WEBVTT - 3 bold predictions for the Tigers' second half 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.480 And welcome Inn to another episode of Tiger Territory, part 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:13.760 of the bout Territory Network Detroit Tigers podcast. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:14.680 I'm curiously with. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.520 Me as always as a man who has been the 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.639 center of the fold, but never the centerfold. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.360 He's Cody Standag and how we doing doing all right? 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.120 Kieren? Yeah? Oh man, Like maybe a lot of jokes there. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:32.360 I'll probably just leave that one that would be, well, hey, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.560 you know this is very entertaining people. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:34.919 All right. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.080 There's a place down here by where I live. It's 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.720 called Centerfold. My girlfriend's like, oh, this might be a 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.520 nice place for us to go eat. It's a strip club. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:45.680 We have not been Tofold. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.599 For the record, Well, if people just want to give 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.840 give me a thirty second tangent on something on that 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.920 kind of category, as we have fun here. During the 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.720 All Star break one time in Frisco, right by the 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.200 minor league ballpark the Text Rangers, double a affiliate, my 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.200 mom and I were looking for to go to lunch 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.080 and there was a place called Wild Pitch and I 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.760 was like, oh, baseball, Wild Pitch. This seems like just 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.720 a regular sports bar, right Mom and I walk in there. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.880 Nope, not a regular sports bar. One of those uh 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:14.640 one of those. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.240 Ones where the skin the clothing ratio was a little off, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.000 if you know what I mean. So, uh, we still 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.440 ate there. You know, it's kind of awkward when you 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:22.840 walk in. You don't want to leave, you know. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.120 So yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a great mother's day. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.440 So all right, that's what. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.240 We get during the All Star break. I like it. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.560 it's probably. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.400 Absolutely maybe maybe a preview what's what's to come during 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.640 Lockout season? All right, as we get to uh do 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.080 some more baseball matters here, Cody. You know, I was, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.520 I was thinking back on some of our topics in 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:54.200 our last episode and then, uh and like reflecting on 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.600 maybe some things that we missed or didn't quite get 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.800 to and and there was one thing that kind of 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.320 stuck out to me, and I was like, you know, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.560 like I talked about how much I really liked Derek 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.160 Hill Mike see him to have success. Then I actually 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.960 like went and looked at like his numbers, and he's 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.840 having himself a decent years. He's a one plus war 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.480 player right now. He's he's a two fifty eight hitter. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.520 His ops against lefties is good. Like, there's a lot 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.399 to like about Derek Hill if you're a Philadelphia Phillies fan, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:27.280 And so then transition to this, how do we feel 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.720 about the state of Tigers center field right now? Because 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.120 like it was something that I think coming into the 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.320 season you would have felt maybe some anxiousness, but overall, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.200 you like the potential of the Tigers center field status 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.680 with Parker Meadows and we know what you know, Hobby 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.720 Bias could do defensively and and and all that stuff. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.480 And you know, the majority of the season there's been 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.680 no Parker Medals and there's been no Hobby Bias and 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.360 so it was the Matt Berlan Show for a little bit. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.920 Now James Outman is in the equation, So I just 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.560 kind of I just wanted to bring it up, like 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.840 because like the outfield itself is not does not great 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.320 out well in general, and these are in the and 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.720 and maybe that shouldn't be surprising when you're relying on 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.919 a Matt veering to play for a long time, play 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.200 nearly every day. Now it's more of a blatoon platoon 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.840 with James, we haven't really gotten into that with all 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.400 the other stuff going on. So I'm just kind of 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.200 curious how you feel about this, Like you know, pivotal position, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.040 uh for the Tigers for that park, and and an 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.400 area that they obviously epicize in development. Just you know, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.400 being below average right now, if you look at pretty 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:37.800 much every metric. 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.200 Well, it's worse than below average. The Tigers center fielders 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.760 this year combined negative two point one wins above replacement 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.800 for Baseball Reference that ranks thirtieth. That is not what 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.640 you want when you play in one of the biggest 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.320 parks in the league. Now, obviously injuries have been a 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.000 part of that, and the James Outman thing has made 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.960 this at least look or feel a little bit better. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.240 The row number is still not a ton better. I 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.280 mean Outman's negative zero point two war since he's been 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.120 with the Tigers, But I overall do think the roster 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.600 is functioning a little better. You have a little more 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.640 confidence in the defense out there, and again outman and 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.240 center kind of can allow you to sometimes push Verer 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.560 Laying or someone else to right field, so sort of 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.880 strengthened that. Although Kerry Carpenter has still been playing a 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.240 lot of right field, the outman thing has been like 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.160 a slight improvement, and it was so bad you needed 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.000 any slight improvement you could get. That's why they did it, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.800 and it has been a better use of a roster 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.160 spot than Zach Short was. I think the good news 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:43.200 here is that there's reason to believe center field can 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.520 be better in the second half. We don't really have 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.280 a great timeline for when Javier Buys is going to 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.320 be back, but seems like he could be back the Tigers. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.919 The last update we heard on Parker Meadows wasn't overly encouraging. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.680 Its sounded like the arm is healing slowly. I mean, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.440 it was a pretty bad fraction, but he still has 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.800 not been ruled out for the season, and you do 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.320 have Max Clark. He's done some nice things recently, could 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.159 be an option to debut at some point before the 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.200 end of the season. We can dive into all that 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.360 a little bit closer, but I think the good news 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.960 is you at least have options that should help in 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.280 some form or fashion between now and the end of 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:22.600 the year. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.919 Yeah, just looking at Outman's numbers, like it feels like 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.880 he's got it, had better than one forty eight average 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.000 with the Tigers. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.800 It really does feel better than that. I don't it's 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.159 actually like, yeah, he's not been good but it feels 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.080 like he's been pretty good. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:40.840 And then then you. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.880 Look at he's got no doubles, but he's got a 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.279 triple in three home runs. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.039 You know what I mean? It is it is a 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.159 very peculiar thing. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.240 He actually has like worse numbers with the Tigers in 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.640 Minnesota in some of these instances. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.680 And they cast them away. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.720 And I actually kind of feel decent about James Outman, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.480 like as far as the ratio and the that we 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.920 that we talked about, and even looking at his platoons, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.560 Cody Man here, you want you want to reverse split? 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.560 You want to reverse split for Outman. He is hitting 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.159 three thirty three versus left handed pitching and one fifteen 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.960 versus right handed pitching. So that's a that's a big 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.039 reverse split. Obviously not the most grand of sample sizes, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:20.880 but it is. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.600 It is. It is kind of wild there. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.240 So then the question becomes if, but again presumably Hobby 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.360 will be back. He you know, earlier this week had 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.480 a picture of or a video of him. He posted, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.920 you know, hitting off the tee. It's hitting off the tee. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.440 But you know, I see anything baseball related from from 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:36.200 a guy injured. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.839 It'd be nice if hobby could start speeding things along, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.799 maybe like early August. Yeah, doable, hobby, I mean, hobby 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.359 on the phone. How are you feelings? Let's let's up 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:46.200 a little bit, let's. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.480 Go and is it as simple as he becomes your 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.039 mostly every day center fielder when that's the case, or 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.719 like like it, like, what do you do you know 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.799 from a construction stamp outman? 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.480 I guess I don't know. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.080 I don't. Then for as much as we say it 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.719 feels better, he can't hit one twenty eight forever. That's 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.400 eventually going to stop feeling so good, so that I 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.960 don't know, it's a question, might just be a lot 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.080 of hobby bios. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:18.320 Karen, which was in text the question, It's like, you know, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.720 one of the things that we've forgotten is what it's 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.600 like to kind of experience that everyday hobby bias. And 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.400 if you and and and for for that, you know 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.920 you I'll remind people his numbers not a lot of power, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.400 but he was batting two fifty two fifty six, you know, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.520 solid defense, like really just an average player at this point. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.520 But again, what is average right now for a team 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.800 that is desperately trying to claw back into you know, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.720 playoff contention and trying to you know, potentially like make 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.680 a run at division, make a run at a wildcard. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.280 Berth like having having average in certain spots here, Cody 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.160 is like resents like a decent upgrade. And then if 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.520 you throw in the fact that like there is still 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.360 an energy to Hobby that I think, like maybe one 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.160 could argue was missing from this team and some in 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.360 some respects over the course of the first half that 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.120 I think there's there's actually like there is potential. I'm 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.240 not gonna like lay my reputation on the line here 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.120 to make this prediction, but there is potential that there 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.760 is some sort of like Hobby comes back. Then we 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.120 kind of and we kind of for remember that we 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.480 forgot as I punched through that like what he brings 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.000 on a daily basis in terms of upside, in terms 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.760 of you know, you know, making these wild plays occasionally 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.679 that over the course of the second half of the 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.040 season could end up being the difference in a win, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.640 and every single win, as we've talked about for the 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.880 last like six weeks, could come crucial come standing time, right, So, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.760 like there there is that element to Hot that maybe 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.560 the you know, the El Majo magician. I'm sorry I 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.040 spudged that up again. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.839 Yeah, let's go clean it up. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.360 Yeah, tighten up, let's go clean it up. It's an 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.480 all Star break for me too. I just think, like 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.240 we we for we have forgotten what he can do 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.400 well and and I think we like we probably need 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:21.199 a reminder of that. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:21.960 Yeah. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.280 The other I guess kind of an elephant in the 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.080 room is Max Clark. And because it's a prospect, I 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.719 know there are people out there, why not just bring 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.920 up Max Clark. I will say Max Clark is having 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.559 a pretty nice July, only ten games, but he's got 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.440 a nine to thirty nine OPS. He's gotten deep off 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.880 lefties a couple of times here recently. He's doing some 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.240 of the things you would really like to see. Because 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.880 his overall season numbers the OPS is only seven fifty five, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.360 you would like to see that higher from a prospect 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.600 of his caliber. We've talked about like he's hit lefties 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.960 for average, but not a lot of extra base power. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.559 I mean, it's only four extra base hits against lefties 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.600 all year, but some of those three of those have 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:08.520 been recent, so that is an encouraging sign. He's a 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.000 talented defender. The instincts. You know, we've talked about. We 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.880 saw it a lot in spring training. Maybe not quite 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.839 what you would want them to be, So it's not 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.120 as easy as you snap your finger. And Max Clark 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.240 is a plus center fielder, let's keep that in mind. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.719 But there are very real scenarios where Max Clark could 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.640 debut by the end of the year. I think given 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.440 the course of where we're at, it'd probably be wise 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.000 for the Tigers to try to maintain Clark's rookie eligibility. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.800 So we're talking he's not coming up until the end 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.800 of August. But there's a world where the Tigers are 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.760 in this and they need a little help and so 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.400 they call it Max Clark. Or there's a world where 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.400 they are out of it and things have kind of 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.800 been dismantled a little bit, and you call the kid 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.920 up just to let them play. I think either of 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.800 those could be could be scenarios. I guess there's also 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.680 a world where you're totally out of it and you 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.959 to just delay his debut until next year. Also not impossible, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.120 but given you can retain a four year of service 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.440 time and retain a year of rookie eligibility, I would 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.520 kind of lean towards seeing Max Clark before this year 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.680 is up. If he continues to hit to the tune 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.760 of a nine to thirty nine ops, I think we're 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.080 definitely gonna see this kid. But let's remember some of 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.440 it just depends how he performs, what the underlying numbers 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.560 look like. Is he doing the things the Tigers most 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.240 want to see him do. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:35.479 Yeah, I've kind of gotten to the point of I anticipate. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.679 I'd have to be proven otherwise. I just don't think 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.040 we're gonna see him this year unless something, Unless unless 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.920 we get like some wide variants, either his performance or 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.320 the team's, you know, decline performance. I just kind of 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.240 feel like the equilibrium element here is just just kind 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.640 of let him be a ballplayer in Toledo and figure 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.840 it out as many things as he can and see 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.719 what happens at twenty twenty seven and what would be 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:04.160 a very interesting spring spring training storyline. 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Thank you seek all right, Cody, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.319 I you know one of the things that we like. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.320 To do preseason is you know, come up with some 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.480 bold predictions and just kind of see how right or wrong. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.599 I think we usually are pretty good about our bold predictions, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.400 but I wanted to do some second half bold predictions 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.480 because look, if the Tigers are going to be a 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:45.559 playoff team, a playoff contender anything above that, things are 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.480 going to have to be bold, right, So why don't 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.240 why don't we start out with some bold predictions for 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.800 the second half. And I'm just gonna start off the 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:59.720 top with maybe the boldest Tigers win the AL Central. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:02.760 It's not out of the question. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:03.080 Code. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.400 I know you like one of your like, I guess 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.240 most famous phrases of the of the season is are. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.000 The Chicago White Sox really gonna win this division? And 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.600 and and like. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.400 Yeah, like I I don't have a huge argument. I'm 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.960 looking at the odds on fan duel right now. I'll 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.520 just list them off for everybody to win the AL Central. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.000 Cleveland Guardians minus one oh five, Chicago White Sox plus 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.480 one eighty, Tigers plus six hundred, so their third third 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.960 best odds, Minnesota Twins plus eight fifty, Kansas City Royals 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:35.360 a big number. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.240 Let's just put it at that, So. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.680 It's like one of the reasons I think this is 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.240 like I almost wonder if this is the well, I 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.400 don't wonder it. It clearly is the clearest path to 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.720 getting to the postseason because you have only a few 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.160 teams that you gotta contend with in order to clinch 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.760 up postseason birth as opposed to I don't know the 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.920 entire American League for these wildcard spots, and like, you know, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.920 like like so people are gonna look at the wildcard 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.800 standings and be like, well, the number is smaller, that 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.680 might be the more feasible option. I mean, not necessarily, Cody, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:15.040 I like I think that. I think that, like, given 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.920 the status of Cleveland, given the youth of Chicago, and 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.640 given the rest of the division, I just feel like 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.320 this might be the thing to shoot for as opposed 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:28.560 to stands score watching you know, the entire American League. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:29.680 So that's my bold prediction. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.360 And if I were to make it bolder, I might 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.960 just say it's division or bust for a playoff berth, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.000 But I'm not sure I want to go that far. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.160 Well, I mean, yeah, if you can win the division, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.720 you can also get a wildcard spot. So that's not like, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.600 really the way to look at it. Every time I 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.440 sit here and look at the division standings, I'm just like, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.720 it's doable. It felt better when it was four and 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.160 a half two days ago compared to six and a half. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.880 The Tigers playoff odds a reminder of how much weight 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 is on every game right now. Three days ago, their 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.240 playoff odds were thirty nine point five percent. They lost 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.880 two games, White Sox won a couple, the Guardians won 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.280 a couple. The playoff odds overall have dropped to uh, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.080 where are we at twenty three point two? The division 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.640 odds were as high as twenty seven point five percent. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.440 They're back down to thirteen point five. But a reminder. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.520 You come out of the break, you sweep the Angels, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.760 White Sox lose a couple, like you're back to You're 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.080 back to this feeling possible. It will take a lot, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.800 It will take playing like one of the best teams 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.640 in baseball for the entire second half. But you have 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:43.040 been one of the best teams in baseball since June first. Okay, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.280 you've been playing at that clip. You just have to 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.840 keep doing it. I don't think I'm quite comfortable enough 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.080 like putting my foot down and saying, the Tigers are 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.640 going to do this. I've thought about it a couple times. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.440 It's still it's still just a little too hard. It's 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.760 still just a little bit uphill. But I really wouldn't 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.719 be shocked because the Twins man come on the White 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.160 Sox again. Are they really going to win the division? 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.040 I guess sometimes, you know, it felt like the Guardians 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.800 have fallen off. They've won four in a row. They're 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.639 actually tied with the White Sox atop the standings, and 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.439 they are eventually going to get Jose Ramirez back. So 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.800 maybe the Guardians are still the biggest threat here. If 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.200 you can look at run differential Kieran, the Tigers are 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.840 plus twenty four. That's they're the only other team besides 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.840 the White Sox and the Central in the green. The 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.240 White Sox are at plus twenty five. If you can 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.200 just keep playing good ball, you could end up right 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.480 there with the White Sox at the end of the year. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.800 So I don't think it's the most ridiculous bold prediction. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.720 Of course, it all still kind of comes back to 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.480 sixteen games until the deadline. Can you play well enough 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.720 in those sixteen games to either prevent a fire sale 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.639 or maybe become legitimate buyers instead of sellers, because if 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.880 you part with some pieces, some difficult match gets even 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.960 more difficult than I and I don't know if they 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.680 can do it. So that's these next sixteen games, man 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.760 are going to be so fascinating. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.520 Well, on that note, Cody, that brings me to bold 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:22.840 prediction number two. The Detroit Tigers trade Trek Schoogle. But 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.440 more or less, that's it. It's not a fire sale. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.760 You know, you keep Miyes, you keep Flaherty, you keep Torres, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:34.160 you keep Jake Rogers. Maybe you bolster, you know, your 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.960 your your team and your bullpen in some fashion with 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.080 with a smaller deal. But it's not a fire sale. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.640 You trade Trek Schoogle because it's just you just can't 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.040 you get I can't say no deal and then you 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.720 and then you play it out the rest of the 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.040 way and just kind of see what happens. That That 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.800 is my bold prediction right now. And then a side note, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:59.480 I will say congratulations to Tigers executives because no one 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.600 seems to think that they're gonna trade Derek Schouble like 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.480 national pundits, local market guys like outside of Detroit, of 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.879 teams that might want Derek schoogle services, nobody seems to 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.800 think they're gonna do it. So if your goal was 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.120 to play poker and say that like, hey, we don't 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.439 really want to trade them, so you're gonna have to 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.520 impress us and you're trying to raise the price, good job. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.639 Seems to have worked so far. But anyway, Yeah, and 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.760 that is it throughout the needle. That's that's my bold prediction. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.439 I do think made No, I don't. I'm about to 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.240 get going on that first. The point you just made 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.399 that I that I like is that it's not like 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.880 a vacuum Scott Harris has to sit down and press 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.880 a button. I'm going to trade him. I'm not going 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.960 to trade him. One thing that will probably determine whether 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.960 Schooble is traded is the caliber of offers, right. I 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.320 think that the reason a lot of people do want 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.240 to maybe thread this needle, trade Schooble but nothing else, 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.760 is because the return could potentially just be too good 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.520 to pass up. It could be beneficial for your future 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.199 to hold on to Schooble and hope you have a 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:10.360 magical couple of months and then then it's like, well, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.240 what are the offers, and we're probably not really gonna 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.639 know the offers. If the offers suck, that increases the 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.160 likelihood that he's just gonna stay put. If the offer 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.840 is really, really good and really compelling, like that is 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.400 something Scott Harris is going to have to weigh. Now 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.840 with the threading the needle part, Here's where I guess 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.520