col Keith is batting this
in this situation a nugget of information. So you've got all that going on.
On top of that, you've got what is called a lower third piece
of information, and the lower third is situational. The Tigers are batting three
p thirty three with runners in scoring position. That's a lot to digest.
That's not even the half of it. That's just on the television broadcast.
What's going on on the scoreboard for people in the ballpark. Oh and by
the way, of course, you will have certain moments that added information will
provide. It will be provided. Pitch sequence. This is how we got
to three and two pitch count. This is how many pitches he's thrown per
This is how many pitches he's thrown in the first four innings. All of
it. Pitch velocity, the identification of a pitch. You've seen the tracker
in golf. For example, if you were watching yesterday and you watched ludfig
Oberg hit a two iron two hundred and seventy one yards and have a putt
for eagle, that's right. He had a two iron two hundred and seventy
one yards, simply pure. It was beautiful. The ball gets tracked right,
of course, same thing happens in baseball. The amount of we would
call them toys that you can use in a broadcast is incredible and it's awesome.
But how much of it do you think is overwhelming to you? I
didn't even dive into what's on the score board these days. It's you've heard
the phrase paralysis by analysis. That's what it feels like. What is it
you need and what is too much. That's what I'm wondering from you.
Eight six six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. I get where
the writer's coming from. I do. I could see that it's almost too
much. And then if you want certain information, what is the information you
want? It used to be, well, you know what, Freddy was
formed two with a two point four era. That's it. Now we got
batting average against, we've got whip, we've got walks, we've got strikeouts,
we've got innings pitch, we've got complete games, we've got shutouts.
We've got starter or saves and loan saves for relievers, ground ball rate.
We've got so much that has broken down, and then we feel like the
need to give it to fans. We used to have this discussion all the
time when we show the starting lineups, what number should we show to the
side of the name because batting average is no longer the true indicator. So
we had conversations with members of the Tigers front office. What do you go
by? What's the most important thing for you? Is it on base percentage,
is it slug? Is it ops? So they gave us the information
ops, and my question to them is how many fans. Do you think
understand it? That's what I wonder, and I'm not sure they could even
answer the question, what do you want to see? Or is it too
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