00:00I can make the same argument for Detroit and Tampa in Detroit with Rasmussen taking on,
00:07you know, Frambois Valdez, who has been pretty good here for the Tigers to say the lead.
00:12Now the Tigers are still battling at 61 and 69 on the season.
00:17Tampa kind of hit, kind of hit a wall there a little bit.
00:20Dog days of summer this month in August.
00:23Now they're on the road.
00:25What are we thinking here?
00:26Edge Detroit the way they're swinging or is it just this is the spot to back Tampa here at a
00:31pretty good price?
00:33You know, part of me wants to say, you know, this is the spot for Tampa to get back on
00:37track where, you know,
00:38you had a rough series against the Orioles.
00:40You had another rough series against the Orioles.
00:42Detroit is kind of floundering like this would be the spot for the Rays to get back on track.
00:47I will say I specifically like Yandy Diaz, their leadoff guy for the Rays, two plus total bases at plus
00:52110.
00:53And, you know, he's got some good underlying metrics, you know, Frambois for as good as he has been in
00:58terms of not giving up a whole lot of runs.
01:01He still gives up hits.
01:02So I don't really care about the race score runs.
01:05You get a couple hits from Yandy Diaz on the leadoff spot.
01:07We get to the Tigers bullpen.
01:09I'll take Diaz at two plus total bases at plus 110.
01:13Yeah, it's been a rough.
01:15I mean, the Tigers were swept by the Kansas City Royals right over the weekend.
01:19It was 11-7 yesterday.
01:22They went one and five on their road trip.
01:25It has not been good here at all.
01:29But Frambois, the one shining thing here that might be able to get them back into this one.
01:36Is this a spot where maybe you look at the run and a half, Tom?
01:39What do you think?
01:41Okay, that's plus one and a half for the Tigers.
01:44That's not bad.
01:45Again, if there's any chance, the Rays are three and seven over their last ten games.
01:48So it's not like this has been the Rays team that we saw in June or July where they're just
01:52a machine and they're blowing out teams.
01:55If there's any chance for the Tigers also, like I said, the Rays didn't get back on track.
01:58They've lost a lot recently, especially to the Royals.
02:00Like the same thing can be said about the Tigers.
02:02Like if there's any hope for them to stay in the AL wildcard race coming off of getting swept by
02:07the Royals,
02:07it would be jumping on a team that's on the road that has been struggling as of late.
02:11So getting the Tigers, if you think they're going to keep it close in the first five or the full
02:15game,
02:15taking the run line at plus one and a half, I think that's fine as well.
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