Host (likely Bradfo)

I know.

For this, I go and talk to Detroit manager A.J.

Hinch.

along with two players who are putting the pedal to the metal when trying to make their respective teams, and that's outfielder Braden Ward with the Red Sox and Austin Slater with the aforementioned Tigers.

All right, but first up is Hinch, who is trying to gauge one of the most intriguing talents this March, and that would be number two overall prospect in all of baseball, Kevin McGonigal, who is vying to make the Tigers' starting shortstop.

So, how should we view the impact of spring training on clubs' perspectives regarding teams like McGonigal?

It's a good question, don't you think?

I think it is.

Well, Hinch has some great insight.

I mean, good, good, great, great, good, great insight.

All right, first up.

We're going to talk to Hinch.

Then I talked to Ward who just, by the way.

Hey, this is Richard Deitch, the host of the sports media podcast.

tied the record for most stolen bases in a single spring training.

And then I'm going to talk to Slater, the veteran who is nearing if his outstanding, and he has an outstanding, well, an OPS of well over 800, spring will be enough to make the Detroit Tigers.

All right.

Okay.

As I promised, here's the manager of the Detroit Tigers, AJ Hinch.

All right.