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Craig Monroe is a good friend of mine, was an
outstanding analyst for Detroit Tiger's baseball and joints. Is here
on Exus and Bros. On the Lindsey Hunter Foundation. Guest
line Simo, I bring up to Kyle Finnigan forth when
the bases are juiced, there's no out. He gets a
double play could have been a massive inning. I think
that changed the postseason for Detroit if they win tomorrow.
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What do you think was the biggest moment yesterday?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think Riley Greens. As Riley Green goes, so does
this team. I think Riley going off yesterday having the
big swing, I really think got the offense going took
a lot of pressure off the other guys. Now, you
make a great point, though, that was a huge inning
by Finnigan, there's no question. But if we look at
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this team and with how they've been throughout the playoffs,
offense and struggled last yesterday, that offense came alive. And
I think it was because, again, Riley Greens is the
driving force of that offense.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
What's been the difference that you've noticed in the offense
When you and I worked together, what I loved most
is I learned so much about the game, but a
lot about hitting. And it's as much about the pitches'
you're taking or spitting on then the pictures you're swinging out.
What did you notice yesterday offensively that was different than
perhaps some of the previous games, and over the last
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month and a.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Half when I was watching their bats, even sometimes throughout
the seed and especially at the end of the season
where they were struggling. I seen guys trying to play hero,
big swings, guys getting a little bit bigger, trying to
do a lot of trying to do a little bit
too much. That means taking the outside fastball and trying
to hit it to the moon to the pull side. Well,
you can't cover that much zone. I thought yesterday they
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got better pitches to hit. But I also I thought
seat his pitcher, especially at the back ends, and both them,
they didn't make quality pitches. The homework for Maya that
was a hanging breaking ball, the slider to righty Green
that didn't really do much. It was just spinning. Those
balls are right over the heart of the play So
I think this team where they get good pitches to hit,
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and it's called hitting the ball. Where it's pitch balls
away from you, you drive it the opposite way. Especially
in the playoffs, you can't to pull the outside pitch.
You can't try to do too much in this playoff.
You just got to take what they give you. And
I thought yesterday they had some big swings because the
ball was in the middle of that place.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Our friend Craig Monroe joining us here on the Lindsay
Hunter Foundation guest line. When you see what Detroit has
been able to do offensively and the balance that they
were able to get yesterday, which was really important, and
aj Hinch kind of making the moves that he wanted
to move. I do think it's fair to wonder aloud
why you pull Casey miz after three innings, six strikeouts,
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and fifty four pitches. I know you're playing to win
the game and there's very little margin for error. How
surprised were you at he pulled him at that time?
And why do you think he pulled him at that time?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You know I was surprised, wouldn't. I'm not sure exactly
why he pulled him in that in that moment. If
I'm obviously we're gonna guess it, I'm I'm gonna play
next day or second guess in him right now. But
I just thought that Casey Mines put together a solid season,
and I noticed we're gonna call it two different seasons.
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It's the regular season, then it's the playoff season. Okay,
I can get it, but you get this is how
you build trust. You build trust what you've gone throughout
the regular season to be able to have the opportunity
to perform in the playoff season. And I just think
that Casey Mines pitched extremely well this season where I
thought he might try to get him to at least five,
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but I've noticed they are started to go to the
bullpen a lot earlier. And I know that when you're
in these situations. You know, in O six we're going
through this playoff run. It's the amount of pressure every pitch.
It's mental, it's a it's mental capacity that you have
to have because you're in every pitch, every pitch matters.
So there was a lot of maybe at the fifty
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six pitch, maybe there's this you know, you know, there
was stressful fifty six pitches, which kind of probably feel
like so a young man can feel like he's throwing
one hundred pitches, and maybe that's why he would have
got him.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
When you had to Seattle for Game five, you couldn't
really ask for a better scenario if you're the Tigers
with Derek Scubel. I had to remind people though that
Derek Scuble did. He was on the bump for Game
two and a loss. I have to remind him last year,
we were in the same situation, Game five, going to Cleveland,
feeling like we've got this Schoobls on the bump against
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the Guardians, not a very good hitting team, and yet
they score six five runs on six hits over six
innings and Detroit loses seven to three. What should give
us such great confidence? Knowing Schooble and George Kirby gave
us a rematch of what took place earlier this year.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, the competence of schoobl and what we've seen him do,
and he'd been dominant against most teams. Now there's the
one team that this season has beat him on belief
three start, three times, and it's the Seattle Manders. Yeah.
So mentally, Edgewise, Yeah, don't believe. They believe they can
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beat the big bat wolf, right. They believe it wholeheartedly.
And so they're gonna come into this game this on Friday.
There's gonna be a lot of confidence. They're gonna have
confidence that they can get to school buls. What I
want to see from school Bols is to really go go,
getting back to changing those speeds a little bit. These
guys can hit the fastball, man, if you watch them
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they hit that fastball. I think it's going to be
important for him to use that change up. He's got
to get these guys off balanced. And the way he's
gonna be able to do it, and I think the
way he dominates or the way he gets to six seven,
hopefully seven in it is he's got to go to
that change up. Ship. He's got to go to that
and then slow these guys down because they're hunting that heater.
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Because right now, when you watch them, he bullies these guys.
He's been bullied lineups with this fastball. He's gonna have
to cut a trick. He's not tricking, but he's gonna
have to slow these guys down by throwing that change piece. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Well that's what made Jorge Blancos at bats against him
even more impressive. He spit on changeups and he hit
fastballs over the leftfield wall. Kraig Monroe, former Tiger, joining
us here on Ex's and bros. On the Lindsey Hunter
Foundation guest line. Meanwhile, Detroit gets another shot at George Kirby,
who threw that meaty fastball to carry Carpenter for a
two run shot to tie it up at two. That
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eventually went to extras and Detroit won that game. What
do you expect from George Kirby and how can Detroit's
lineup attack him?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
In your mind, well, they're gonna they have to be
able to still sit on the fastball, right. You got
to time the fastballs, but Kirby can spin it too,
and at Tigers have struggled off speed. I'm going to
talk what I would like to see ship. I've got
to see them attack early. You can't get the two
strikes and get against him. He's got too many weapons
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to put you away. So I would like to see
this offense be aggressive early, especially on heaters. Look for
a zone and attack your zone and allow the eyes
to tell you know whatever you like to do in
that battles bust. You've got to attack every pitch that
if it's going to be in that spot. And then
if it's often there's something that you can't get to,
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those eyes will shut you down. It'll make you say no.
So that's what I'm hoping to see a lot more
aggressiveness early in account from the Tigers offense.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
You watch a lot of baseball, just like I do.
Any surprise at all that Toronto has eliminated New York
in your mind.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I'm surprised because you know, you think about New York
and we've always seen to see them in the World
Series winning championships. Toronto Blue Jay this is well overdo though.
This is a young team that we've been waiting to
see them put it all together. And the fact that
they're pitching both being the bullpan and their starters have
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done well against the Yankees, and that offense has finally
bombed their way really past the Yankees, you know, led
by vladibager erl Jr. It was it was, it was
a surprise and that sing that they these young guys
have got it together. They're they're the big the moment
is not too big for him. And just very disappointed
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in the Yankees and how they played Jep. I mean,
we've seen it all seasons. They're not fundamentally sound, they
don't run the base as well. Their stars don't be
stars in the big moments. And why it's Ronald Blue
Jays lawn.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Although Aaron Judge did his six hundred in the postseason,
I give him a ton of credit because he carries
such a such a load on his shoulders in New York.
I'm not saying people are gonna blame him. They're gonna
blame Aaron Boone. They're gonna blame Brian Cashman, who made moves.
Ryan McMahon, who had a homer last night, made a
beautiful diving catch in foul territory. David Bednar was unhittable
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when the Yankees got him, but he also picked up
a guy like Darren Williams who did not get it done.
Devin Williams, excuse me, who didn't get it done. Didn't
have the same stuff he had in Milwaukee. So when
you say stars, the stars were quiet for Philadelphia until
last night with Trey Turner a big hit, Kyle Schwarver
with two homers. What is it about the postseason that
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oftentimes we see guys who aren't stars become stars, and
stars during the regular season tend to fade away.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Well, the stars have expectation, higher expectations. The guys that
we see become stars, these guys have been bitch players.
These guys have not had big roles and all of
a sudden, the moment's not too big. But they certain guys,
certain guys just live for those moments. I mean guys
are just better their concentrations, that their ability to lock
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in to bury the DNA sort of speaker where they're
not expected to do something and then all of a
sudden they go off. Well, if you think about the Stars,
the guys like the Air Judge, this is one of
the first seasons, the first years that I've seen in
a little while that it really went off of the playoffs. Yes,
than the playoffs in the past. It was nice to
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see him get on track. I can go back to
the days of watching Alis Rodriguez when he was in
the Yankees uniform. He was terrible in the offseason, have
great seasons. He was terrible in the in the postseason
until Old nine, until they won, until he won the championship.
So I just think those guys put a minse amount
more pressure on themselves to be the man, to be
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the guy, and that's why we don't see them really succeed.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Do you think Detroit win? Do you think Detroit wins tomorrow?
And why I.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Think Detroit wins tomorrow because of the offense. I know School,
I feel good about School. I feel good that he's
gonna obviously give keep us in the game. But I
think this offense needed what that explosion the nine runs
yes yesterday to get them going, and I think they
keep that momentum going uh into Seattle tough, So yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
It's gonna be tough. They seen George Kirby, by the way,
and two careers starts against Detroit one to zero with
an e are of one point three eight and a
whip of point zero six one. It seemed like something clicked.
It seemed like something clicked, man, and it felt maybe
it's just one game, but it felt like Detroit's offense
was back to being Detroit's offense that we saw in June,
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didn't it.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
And that's exactly what I saw. And again watching every
single pitch, I just felt like they were really locked
into their bets. They lifted. There's gonna be a tall task.
You talk about how good Scooba Google is. I mean
we got to get Kirby like he nasty as well,
So the Tigers got a tall task. But like you said,
because of the avtch you saw yesterday, you saw a
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more disciplined team. You saw a team that was really
grinding after their bets, and hey, they might have to
play a little small ball because see, I just don't
lose at home. They're pretty damn good at home. So
they're gonna have to manufacture runs. You might have to
put on the hit and run. You may have to bunch.
He didn't gonna have to get creative, I believe in
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order to manufacture runs against Kirby.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Great stuff. My friend always did a good visual with you.
Tell Casey and everybody we said, hello, have a great weekend,
or I enjoy the game tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Hi, Thanksy, you too? Go TI.
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