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The Valenti Show

Shocker: Valenti is Concerned About Tigers Going Into Opening Day

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

3.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The guys discuss their concern levels for the Tigers going into Opening Day with all the injuries they are facing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, three o'clock, good to have you with us.

0:02.2

We're going to turn our attention to baseball.

0:04.1

Odyssey.com, rewind, if you missed anything, started with some tournament stuff.

0:07.9

I want to bring up the Tigers, and look, opening days a couple days away.

0:12.0

Obviously, the home opener is 10 days away, but season's going to get started.

0:15.7

And it comes at you fast.

0:18.4

And I want to see if fans share my level of concern. You guys can go

0:26.1

whatever direction you want, and all I ask is you have a reason. But the news yesterday, which we

0:31.6

didn't get to, was really, really bad for this team. And you have to look deeper than stats, meaning Parker Meadows is going to be out.

0:41.3

You want to call it late May, early June.

0:43.6

He's out.

0:44.5

He's out for a long time.

0:46.4

And I told you my concern, when you start talking about a nerve injury, talking about a guy not being able to feel a part of his arm, that's scary.

0:54.7

Well, the fact that he was transferred to the 60-day IL is telling you they don't have answers.

1:01.3

It gets to a point when you've run the diagnostic, you know what the problem is,

1:05.8

and then you hear phrases that, well, we're trying to get the nerve to wake up, not what we want.

1:12.9

So Parker Meadows value goes well beyond being pesky at the plate.

1:17.9

He is one of the elite defensive center fielder's in the entire sport.

1:22.0

Why is it relevant?

1:23.5

Because this team is not good defensively.

1:26.2

They don't have good outfielders. And Riley Green isn't going to be in center field.

1:31.9

The team has kind of already said, AJ's already said, it's our preference to not do that.

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