WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Bill, what a difference a year makes. I mean, 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:04.799 where were we this time last year after the first 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:08.759 series of the year? After leaving Chavez and 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:12.259 Chet, the sandbox, San Diego treated us a heck 00:00:12.259 --> 00:00:14.099 of a lot better. We're now two and one heading 00:00:14.099 --> 00:00:20.140 to Arizona. Let's go Tigers. You're listening 00:00:20.140 --> 00:00:24.100 to The Litterbox, a Detroit Tigers podcast with 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:29.570 your hosts, Chet West and Bill Patterson. Litterbox 00:00:29.570 --> 00:00:32.490 listeners, we got a first series under our belt 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:35.810 We got some highlights. We got some low lights 00:00:35.810 --> 00:00:38.729 We got a couple guys that kind of wonder how 00:00:38.729 --> 00:00:40.390 long they'll be Tigers and a couple other guys 00:00:40.390 --> 00:00:42.590 I hope are Tigers for a really long time based 00:00:42.590 --> 00:00:45.189 on what we saw in a very small sample size bill 00:00:45.189 --> 00:00:49.289 What was your take? Who'd you like? Well, I mean, 00:00:49.450 --> 00:00:52.530 let's not bury the lead here chat Kevin McGonagall 00:00:52.530 --> 00:00:55.630 was nothing short of sensational I am shocked 00:00:55.630 --> 00:00:58.030 you got you got him out of the gates first. Come 00:00:58.030 --> 00:01:01.829 on. I mean, I got to give the people what they 00:01:01.829 --> 00:01:04.409 want and that's more people what they want. It's 00:01:04.409 --> 00:01:08.349 more KMAC. It's more KMAC. He was four for five 00:01:08.349 --> 00:01:11.950 in opening day. It was all the buzz around baseball. 00:01:12.189 --> 00:01:13.989 You know, the Buster onlys and Jeff Pathsons 00:01:13.989 --> 00:01:16.969 of the world that have been touting how great 00:01:16.969 --> 00:01:20.930 of a prospect Kevin McGonagall is. Their prophecies 00:01:20.930 --> 00:01:24.480 came true. And will he revert to the norm at 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.540 some point in this year? Of course, you know, 00:01:27.659 --> 00:01:29.719 second time, third time through the lineups are 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.120 going to, you know, when he sees the twins, you 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.260 know, the third time it's going to get tougher. 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:38.079 However, he's off to a magnificent start. And 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.099 I do have to give props to Dylan Dingler behind 00:01:41.099 --> 00:01:44.359 the plate. Also carrying a very mean bat after 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:46.680 picking up where he left off after his little 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.140 procedure that had me more worried than you. 00:01:49.629 --> 00:01:53.370 And I have to say, Chet, the Tigers and Scott 00:01:53.370 --> 00:01:56.810 Harris are building a young nucleus that could 00:01:56.810 --> 00:01:59.390 be very feared in the American League for the 00:01:59.390 --> 00:02:02.689 long term. What are your thoughts? I buy that. 00:02:02.969 --> 00:02:06.450 I buy that. There are a couple guys I do worry 00:02:06.450 --> 00:02:09.490 about. Well, let's talk about them. I needed 00:02:09.490 --> 00:02:13.789 to see a little more in the first series of the 00:02:13.789 --> 00:02:15.949 season. You want to see guys get off to a good 00:02:15.949 --> 00:02:19.139 start. I know. that Kerry Carpenter is going 00:02:19.139 --> 00:02:22.460 to find something at some point. But watching 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:25.939 him go, oh, for the world this past weekend. 00:02:26.539 --> 00:02:28.780 I mean, the guy hasn't had a hit. I think he's 00:02:28.780 --> 00:02:33.060 had a walk or maybe two. I worry the strikeouts, 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.500 you know, you get Riley Green out there with 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:38.000 I think Riley had one hit all weekend long and 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.060 a walk. We need these guys. We need the Riley 00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:43.259 Greens and the Kerry Carpenter's to step it up 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:45.949 and. Torek, up until yesterday, had a couple 00:02:45.949 --> 00:02:48.110 of hits under his belt. We just need those guys 00:02:48.110 --> 00:02:50.849 to be good. Colt Keith, he pulled his weight. 00:02:51.169 --> 00:02:53.770 He did fine. Matt Vierling, we're going to need 00:02:53.770 --> 00:02:55.349 some hits out of Matt Vierling if he's going 00:02:55.349 --> 00:02:58.830 to play. Zach McKinstry, he did fine. You know, 00:02:58.949 --> 00:03:00.710 there's a couple of guys on this team are going 00:03:00.710 --> 00:03:03.949 to have to find some consistency. So first series, 00:03:03.949 --> 00:03:06.090 I don't want to get too worked up, but I really 00:03:06.090 --> 00:03:10.210 wanted to see Cary Carpenter and Riley Green 00:03:10.210 --> 00:03:13.229 get off to a fast start. And I just they didn't. 00:03:13.509 --> 00:03:16.280 So. I'm going to pick on them a little bit. McGonagall 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.620 is great. And you're right. We're going to see 00:03:18.620 --> 00:03:21.180 how he adjusts. That's the real catch here. Right. 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.280 It's you can come out and shock some people. 00:03:23.419 --> 00:03:25.879 How do you adjust when they adjust to you and 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:28.879 your strengths? Absolutely. Going back to like 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:33.699 just the core group. I stand corrected. I know 00:03:33.699 --> 00:03:36.360 Colt Keith when he has his slumps draws my ire 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.139 and I know you tried to talk me off the ledge. 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.680 I owe an olive branch to you and Mr. Keith on 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.680 this because He is pulling more than his weight. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.400 He's playing third base now, which is another 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.900 position change. He has just been so versatile 00:03:51.900 --> 00:03:56.860 and it just makes me dislike the Gley bar Gley 00:03:56.860 --> 00:04:00.259 bar tender, if you would, that he accepted because 00:04:00.259 --> 00:04:02.879 who else wanted Gley bar? And I'll let you do 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.259 your Gley bar story right now. And then we'll 00:04:06.259 --> 00:04:09.539 circle back to my concerns with both carp and 00:04:09.539 --> 00:04:13.520 Riley Green and why I think it's a duplicate, 00:04:13.699 --> 00:04:16.100 meaning they're basically the same type of hitter. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.980 And I think for the Tigers own sanity and lineup 00:04:19.980 --> 00:04:25.620 sake, they need to get rid of one trade. I'm 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:28.060 not ready to go quite that route yet. And if 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:30.160 I'm keeping one of them, I'm keeping Riley just 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.500 because I think he's the, his health is a little 00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:38.100 more stable than, than Carrie. Carrie is so streaky. 00:04:38.420 --> 00:04:40.930 I mean, when Carrie's hot, he's hot. He's one 00:04:40.930 --> 00:04:42.649 of the better hitters in the game for power, 00:04:42.689 --> 00:04:45.490 especially from the left side. But when he's 00:04:45.490 --> 00:04:48.610 not, he just sort of disappears and then an injury 00:04:48.610 --> 00:04:50.649 will creep up. It just kind of gets to the point 00:04:50.649 --> 00:04:54.470 where maybe Kerry, maybe we've seen the ceiling 00:04:54.470 --> 00:04:56.430 there and we're not going to get too much more. 00:04:56.629 --> 00:04:58.649 I don't know. Again, early don't want to pick 00:04:58.649 --> 00:05:01.009 on him too much. Love to see Dingler. Do you 00:05:01.009 --> 00:05:04.610 think Dingler is a top five catcher? In my opinion, 00:05:04.610 --> 00:05:08.009 yes. I don't think he baseball recognizes him 00:05:08.009 --> 00:05:11.819 quite is not quite yet. Right. But I think you 00:05:11.819 --> 00:05:14.220 and I are paying closer attention to it as most 00:05:14.220 --> 00:05:18.319 Tigers fans are. And I think he will be if this 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:20.980 continues throughout this season. We have to 00:05:20.980 --> 00:05:24.279 remember it's only truly his year two season. 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.420 And typically local fans, local podcasters like 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:29.680 ourselves are a little bit ahead of the curve 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.439 of the national media on that. He will also get 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.319 overshadowed this season because of Kevin McGonigal. 00:05:36.379 --> 00:05:39.120 But I'd like you to share your Glabar quip that 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.379 you texted. Our tiger screw up yesterday. It's 00:05:42.379 --> 00:05:44.980 one of these Gley bar Torres things, right? Like 00:05:44.980 --> 00:05:48.259 we're in a zero zero game at them at the time 00:05:48.259 --> 00:05:52.199 and you've got a guy on first and third I Believe 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.379 if I'm not mistaken, there were two outs There 00:05:54.379 --> 00:05:57.639 might have only been one I my memory is not great 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:59.500 as I was coming in and out watching the game 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:03.120 But Jake Rogers throws a seed to second. There's 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.959 a guy stealing from first Gleyber moves over 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.060 to the bag to catch the ball coming down and 00:06:10.060 --> 00:06:13.759 kind of Alligator arms just short arms the thing. 00:06:14.139 --> 00:06:17.360 I think he saw the runner coming in But it wasn't 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.339 there wasn't gonna be a vicious collision I mean 00:06:19.339 --> 00:06:21.339 it would have been a perfect throw and a tag 00:06:21.339 --> 00:06:23.939 would have got the runner easy And he just kind 00:06:23.939 --> 00:06:25.699 of alligator armed it and it tipped off his glove 00:06:25.699 --> 00:06:27.680 went into centerfield It was just one of those 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.860 things really came at like have some hard here. 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.300 You're in a tight game I know it's game three 00:06:32.300 --> 00:06:35.089 of the season It's not a playoff game. It's not 00:06:35.089 --> 00:06:38.269 a postseason game. Again, we're ranting a little 00:06:38.269 --> 00:06:41.230 and we're only a series into this deal. But these 00:06:41.230 --> 00:06:43.589 are the things I look at him like 24 million 00:06:43.589 --> 00:06:46.670 for this guy. Like, and I know it's him picking 00:06:46.670 --> 00:06:50.730 up an option. But, man, we're spending 50 mil 00:06:50.730 --> 00:06:54.550 on him and Baez right now, which is just I just 00:06:54.550 --> 00:06:57.329 don't it doesn't add up in the productivity. 00:06:57.649 --> 00:07:00.410 Like he's a vet. He should make that play. Jake 00:07:00.410 --> 00:07:02.129 Rogers kind of look on his face like, what more 00:07:02.129 --> 00:07:04.990 do I have to do? Can I give you a couple thoughts 00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:07.810 on this? It wasn't like Ty Cobb was there. We 00:07:07.810 --> 00:07:09.689 all know the infamous Cobb story that he would 00:07:09.689 --> 00:07:12.370 sharpen his spikes on the bench and just stare 00:07:12.370 --> 00:07:16.829 at the opposing team short stops. And a guy from 00:07:16.829 --> 00:07:18.850 third scored when he missed it. So it gave up 00:07:18.850 --> 00:07:20.870 a run and put another guy in scoring position. 00:07:20.910 --> 00:07:25.009 It was just a mess. Yeah. And so my second question 00:07:25.009 --> 00:07:29.310 for you on this is we had really good outings. 00:07:29.569 --> 00:07:33.500 Game one from Tarek Scoobal. The only complaint 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:37.300 I heard local media say or local fans. It wasn't 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:40.040 media Stating like oh he didn't he wanted to 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:41.939 be pulled like he didn't want to go out for the 00:07:41.939 --> 00:07:44.839 seventh and it's What was the point they were 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.000 dominating and rolling at that? Yeah, you only 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:49.600 have to save him He only has so many and I'd 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.939 say and so just save him the game was in hand 00:07:51.939 --> 00:07:54.100 I don't have a problem with that early in the 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:55.879 season like this we get to that playoffs and 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.860 you start pulling them after five I'm gonna be 00:07:57.860 --> 00:08:00.720 I'm gonna be a little more sour That'll happen 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.680 at then he's too much. I don't either I don't 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:06.240 think it will but he has been known To get pulled 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.579 early in games and that's been kind of the knock 00:08:08.579 --> 00:08:10.740 on him And so he's gonna have to you know That's 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:13.279 part of what got to live with is hearing that 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.160 knock and he doesn't throw that many innings 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.579 He's not one of those guys that goes past six 00:08:17.579 --> 00:08:20.240 innings very often So he went six innings three 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.100 hits and a run six K's. That's a very workman 00:08:23.100 --> 00:08:25.560 like outing for Tarek scubal. That's a You know, 00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:28.300 that's a that's a patented terror school pitching 00:08:28.300 --> 00:08:31.740 effort there. I will say you start on the pitching. 00:08:31.740 --> 00:08:34.279 We can fade over to pitching now. Well, we have 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.379 our school was so solid. Yeah, go. We're on it. 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.940 Well, one more point about this is when fans 00:08:40.940 --> 00:08:43.059 say, like, why doesn't he do complete games? 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.440 He doesn't pitch like Greg Maddux. He's not pitching 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.379 for ground ball contact. A high effort guy. Yeah. 00:08:49.379 --> 00:08:51.259 Meaning that he's going to get strikeouts, but 00:08:51.259 --> 00:08:53.600 he's going to wear hitters down. Sure. So it 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:57.139 takes. Six pitches seven pitches Greg Maddox 00:08:57.139 --> 00:09:00.379 was okay. Hey, it's Greg Maddox different Yeah, 00:09:00.379 --> 00:09:03.080 you're talking about a unicorn here to a degree 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.299 I mean two unicorns 90 and on the paints the 00:09:06.299 --> 00:09:09.639 corners, but it's look look I I'll take what 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.980 scubal offers. He's obviously a great pitcher 00:09:11.980 --> 00:09:14.259 It's just that is his one knock as he's a five 00:09:14.259 --> 00:09:17.320 six inning guy typically We'll watch that as 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.299 the season goes on and we'll take it. I what 00:09:19.299 --> 00:09:22.500 I would like to call out our starting staff was 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:24.919 great. Was great all weekend. Flaherty did not 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.240 have a bad outing yesterday. No, I would have 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.700 liked to seen him go a little bit longer than 00:09:29.700 --> 00:09:33.240 4 .1. Yeah, but I don't want to skip over. Framber 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.799 was Every member was everything he's built to 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.820 be he got into trouble and he got out of it and 00:09:38.820 --> 00:09:41.299 that is the difference between him being like 00:09:41.299 --> 00:09:44.019 the Professional the true professional he is 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:46.879 very good in a guy like it's Reese Olsen that 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:48.980 might have not been able to get it And I'm not 00:09:48.980 --> 00:09:51.139 picking on Reese. I'm just saying experience 00:09:51.139 --> 00:09:54.399 just there's an experience and I know we're paying 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.700 him a lot of money It's not our money. It's Chris, 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.299 which is money And I think it's going to be a 00:09:59.299 --> 00:10:01.899 solid investment. Flaherty wasn't terrible yesterday. 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:03.639 And I have one for you. Flaherty didn't give 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.000 up any homers. Usually he gives up a go for ball 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.460 or two. And it was, it's, you know, it's Petco. 00:10:08.620 --> 00:10:11.500 So it's a deep park. Yeah. His problem though, 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.940 he did walk. They did hit him hard. Well, they 00:10:13.940 --> 00:10:16.159 hit him hard when they made contact and he walked 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:19.200 four, which is concerning. Four walks isn't going 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.240 to cut it. We never said that we were going to 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:23.500 live and die this season. Nope. By Jack Flaherty. 00:10:24.059 --> 00:10:27.950 So I'll tell you. Hold on. Okay, go on. No, no, 00:10:27.950 --> 00:10:29.590 tell me tell me I want to hear I'm gonna tell 00:10:29.590 --> 00:10:31.789 you had a good outing yesterday was her guy Connor 00:10:31.789 --> 00:10:35.730 Siebold We gave him a lot of guff in the first 00:10:35.730 --> 00:10:38.730 episode figure out why we signed the guy he two 00:10:38.730 --> 00:10:42.049 and a third Gave up a hit in three K's through 00:10:42.049 --> 00:10:44.649 50 pitches. The guy was in there for you know, 00:10:44.649 --> 00:10:47.549 a third of the ball games Hats off Connor Siebold 00:10:47.549 --> 00:10:50.389 way to start the season off years and if we had 00:10:50.389 --> 00:10:53.470 to throw a little shade towards the pitching 00:10:53.470 --> 00:10:55.690 staff, which there isn't a whole lot to throw. 00:10:55.850 --> 00:10:59.190 Not a lot. Jerry Anderson was not magnificent 00:10:59.190 --> 00:11:04.850 opening day. No, but to no damage. OK, so let's 00:11:04.850 --> 00:11:07.049 let's see. He gets a get out of jail free card. 00:11:08.009 --> 00:11:11.210 We won the game. I'm not too darn worried about 00:11:11.210 --> 00:11:13.950 it. You know who was actually quite good on opening 00:11:13.950 --> 00:11:17.330 day was your boy. Anytime, anywhere, any day. 00:11:17.330 --> 00:11:22.279 Jesus was quite good. on a uh well actually sorry 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:25.419 game two he pitched he gave us an inning a hit 00:11:25.419 --> 00:11:28.220 two k's that's what you want from him i'm happy 00:11:28.220 --> 00:11:32.000 to see that uh kyle finnegan did his job walked 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.019 one guy but got two k's got out of the inning 00:11:34.019 --> 00:11:36.720 kenley jansen everything he was billed to be 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.500 closed it out one inning three k's struck out 00:11:40.500 --> 00:11:43.779 the side kenley jansen still got it so i'm happy 00:11:43.779 --> 00:11:46.340 with our pitching i think our pitching is that 00:11:46.340 --> 00:11:51.419 bullpen might be one of the single Most improved 00:11:51.419 --> 00:11:54.080 aspects of this team right now. I think it yes, 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.259 and I think if we can get the young hitting Namely 00:11:57.259 --> 00:12:00.279 Dingler McGonagall get either green or carp. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.340 I don't even expect both with Keith I think we're 00:12:03.340 --> 00:12:05.700 off to good things this year. I think our starting 00:12:05.700 --> 00:12:08.779 staff looks good. I think our pen looks better 00:12:08.779 --> 00:12:12.820 So next up we've got a trip to Phoenix in the 00:12:12.820 --> 00:12:15.379 Arizona Diamondbacks Who just came off a three 00:12:15.379 --> 00:12:17.820 game series against the Dodgers? So of course 00:12:17.820 --> 00:12:21.190 they are oh and three And the Tigers are now 00:12:21.190 --> 00:12:24.649 facing them. We've got JV up against Soroka. 00:12:25.230 --> 00:12:28.149 Game one. Game two is going to be Casey Mize 00:12:28.149 --> 00:12:30.690 against, I'm going to mispronounce it, but I 00:12:30.690 --> 00:12:37.039 think it's Fad. Fad? Fad. Brendan Fad. Fat. Fat. 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.779 Fat. Fat. Fat. Okay. Fat. Brendan Fat. F -A -A 00:12:40.779 --> 00:12:43.399 -D -T. That's, that's a tough one. It's a tough 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.220 one. My apologies. Brendan Fat. Fat. And then 00:12:46.220 --> 00:12:49.320 we do not know it's to be determined. It's Zach 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.720 Galin pitching for Arizona. It's going to be 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.940 the only day game. Everything else is a 9 -10, 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:58.840 9 -10 central time start. These are late games. 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.620 Arizona does not. That's the Wednesday game. 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:03.879 Yeah, yeah, that's Wednesday. And that's the 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:07.539 to be determined question chat. Yep. It should 00:13:07.539 --> 00:13:10.279 be scubal scheduled start. Might the Tigers do 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.039 something like hold him for their home opener 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.379 Friday against the Cardinals? And if so, why? 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.620 So my my only concern with that is it was billed 00:13:20.620 --> 00:13:22.659 that Verlander's first start was going to be 00:13:22.659 --> 00:13:25.919 Sunday night baseball at home against the Cardinals. 00:13:26.019 --> 00:13:30.029 If you do that and you bump Scubal when do you 00:13:30.029 --> 00:13:34.269 and you start him on Friday? Okay for the home 00:13:34.269 --> 00:13:38.970 opener Where does verlander pitch do we just 00:13:38.970 --> 00:13:41.450 slot him in the three? Instead of Flaherty all 00:13:41.450 --> 00:13:43.029 the sudden just so we can have him pitch that 00:13:43.029 --> 00:13:45.450 weekend I mean, this is kind of you get into 00:13:45.450 --> 00:13:47.769 the marketing of things, right? I don't know. 00:13:47.769 --> 00:13:50.730 I think scubal is gonna pitch on schedule I don't 00:13:50.730 --> 00:13:52.330 think they're gonna mess with schedules this 00:13:52.330 --> 00:13:54.980 early I hope you're right, and I think you're 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:57.080 right. Pitch Wednesday, you're going to get Verlander 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.159 on Sunday night. I just found it just kind of 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.460 odd. Totally early in the year. Totally good. 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.440 I mean, barring injuries, I see where you're 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.419 going. I see how you're trying to think through 00:14:06.419 --> 00:14:08.919 it. I don't think we're going to get off schedule 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:12.720 quite yet unless something happens health wise. 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:17.299 God hope it doesn't this early. But yeah, I see 00:14:17.299 --> 00:14:19.120 where you're going, though. That's your brain's 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.720 working. It's just, I don't know that's going 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.080 to happen. Yeah. All right. I think it would 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.700 throw things off a little too much and bring 00:14:25.700 --> 00:14:28.080 questions where they're not necessary. Who are 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.000 you looking for in this series? Who do you want 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.159 to see click? I think we've already talked about 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.899 it. I'm going to go with Riley green and or carp. 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:38.379 We need one of the two. Yeah. I'm going to throw 00:14:38.379 --> 00:14:40.399 the question back at you. I think the natural 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.379 answer you're probably going to give me is Torkelson, 00:14:42.379 --> 00:14:46.740 right? I know. I actually, Torque is fine. Torque 00:14:46.740 --> 00:14:49.240 is doing what Torque kind of does, right? He's 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.940 gonna hit like 240. He's had a couple hits, had 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:54.759 a couple good key hits over the last couple days. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:59.259 I think... I need to see Riley Green step it 00:14:59.259 --> 00:15:01.799 up. I'm not going to hold out for Carrie, and 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.620 I don't think they're both going to just start 00:15:03.620 --> 00:15:06.279 raging at the same time. So I'd like to see Riley 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:08.639 Green get it going. I need to see him be the 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.820 superstar that everybody thinks he's going to 00:15:10.820 --> 00:15:14.059 be. Another another guy to call out to maybe 00:15:14.059 --> 00:15:16.200 like, where are we going to get to see more Parker 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.440 Meadows? Will we get to see more Parker Meadows 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.899 in this series? He's taken up a spot. Chet, his 00:15:22.899 --> 00:15:27.399 time appears to be dwindling. You think so? We 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.059 will have to see. I don't know. I mean, Viraline 00:15:30.059 --> 00:15:32.659 played center field yesterday, and I just don't 00:15:32.659 --> 00:15:35.320 know what to tell you. All right, Tiger fans, 00:15:35.940 --> 00:15:38.759 it's great being back. Baseball's back. It's 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.360 the best time of the year. Chet, it's great talking 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.120 to you. Litterbox listeners, thank you. And we'll 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:48.159 be back with a food preview for Chase Field and 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:55.259 the Arizona Diamondbacks. Go Tigers. All right. 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.320 That's going to do it for this episode of the 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.279 Litterbox, a Detroit Tigers podcast. Thanks for 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.480 hanging out with us. We're Bill and Chet. We'll 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:05.419 be back soon with more Tigers Talk. 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