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Speaker 1: Welcome into the latest episode of fish Bites, a podcast

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Speaker 1: found via fish Stripes Espianation also heard on Slam Radio

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Speaker 1: XM Serious EXCEP. My name is Danny Martinez, and ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I have survived one of the craziest weekends

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Speaker 1: of sports and nonsports related issues in South Florida in

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Speaker 1: a while. Number One, regardless of whether you're listening to

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Speaker 1: this prior to Hurricane Dorian, in the middle of Hurricane Dorian,

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Speaker 1: or after Hurricane Dorian, I hope that you are safe.

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Speaker 1: I hope you and your loved ones are safe. I

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Speaker 1: hope your pets, your fur babies are safe. You know,

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Speaker 1: we in South Florida make a lot of jokes about hurricanes.

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Speaker 1: I know I do as well. I've only evacuated once,

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Speaker 1: and that's because I was dragged to evacuate once. But

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Speaker 1: I still hope that you took the precautions to be

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Speaker 1: safe so that we can continue having this conversation and

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Speaker 1: so that we continue this relationship and at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, so that we are all okay. Now,

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Speaker 1: a very different type of hurricane just ravished Davy, Florida

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Because the Miami Dolphins and don't worry. This

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Speaker 1: is not a Miami Dolphins podcast, but the Mimmy Dolphins

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Speaker 1: have linked to themselves now to the Miami Marlins by

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Speaker 1: finally finalizing and cementing the fact that this is a

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Speaker 1: full tear down rebuild. We're aiming for the future twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: We're kind of punting on this year when you trade

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Speaker 1: your left tackle and Lermie Tonsel and Kenny Stills as

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Speaker 1: well your wide receiver one of the leaders in the

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Speaker 1: clubhouse per se. Depending on where you fall in that conversation,

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Speaker 1: you are clearly showing that you are now the second

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Speaker 1: professional team in South Florida to go on a full

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Speaker 1: rebuilding mode. I saw a lot of criticism there. For

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Speaker 1: those of you that might not know, I wrote for

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Speaker 1: finn Maniacs prior to coming over to Fish Stripes. I

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Speaker 1: wrote for the Dolphins, and well, this is different for

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Speaker 1: them that though the Marlins. You know, I sent this

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Speaker 1: out right away. Whoever was here by twenty seventeen was

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Speaker 1: already a die hard. If you were a Marlins fan

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Speaker 1: by twenty seventeen, you had already been dwindled, or not dwindled,

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Speaker 1: but rather brought down the fan base from Oh casuals

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Speaker 1: and bandwagons. No, it was just diehards. Now that this

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Speaker 1: is new territory for the Finns, you know, even in

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Speaker 1: the one in fifteen year that was just a really

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Speaker 1: bad team. But there was nothing prior, no precedent to saying,

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Speaker 1: all right, we are full rebuilding, we are full tanking.

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Speaker 1: It'll be different. I don't know if a Finn's fan base,

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Speaker 1: especially some of those who I'm just gonna say it,

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Speaker 1: are not built for it the way that the Marlins are,

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Speaker 1: or the Marlins fans are. At least some of the

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Speaker 1: Marlins fans are are ready for what is going to

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Speaker 1: be a very difficult twenty nineteen season for the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: A very dish type of hurricane, but a hurricane nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: and one that I have been a part of. So

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give my two cents in there, especially

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Speaker 1: since it does parlay very well with the Marlins. The

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Speaker 1: Marlins have gone through this. We have seen the fruits

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Speaker 1: of the Marlins rebuild. Not the ultimate prize. We can't

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Speaker 1: confuse those two. We haven't seen the ultimate winning in

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Speaker 1: the major league level, absolutely not far from it. Years

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Speaker 1: from that. But you can only grade or rebuild by

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Speaker 1: what level it's at at the moment, what stage, what phase,

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Speaker 1: and the Marlins rebuild at the moment we are starting

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Speaker 1: to see the fruits and the positives of their plan.

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Speaker 1: If the Dolphins can have the equivalents of what the

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Speaker 1: Marlins have done in baseball, okay, one of the quickest

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Speaker 1: turnarounds in baseball when we're talking from a farm system

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Speaker 1: standpoint and from a pitching standpoint, If Dolphins can do that,

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Speaker 1: I am all up for this. I think that the

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Speaker 1: fan base will survive if they can't. If they are

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Speaker 1: more Chicago White Sox, or if they are more Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns than Atlanta Braves or Houston Astros, or again even

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Speaker 1: at the moment, at the that they're in Miami Marlins,

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Speaker 1: it'll be a very interesting dynamic to see what happens

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Speaker 1: in South Florida sports. But you're not here to listen

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Speaker 1: about football. I'm gonna stop talking about football. Let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and talk about what you're here for, which is

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Speaker 1: Miami Marlins, baseball and baseball in general. Today is a

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Speaker 1: jam packed and I know I say that every once

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Speaker 1: going to dissect and open up my latest article on

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Speaker 1: fisstripes dot com. So far it's already gotten a lot

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Speaker 1: of good feedback. Just released today if you want to

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Speaker 1: go see it. It is titled a five step off

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Speaker 1: season plan for the Margins to improve in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: and it's very self explanatory. But we're going to unpack

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Speaker 1: that and we're going to discuss it a little bit today.

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Speaker 1: Also going to attack two questions that were set my way.

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Speaker 1: One is in regard toon Diaz. The question is, you know,

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Speaker 1: when we're looking at the process of Eatondias, what variables

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Speaker 1: is that actually indicative of the player that he is

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Speaker 1: who we thought would be much much better now? The

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Speaker 1: answer right off the bat is we cannot make any

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Speaker 1: final assessments on Asan Diaz when he's getting a cup

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Speaker 1: understand that, but I'm still gonna try to answer that

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Speaker 1: question as best as possible. We're also gonna do pitching

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Speaker 1: Performance of the Week and hitter Performance of the Week.

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Speaker 1: And then the second thing that was sent to me

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Speaker 1: was a feedback of, Hey, I love the fact that

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Speaker 1: we have weekly segments on hitter of the week and

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Speaker 1: Pitcher of the week, but can you touch on some

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Speaker 1: of the long season numbers again, some of the season performances.

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Speaker 1: I do that every once in a while, but this

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Speaker 1: reader wanted me to do it this week, especially since

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Speaker 1: st offense has had hits, ups and many downs. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna discuss a little bit about the overall numbers

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Speaker 1: for the years, what players are showing that they might belong,

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Speaker 1: what players are showing that they might not belong, the

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Speaker 1: good and yes, the very very ugly. But let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and start off with my article again fits Stripes

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Speaker 1: the Marlins to improve in twenty twenty. The reality is,

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Speaker 1: and I hit this on my intro, is that there

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Speaker 1: are two types of fans. Right. There's the type of

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Speaker 1: fan that knew exactly what twenty nineteen was going to

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Speaker 1: look like. They might have had varying levels of optimism

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Speaker 1: or pessimism, but they knew that this was a rebuilding

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Speaker 1: year with a lot of losing and had to do

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Speaker 1: this year has been miserable for you, where this year

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Speaker 1: cannot end soon enough. I say that the finish of

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Speaker 1: this season is almost merciful, right, It's merciful because of

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Speaker 1: yet it still sucks, and it still is unfortunate and

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Speaker 1: difficult to see the losing take place. We can have

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Speaker 1: It doesn't make your favorite team losing any less palatable.

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Speaker 1: Now for some of us. It does for some of us.

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Speaker 1: We understand that this isn't about winning. I get that,

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Speaker 1: but it still sucks at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: So what has to change? Right? Because the pitching has

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Speaker 1: been okay, the rebranding was successful. The fact that they

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Speaker 1: Even if We're all about what are they doing at

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Speaker 1: reality is that twenty twenty cannot be a repeat of

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. When we're talking about on field performance at

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Speaker 1: Marlins Park. Now, I don't say that as a threat.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, what's going to happen to the Marlins if

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Speaker 1: more people don't show up? You know, people say that, Look,

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Speaker 1: revenue sharing in baseball has eliminated the need for attendance

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Speaker 1: the violence will say all of the right things, we

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Speaker 1: need more people. Of course we need more people, and

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Speaker 1: of course it'll help to have more revenue. But revenue sharing,

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Speaker 1: external sponsorships, all that stuff has made attendance much less

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that perspective. I'm just talking about

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Speaker 1: a perspective that if you're gonna build something in Miami again,

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Speaker 1: fans that have been scoring the older fans or you're

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Speaker 1: just trying to get the newer fans. You have to win.

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Speaker 1: You have to win, and twenty twenty is not about

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Speaker 1: two years of continuous losing. It allows you to improve

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Speaker 1: the first one is you need to build on a strength.

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Speaker 1: and Nick Knighter, who was just on ETS earlier this

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Speaker 1: week with a great interview. Go ahead and make sure

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Speaker 1: none of that is a surprise so far. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to me and you're saying, Okay, Danny, that's not really

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Speaker 1: a great offseason plan. I could have told you that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Number one, you add consistency to what is an inconsistent

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Speaker 1: addition at the right price. And he still might be

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Speaker 1: only twenty eight for the twenty twenty years old for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. Marcelo Zuna is a free agent

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Speaker 1: this year. I don't know. There are some rumblings that

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals might try to extend him, but he might

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Speaker 1: hit the free agency market. He's only going to be

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. That's someone that I would look at, YESI

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Speaker 1: O Puige and a asil Garcia again, a Corey Dickerson,

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Speaker 1: a Jose of bray you for first base. He's a

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Speaker 1: little older, he would be thirty three, but it would

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Speaker 1: be an interesting dynamic. Remember, you could always move Garret

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Speaker 1: Cooper out to right, move Brian r Anderson back to third,

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Speaker 1: and you have yourself quite a power potential in your lineup.

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Speaker 1: And then lastly, someone like a Justin Smoke lefty from

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Speaker 1: first base, also gives you power. These are the type

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Speaker 1: of players that you are likely going to want to

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Speaker 1: target in a twenty twenty off season. For those of

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Speaker 1: you that are saying in Anthony Rendon, I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that that's gonna happen. The Marlins are not

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Speaker 1: going to be that type of spender in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: I personally believe that they can be a type of spender,

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Speaker 1: maybe not to the extent of an Anthony rondona Bryce

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Speaker 1: Harper Manny Machado, but a heavy type of spender by

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. By twenty twenty two, those two free

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Speaker 1: agency classes are wild, especially with second base's shortstop help.

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Speaker 1: I think second base will still be It's on Dias

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Speaker 1: the answer, but nonetheless, shortstop help something to consider if

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Speaker 1: the Marlins roll out opening Day twenty twenty. I'm blanking

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Speaker 1: on who they play opening day, but if they roll

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Speaker 1: out opening Day twenty twenty, might be the Phillies, and

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Speaker 1: it is the same starting staff as this year, and

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Speaker 1: it is the same offensive lineup as this year. There

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Speaker 1: is nothing overly worrisome about that, because it's a rebuild,

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Speaker 1: and because you are try they should be better. Like

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Speaker 1: this exact rotation a year older should be better than

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Speaker 1: where they are right now, and this exact lineup should

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Speaker 1: be better than where they are right now. It's a rebuild,

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Speaker 1: that's okay if they do that, But if you really

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Speaker 1: want to sell to your fan base that the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty season is a true stepping stone, And what I

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Speaker 1: mean by that is that it's almost a launching pad.

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Speaker 1: The first two years are supposed to suck. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: if you still don't understand that, But in a rebuild. Look,

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Speaker 1: if you're a Dolphins fan, get ready for this. We're

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Speaker 1: living this as a Marlins fan right now. Get ready

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Speaker 1: for it as a Dolphins fan. It's supposed to be bad,

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Speaker 1: but that third year is supposed to be a big

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Speaker 1: stepping stone. If you want to sell that, go get

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Speaker 1: one of these bats, put them in the middle of

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Speaker 1: your lineup, and it'll add you some wins. Number four,

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Speaker 1: Extend Brian Anderson. I'm not going to talk much about

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Speaker 1: this because I already discussed it. I run entire article

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Speaker 1: on it. The season ending injury does nothing to change that.

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Speaker 1: Extend Brian Anderson, show him in the fan base an

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Speaker 1: excellent move of good faith. Lock up one of the

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Speaker 1: better players of his upcoming corps and have him extended.

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Speaker 1: And then, fifth, the fifth thing that I would do

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Speaker 1: this offseason to make sure that twenty twenty is a

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Speaker 1: much better year and a likely launching pad, stepping stone

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Speaker 1: type of season. Is you have to address and I

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Speaker 1: cannot stress this enough, you have to address the managerial

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Speaker 1: position incredibly early. Listen, the day after the season is over,

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Speaker 1: Donnie should know if he's staying or if he's going

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Speaker 1: the day after. If he is going, two weeks after.

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Speaker 1: They should have an understanding, no later than two weeks

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Speaker 1: exactly who is going to be the next captain, the

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Speaker 1: next manager, the next leader of this team. The Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins took a sweet time with getting their captain, their

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Speaker 1: team manager, their coach, their head coach, and their staff

498
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Speaker 1: of this rebuild a sweet time, and then he started

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Speaker 1: having issues. Coach flow Brian Floor started having issues because

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Speaker 1: he couldn't fill out the rest of his staff because

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Speaker 1: they were already getting filled up by other players and

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Speaker 1: other franchises that had already filled the managerial position. The

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Speaker 1: Marlins are in a very different situation in the rebuild,

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Speaker 1: obviously much more advanced, much more excelled. At the moment,

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Speaker 1: they cannot make that mistake. If Donnie madding, if Donnie

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Speaker 1: Baseball is going to continue being the leader here, Whether

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Speaker 1: I agree with that or whether I disagree with that.

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Speaker 1: He needs to know right away, give him the keys

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Speaker 1: and go. If not, you thank him for everything he's done.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you give him a position in the organization and

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Speaker 1: you go find his replacement right away. Because here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: A rebuilding team requires an identity, especially in what some consider,

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Speaker 1: like myself, to be a meaningful twenty twenty season. You

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Speaker 1: want that identity to start from day one in the

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Speaker 1: off season. You want that coach, that manager, if he's

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Speaker 1: good at what he does, to contact all of those

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Speaker 1: players from day one in the off season. Build the

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Speaker 1: identity right away. Some names, and there's a lot that

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you here, some names that I

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Speaker 1: would play very close attention to. I have my own

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Speaker 1: personal preferences. I'll tell you who my personal preferences are.

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Speaker 1: After I give you the names. Eddie Rodriguez, you might

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Speaker 1: be wondering, who in the world is Eddie Rodriguez and

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Speaker 1: why is he the first person that Danny is stating

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Speaker 1: number one? He's my preference. Eddie Rodriguez is who I

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Speaker 1: would peg as the Marlins next manager. He is he

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Speaker 1: has a long history of being within baseball and being successful.

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Speaker 1: He led the believe the twenty nineteen US national team

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Speaker 1: to a gold medal. He has played around young players before.

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Speaker 1: He's known as a good balance between a man a

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Speaker 1: coach's manager, or rather a player's manager, and also having

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Speaker 1: just a very high baseball acumen. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: he is on the analytics spectrum, but that would be

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Speaker 1: my first preference. It doesn't hurt that he's from Miami,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt that he's fully Bilingu. It doesn't hurt

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Speaker 1: that a lot of individuals praise him from end to end.

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Speaker 1: When you're talking about his baseball acumen, you still probably

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Speaker 1: don't know who Eddie Rodriguez is. Not many people follow

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Speaker 1: the USA national team. How many people understand or know

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Speaker 1: who he is? That's fine, Wikipedia him, Google him. He

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Speaker 1: would be my first preference. After Eddie Rodriguez. There's a

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Speaker 1: million and a half names, Not really, there's a handful

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Speaker 1: of names you'll know right off the back. Carlos Beltron,

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Speaker 1: Trey Hillman. I believe has an inside track already, very

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Speaker 1: analytically driven, already in the franchise. Mark Dero, so you

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Speaker 1: hear him a on MB network. He had a good

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Speaker 1: playing career prior to being an analyst is someone who

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Speaker 1: I think is a good balance between traditional and analytics.

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Speaker 1: Also very young, Sandy Alomar Junior with the Indians organization.

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Speaker 1: George Uh, you know Pasada, Okay, I think that that

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Speaker 1: would be interesting with the optics quite frankly, but before

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Speaker 1: he Pasada really wants to coach, he's ready within the

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Speaker 1: Marlins organization and he's a good friend of Jeter. The

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Speaker 1: optics of that would probably be very interesting how they

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Speaker 1: handled it with the Marlins, but would be someone who

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Speaker 1: I think should be a coach in this league, a catcher,

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Speaker 1: one of the most brilliant minds. Again, also bilingual. It

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Speaker 1: would be interesting. Joe Espada, I think could also have

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Speaker 1: an inside track. Also has a relationship with Derek Jeter,

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Speaker 1: also very analytic oriented in the Astros organization. While Labagnez

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Speaker 1: and Keith Johnson. Keith Johnson is a great manager in

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Speaker 1: the Mayers organization. He coaches the New Orleans affiliate. He

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Speaker 1: is someone that I believe deserves a chance at the

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Speaker 1: major league level. All of those names that I just

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Speaker 1: told you are individuals that I think would be excellent

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Speaker 1: choices for the IA Marlins. And listen, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: their own managerial search committee. I understand that I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to say anything out of the ordinary that's too

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Speaker 1: crazy here, but I think that all of those names

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Speaker 1: are someone that you should keep mind and think, hmm,

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Speaker 1: interesting they're interviewing him. Danny said that a few months ago.

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Speaker 1: I think these are names that'll be interesting. I would

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Speaker 1: also add that anytime you have some Marlin's connection, you

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Speaker 1: probably should get a look. Freddy Gonzalez is already with

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Speaker 1: the team. We'll see what they think about Freddy. Juan

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Speaker 1: Pierre is ready with the organization. That's someone I really

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Speaker 1: think out of all the names I'm listing here in

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Speaker 1: this section, second section, the minds will give a look

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Speaker 1: at Michael Lohle is always in Miami. You just run

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Speaker 1: into him every once in a while when you're at

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Speaker 1: a local store, whatever the case. When he's not an

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Speaker 1: MLB network, is also someone that I think, I think

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Speaker 1: out of everyone, the fans would love Michael the most.

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Speaker 1: That would be incredibly interesting. All of the optics of

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Speaker 1: Hoti Pasada would be the complete opposite of Michael loh

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Speaker 1: because everyone would love the Mike lo higher. And then

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Speaker 1: Joe Girardi. Listen, Joe is someone who has had success

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Speaker 1: everywhere he's gone. And maybe he's a little fourth right,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's a little aggressive in his in his way.

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Speaker 1: I don't know he was with Jeter. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what that relationship is like. But Joe Girardi's probably the

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Speaker 1: most successful that you could get out of all the

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Speaker 1: names that I listed. He would come in and he

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Speaker 1: would make sure that this rebuild is ran in the

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Speaker 1: most effective way possible. Is he the guy? We don't know?

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Speaker 1: But should he be an option? Absolutely so? Once again.

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Speaker 1: Eddie Rodriguez preference, Carlos Beltron, Trey Hillman, Mark de Rosa,

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Speaker 1: Sandye Lamar Junior, Hoadipasada, Joe Spata, Rau Leubanya's, Keith Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Freddy Gonzalez, Kwan Pierre miche Low and Joe Giardi. That

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Speaker 1: would be my short list of candidates moving forward for

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Speaker 1: the Mammia Marlins to identify as their next manager if

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Speaker 1: they decide the second after the season is over that

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Speaker 1: Donnie Maddingly is not the individual that's moving forward. If

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Speaker 1: that's the case, that's the way that I would go onto.

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Speaker 1: The second part. The question was about Isan Diaz and

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Speaker 1: the fact that Listen he has had his ups and

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Speaker 1: he has had his downs. In his first cup of

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Speaker 1: coffee since come into the majors. No one is going

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Speaker 1: to counter that. Eson himself is not going to counter that.

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Speaker 1: He knows he needs to be doing more. However, there

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Speaker 1: is an argument to be made, and this is where

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Speaker 1: that listener was coming from in the email, that they're

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Speaker 1: his peripherals, which means the things that we might not

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Speaker 1: so evidently see when we're looking at a player's stats

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Speaker 1: show us that his process of hitting and just simply

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Speaker 1: his process of being a player might be better than

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Speaker 1: the results. So what I mean by that, well, Number one,

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Speaker 1: and this is really the most important one for me.

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Speaker 1: Right off the bat, do you know that twenty three

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Speaker 1: year old Isan Diaz is leading the Marlins in percentage

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Speaker 1: percentage of walks taken. He's walking twelve and a half

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Speaker 1: percent of the time. That is the number one in

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Speaker 1: the Marlins and very high in the major leagues, which

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Speaker 1: is telling you something. Number One, pitchers are being careful

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Speaker 1: with him, which might have not necessarily been the case

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Speaker 1: in triple A. Number two, it tells you pitchers have

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Speaker 1: a lot more information on him, which is definitely not

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Speaker 1: the case in triple A and number three. It's telling

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Speaker 1: you that Issan's very patient. We've always known this. He

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Speaker 1: is the on base percentage king because he takes a

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Speaker 1: lot of walks. When you're leading your organization and your

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Speaker 1: professional MLB team with just a few weeks of experience

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Speaker 1: under your belt and taking walks, it is the most

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Speaker 1: significant factor that you could tell me that Isan Dias

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Speaker 1: is going to be fine, because it means he's seeing

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Speaker 1: the ball well. It means that in a very Joey

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Speaker 1: Vadosh way, he knows his strike zone. Now, something that

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Speaker 1: he is having difficulties with, however, is not strike zone,

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Speaker 1: but rather pitch selection and pitch identification. Luis de Villa

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Speaker 1: said this under the tweet that I sent out, and

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Speaker 1: I agree with him wholeheartedly. What we see him doing

642
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: a lot is either overthinking or pitch selection, because he's

643
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: having difficulties with identifying the fastball and the change up

644
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: either well ahead or behind of the fastball and getting

645
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: thrown off on the changeup. That's where we're seeing contact issues. Now.

646
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,919
Speaker 1: Those contact issues lead to the second per fole point,

647
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: which is that his batting average and balls and play

648
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: is only two hundred. Now, this is incredibly low. This

649
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: is the lowest on the team, and it's one of

650
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: the lowest in all of baseball. Are going to get

651
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: the call as Isan Diaz pops one up, look.

652
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: At Charlie flying out there, and he makes a sliding catch.

653
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: Charlie's been everywhere.

654
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: Nice catch, What was a great catch. She's the only

655
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: guy with a chance at that ball. If you are thinking, huh,

656
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: where have I heard Danny talk about babbit before balls

657
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: in batting or batting average and balls and play, it's

658
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: with George Alfaro. George AffA has a very high batting

659
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: average balls in play. This works with both of these

660
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: players a lot of individuals. Even if I don't agree

661
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: with it, believe that if you have a very low babbit,

662
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: it's because you're getting very unlucky. You're making a lot

663
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: of contact, but it just keeps getting caught, keeps getting caught,

664
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Speaker 1: It keeps getting caught, You're getting out. And if you

665
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: have a very high babbit like ho Hey Afroo, like

666
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: George Alfaro, it's because you're getting very lucky, and that

667
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: eventually you will regress, that eventually the defense will line

668
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: up correctly and that what you hit will get caught.

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Speaker 1: The reason that I disagree with the fact that Babbitt

670
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,919
Speaker 1: should solely be used to discuss luck is because Number one,

671
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Speaker 1: the reason George Alfaro gets a lot of balls down

672
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: is because he hits them as hard as John Carlo

673
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: Stanton does. It's because his exit velocity and his hard

674
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: hit rate are in the top ten percent of baseball

675
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: Ysandia's isn't. Easandia's is hard hit rate and exit velocity,

676
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: which is my third point, he is actually below average

677
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: at the moment. Maybe it's because he's being so patient

678
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: that he's not striking and barreling up the pitches that

679
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: he can. Maybe it's because he's not identifying the change

680
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: in speed of velocity or off speed quickly enough. Yet

681
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: because there's a learning curve, no one should expect Easandia's

682
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: to come up here and be raking from the first

683
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: get go, which I think is the issue with a

684
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: lot of Marlins fans. It could be either of these things,

685
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: but the reality is that then you have mixed results

686
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: to answer that question of whether his process is better

687
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: than the actual results. The fact that he's walking and

688
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: leading the Marlins in walk and walking percentage of one

689
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: of the highest in baseball is a very good sign

690
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: that his process is better than the results and that

691
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: the results will eventually catch up. The fact that his

692
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: BABB is incredibly low dictates that it should probably rise

693
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: a little bit, even if I don't fully buy that theory,

694
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: which means that his results should catch up. However, the

695
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: fact that his exit velocity and hard hit percentage are

696
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Speaker 1: both below average is something that needs to change because,

697
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: let me break it to you, if those things remain

698
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,399
Speaker 1: below average, that babbit isn't increasing, because if all you're

699
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: doing are hitting grounders and weak pop ups, let me

700
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: tell you that's not going to fall. That exit velocity,

701
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: that launch angle, that hard hit rate, all the analytical

702
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: things that people roll their eyes to, we're starting to

703
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: see more and more and more so that it is accurate,

704
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: that it is truthful. Those things need to change because

705
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: it won't matter how many times you walk. So then

706
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: we're left with some dissonance. We're left with two points

707
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: to tell us, Hey, relax, Isan, diaz Asan's gonna be

708
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: completely fine. You could see the approach. You could see

709
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: him taking his walk. You could see him identifying what

710
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: to swing in and what not to swing at. At least

711
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: when we're talking about strike zone coverage, the babbup, it's

712
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: gonna go up. Don't worry, balls are gonna start dropping.

713
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: You have two things that are saying we're gonna be okay,

714
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: But then you have that third thing that says, either

715
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: this is a learning curve because he's not barreling balls

716
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: up and hitting him at the percentage that he was

717
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: hitting them before at leasten we're talking about hard hit

718
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: and exit velocity and launch angle. Or is this a

719
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: case where he is that type of player and he

720
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: has to get by with just average hard hit percentage.

721
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and be optimist, but not even

722
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't even have to be optimistic. I could be objective.

723
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: Is Sandias smashes balls every single level he's gone to,

724
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Speaker 1: he has had a little bit of a learning curve,

725
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: and then when he identifies the pitches, he smashes balls.

726
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: This is not a guy who's gonna have an average

727
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: exit velocity and average hard hit percentage for his entire career.

728
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: Might he be starting off like this?

729
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 2: Yeah?

730
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: Sure, go look up Alex Bregman's numbers. When he first

731
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: started his first few months, people were calling him one

732
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: of the biggest busts in baseball. There is a learning

733
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Speaker 1: curve Isandia's is going through this. If you are wondering

734
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: what works for that argument, you have the information. If

735
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: you are wondering what works against that argument. The only

736
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: answer when someone is not striking out above thirty percent,

737
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: because he's not. When someone is walking at an elite

738
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: level like he is, the only answer, the only out

739
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: come is if he really does remain a below average

740
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage and exit velocity and launch angle type

741
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: of hitter. If he does, then you're talking about a problem.

742
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: But since he doesn't have that track record, and it's

743
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: quite frankly, he has the extreme opposite of it in

744
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, I'm going to safely assume and safely

745
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: predict that Isan Diaz is going to be more than fine.

746
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: And then we can come back and listen to this

747
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see it play out. Does this cup

748
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: of coffee? Is this why this is important? Yes, that's

749
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: where I disagree with Joe. For sorrow, he goes on

750
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: this whole thing of oh, you can't rush prospects, and look,

751
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: this is validating the fact that we shouldn't have rushed him. Okay,

752
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: that's fine. I will choose to say that this is

753
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: exactly why you get his learning curve out of the

754
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: way now in a season that does not matter at all.

755
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: You're not ruining him. If you were ruining him, his

756
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: numbers would not have the best walk percentage on the team,

757
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: and he became more than thirty percent. That's ruining a player.

758
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: His approach is the same. He hasn't changed much. It's

759
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: simply the fact that he has not barreled up balls

760
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: the way that he has at the rate that he

761
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: was doing in New Orleans and in Jacksonville. Get this

762
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: cup of coffee out of the way, and let's see

763
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: what happens, all right, So we have the pitching performance

764
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Speaker 1: of the week, the hitter before the hitters the week rather,

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna look at some overall numbers after

766
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Speaker 1: we touch on the hitters of the week. First pitchy

767
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: performance of the week should not be a surprise to anyone.

768
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: I love the fact that they've made it really easy

769
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: on me the last few weeks. The last few weeks,

770
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: we haven't even needed to have multiple candidates because Sandy

771
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: our Contra has come out two weeks in a row,

772
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: and just said, here, here's your hitting performance of the week, Danny,

773
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: don't do any homework. You're fine this week. The same

774
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: thing with a Robert Dugger. Robert Dugger again was acquired

775
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: in the trade with the Mariners. He was acquired with

776
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: Nick Knighter and Torehs for Dee Gordon. And I would

777
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: have never bet that Dougger would have made his MLB

778
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: debut prior to Nick Knighter, but that's what happens when

779
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: Nick gets hurt. Again. Listen to that interview with him

780
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: on earning their stripes. It was fantastic. Nick is great,

781
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 1: He's a great person. Robert duggar hell of a game

782
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: against the Reds seven innings, pitched, only three hits, allowed

783
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: zero earn runs. He allowed a few runs, but they

784
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: were unearned defensive mishaps. Seven strikeouts to one walk. When

785
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: you get that from a Robert Dugger, someone who, if

786
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: we are being bluntly honest, whether it's fair or not,

787
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: most fans, most prospect sites would have as maybe the

788
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: fifteenth best pitcher on the system. Maybe when we're talking

789
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: about ceiling, when we're talking about production, When you get

790
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: that type of production from someone like that, it tells

791
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: you and it is a testament to the fact that

792
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: this rotation and the starting staff and this starting pitching

793
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: system is filled with layers of depth. Because in a

794
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: week where everyone was seemingly hitting the marlins, maybe not

795
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: hitting the starters as hard as they've been hitting the bullpen,

796
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: but that's an entirely different story. Dugger gave you seven

797
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: scoreless at least when we're talking about earned innings, with

798
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts and one walk. He used his mix of

799
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: pitches very well. He kept hitters off balance, He showed

800
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: you a little bit of velocity. He showed you what

801
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: he could do. It is the ceiling on a Robert Duggar,

802
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 1: likely still a four or five guy, maybe a Tom

803
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: Kohler type of pitcher, possibly not necessarily with stuff, but

804
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: with profile and what you would think of him in

805
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: a rotation piece. Maybe, But when you're young, when you

806
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: just got promoted and you put up one of the

807
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: better starts of the entire season in what is not

808
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 1: a below average starting staff, it's telling you something. Robert Duggar,

809
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: I think is the individual. Like we spoke about John Birdie,

810
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: we spoke about how he can be the back at

811
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: the bracket buster for all the projected lineups that everyone

812
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: sends me and that I send out to Twitter, and

813
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: that we all discuss. I think Robert Duggar could be

814
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: that same guy for the starting staff next year. I

815
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: think he would be the one that might get hurt

816
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: if they sign and they go with my plan and

817
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: they sign a veteran free agent. But if not, I

818
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: think Robert dugger just stands right up into the rotation

819
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: and says, come, try to get it. He had his

820
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: first start against the Mets. It didn't necessarily as planned,

821
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: but he still gave you five innings pitch that he

822
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: got hit around, and really it was just unfortunate. But

823
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: then he comes back in his second start and his

824
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: first start after the promotion, since he had been sent down.

825
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: He was the twenty sixth man that day in a

826
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: doubleheader against the Mets, and he shows you why this

827
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: is still someone who you should be excited with, with

828
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: the understanding that he's likely the fifteenth highest ceiling or

829
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: prospect in our system of pictures. It's good stuff. It's

830
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: good to see tip of the cap to Robert. I'm

831
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: excited that he was able to do that. I'm excited

832
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: to see him come out this week and show up

833
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: another good performance. The hitters of the week we have

834
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: three Starlin Castro, Georgia al Farro, Harold Jamirez Starln. Castro

835
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: has been on fire since after the trade headline, so

836
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: much so that he has started to bring up the

837
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: conversation of what if the Marlins try to retain him now,

838
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: they would not retain him at the sally that he's in. Look,

839
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: make no mistake. If somehow the Marlins do not buy

840
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: out Starlin Castro this offseason, I don't know. I'll quit

841
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: this podcast because there's no way, there's no financial sense

842
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: to not doing so. However, buying out a player does

843
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: not mean that he cannot come back. Quite on the contrary,

844
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: I think if you sit down star and you say,

845
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: we love your leadership, we love what you've done, We

846
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,959
Speaker 1: want you to be a part of this rebuilding team.

847
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: We want you to finally outlive a rebuild and be competitive.

848
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: Because if you remember every organization he's been, whether it's

849
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: the Cubs or anywhere else, he's been there through the

850
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: rebuild and then they've shipped him off when they've gotten good.

851
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe Starlin loves it down here. He's

852
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: been a great leader. Maybe you buy him out and

853
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: then you bring him back on a one year deal,

854
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: not minimum salary, but a manageable salary. Definitely not to

855
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: start second base. He Sondiaz is gonna have that position,

856
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: but he showed you that he can be good at sure,

857
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: he can be good at third. You have depth in

858
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: a Starlin Castro and a leader in a Starlin Castro.

859
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, if we look at his second half numbers,

860
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: someone who is not just a leader like I mentioned before,

861
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 1: but also can hit the ball a bit three forty six,

862
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: three forty six, six fifteen. This week six fifteen was

863
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: a slug in. He's on base plus slugging. He's almost

864
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: at one thousand at nine to sixty two to Homer's

865
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: six RBIs. He hasn't walked at all this week. He

866
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: has gone up there swinging. He's either going to strike

867
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: at which he did eight times, or he's going to

868
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: drive in some runs and get hits, which he did

869
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: nine times. But a good week for Stalin Castro, a

870
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: good second half for Stalin Castro, and at the very

871
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: least he's bringing up the concept of buying him out,

872
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: but bringing him back anyway for the second straight week.

873
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: George Alfaro makes an appearance for the second straight week.

874
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: George Alfaro shuts up some of the individuals that think

875
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: that two three weeks of his performance is going to

876
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: generalize to the rest of his to the rest of

877
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: his career. Quite frankly, even at this very young age

878
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: three hundred even took a walk this week, so he

879
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: obp is at three thirty three. He's slugging six hundred

880
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 1: ops of nine hundred thirty three. He got two homers,

881
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: and then again he's always going to strike out. He

882
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: has ten k's to one walk. Georgia Affo continues to

883
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: show you that he can be a primary catcher. He

884
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: had those three weeks almost a full month of awful baseball,

885
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: and I fully understand that. But when you can supply

886
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 1: the defense he has, and when you can have these

887
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: these these crucial streaks where you show the type of

888
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: player you are, the hope is that with age and

889
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: maturity and development, those streaks become longer, longer, longer, until

890
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: you finally have a consistent catcher and backstop leading the

891
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: rebuild and leading the competitive team moving forward. For the Marlins,

892
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: the third player to consider this week is Harold hitting.

893
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: Ramirez hit two seventy slugged five hundred ops almost at

894
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: eight hundred, collected seven hits throughout this week. He also

895
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: had two home runs. Both were solo shots, but I

896
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: don't care. He's showing you power. Production also struck out

897
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: eight times, also did not walk. Him and Castro had

898
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: very similar lines. This team needs to learn how to

899
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: walk more. Just a side note, I'm not breaking anyone's

900
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,959
Speaker 1: mind here. They need to learn how to take more walks.

901
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: They need to learn from me san Diez, because if

902
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: this team walks more, they have okay contact ability up

903
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: and down the line, and they're starting to develop a

904
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: little bit more power, especially when Brian Anderson is there.

905
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: George Alfarou Isan Diaz, for what it's worth, still has power.

906
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: He's still hitting warning truck shots. They get caught right

907
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: there in Marlin's Park. They need to learn how to

908
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: walk for now. If you ask me, I'm probably going

909
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: to give it to Starlin Castro this week. Somebody you

910
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: might give it to George Alfaro. I think Starlin gets

911
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: it this week for me because, quite frankly, when you're

912
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: able to continue being the leader and continue hitting, I've

913
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: been waiting for this hot streak to finish. It hasn't finished.

914
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: It came at the wrong time of the year. I

915
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: can guarantee you that. But he has, at least, like

916
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: I said, presented himself at the table for being part

917
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: of the future of the Marlins, even if it's as

918
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: a buy out. Has to be as a buy out

919
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: and then as a one year deal or a two

920
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: year deal. It's someone that you can bring back. Starlin

921
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: Castro hitter of the week now for our overall numbers

922
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: for the year, and then we'll get out of here again.

923
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: The listener said, Listen, I love everything that you do.

924
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you have hitters of the

925
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: week in these weekly segments. But what are some of

926
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: the numbers that you're looking at for the entire higher year. Well,

927
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the ops, the on base

928
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: plus slugging, but it works very well with weighted rues.

929
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: I can never see it. It's like a twist weighted

930
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: runs created plus as well as many of the other

931
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: meaningful offensive values that you might discuss. There's a top

932
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: five and for qualified hitters, we're taking three hundred at

933
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: bats this year, and the top five is without a

934
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: doubt promising. It's not perfect. Okay, it's not even good.

935
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: Because what you'll see with OPS is when we're looking

936
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: throughout a year, so not just a specific year, but

937
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: throughout years. Fangrafts uses an OPS of seven hundred and

938
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: ten is average. If we were to use seven hundred

939
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: and ten as average, the next five players, the top

940
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: five that I'm about to give you, would all be

941
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: above average. The fifth is Harold Dmirez. Harold Dmirez OPS

942
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: is seven to seventeen, so that would be above average.

943
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: But remember why, I'm going to remember the fact that

944
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: I'm saying but and I'll explain to you why after

945
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: I'm with this list. So if we were going with

946
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: seven ten as the average, Harold Jerimires, which is number five,

947
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: would already be above average, which means we have five

948
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:13,479
Speaker 1: hitters above average for OPS. Harold Jmir seven seventeen. Number four,

949
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: George Alfero comes in, he's hitting seven to twenty five.

950
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: When we're looking at OPS number three, Miguel Rojas hitting

951
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: seven twenty eight. Number two Garrett Cooper hitting seven sixty six.

952
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: You see there's a big difference there between three and two.

953
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: Garret Cooper really is actually providing you offensive value, and

954
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain why in a second. The butt is

955
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: going to be explained in a second, and then number

956
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: one should be no surprise. I'm gonna let you go

957
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: ahead and say it in your car wherever. Who do

958
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: you think is leading the Marlins with at least three

959
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: hundred of bats and ops Brian Anderson over eight hundred

960
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: eight eleven, well above average, almost one hundred points above average,

961
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: But the average is very different this year. See Fangrafts

962
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: uses the seven to ten as a consistent barometer of ops,

963
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 1: where over a few years the average should be around

964
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: seven hundred and ten, but that is not the case

965
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 1: this year. The average this year is in the seven

966
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: hundred and sixties, meaning that the Marlins would only have

967
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 1: two hitters with an above average on base plus slugging

968
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: in Brian Anderson at eight hundred and eleven and Garrett

969
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: Cooper at seven hundred and sixty six, two hitters throughout

970
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: the year that are above league average for twenty nineteen. Now,

971
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: whether we believe the theory that there's issues with the baseballs,

972
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: that the power numbers are all up, which there is

973
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: actually some counter effective evidence for that, that there actually

974
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: really is not that much of a difference. But we'll

975
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: get into that another time. That'll be an offseason special.

976
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: If you believe that the baseballs are different, let me

977
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: tell you something. Marlin's Park will deal with that. Which

978
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: is the one thing that we could say is kind

979
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: of a coddling effect when I'm trying to say that

980
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: only two hitters are over league average for this year,

981
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: is the fact that those hitters here in Marlin's Park

982
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: still work at Marlin's Park, and it doesn't matter how

983
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: much you affect the baseball if you're still trying to

984
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: hit it out of Marlin's Park. I think it's an

985
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: effective counter. However, it still remains true that you only

986
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: have two hitters above league average for the year twenty nineteen. Now,

987
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: if you buy into the Fangrafts theory and you believe

988
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: that numbers do stabilize and that offensive numbers will come back,

989
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: I think that looks a little bit more promising, because

990
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: then you suddenly have five and Anderson, Cooper, Rojas, Alfao,

991
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: and Ramirez who are above league average ops. So you

992
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: do with that information whatever you feel inclined to do.

993
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: So I think that it's still disappointing. The results. I

994
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: think that it's going to get a lot better. My

995
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: belief is that by next year we have five that

996
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 1: are over league average. Even of that year, my belief

997
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: is that by twenty twenty one, it's not even a

998
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: conversation because at that point you're talking about competitive baseball,

999
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: you're talking about something totally different. But for this year,

1000
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: when we're talking about overall numbers, that's kind of where

1001
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: we're at. We're at the point where maybe if you

1002
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: discuss one point a little bit differently, it could look positive.

1003
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 1: If you use Fangraft stabilization range, it can be positive.

1004
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: But if you do the simple task of comparing it

1005
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: to what hitters are doing this year, what you're seeing

1006
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: is what we're seeing and what the stats tell us.

1007
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: The Marlins have two good hitters, above average hitters, and

1008
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: that's it. Brian Anderson and Garrett Cooper. Will it get better? Absolutely?

1009
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: Will Georgia for Harold Ramirez and some others be a

1010
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: part of this plan? I think so. I believe so.

1011
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, your eyes aren't deceiving you when

1012
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: you know that the Marlins have to do a better

1013
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: job of putting back to ball, of not swinging outside

1014
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: of the strike zone, of improving a plate approach, of

1015
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: not being one of the worst offenses in baseball. Are

1016
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: the pieces there? Yes, And it's telling that even whether

1017
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: you use fangraft stabilization range of seven ten or you

1018
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: use your average of this year, the top five are

1019
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: still the same. And guess what, every single one of

1020
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,720
Speaker 1: those is someone who will be here next year. Every

1021
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: single one of those is someone aside from maybe Rojas,

1022
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: that you consider a future core piece. Every single one

1023
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: has a place in the Marlins rebuild. And that is

1024
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: something that one point seventy five years into the rebuild,

1025
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: with the understanding that the pitching is where it is,

1026
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 1: I'm excited and I'm proud of it has to get better.

1027
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: I believe that it will all right everyone, like I

1028
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: start off with stay safe during a hurricane, Dory, and

1029
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: I hope that you're hearing this after and that you

1030
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 1: are already well. And then I guess back to work,

1031
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: whether you want to be back to work or not.

1032
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: Continue sending me questions, continue giving me the feedback, continue

1033
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: sending me the emails. I appreciate it, I love it.

1034
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: Look for some more special guests as we move forward

1035
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 1: into the off season. I'm also gonna be detailing shortly

1036
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: what to look for in the off season, whether we're

1037
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 1: gonna keep the episodes once a week, or we're gonna

1038
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: go twice a week or once a month. You give

1039
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,439
Speaker 1: me your feedback on that as well, what you would want,

1040
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 1: what you would prefer, Let me know and we'll make

1041
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: it happen. Go Fish,