The Valenti Show with Rico - Javier Baez has become insulting

After Javier Baez latest mishap on the field, Mike says it has become insulting to Tigers' fans. #tigers #javybaez #detroittigers

[@noah.conley]

You think AJ wanted Baez, he wanted Correa way more than him bad take… Avila and Illitch are the reason we have baez… he literally went out to eat with Correa and we were one of favs to get him coz of AJ

[@moeal5469]

Avila and Illitch went chiep and got the Walmart version of Carlos Correa. You get what you pay for. When his own team he won a ring 💍 with doesn’t want to give him the money. It should of told you all u need to know about Baez.

[@midnighter64]

Illitch is cheap. He’s bringing this franchise down.

[@edwardrossman9448]

Everybody knew several other free agent SS were better than Baez but baez cost less so Tigers took him.

[@JaYPeeDee1025]

should call up the Mets they need a bat he played some of his best baseball with them but you wiill have to eat some of the contract .Maybe will only have to eat half if you got to the mets

[@dugefreshhh9743]

“A new version of Miguel” except the tigers never got to reap the rewards of previous years. This is WAY worse. Hell, Cabrera is still more productive then him and had one of the better OBP last year. Our owner is the biggest issue right now.

[@ubilo]

Move him now. He is Juan Gonzalez 2.0. He wants out. Detroit fans will be booing him soon and he won't handle it well. He won't be here next season.

[@SpartyBeaumont]

I actually LOVE the idea of sitting him all year. It'd cost us 22 Mil, he opts out, and we're done with all this nonsense. Everything else (paying him to leave, keeping him for the duration, etc.) all will cost us much more.

[@rareview362]

Can't we trade him

[@growmiegreenthumb8025]

​@@rareview362 no. No one wants him or his contract.

[@rareview362]

@@growmiegreenthumb8025 get what you can for him

[@christophernash1846]

Baez did this multiple times in Chicago. This isn't new

[@charlesgilbert2054]

Javy Baez is in Puerto Rico. His cousin Harvey is in Detroit.

[@ChrisH575]

He’s the Russell Westbrook of baseball

[@NorthOfWindsor]

Albert Hayneworth

[@michaelbrothers3823]

The office looks so much better now

[@russellthornton9283]

Our Man Harvey is the Gift that keeps giving. 😂😂😂

[@babobenson5203]

Pile on a player but silent about the millionaires that put this triple A team together.

[@trobinson9342]

Javi makes this team worse every time he's in the lineup

[@lionman9995]

Funniest thing is they won that game

[@ricardotorres5524]

Even funnier, the error costed ABSOLUTELY nothing. Second inning, no score. This topic is beyond stupid, same as Detroit.

[@CJM23]

Twitch live stream was unwatchable. Kept skipping and losing audio unfortunately

[@dmore454]

OR you motivate him to play like a guy who is tradable by telling him he can go somewhere he'd rather be if he can dial it in and get his trade value up Look at his play in the WBC - he can still play. When he gives a shit. He gave a shit in the WBC, and he clearly doesn't here. You're right - he took the stupid money we gave him and the chance to be "the guy" for a team, and now he clearly regrets it after last year's season went pear shaped in April. But he wasn't atrocious last year like people claim - he was a 3 WAR player and actually decreased his strikeouts from previous seasons, he's just being overplayed for a 3 WAR player, but he's probably better than a 3 WAR player in a situation where he's actually engaged. So get him engaged and be willing to take back nothing besides shorter term salary in a trade, it's far better than the 2 options given in the video.

[@stevenvargo2440]

Opening Day 2024??? No way. But I think Tigers are stuck with him till trade deadline. Hopefully he plays himself back into form so we can trade him for at least cash.

[@dandaniels5260]

I would tell him that if he wants out then he has to make himself tradeable.

[@jeremyapache]

Trade him for cash? You’re not going to find a team to pay his actual salary, let alone pay more money on top of that.

[@WWXspartan058]

​@@jeremyapache tigers would be eating a lot of salary in any trade I would guess

[@danielhood4062]

@@WWXspartan058 Tigers are not getting anything for him. If the GM, that pushed to sign him for that much money, still has a job, the Tigers deserve to lose. This show is delusional if he thinks that there is a team that will bail the Tigers out of this. Javier Baez was NEVER, even potentially, a player that could live up to 25mil/yr contract.

[@rayder409]

What a nightmare. Like many Tiger fans... when we found out we weren't getting Correa, we were at first delighted that Biaz had signed. That's because none of us knew what the Cubs, the Mets, and virtually every other team knew about Javi... He's not a hot and cold player... He's a cold, really cold, and sometimes shows up for a warm summer day to win a game here and there... Watching his approach at the plate is painful... He overswings. He chases. He's an easy out... a steady diet of sliders just off the plate... And that he has way too many throwing errors is just a sign of his hubris. Thanks, Al.

[@davidgerald2634]

I would expect Baez to opt out after the season to go to a winning franchise. That would be the best thing for all interested parties.

[@justanothergoy5900]

I doubt it, he would be leaving a ton of money on the table…no way anyone is gonna pay him 22 mil a year

[@thomasdonner2495]

don’t play him - Period!

[@edwardrossman9448]

Baez would have been thrown out at second but the ball hit the very edge of wall and popped up in air giving him time to make it to 2nd, one inch lower and hes out at 2nd or stayed at first.

[@aallan7365]

If he went back to Chicago bet he will be a different player

[@thomasdonner2495]

BENCH HIS ASS!

[@codybotterill8268]

Javy is back baby lol

[@sageantone7291]

Harvey*

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

AJ going send him packing

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

Get rid of him asap tigers he's no good to your team it's been revealed

[@michaele7194]

Trade baez for anything!! at the deadline!! Please!!!! Just eat the contract and learn from it!

[@MaximusMerideus]

All you Tiger fans were buying El Mago jerseys when you found out Javi was coming. Oh how the shine come off the gold coin. If someone can teach Javi how to layoff the slider in the dirt and go the other way instead of pulling the outside fastball he can turn back into a MVP type player. If not, you'll get 25 hr .220avg and >220 SO

[@19HuskyWolf70]

Send him to AA and bring up some youth players....

[@martinrenzhofer8241]

Baez looked like a different player during the World Baseball Classic and I thought he'd be positive for us this year.

[@moeal5469]

That should tell you he’s mailing it in. And getting paid no matter what. And the media in Detroit is not like NYC Chicago or LA. They never ask any tough questions because nobody wants to upset them. Because we’re in a small market and we should be grateful for anybody to be unfortunate to play for Detroit. Only the Red Wings it’s a privilege to play for them. Because they are like the Yankees of hockey. 💯✌️

[@michaelrogers9641]

@@moeal5469 we are not the Yankees of hockey anymore. Chris Illitch is the problem with both franchises.

[@paulwetter3262]

Lighten up on Baez. He has a lot of upside. He's having a rough patch where he can't hit, can't get on base, lacks motivation, makes bad throws and forgets the fundamentals of baseball sometimes. He'll snap out of it.

[@gromit0237]

He will opt out at first chance,...