00:06tigers to make a little bit of news the uh baseball meetings taking place and uh apparently
00:15they have signed a 36 year old relief pitcher emilio pagan played with cincinnati he's played
00:21for minnesota and some other teams as well 57 saves in the era around three over the last couple
00:27of seasons with nine blown saves reportedly for like one year and 11 million dollars i mean i need
00:32you to suppress the excitement i'm just feeling the excitement drip off of you here yeah well it's uh
00:39this seems like a scott harris special getting an aging closer on a one-year deal for double digit
00:48million dollar pricing and i'm not thrilled with it i want them to go out make a splash and get
00:53a
00:53young closer really commit to them uh that's not what they're doing look there's upside with
01:00pagan he's a good strikeout pitcher and again the era is is is pretty good around three over the last
01:06two seasons kenley jansen i know people didn't like kenley jansen last season because he had a couple
01:12of really high profile blown saves a couple of them that were just like disgusting nauseating i think
01:18was one against baltimore uh in july that was really horrific when they had this huge lead and
01:23then things started to to fall away from him and then he blew up late in the game and and
01:29goes to
01:30extra innings and he lost um but if you look down the stretch what kenley jansen was was was was
01:36pretty
01:36good i'm not advocating they bring kenley jansen back that's not it what i'm saying is i'm not sure
01:42this guy's much of an upgrade i would have preferred that they gone yeah yeah and and you also wonder
01:48like
01:48what's the why behind not solidifying this stuff all of the rentals continuous rentals right why not
01:56have something you can feel good about for the long term is that really the best option out there for
02:01you well i mean because you have to pay you get to pay for the younger players that are available
02:06if
02:06you've got there's a closer out there and there are a couple closers on the market that are under the
02:09age of 30 or right around the age of 30 that you would have to commit four years to but
02:14let's start
02:15doing that because they don't have a closer in waiting on this team uh they've got some some
02:21nice pieces that you hope develop into high-end high leverage arms but right now that doesn't
02:27doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense uh john morosi had the great reporter had a chance to
02:33uh
02:33catch up with scott harris the president of baseball operations with the detroit tigers asked him a really
02:39interesting question that got a really interesting response uh from him here's what's uh what went down
02:50between john morosi and scott harris
03:11do you hear scott harris go um he was caught off guard by that john morosi had his ear to
03:18the
03:18ground on what people were saying hey there's talks going on involving riley green scott harris
03:24looked like he was caught off guard by the question didn't realize that that was a known thing
03:28which of these teams that i'm talking to is leaking that i thought he was caught off guard there let
03:33me can we hear that again curious about that pause
03:55see what strikes me is says we got to listen to everything when it comes to the trade front and
04:00then says obviously some things aren't obvious right like if you really love a player you're not
04:07listening like you're not listening to trade offers for kevin mcgonigle i don't think you're listening
04:12to trade offers for max clark dylan diggler uh no chance maybe maybe not um but but riley green
04:20i'm not saying you don't listen to trade offers for him because i think you might but the fact that
04:25he answered it that way is a little strange to me now riley green just 25 years old is a
04:33three-time
04:34all-star he's actually now 26 just turned 26 in uh in september uh three years in a row he's
04:40an
04:41all-star last time tigers had an outfielder was an all-star three years in a row was al caline
04:45was an all-star for like 74 years riley green's really good i like riley green a lot and i
04:52would
04:52love for the tigers to sign him to an extension if you were trying to get an extension done
04:57i would imagine that to be the first thing i'm saying and the only thing i'm saying
05:02is that yeah we love riley green we're trying to work something out long term and we'll see if that
05:07comes to fruition and that's it you don't have to expand and say i mean we have to listen to
05:12offers
05:12and trades obviously why would you say that i find it curious there's a curious choice of words and as
05:20we're getting towards december 1st which will be the end of the collective bargaining agreement
05:24do they have a new one in place by then probably not um but it seems like they're at least
05:30making
05:30some some kind of progress between baseball and players association will be trying to find some
05:35some guardrails on this whole thing so maybe they don't start the season in a delay but they're not
05:40going to have it done by by december the thought is team's going to be jockeying for position and
05:45signing free agency there's gonna be a free agent a free agent frenzy going on before
05:50december december 1st i don't know if that's gonna be the case or not but you would also think that
05:54maybe there's also going to be if uh maybe a trade frenzy and i've long thought the tigers have
06:00a surplus of outfielders guys knocking on the door in toledo or in the lower levels uh to to move
06:09up
06:09and and a glut of outfielders they have here at the big league club that someone's going to be the
06:13odd man out i don't know if i'd be looking at riley green to be that odd man out maybe
06:19carrie
06:19carper is more the route that you would look towards as opposed to riley green but just
06:23interesting how he worded that he was outed there he he was not expected expected to be exposed i give
06:29him credit for being honest but do we does that now mean we have to suffer through another two years
06:36of
06:36star player you're going to trade him you're going to keep him trade him keep him it's already
06:40beginning you have two more years of team control on this guy yeah yep here we go and it's uncertainty
06:50with baseball and what it's going to look like uh when they finally do come to an agreement then
06:54will it be a salary cap or there's going to be a floor is it going to be who knows
06:57what what they're
06:58going to do but i just thought it was curious the way they kind of worded that one and that
07:02someone
07:03actually threw riley green in the face of of scott harris and said is this guy going to be traded
07:08or not like what who's talking about that i mean yeah we got to listen well you don't have to
07:13say
07:13that you don't have to say that you don't have to say that at all you don't have to say
07:16that at all
07:16thought was interesting uh 248-539-9797 is a telephone number get back to the lions calls people
07:22upset with brad holmes or not we'll find out next here on 97.1
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