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Tigers' Strategy with Reese Olson and Key Players for 2025
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3/16/2025
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00:00
Joe, where do you sit on the Tigers here, and how do you think they're going to fare?
00:04
I really like Reese Olsen, he's their SP3, if that's a sleeper from this team, I would
00:09
offer that.
00:10
Joe, what do you like?
00:11
Yeah, I think Olsen can give you some innings and be pretty decent, again, a good finisher
00:14
guy that picked up off a lot of waiver wires, a guy we talked about on this show.
00:17
I remember on a waiver wire segment more than once, where he just kept floating around there
00:21
and said, hey, pick up Reese Olsen, because this Tigers team is really putting things
00:24
together.
00:25
And it's been such a long wait for the Tigers to be good.
00:28
They've had so many years of losing, and so little to show for it.
00:32
Some of the can't miss guys haven't really hit necessarily, right, we're waiting for
00:35
Matt Manning, eventually we got Casey Mize, and Torkelson hasn't been as advertised necessarily
00:40
a lot of up and down for him, more down than up, unfortunately.
00:44
But it is intriguing that the Guardians are, as our producers pointing out, the third on
00:49
the board right now for this division.
00:50
The Tigers are at second, plus 240, the Twins at plus 200, which is laughable.
00:55
Again, it's like, I mean, if the Twins could say healthy, you know, it's a steal.
01:00
That never happens.
01:01
If, if, if, if, if we show it to me one time, and then I'll invest in it.
01:05
I can't get there.
01:06
But the Tigers, on the other hand, you look at this team, you look at what they have to
01:09
offer offensively.
01:12
I think Torres, even though the ballpark factor is not going to be as favorable to him.
01:16
Maybe the ballpark factor of this, the change of scenery and getting out of New York is
01:20
good for Gleyber Torres.
01:21
I feel like the Yankee fan base and Gleyber Torres was just not a good mix.
01:26
And it seemed like he was just constantly under scrutiny, no matter how good he was.
01:31
It just didn't matter.
01:32
And I think getting out of there is good.
01:34
Kerry Carpenter, a player you mentioned, I really like a lot.
01:36
And Riley Green, too.
01:37
These are two very good young outfielders.
01:39
You're getting a discount on fantasy drafts on both of them because they play on a small
01:43
market Detroit Tigers team where people just still aren't aware of how good they can be.
01:49
And both of them need to put in a full, very good season, I think, for people to start
01:53
to buy in.
01:54
But I'm buying in now on the cheap on Carpenter and Green.
01:57
Torkelson, we'll see.
01:58
Colt Keith, on the other hand, was moving from second base to first base, bumping Torkelson
02:02
to DH.
02:03
Makes this lineup deeper.
02:05
But Colt Keith is a very strong contributor.
02:09
He's a guy that's going to give you a decent average.
02:10
He's going to steal a couple bases.
02:12
He's going to drive in runs.
02:13
He's going to hit for some power.
02:15
I like Colt Keith a lot as a versatile player that can qualify at second and second isn't
02:20
very good.
02:21
But he's going to be playing at first base.
02:22
So if you're looking for a guy in that middle infield spot late, might I recommend Colt
02:26
Keith to you?
02:27
Try the Colt Keith.
02:29
It's delicious.
02:32
The rest of this lineup, though, is where things kind of fall apart for me.
02:35
Sweeney, Perez.
02:38
You have Rodgers.
02:39
Like, it's just not a spot where you want to be.
02:40
The rotation, too.
02:42
Really good at the top with Schuble.
02:44
Jack Flaherty.
02:45
I know you had your issues with Jack Flaherty last year.
02:47
He kept waiting for the wheels to fall off.
02:49
Obviously, they did not.
02:50
He ended up going to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
02:52
Ended up going back to Detroit, which I don't know about you, Matt.
02:56
I think that's the best case scenario, right?
02:58
Where you had your big breakout success after years of toiling and wondering in St. Louis,
03:03
where did the good Jack Flaherty go?
03:05
Well, he found himself in Detroit.
03:06
Now he's back there.
03:07
So now that he's back in Detroit, does that make you want to invest more in Jack Flaherty
03:11
this season?
03:13
I think he's insulated between Schuble and Olsen.
03:16
I have a cardinal fear, being a cardinal fan, for those that are new to the show, seeing
03:21
some of the things that Jack Flaherty has shown on the mound, kind of has left me with
03:24
some mental scars.
03:25
But now I think he's insulated and I think he can pitch better.
03:28
I think he's more mature.
03:29
I think he can pitch with a different lineup.
03:31
And depending on what happens with the back end of that bullpen, that's going to really
03:34
dictate how far these guys go.
03:36
Again, we're in a time now, especially from a wagering perspective, just look for guys
03:40
that are going to go six and turn it over to a pen.
03:42
Give them a quality start, catch a win, get a few Ks along the way.
03:46
All right.
03:47
You mentioned despair, and it's a perfect segue into this final team.
03:51
As I understand it, our TD Jake is actually a legitimate and admitted Chicago White Sox
03:56
fan.
03:57
So let's have this conversation.
03:58
I don't know any other show out there that's spending any time on the White Sox here.
04:03
Some young names that came back in some trades, some familiar names as well.
04:09
Joe, what do you say to someone that wants to wager, wants to invest, wants to be on
04:14
a fantasy side of the White Sox?
04:16
Where are we looking?
04:17
Oh, geez.
04:18
Is he wearing his Bobby Jenks jersey right now?
04:22
Is that what he's wearing?
04:23
Just that.
04:24
Nothing else.
04:25
There's a name you haven't thought of in a long time.
04:27
Remember Bobby Jenks?
04:28
Remember that guy?
04:29
What's he doing?
04:30
That's well done, Joe.
04:31
I wonder.
04:32
Watching the show?
04:33
He's it.
04:34
I don't know.
04:35
There's a lot of names in my brain that will pop up when you say White Sox.
04:38
Probably got a Mark Burley jersey.
04:39
That's probably more likely.
04:45
It was historically bad last year.
04:48
Might be historically bad this year.
04:50
I just got in our e-mail just waiting two minutes, and I'm just like, oh, geez.
04:57
Here's the thing.
04:58
Luis Robert, extreme value because the team is so bad.
05:01
He is a guy that can hit 30 home runs, steal 25 bases.
05:05
Those guys are hard to find, and he's coming in at a discount.
05:08
Draft him.
05:09
That's the only guy that I'm drafting on this team.
05:11
That's it.
05:12
It's the only guy that I want to draft on the White Sox.
05:14
The win total for this team, 51.5, 52.5.
05:18
I mean, I want to say over because it's so low, but I don't know if I can.
05:21
I am out on the White Sox completely.
05:24
I'm sorry.
05:25
It's that bad, but the good news is this division still has some breakouts and some sleepers
05:29
in it.
05:30
I already mentioned him.
05:31
It's Kyle Manzardo, who, once again, we talked about the spring training he is having.
05:35
It has been absolutely spectacular, and I think when you're looking for post-hype prospects,
05:42
which is something oftentimes we get, especially guys who bounce around in organizations, right?
05:47
You started off in one, and then you move to another.
05:50
He was with the Rays, and they're like, okay, well, that didn't work out, and now we're
05:54
going to be over with the Cleveland Guardians.
05:55
Sorry.
05:56
I misspoke earlier about the Cubs.
05:58
Manzardo, you're in a position here where, right now in spring, he is showing you maybe
06:04
he's ready.
06:05
4'12 batting average, 460 OBP, 735 slugging, three homers in 34 at-bats.
06:11
That's the Kyle Manzardo we've been waiting for, and then there's David Festa, who last
06:15
year came up with the Twins, had two awful starts, and then was absolutely fantastic
06:22
for the rest of his time.
06:23
Now, will he make that rotation?
06:25
They're probably going to give Simeon Woods, Richardson, and Paddock the first crack at
06:29
those four and five spots.
06:30
I'd be stashing David Festa, because at some point, he's just too good to not take over,
06:36
and I do think he is going to be a guy that, by the end of this season, we're going to
06:40
look back and say, probably one of the guys that was most added that helped people win
06:44
leagues.
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