There's A Team Here, Time To Invest
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00:00The season is such a long year, right?
00:04We had so many little moments throughout the year, right?
00:06I remember being out downtown opening day,
00:08talking to AJ Hotstart, right?
00:10Dan Dickerson joins us that morning on the radio
00:13and like, hey, baseball's back
00:14and there's something romantic.
00:16Good April, nosedive in May, June, July.
00:21Kirk Gibson calls in, like we had all these moments, right?
00:24These knockdown drag outs about adding bats last off season.
00:27Scott Harris joins the show, trade deadline.
00:29They're gonna lose 90 games
00:31only to see this team fight the entire way to the finish line
00:35and do something that we've never seen for the Tigers
00:37and that baseball has only seen two times
00:39in over a hundred years.
00:41So I left feeling pretty satisfied with the season,
00:44knowing that it's the start of something,
00:45but knowing that they need to follow through.
00:47Knowing that we can't be talking about bats
00:49going two of 23 runners in scoring position,
00:5118 left on base and 16 strikeouts in an elimination game.
00:55Like they have to address the bats, plural, this off season.
01:00All the young guys are just gonna turn
01:01into all-stars next season, help them out.
01:03Help them out with one or two key bats
01:05strategically placed infield, outfield.
01:07I'm not even telling them how they have to do it.
01:10It's just, we all should be on the same page now.
01:13Spend, add, bats please now immediately.
01:16Like feed the beast.
01:17The city got a taste of it, feed the beast.
01:19Yeah, just get better.
01:21Build on what happened this year at the end of the season,
01:24be in a playoff team, don't let this be a one-off.
01:27Don't take steps back.
01:28Don't have this be a fluke.
01:29Keep that forward momentum going.
01:31And yeah, there are, you wanted to see,
01:33you didn't want to block bats,
01:34you didn't want to block opportunities.
01:36You've seen, you've learned about all of these players.
01:39Now what is it that you've learned about them
01:41and can they be a part of the future?
01:43I do believe there's a nice core here,
01:46but you've got to decide,
01:47is Spencer Torkelson a part of that core?
01:50Do you trust that he, as a bat,
01:53will continue to improve in the field?
01:55Will he get better with his glove?
01:57It's all of these things.
01:59Parker Meadows, I think he's a guy that,
02:02when he went down to AAA, we kind of all questioned,
02:06boy, not even hitting 100,
02:09can he possibly be a part of the future?
02:12Lot of question marks.
02:14He came up and showed that not only as a bat,
02:18can he be much better, but as a center fielder,
02:19he was a stud.