Spencer Torkelson's Performance: Key to Tigers' Success

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00:00all right now the tigers you know certainly have the pitching and what they've needed is the

00:05hitting and up until about a week ago this was like the perfect storm where spencer torkelson

00:10the former number one overall pick is absolutely delivering you look at his war this season

00:14i mean he's on pace to break his personal records he's already got 11 home runs uh just a bad week

00:21for him george with a 118 batting average and i notice his batting average itself if you pay any

00:25attention to that it's down under 240 now so i suppose that this is just a player to monitor

00:31hopefully you did not get the very best of his season in april and may but track record tells

00:36you there's still a lot of swing and miss and a lot of low batting average with this player

00:40it does uh you hope he's finally coming into his own remember he wasn't even starting with the team

00:46uh in april march right uh then he started to get off to a hot start playing well put him in a lineup

00:51up here i'm not panicking yet but i'm aware all right let's watch this guy for another week you

00:57know uh maybe i don't start him next week we have another option i can think of that too

01:00want to talk about the targets javi bias what a turn for him this year