Ken Rosenthal’s Inside Scoop: Spencer Jones debut, The Trop effect, Sizzling Cubs + Shift ban deep dive

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Speaker 1: Hey, this next segment is presented by a game changer. So let's talk about this article that just came out in The Athletic written by Cody Stavenhagen and Stephensbitt on banning the infield shift not actually bringing back the base hit. But the question is does anyone care? So you can see batting averages go down even while we made that change a few years ago, in twenty twenty three, you can see batting average on balls and play also going down. Some things have changed, primarily left handed hitters can't face that triangle anymore. So banning the shift, it says in here, revived one type of hit left handed. Batting average on balls and play on pulled ground balls up twenty four points since twenty twenty two, but the overall batting average keeps going down with So I'll start here, Should we care? Or does the game look prettier now that everyone's standing in more of the right place.

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Speaker 2: You could say it looks prettier if that's if that's your thing. Uh. I was one of the few guys when this rule change was being proposed that was against it. I just felt like you should be able to play wherever you wanted to play. To me, it was like telling a basketball player you can't go double team this guy, or telling a defense in football you can't blitz. It's just it didn't seem right. You should be able to do what you want on defense. And I'm not surprised that the average averages haven't changed, because it's not there's no philosophy that. The philosophy of hitting is no longer get hits. It's it's do damage, hit homers or walk and if you strike out, it's okay. But you're up there to do damage every pitch of every swing, and if you the strikeouts, it is no longer a bad thing. So until that philosophy changes, you just the averages are not going to be uh what what they could be. Pictures pitchers are getting better, I'll give them that. I mean, their stuff is getting better. I should say the stuff pitchers have is getting better. Pictures aren't necessarily getting better, in my opinion, but their stuff is getting better, and it's becoming harder to hit. And until there's focus, until until players are getting paid on high batting averages, which they're not anymore, the philosophy is not gonna It's not you're not gonna get back to high averages.

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Speaker 3: The end up segment went took it all for us until Major League Baseball pays you for it, Like, you can show me all the graphs, you can show me all the stuff. I'll go look at the highest payrolls. A lot of guys would say in VP sometimes they'd be like, you know, somebody hit a line drive to the opposite field. You're LEFTI you hit it to left field, You're right, you hit it to right field. They're like, oh man, that's how you hit. And then some dude steps in and hits a dinger. The next guy in hits a dinger, hits another dinger, and he goes, you know, that's why you drive a Honda and I drive a Mercedes Benz Like. There is a difference in what could possibly happen and what they really want to happen, the desired outcome, what your approach is. The approach has not changed. The difference is let's take one of the first guys that would have gotten shifted, Big Poppy. Big Poppy would just get hits on the times that he rolled over on the ball that he was trying to go deep on. Big Poppy could hit the ball off the monster to left field. He was not successfully going to hit the ball on the ground to the opposite field. So defenses would be able to play for the fact that, hey, you know what, now we have a guy there. In case he does try to go yard, which if he goes thirty five forty times a year he goes, he puts the ball over the fence, he still has like six hundred and fifty at bats that the ball didn't go over the fence. So most likely there's going to be a rollover. It's going to be a ball on the ground. There's going to be a ground ball on the right side, because in no way is he going to go the other way on the ground. He's going to go the other way in the air off the monster whatever it is. And so the shift, I thought it was such a helicopter parent rule, like, oh man, look at all the averages. They're just so low. It's gonna be a much better game without the shift. Tired, tired, Hey, that guy's got a really good slider. Tell them to stop throwing it. You want to change the game. That would have changed the game.

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Speaker 2: To me, It's like, okay, So it's like, it's like a kid who's drake learning to drink from a cup and just keeps spilling on himself, And instead of teaching the kid how to drink from a cup, you just give him a sippy cup. He has a sippy cup for the rest of his life because he never learns how to drink from a cup. You want to get rid of that shift. There was I mean, there was seven guys on the right side of second base in that picture. We should we should hit a ground ball anywhere to the left side. There's there's I don't care what pitch who's who's throwing. I don't care what pitch he throws up there. As a major leaguer, you should be able to hit a seventy seven hopper anywhere to the left side of second base, and that's that would get rid of all that. But but guys were not willing to make that adjustment and not willing to do that, and because of it, Manfred had to step in and grab the hitter's hands and say, okay, guys, we're going to help you out by moving everybody over and maybe you guys can get more hits and get your averages better. It's just it's it's it's on the hitters. It's on the hitters for not making adjustments playing.

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Speaker 1: But you're an outlier. It didn't happen. That's the problem. You know. Some guys said like they couldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: That's because they didn't try to do it. They didn't practice doing it, they didn't work on doing it. They didn't want to do it. They said they couldn't do it because they didn't want to do it.

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Speaker 3: That's one hundred percent, like you can't do it because you're not They didn't come up with that shift. Let's pull this picture up again because it's Joey Gallow and it's the extreme case. And I'm gonna pick on Joey Gallow here, who's no longer in the game but had had prehistoric power, Like this guy was an absolute gargantuan out there. Why is Joey Gallow not in the game anymore? Because he swung and missed a lot. They didn't come up with this right here, this shift where Robinson Cano and Jean Segura are playing like two positions where you're like, I don't even know they came up with it because Joey Gallows trying to put it. If you if you look right in the very top of the screen, that second deck in Texas, that's where he wants to hit it. You know what, how many times would they change this shift? Joey Gallow, who had thirty three stone bases, so he'd steal four or five a year if he bunted four times right down the third baseline. Would they move that one guy over there, or would the next team say, I don't care if Joey Gallo bunts. Oh really, you don't care. If a guy gets on base four straight times, bunt it, he bunts it hard, he might get a double. Like there's situations and guys like Anthony Rizzo took advantage of it. There was other guys that would take advantage of it and were like, just stop shifting. If they stop shifting, now it's open and you've done your job. Plus you also have probably nine to ten hits. My argument was it would take seven straight bunts by a power hitter that they would say, okay, seven for seven, like we gotta move him off there. Joey gallow would have raised his average, which is the reason and he's out of the game not because he lost his power. It's because he's want and missing struck out because he was trying to hit it over everybody.

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Speaker 1: How come no one did it?

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Speaker 3: Because we're getting Yes, my.

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Speaker 2: Last my last thing, I was gonna say one more thing on it is is is the value of it? You did this exit? This average exit velocity is so high now and or it's so important now and everybody. A lot of people are looking at, well, we mix in a strikeout, what's the what's the exoscy on a strikeout? It's zero. So let's start including those at bats into the average and then watch to see where exit velocities go and that that's that would be like a value solution instead of trying to move, trying to move the infielders and outfielders and trying to open holes for hitters. Let's start let's start making strikeouts a bad thing again, and it would make guys a little more weary. I'm putting balls in play, especially now with the with the a BS system, the zones getting smaller with two strike Let's let's let's get ball back in play. Let's quit striking out so much.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah. As a fan, I was looking at this originally and saying, cool, I'm into it. Shifts and then let's see the guys adjust. The problem I had was that I felt like, after a certain number of years, nothing was actually happening. You never get to see what Kratz was talking about, where some power hitter just keeps drilling bunts down the line and getting base hits or even doubles. So eventually I was like, all right, I'm waiting for something that's never going to happen, So I don't mind that they made the switch. We'll finish with this. The article gets to how the most frustrating base hit taken away now is the one up the middle, and how you know if you're a middle infielder you can shade towards second base and take those hits away. So the radical idea was, do they do dots or lines where fielders have to stay in a certain lane. I think we're gonna stop.

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Speaker 3: There because that's Morris. Okay. I'm so glad that we just aren't able to move the line anymore. Wow, yeah, take take that away, wit.

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Speaker 6: Wit.

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Speaker 3: Like, my issue with this is, okay with you, you made a decent amount of money in the game because you were good at something. What if they just said, hey, we're gonna take that away because the majority of players are pretty good at this. Oh you know what that's gonna do. It's gonna tamp down salaries. It's gonna tamp all this down. If they take the shift away and you get singles, who's getting paid for singles?

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Speaker 6: Who's getting paid?

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Speaker 3: Oh hey, we're giving you the singles back that nobody's paid for, Like, there's no like stop with all the stop with all the like. Aesthetically it doesn't look aesthetically good. You know, it doesn't look aesthetically good. A batter walking back to the bench because he was swinging for the fences instead he could have bunted one down. Now you move them over and guess what happens when you have a runner on base. They could score. But we love walks. Walks are great, they're valuable, but for some reason, a bunt through a shift is not valuable.

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Speaker 2: I just like relating it back to other sports and how ridiculous it makes it seem like if it's like it's like making a point guard who who's strong on his right hand but his struggles on the left hand. You make it you force the left. But that's like the commissioners saying, nope, can't force the left. Yeah, let them go right, or like JAMR. Gibbs, Nope, you get your good out in space, but you can't. We're not going to let you run outside of the tackle. You got to stay in between the box because you're so good out in space. It's just it's a ridiculous concept.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean football has a million rules with formations and things. I will say, just keep in mind they make the game set up a certain way. You can't do a lot of things in football. We don't have time to get into all of it, but there are a lot of intricate rules there for football to maintain how it's supposed to look. Just throwing it out there. Also looking at top ten batting averages right now, Dodgers, Braves, Cubs are on here. Raise some of the best teams to start the season are on here. So might not matter for individuals, but for teams, and it matters for the kiddos out there. So pay attention to your batting average. Get on base, it helps you. And also get on the Game Changer app, the number one youth sports app, Coach Smarter Connect Live, replay the action, watch your kid play the game from wherever you are, and get so much more at GC dot com. Let's do this the Inside Scoop with ftsior insider Ken Rosenthal. I'm curious to get your take on this one. Ken. Finally the time has come. Spencer Jones arrives in the Bronx to rival the size of Aaron Judge and try and be even a sliver of what Aaron is. He had similar metrics in the minor leagues in terms of heavy strikeouts, ridiculous pops. So what are you expecting? What are you looking at here with the way the Yankees will implement him in the way that he might produce in the big leagues.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what to expect, and I don't know that anyone does. I saw him described as one of the more polarizing prospects in recent times, and that would seem to be accurate because he is a guy who has immense physical gifts, immense power, and yet yes does strike out a ton and at the major league level, that likely will be a problem that he's gonna have to deal with. If he was dealing with it at the miners, he's gonna be dealing with it in the majors. So they're gonna give him some runway here because Jason Dimingez obviously is out for some time after crashing into that wall, and they brought him up to play. You don't bring up a guy like Spencer Jones and not play him. So with Dimingas in Stanton out, there's a chance here and we'll see how it goes. But yes, they'll have the twin towers basically on the two outfield corners.

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Speaker 3: Aside from the neat story of the tall guys all that stuff. Is there something to look into more because I don't watch enough Scranton rail Riders games that Jason Dimingez got called up before Spencer Jones, Like Jason Dimingez was about to start getting more playing time because he wasn't doing as poorly as he was other times. But was there something to that that maybe they're like, all right, well, I guess we have to call Spencer up instead of Wow, he burst through the door and he's leading those International League and RBIs and now we're gonna call him up.

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Speaker 6: Well, he has played better of late. I saw Amon Boom quoted to this effect today in that the last few weeks there's been a little bit less swing and miss, and yes, he's leading the league in RBIs, the International League. So Domingez was always the guy who was going to be first in my view, because he is someone with major league experience. It was someone that a lot of people thought was going to make the team perhaps coming out of spring training, and when he didn't, it was a bit of a story, so it made sense the sequence here. But now that Domingez is hurt and they feel better about Jones, okay, they can take a look and listen. They're in a great position right now as well, because they have the best record in the American League. Only Tampa Bay is remotely close to them, and Tampa Bay is only a half game back. But the Yankees, I don't know that it's proper to say they can afford to do this because they need to do this, But at the same time, they're in a good spot.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna ask you, Ken, is is the Yankee? I mean, it's not like you're looking for like a spark in their lineup. They're playing great, So what kind of it seems like they're Jones is coming up to be a guy to begin this lineup and to be to be in there just about every day. What kind of leash are they gonna give this kid? Because look at what Judge did when he first got up. It wasn't It wasn't the Judge that we're seeing now. It took him some time to get used to the big leagues and find himself. Because when you get there, it's just I don't care what you've done. I don't care if you've hit seven hundred every level in the minor leagues. You get to the big leagues, it's a different game, especially in New York. You got the media on your neck every day, you got information getting out about you as a hitter. To all the clubs, there's they're they're finding weaknesses, pitchers are better, and it's day after day. So it's gonna take some adjustment for him. It sounds like they're gonna give him a little bit of a leash.

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Speaker 6: That would be my expectation with simply because of the way they are positioned right now with their injuries. Now, what's interesting about the Yankees and their dynamic And I was just talking about this with someone they have in their clubhouse, Aaron Judge, and Aaron Judge, in addition to the many wonderful things he does on the field, seems to have an unusual leadership quality about him. He's not just a leader on the team. He is the leader. He is the Alpha. He's the guy, and the players not just respect him, but they revere him. So when you bring in a young kid to that clubhouse, you have this dynamic that is frankly among the most positive in the game, at least from my understanding. I'm not in clubhouses of course, not a player, but the way players talk, that's the impression I get. So in that sense, bringing Spencer Jones into that environment is ideal. Now, obviously he has to perform, we all know that. But those players in there, and it's not just Judge of course, gold Schmidt and Bellinger and all these others, they will quote unquote take care of him and they'll make his trends position as smooth as possible.

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Speaker 3: I was there in Judge's rookie season, and he had that aura about him as the kids say where Brett Gardner was and CC Sabbathia were letting him run the radio, which was like, as a rookie, you're not running, You're not running the iPad that's on the wall picking out songs. Is there someone else in the game that has that type of aura about him for his team, not necessarily just for the league. I get it. Other teams look at Judge and they're like, oh my goodness, look at this guy.

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Speaker 6: I don't know that there's anyone quite like him Eric, and he is the center of all that they do in that sense. Now, Sandel Contra in Miami, he's a picture so it's different, of course, but he has that kind of respect I believe in their clubhouse and as far as other players, Trout is kind of like that. But I don't know that Trout is quite the leader of the judges. And I'm not knocking Trout all. It's just as you said, Judge has something of an aura about him, and because he's performing at such a high level and working so hard at it all the time, not letting up, he's a guy that they just look to. The players do so off the top of my head, I can't think of another player quite like him. There are a number of players, of course, who get immense respect in their rooms, but he seems to be almost a cut above even what we're talking about with that Ken.

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Speaker 3: If you want to be hip with the kids, you can say aura farming, you can say he is is an aura factory. You can use those words if you want, but I'm going to I've.

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Speaker 6: Given up trying to be hip with the kids. My kids were telling me last night, I unhip. I was one of them was. So it's just a losing cause.

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Speaker 3: That's not fair. You need to surround yourself with people like me who build you up. But you always spend so much time with aj He tears you down. And your kids seem like they're just trying to keep you down. And I think you're a great and I think you're hit. You have a lot of aura. Let's go half a game behind the Yankees, which is so crazy to say that the Rays are half a game behind Before this season, could Ken Rosenthal have have recited half of the Ray's roster after trading guys like Brandon Lao, after trading at Josh Lowe, after the fact that we didn't know Shane McClanahan was going to be on the roster. How are they doing this at this point in the year to keep up with a team who we just said, Wow, they're hitting on all cylinders as the Yankees.

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Speaker 6: I could have recited half their roster. But yes, it's a different group now. I wrote about them today and I wrote about that they've gotten back now to Tropicana Field as their home park after that year at Steinberner Field, where they were welcome by the Yankees quite graciously, but at the same time it was a minor league park. It was a difficult transition. There were all kinds of issues that I wrote about in the column, just the different things that they faced. Now they're back in their comfort zone. We all might think that Troup is not the greatest park in the world, but for them, it's home. So that has made a difference. Now that's not the only thing. Of course, what they have on that team are three really good hitters right now. Diaz of course, Yandy Diaz, Junior Caminero and Jonathan Ronda. Those three guys are quality, above average major league hitters. They've also got Chandler Simpson. Now, Chandler Simpson is not going to blow up your war charts. He's not gonna have the ops of a junior Caroenero. But we saw it again last night, comes off the bench, go ahead hit, and he hits a triple. He can run like crazy, twelve stolen bases already. He adds an element to their offense that is kind of unique, quite frankly. So they have that, and they have a pitching staff that again with McClanahan coming back, with Nick Martinez, with Matts before he got hurt. All the good things that they have going on there and a bullpen that's performing pretty well. It's an impressive, typical Tampa Bay Rays kind of thing. Now, I point out in the column there's some regression that probably is due here, both on the offensive and pitching side. But at the same time, it's a weak American league. So if you're a Rais fan, or if you're just paying attention, you might just look at them and say, well, why can't they be a playoff team? And right now they do look like a playoff team.

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Speaker 3: Well they can't because Ken just said there's going to be some regression, So I guess they can't be a playoff team. But my thing is people look to the Rays. When I went to the Rays near the end of my career, every other team I went to. The very first question for about another organization was what do the Rays do? Do you feel like the team they've created? Now, yesterday I think it was Inosaurus or Petreolo, somebody came out with they are the flattest swing in the game, yes, and all that stuff. Yes, do they have Are they building something with this team? And I got it, it's early. We're not supposed to say that today Scott's rule, But is this something that other organizations are gonna be like, oh, the Raids are doing this, should we look into it. The Blue Jays just went to the World Series and almost won the World Series by quote unquote doing this. Do you think it's duplicated by other teams because the Rays are doing this this way.

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Speaker 6: Not necessarily. I don't know that there is a secret sauce with them right now. They've got good players and in the past from nineteen to twenty three when they made five straight Playoff appearances, good players, and yes, there is a certain quality about them. I think the pitching coach, Kyle Snyder is one of the best in the game. Most people would agree with that. And offensively, they always seem to be a bit challenged, and they're a bit challenged now, but they can score enough and do enough things athletically, which is one of their secrets, to put enough runs on the board. So I know what Mike Petriello tweeted about it was that they are leading in flat swings and also right up there in lowest strikeout rate, and there was another statistic too that it was really good they do these things, yes, but I don't know that it's something eric that teams are looking at and saying, Wow, Tampa Bay's doing this, We've got to do it now. It's just they've done this for a long time, competed at a high level even with their limited resources. And we'll say it again, Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Milwaukee, I'm missing it a few too. There are small market teams in this sport that do a really good job of figuring things out. And Cincinnati and Pittsburgh this year have come on a bit. Miami is getting there. So for all the talk of the sport being broken and all of that, and I know there are problems when we've talked about them had knowledge, we're going to be talking about them a lot more. There are a lot of good things happening with some of these clubs as well.

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Speaker 2: Just imagine if they made the limited resource medi medium mediocre resources I before. Just imagine what they could.

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Speaker 3: Do a team that was not a small market but acted like a small market till I'd say the last two years. The Chicago Cubs. Can you tell me what the heck is going on at Wrigley Because Wit said before this, he goes, oh it's getting hot at Wriglarly. Well it's not hot at Wrigley. It's still wind blowing this way that way, it's cold. But the Cubs are on fire at regularly and just really kind of trying to take a stranglehold on a tough division, which I never thought i'd say. In NL Central.

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Speaker 6: I heard you guys talking about them earlier, and I got to ask a question yesterday on my show Fair Territory, and the question was, do you believe in good luck running out in baseball? That obviously these things do balance out, and the Cubs are not going to win every game at Wrigley the rest of the year. They won't fit team in a row that's pretty good, but they are not simply lucky though. Of course they've had some good things happen. They're a good team. Now are they going to be this good? Of course not. But what I love about them two things, in particular, their defense, which is among the best in the game, and the infield is just really good outfield too. And then you have a lineup that lacks an Aaron Judge type presence. Of course all teams lack that kind of presence, but they don't really have a forty home run guy or anything like that in their lineup. But what they have are guys one through nine that are really good, and they're pretty deep all the way through. They've got some players on the bench as well, Shaw who comes off and does some things. So I like all of that a lot. Their position player group is among the best. The question is going to be their pitching. And we've seen the injuries Horting out for the year still with the set and now Matthew Boyd out at least for some time with the knee injury. That is where the questions come in. But if they can hold on until boy comes back, and if Steele hopefully can give them something, then it looks a little bit better. Certainly a Minaga has been great for them, and Tyne solid, then they're okay. Colin Ray is doing what Colin Ray does. But that is the one question with them, and of course it's a question that they might need to address and probably would address at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Ken, one more on the way out, because it's oh what do you got? No?

00:28:35
Speaker 2: Go ahead? Who Scott? I was just gonna ask how I was us aggressive? You feel like the Cubs with the some of the pitching injuries are gonna be here come in the next month or so when the dead light comes about with the hot start that had gotten on, do you feel them being super aggressive in this around the trade deadline.

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Speaker 6: I do believe that they will be aggressive, and I forgot to mention Edward Cabrera, who of course is talented beyond belief in that rotation. Now, what's interesting about them with they've traded in the past couple of years some big prospects. Cam Smith now in Houston went in the Tucker trade, oh and Casey went in the Cabrera trade. I would imagine they don't want to do this again. But if you're in this position where you've got a chance to really take a step forward, and they are in that position, then I can't imagine them simply saying, ah, you know what, we signed Alex Bregman, we traded for Cabrera. We're done.

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Speaker 7: And that's not how they're going to approach this, all right, Ken, last one for you. Did you see the Trek Schoogle news that he might not miss as much time as anticipated. Your thoughts on how impactful that could be for the Tigers and for him if he does return, say in June, and the elbow surgery wasn't as significant as some feared.

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Speaker 6: First off, I'll believe it when I see it, and we often hear from teams and players and agents he'll be back, and it's not so fast. So the good news is that we're even talking about it in that sense that Trek Scoogle might be back in a shorter timeframe than was originally expected. And if that happens. Number one, it's great for the Tigers. Number two, it's great for Schooble because Schooble is going to want to pitch well. Obviously down the stretch as a free agents. At a free agent, does he need to pitch well, I don't know that he needs to for his market value. He's going to be highly coveted. But he wants to pitch. He wants to compete, he wants to take that team to the playoffs, back to the playoffs. And let's just hope that news is true. But again, I'm always skeptical on timelines. Usually they're longer rather than shorter.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, And that's why his teams sometimes won't say much because they don't want to get fans excited. And then all of a sudden they're waiting and waiting and saying, oh, you said he was going to come back sooner, so yes, TBD. We'll see, but hopefully we get s Google back in June versus what I thought was going to be more like August. Ken, good stuff, Enjoy the weekend, See you Monday, Thanks Scott, and Monday is Fair Territory. Always recapping the weekend. Monday Morning's ten am Eastern Time. Thursday is twelve thirty leading up to Foul Territory, but just perfect Monday. You miss anything Ken's got you covered over the weekend. Answer some questions to live on the ftutube channel