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Speaker 1: Episode eighty two of Fish Unfiltered. Here with my friend

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Speaker 1: and coast Isaac Zoot. We're also here with the founder

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Speaker 1: of Fish on first, Eli Sussman. Have a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about today, along with a pretty cool interview we

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Speaker 1: just finished with Griffin Conin and Isaac. How are we doing?

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: We're in the offseason. World Series is over in a

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Speaker 1: couple of days. The Martins could actually sign petere A

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Speaker 1: Lonzo if they want to. How we doing and excited

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Speaker 1: to talk about internal front office promotions as well as

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Speaker 1: some movement in the coaching staff.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Kevin, It's always a somber feeling when Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is no more for the year, but this year hurts,

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Speaker 2: especially just given how incredible that World Series was, going

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Speaker 2: all the way to seven games between two good teams

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Speaker 2: in the Blue Jayson Dodgers. That whole American League portion

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Speaker 2: of the postseason was incredible, and just having something to

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Speaker 2: watch every single night was great, and unfortunately now there's

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Speaker 2: just really nothing unless you like basketball or hockey. I

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Speaker 2: guess football's on Sundays. But it's good to be here

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Speaker 2: and talk to a lot about some Marlin stuff.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. Marlins announced three front office promotions.

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Speaker 1: First one is the biggest one, I think Gabe Kapler

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Speaker 1: becomes the general manager, first time to Marles will have

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Speaker 1: a general manager since twenty twenty three, when kimng was

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Speaker 1: obviously in that position. Frankie Pilary becomes the vice president

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Speaker 1: Amateur Forecasting and Player Evaluation Initiatives, and Vanish Conton is

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Speaker 1: now the Director of Baseball Operations. So, Eli, let's I

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Speaker 1: want to start with the middle one because I don't

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Speaker 1: think I've ever even heard of that position before. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to take us through what it is,

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Speaker 1: if the Martins have ever had someone in this position,

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Speaker 1: and what exactly PILARI will now do. I think it's

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Speaker 1: just a nicer title promotion and the nicer name to

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Speaker 1: what he's already doing.

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Speaker 3: But we know pretty definitively is it is the longest

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Speaker 3: title of anybody in this organization. That's not an exaggeration.

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Speaker 3: I looked at the list of all the different departments

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Speaker 3: and nobody has a formal title that's as long as

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Speaker 3: Frankie does. But you can kind of bundle all three

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Speaker 3: of these into the same bucket. These are all three

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Speaker 3: hires during the initial Peter Bendix offseason. All of them

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Speaker 3: that both Kapler and finish konton getting clear promotions, Capler

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Speaker 3: going from an assistance to the actual GM and Kanton

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Speaker 3: going from the director of based operations to the actual

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Speaker 3: senior director. Pilari is the one that has the biggest

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Speaker 3: title change, but ultimately it still is based on amateur evaluation,

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Speaker 3: and that is what running the MLB draft is still about.

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Speaker 3: So as far as I'm concerned, I don't think very

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Speaker 3: much changes for any of these guys individually, other than

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Speaker 3: the fact that the reason why they get these title

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Speaker 3: changestually a pay raise to.

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Speaker 4: Go along with it.

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Speaker 3: But the title inflation itself is usually a step that's

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Speaker 3: just more geared to retaining them and ensuring that they

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Speaker 3: don't get hired away by other organizations that are offering

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Speaker 3: them promotions. Without going too deep into it. To acquire

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Speaker 3: front office talent from other organizations, you need permission usually

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Speaker 3: to interview them unless you're offering them a promotion, and

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Speaker 3: if they're about as high as they can go already

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Speaker 3: were willing, that Bendix is willing to go there with

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Speaker 3: when it comes to these type of positions. Just a

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Speaker 1: Anything I want to add to that is is like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, based on everything we already knew Kevin and

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Speaker 2: the sources that we have, we knew how heavily involved

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Speaker 2: just to vote of confidence for him, just giving him

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Speaker 2: you mentioned, only the sixth general manager in franchise history.

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Speaker 2: But I've always had a ton of Baseball presidents of

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Speaker 2: then Kim Ming like Eli mentioned. So yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: see how they all fit going forward. But no, I

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Speaker 2: don't think you're gonna see even more involvement from KAPA

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Speaker 1: Moving to the coaching staff, the only movie I'd seen

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Speaker 1: Gonzales is no longer the bullpen coach, and if you

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Speaker 1: want to apply for that job, it is on indeed TeamWorks,

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Speaker 1: So if you've got catching experience, by all means, go

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Speaker 1: do it now. The other hiring that the other move

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Speaker 1: that happened was Derek Schouman went to the Chicago White

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Speaker 1: Pedro Guerrero, Chris Has and Corbin Day. Your your overall

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to, you know, argue with what

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Speaker 2: that could be beneficially, just having more mindst talk to,

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Speaker 2: more thoughts, more swing thoughts and everything going on. But hey,

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Speaker 2: I could have sworn that once the Marrows did hire

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Speaker 1: Last thing I want to do before we head to

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Speaker 1: a false fall Stars whatever you want to call it.

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Speaker 1: He's an All Star for the FUA League. Strolling Cobb

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me see if I can just pull up

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Speaker 3: On the pitching side, mill Brant has been a strikeout

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Speaker 4: May shout out Old Jones, Hold Jones has been great harvest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been around this organization for a while. He's

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Speaker 3: This was a step up in competition already that even

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was really cool. It was really cool. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then on top of that, you guys unfortunately

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Speaker 6: he's a fun guy to have it in the clubhouse.

438
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 5: Uh, and they're they're getting a great one.

439
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 3: You know.

440
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 6: I'm really happy for him, Like getting ahead job is

441
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,840
Speaker 6: a is no joke. And I believe like he is

442
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 6: either from or has family in Chicago as well, So

443
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,440
Speaker 6: it seemed like just a great fit for him. But yeah,

444
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 6: I reached out right away and and said, you know,

445
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 6: you're gonna be missed. You know, it sucks for us,

446
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 6: but it's really good for you. So you know, I'm sure.

447
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 6: I'm sure he's really happy to be there, and they're

448
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 6: lucky to have him.

449
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 1: So you're currently in the DR you're playing for Lise.

450
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 1: What's that life like right now for you? Being international?

451
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 1: Troy did a podcast I think a year ago and

452
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: he said he had a villa you would play golf

453
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: every day before his games. How similar is that? How

454
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 1: different is it? Obviously he was with a different team

455
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: somewhere else, So what's that been like for you? Making

456
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: the move over to DR word The atmosphere is crazy

457
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 1: over there too, for some games.

458
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:47,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's definitely different. He's with the Toros. They do

459
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 6: not like have the resort anymore, which played a factor

460
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 6: in my decision making because he was like trying to

461
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 6: get me to go to his team, and I was like,

462
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 6: we were like a resort sounds pretty good, but they

463
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 6: for whatever reason, they do not stay there anymore starting

464
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,679
Speaker 6: this year, so that kind of put a wrench in

465
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 6: the plans. And our trainer, Jose with the Marlin, Jose Alvarez,

466
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,120
Speaker 6: he is with me, say so he kind of got

467
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 6: me thinking about about playing here, and.

468
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 5: We say at the Embassy Suites in Santa Domingo.

469
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 6: Uh, pretty nice, like a nice hotel, so I'm not

470
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,959
Speaker 6: getting like two outside the confines of the hotel. Often

471
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 6: there's like a market I walked to to to pick

472
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 6: up like food the avocados here like volleyballs.

473
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 5: So that's a pretty cool, pretty cool part of it

474
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 5: and really good.

475
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 6: I like I missed him at the grocery store the

476
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 6: first day, Like I thought, they're like they're very green too,

477
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 6: like in US, like a ripe avocados, you know, pretty dark.

478
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,439
Speaker 6: It's like there's bright green like giant things that I

479
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 6: walked right by and last like like a gringo asked

480
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 6: this guy where are the avocados and he just like

481
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 6: points to me, like they're right there there.

482
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,479
Speaker 5: You just walk by them. And I was like, oh

483
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 5: my god, these are huge.

484
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 6: But but yeah, I mean day to day life is, uh,

485
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 6: there's there's good food here, ubre Eats and.

486
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 7: A lot uh they have aubreats and like all the

487
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 7: Uber Eats drivers are on motorcycles efficient, which is efficient

488
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 7: because they operate on their own set of traffic laws

489
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 7: and they do not really adhere to anything, so they

490
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 7: create their own lane.

491
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 6: Like traffic can get really bad here, but not for

492
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 6: them because they just go they go right in between

493
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 6: the two lanes.

494
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 4: Uh.

495
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 5: So that's nice.

496
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 6: Like we never have to get delays with the orders,

497
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 6: had no issues there, so like that's that part of

498
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 6: it's been good. But uh, but yeah, I know the

499
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 6: life as far as outside the field is. They take

500
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 6: care of us. You know, it's been It's definitely been good.

501
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 6: It's good to have Ose here just knowing what like

502
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,239
Speaker 6: my rehab was like, and he knows where I'm at

503
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 6: and everything and haven't really had to do too much

504
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,439
Speaker 6: maintenance there. But just good to have him here and

505
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 6: have someone that's that's got my back and knows me

506
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 6: from from the Marlins.

507
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 2: I'm sure your dad's very busy the rest of your family,

508
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 2: But had any of them, have any of them come

509
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 2: and visit or trying and watch you play in this league.

510
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 5: No, no one's come. They've they they watched the.

511
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 6: Streams they stream on like YouTube, which is which is

512
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 6: pretty cool.

513
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 5: I believe there. It's on the MLB app as well.

514
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 6: Yeah, so uh so, yeah, they're they've been watching, but

515
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 6: they were dealing with We just had my sister's.

516
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 5: Wedding a week ago, uh week and a half ago,

517
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 5: thank you.

518
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 6: So so I went back to the States for that

519
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 6: and ended up saying like a week because of all

520
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 6: the rain here. So like I left on a Wednesday,

521
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 6: didn't come back till the next Tuesday, and I missed

522
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 6: one game, and like games are.

523
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 5: Scheduled every day, so it was very good timing.

524
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 6: We had that the hurricane that was kind of getting

525
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 6: a lot of rain from that, and luckily like didn't

526
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 6: didn't come through here at all directly, just got a

527
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 6: ton of ton of rain from that, so didn't miss

528
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 6: any games really, which was nice. And then got to

529
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 6: got to go be home for that. But yeah, that

530
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 6: was last night. Apparently, uh he thought he got it

531
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 6: and was like doing the like the celebration of the

532
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 6: dugout and everything and the bat flip. So he at

533
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 6: least as a graveyard, it's a it's tough to get

534
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 6: it out of there. Like I already decided, like if

535
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 6: I put one in the air hard, like I'm I'm

536
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 6: not pimping it because I don't want this to happen

537
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 6: to me.

538
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 5: So because it's a big field man.

539
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 6: So yeah, that one wasn't even humory if I didn't

540
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 6: catch it.

541
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 5: So that was a cool one, right, right?

542
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 1: What are those? What are those out in this year?

543
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 1: Is there? How do how does that compare to the

544
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: Major League basebacket? I mean, obviously like Game seven of

545
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: the World Series will definitely be maybe a lot better

546
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 1: than that, but I've heard it's crazy with the WBC

547
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: coming down here in a couple of months, it's gonna

548
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: be pretty similar.

549
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 6: Yeah, I cannot like the WBC when that's here or

550
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 6: when that's they get all those players, you know, I

551
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 6: heard like Soda could be coming down and who are right,

552
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 6: gez And that's gonna be nuts because even even now

553
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 6: it's like the the fans are like so invested. You know,

554
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 6: in every pitch there's there's a band playing like right

555
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 6: behind the dugout and like it's during me at bat.

556
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 6: Like it's not like they play in between pitches. Like

557
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 6: they're like blaring horns and trumpets like in the middle

558
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 6: of your at bat. So like that part of it,

559
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 6: I think, from my point of view is cool because

560
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 6: it's like a challenge like to lock in and focus

561
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 6: and like turn all the noise off, and like it's

562
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 6: the same as like a big situation you know back

563
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 6: home where like the crowd noise gets crazy. You know,

564
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 6: maybe there's two strikes and everyone's on their feet and

565
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 6: you gotta be good at tuning that out and and

566
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 6: this is just like multiplying that by ten and like

567
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 6: now there's a full on band playing, uh, like a

568
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 6: marching band. It sounds like so you gotta you gotta

569
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 6: find ways to to just lock in and uh. That

570
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 6: part of it's been cool and like rewarding when a

571
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 6: when you can see like success in those situations.

572
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 4: Right.

573
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you, Grif, if you've been in

574
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 2: this organization with the Marlins for a little bit close

575
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 2: to half a decade now, and I'm curious you've overlapped

576
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 2: with both the Jeter era as well as the post

577
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 2: Jeter era. I'm curious if you can identify any differences

578
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 2: and whether it's you know, player development or just minor

579
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 2: league operations, just what have you seen in the difference

580
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 2: between those two regimes.

581
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's definitely stark differences. I tell you people this

582
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 6: a lot that are asking me when I came over,

583
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 6: just I came from the Blue Jays, right, which is

584
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 6: like at the time, I didn't realize it. You know,

585
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 6: it's like not the grass is always greener, but like

586
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 6: I just it was my first organization. I figured like, okay,

587
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 6: this is how a major league team is, you know

588
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 6: in the minor leagues as well, so it's ran and

589
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 6: then you get traded somewhere where you then realize like, okay,

590
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 6: that was like a top three probably organization with how

591
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 6: it's run. And the Marlins at that time were in

592
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 6: definitely the bottom half of that of that barrel. Just

593
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 6: from from everything, you know, I think, uh uh, from

594
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 6: the coaches. The coaching, and that's not to say there

595
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 6: wasn't good coaches, but I think like top to bottom,

596
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 6: and there's a reason why, Like there's been so much turnover,

597
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 6: and and I think where we're at with the coaching

598
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 6: staff all the way up the ladder is light years

599
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 6: ahead of where we were back then. But also from

600
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 6: a nutrition standpoint, you know, from a strength and conditioning

601
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 6: like everything it seems to have been leveled up, which

602
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 6: is what I tell everyone like that, they're like cows, Marlin.

603
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 6: I'm like, it's we're in a great spot.

604
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 5: Man.

605
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 6: I think we're We're doing all the things we need

606
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 6: to be doing. We're doing everything right. It's uh, it's

607
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 6: you know, night and day from from when I got here.

608
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 4: Uh.

609
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 6: And it's been cool to see like that transition happen

610
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 6: over the years, and and cool to see like how

611
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 6: it reflects, you know, on year to year with the

612
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 6: major league team. You know, it's no shock that we're

613
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 6: now getting guys up that have gone through the system,

614
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 6: that have been developed and can help the big league team.

615
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 6: And and I expect to see a lot more of

616
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 6: that in the years to come.

617
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 2: It's cool to get your perspective on it, just because

618
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 2: you're one of the few guys who has been in

619
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 2: the organization in the minor league part of it for

620
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: both regimes, And it's cool to get your POV on

621
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 2: that if you can. Just this year, going into your

622
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: first full season in twenty twenty five, what happened to

623
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 2: Philadelphia You injure your shoulder. Just take us through that

624
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 2: moment to play and just your reaction when you found out,

625
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: well allegedly that it was close to season ending.

626
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh yeah, that picture sucks, but uh but I

627
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 6: mean it's it's fine now, you know.

628
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 5: It was.

629
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, as far as the play goes, there's

630
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 6: a double or you know what I hated. I thought

631
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 6: I was shore double and grow haspikes. A good play

632
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 6: cuts it off in the gap, and I think he

633
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 6: I was kind of surprised on how quickly he got

634
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 6: it in and clear, like you know, you watch the replay, Like, yes,

635
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 6: I would have been safe without sliding. You know, I've

636
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 6: considered that and thought of that, but also like I

637
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 6: can't allow myself to think like that, Like I'm always

638
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 6: gonna play hard and you know, I'm not gonna assume anything.

639
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 6: So I've done that slide thousands of times and and

640
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 6: nothing happened. So I think just the manner of of

641
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 6: it kind of being a late a late slide hit

642
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 6: the ground hard.

643
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean I asked the doctor too. I

644
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 5: was like, you know, how does this happen?

645
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 6: And he was kind of like, you know, I don't

646
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 6: know if he said a freak thing, but he said

647
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 6: like it was. You know, it's one of those things

648
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 6: where you can't really predict this. There's no like reason why.

649
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 6: There was no like red flags or anything as far

650
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 6: as like my strength. You know, I take pretty good

651
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 6: care of myself, so I think it was just it

652
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 6: was kind of just a weird thing where and there

653
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 6: was like in summer ball and this is years ago,

654
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 6: this is when I was in college, but I dove

655
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 6: for a ball and my shoulder did kind of like

656
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 6: sub lux a bit, where like it popped out but

657
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 6: like went right back in.

658
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 5: It was sore for a couple of days.

659
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 6: And never really thought about it again, but like that

660
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 6: was something they brought up, like they asked, like, has

661
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 6: this ever happened before? And then I was like, well,

662
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 6: like sort of like it's it did very slightly like

663
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 6: years ago, and it's just one of those weird things

664
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 6: where like you forget about it and then and then

665
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 6: a play like that happens where you know, it just

666
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 6: it happens again.

667
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 5: So that was tough to deal with. You know.

668
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 6: I think in my head, I thought that I it

669
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 6: would be a few months, you know, I thought for

670
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 6: sure i'd get like the last month of the season

671
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 6: in And this is having no background on medical anything,

672
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 6: and just like, Okay, I got dislocated, we could put

673
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 6: it back in and rehab and I'll be fine, and

674
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 6: uh so, yeah, it was pretty emotional when they told

675
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 6: me that, you know, the season was over, you know,

676
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 6: and it made it seem like that was the sure

677
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 6: thing and six month recovery, and yeah, it was tough.

678
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 6: It was tough, you know, especially being my first major

679
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 6: league season and you know, I kind of expected this

680
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 6: to be a very big year as far as getting

681
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 6: comfortable at the big, big level and showing what I

682
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 6: can do, and I felt like they just got robbed

683
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 6: of that.

684
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 5: But there was you know, it was just a new battle,

685
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 5: you know.

686
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 6: I rehab went as well as it could have, I think,

687
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 6: and I was really grateful that the team we had

688
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 6: behind me, and you know, Lj's right there and he's awesome,

689
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 6: and Mike, Mike Chamberlain, the rehab guy, crushed it, and

690
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 6: I was just really thankful to be able to get

691
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 6: back on the field this year. I think that was

692
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 6: a big even if, like you know, I didn't love

693
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 6: how I played. I would have loved to have played better,

694
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 6: but I was just happy to be there. You know,

695
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 6: when I look back and think, like what I'd rather

696
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 6: have have just sat on my stats like as they

697
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 6: were and or come back and play, and like I'll

698
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 6: always choose.

699
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 5: Play, you know, I would always choose play.

700
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 6: So it was cool to be back, especially when at

701
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 6: a time when we were in the playoff hunt still

702
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 6: and that dream was alive.

703
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 5: It was it was really cool.

704
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: You had a pretty big moment and during that playoff

705
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: hunt with Homer there to kind of get you guys

706
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: back going you guys were down in Philly. I think

707
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: it was Game one and get the homer there off

708
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: of David robertson former Marlin. What was that moment like

709
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: for you first came back too, I think this was

710
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: as well or second one. Just fle as that moment

711
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: like just to kind of get your team going there

712
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: and what ended up being one of the crazier games

713
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: this season.

714
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, that was that was really cool and that's

715
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 6: like just like moments like that, like if that was

716
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 6: the only you know, main positive moment of me coming back,

717
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 6: like that was one hundred percent worth it, uh and

718
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 6: especially to do it there, you know, Clayton told me

719
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 6: that off day before that. But I was starting like

720
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 6: first game back, and I think that surprised me, especially

721
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 6: being like Christopher Sanchez and in the time where like

722
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 6: I didn't start against a ton of lefties and that

723
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 6: was you know, it's probably the best one in the league.

724
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 5: But like I was, you know, I was super excited

725
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 5: for it.

726
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 6: I was like that kind of showed me a lot

727
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 6: of just how they you know, the belief they have

728
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 6: in me and come and missing that much time and

729
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 6: like put me right in the in the mix, you know,

730
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 6: in a big game right away.

731
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 5: So those were some tough AB's for sure.

732
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 6: But then Robertson comes in and that's a guy like

733
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 6: his plan kind of plays really well into what I'm

734
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 6: trying to do and got into a good count and

735
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 6: just put a good swing and I definitely went numb,

736
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 6: Like I get chills watching it still.

737
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 5: Just like that was something I dreamed about, you know.

738
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 6: They we circled the day that this September twenty third

739
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 6: was like the day we'd be in Philly, and that

740
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 6: was the day I could potentially come back.

741
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 5: And so we.

742
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 6: Had like a month before this where this was kind

743
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 6: of the plan. If rehab all goes well, if the

744
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 6: reab assignment goes well. So a lot of things had

745
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 6: to go right for that to happen, and it was

746
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 6: just crazy that that it all did, and that I

747
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 6: was able to get in there and and and put

748
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 6: one out in the in this spot that that I

749
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 6: got I went down was pretty cool.

750
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: What was it like just being in that you know,

751
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: that last month of the season, obviously you were coming back,

752
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: Like how much talk was there like, man, maybe we

753
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: could do this, like maybe there is a chance. It's

754
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: like playoffs could be a thing, because I mean, you

755
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: guys were in it up until maybe that last game

756
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: in Philly. It was it was a legit chance. And

757
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: the way that the Mets were playing by then and

758
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: the Reds really weren't looking great, Like it really looked

759
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: like a legitimate chance that you guys could maybe sneak in.

760
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And I mean we were we were right there.

761
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 6: You know, I think any time you're playing meaningful games,

762
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 6: where the dream where the playoff chances are still alive

763
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 6: with a week left, is.

764
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 5: Is is worth noting and like is meaningful? And I

765
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 5: think I was.

766
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 6: Just creeping check and during my rehab assignment, and like

767
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 6: they just weren't losing, like they could not get put away,

768
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 6: and that they had the road trip, you know, and

769
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 6: the Rangers team they took i think two out of

770
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 6: three or three out of.

771
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 5: Four and.

772
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 6: Uh, and the Mets kept losing and it was just

773
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 6: like that was when I started to realize, like a

774
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 6: week out that like, okay, like I could come back

775
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 6: and like we could still be in this thing, and

776
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 6: like the way we're playing and I expect that. So

777
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 6: it was really cool to see like the fight, especially

778
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 6: when there's like you know, most times during the season

779
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 6: where we could have rolled over and and uh, just

780
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 6: giving in a little bit, and I think like no

781
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 6: one would have really bad an eye, Like it still

782
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 6: would have been a successful year. Like we still out

783
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 6: did expectations, but we kind of went above and beyond,

784
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 6: and I know, like we still finished four games under

785
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 6: five hundred. By no means is that to feel like

786
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 6: something we feel great about, you know, we think we

787
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 6: could do better than that. But at the same time,

788
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 6: like a lot of guys first year in the big

789
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 6: leagues that have success, like a lot of a lot

790
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 6: of reasons to be excited for next year.

791
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 5: You know, we had a lot of arms that we

792
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 5: missed out on that that will help us.

793
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 6: So, uh, I think like next year is everyone's pretty

794
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 6: excited and like it's palpable when you feel in the

795
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 6: in the clubhouse, just what we're capable of.

796
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 2: Let me ask you something. You mentioned going numb with

797
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 2: that home run in Philadelphia. One of the other biggest

798
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 2: moments I would say of the season for the whole

799
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 2: team was when you home the same day that your

800
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 2: father was inducted into the Marlins Hall of Fame. I'm

801
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: curious that your who do you think it was more?

802
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 2: Who do you think it meant more to you or

803
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 2: your debt?

804
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 5: I think I think probably him, Probably him.

805
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 6: You know, I think just like that was you know,

806
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 6: I was playing the game, but that was his day,

807
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 6: and uh, that was the day where he could kind

808
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 6: of be proud of many years that he spent with

809
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 6: this this organization and and uh, you know, to two

810
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 6: World Series.

811
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 5: And that was really cool. It was cool to be

812
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 5: a part of that pregame.

813
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 6: It was cool too to have been a big part

814
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 6: of that game and that we ended up being the win.

815
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 6: And then we had like tons of family friends that

816
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 6: were there and to be there for it, and and

817
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 6: we all met at like this this restaurant after the

818
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 6: game I drove down to for Lauderdale, and that was

819
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 6: really like a special special day, you know.

820
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,959
Speaker 5: I think it just it worked out really really well.

821
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 6: And I think, yeah, I put that right up there

822
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 6: with with the Homer Off rehab as far and there

823
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 6: was more, only only two of the year, but I

824
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 6: made him count for sure. Yeah, and uh and hopefully

825
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 6: you know, we have a lot more of those next year.

826
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 6: But but yeah, it's pretty cool that both of them

827
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 6: were that meaningful and in different ways.

828
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 2: Were there any toasts given at that dinner following the game.

829
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there was like several, Like we had, Uh

830
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 6: that was kind of ambush, Like I think all the

831
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 6: kids gave a toast, and because my sister made it

832
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 6: down and she's like very busy in her residency right now,

833
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 6: so it was it was awesome to have her there.

834
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 6: And my brother even gave one, my little brother, So yeah,

835
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 6: we all had We're thrown in the fire and just

836
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 6: like say a few things and it was really like

837
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 6: a really awesome night and just really special.

838
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 2: That's great, And another reason to celebrate, Sorry, another reason

839
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: to celebrate was, you know, you spend a lot of

840
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 2: time with those guys rehabing Triple A Jacksonville ended up

841
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: winning the Triple A National championship. Just why would you

842
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: say that that team went all the way and they

843
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 2: won the whole thing And what does it say about

844
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 2: the development system that you touched on earlier that they

845
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 2: were able to do this?

846
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, dude, when I was there, I knew like they

847
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 6: had a good chance. I had a good chance and

848
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 6: like and part of it is like the when I

849
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 6: talked about with the Blue Jays, Like there was a

850
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 6: close group, Like a lot of these guys had played

851
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 6: together for for a couple of years, but like there's

852
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 6: also a lot of new guys that like fit really

853
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 6: well into the mix, and like it was just a

854
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 6: pretty close group of guys that were very young, Like

855
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 6: they had like one of the younger rosters I think

856
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 6: in all of Triple A and U and like you

857
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 6: had this started pitching arm, like they had the arms

858
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 6: to do it. You know, you had Snelling, Thomas White

859
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 6: who just got there, who's who's been really impressive at

860
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 6: every level.

861
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 5: And then just like you know, a good offense.

862
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 6: You know Barry, Barry swinging it well all year Alderman,

863
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 6: I'm really impressive. So I was like when I left,

864
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 6: I was like, I was like, y'all are gonna give

865
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 6: this thing a good run. Like I knew it and

866
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 6: I was following it every step of the way when

867
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 6: I got back, and we're all following it actually during

868
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 6: the raindola in Philly when we were just like looking

869
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 6: ways to fill the time, and uh, and like they're

870
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 6: playing I think Game two or three in Jacksonville, so

871
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 6: we were like we were watching it and everyone's pretty

872
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 6: dialed in. But you got Joe mack two, Like that

873
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 6: guy's gonna be He's one of the best catchers I've

874
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 6: ever seen. And like everyone talked about it and like

875
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 6: I had never seen it really, like I we hadn't

876
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 6: share the field too much. I knew like I knew

877
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 6: the bat was there, but like I didn't know that

878
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 6: the bat was like secondary almost like how good he

879
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 6: is on defense. So I got to see like that no,

880
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 6: look throw he didn't in Charlotte, like my first day. Yeah,

881
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 6: and I was like, all right, yeah, this guy's different.

882
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 6: So I'm excited for him to get up to get

883
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 6: up with the big leagues, and I'm no doubt that'll

884
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 6: happen soon.

885
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm curious because I Isaac mentioned the homer on that day.

886
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: Like within that first month too, you guys were all

887
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: making awesome plays in the outfield. You had the robbery

888
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: of the home run, Derek Hill made an awesome catch

889
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: I think in the Game of New York. So Dane

890
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: Meyers like talk about that, like how much pride do

891
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: you guys put into the defense, which in the years

892
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: past had been certainly a struggle for the team, but

893
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: like for you specifically, it really wasn't something a lot

894
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: of people talked about. You coming up through the system

895
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: was always the power, the hit tool. But now we

896
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: talked about the defense for for Griffin Conna, like, how

897
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: much pride do you put into that?

898
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt that. That's a lot of you know,

899
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 5: a lot of work goes into that.

900
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 6: Especially this year we had Blake Lollly, who's, uh, it

901
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 6: was his first year with US third base coach, and

902
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 6: he's he's kind of takes over what we do in

903
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 6: the outfield, and we just talked about the importance of

904
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 6: like getting good reads off the bat. You know, that's

905
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 6: really like being a good outfiller. Yeah, you want to

906
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 6: have the route efficiency, but the guys that get the

907
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 6: best jump and that are covering the most ground in

908
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 6: those first ten feet is crucial to your ability to

909
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 6: make plays. So we really like honed it on that

910
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 6: in spring training and we had like you great athletes

911
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 6: out there, you know, Hill, Dane, Stowie, like everyone's very athletic.

912
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 5: So it's like we can do it.

913
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 6: It's just like we gotta get comfortable, like getting our

914
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 6: timing down with our pre pitch hop, which is like kind.

915
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 5: Of a new thing for some guys.

916
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 6: But once like that all started to link up, Like

917
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 6: I felt like we were just trying to one up

918
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 6: each other like every week as far as like making

919
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 6: making a crazy play, and like some of them don't

920
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 6: even really show up, Like some of the low percentage

921
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 6: catches are like our jumper is so good that you know,

922
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 6: it looks like a routine, And I think that's like

923
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 6: the cool ones that you see where it's like not

924
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 6: many guys are getting to this ball and like and

925
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 6: you kind of coast to it like that's like eye

926
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 6: opening to to how good a good jump and can

927
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 6: set you up to be.

928
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Will griff At, this World Series has ended the

929
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: off season. It's coming down to the why how much

930
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: longer do you think you'll be in the d R four?

931
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 2: And then once your time there is over, what does

932
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: the rest of your off season look like?

933
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 5: Yeah?

934
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 6: So, uh, the plan was to be here for the

935
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 6: first half, which I believe ends the November eighteenth, But

936
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 6: there's also I heard that they not have a three

937
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 6: day break because they're doing an All Star game at

938
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 6: City Field, like at Dominican versus I think Puerto Rico game.

939
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 5: That's like apparently so a big deal. So like they're

940
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 5: taking three days off for that.

941
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 6: Guys are going to playing that that starts the fourteenth,

942
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 6: So I don't think I'll stay during those three days

943
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 6: and and just to play one more game. So I

944
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 6: believe I'll be here until the thirteenth, which it's winding down,

945
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 6: which I think in my head, I plan to get

946
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 6: a lot more at bats, but I like, also they

947
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 6: do live at bats every day, so I've been doing

948
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 6: a lot of those. I just told the manager, who's

949
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 6: been great, like, I would like to do as much

950
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 6: as I can, you know the time, especially with the rain,

951
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 6: like it never seems to rain at two pm. It

952
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 6: always wants to rain at seven pm. So I was like,

953
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 6: I don't know why I'm not doing this every day.

954
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 6: If I want to get at bats like, this is

955
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 6: the place to do it. So so I've been doing that.

956
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 6: I feel good about, good about the reps I'm getting

957
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 6: there and hopefully can get most of these games in

958
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 6: down the stretch and feel good about leaving here with

959
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 6: a good feeling. But as far as the rest of

960
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 6: the offseason, like I feel like I got the routine

961
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 6: down pretty good. I'll take a little bit of time off,

962
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 6: you know, maybe for Thanksgiving, be a family, but when

963
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 6: December hits like, I'll be, you know, back in the

964
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 6: cage every day, working with with Pedro Guerrero, like our

965
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 6: hitting coach, we call him Pete.

966
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 5: We've been in contact a.

967
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 6: Lot, and I know we got things we want to

968
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 6: hone in on for this year, for this next year,

969
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 6: so work on just you know, always getting one percent better,

970
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 6: you know, trying to be a little bit better. And

971
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 6: there was definitely some things I wanted to be better

972
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 6: at this past year that I know there's room to

973
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 6: improve in a big way, So always looking to kind

974
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 6: of close that gap and get a little closer to

975
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 6: what we think we can be.

976
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: And last one, with twenty twenty six coming up, just

977
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: how different do you think it'll be like last year?

978
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: You've go into spring training a lot of newness, new staff,

979
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: completely new, a lot of first year guys are very

980
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: young staff. How much different do you think it'll be.

981
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: Do you think it'll be more like a routine rather

982
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: than just trying to figure out a lot of new

983
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: things with the new coaching stuff. And also I mean

984
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: the expectations are probably a lot higher given just the

985
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: end of the season, where the National League is and

986
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: the potential moves I guess can make this this offseason.

987
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, exciting for sure.

988
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 6: You know, I think last year is like a lot

989
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 6: of nerves go into it because like it does feel

990
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 6: they just got to meet a lot of people.

991
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 5: You know, you have a lot of names to remember, you.

992
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 6: Don't want to forge anyone's name, and you've got to

993
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 6: learn how people operate and got to learn new teammates. Uh,

994
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 6: But like this next year, like we'll already have all

995
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 6: that done. Like I feel like we can from day

996
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 6: one straight into the work, straight into getting closer with

997
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 6: the guys and like and and worrying about like on

998
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 6: the field, what we're what we're coming to the season with,

999
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 6: and that's like what's important. And and shout out to

1000
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 6: Javier Sooha as well.

1001
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 5: Winning the gold Glove. That was awesome. He he actually

1002
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 5: used my outfield glove for most of the years.

1003
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 6: So I feel like I have some small piece of

1004
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 6: that in there because I gave it to him in

1005
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 6: Philly actually because he I guess he didn't have I

1006
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 6: think he forgot his and then he just used it

1007
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 6: the whole year whenever he played outfield, and he was

1008
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 6: always trying to give it back to me, and I'm like, no, dude, like.

1009
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 5: That's I had another one, So like, that's your glove.

1010
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 5: That's your glove. He used to give you a award.

1011
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, he tried to get it back at the end

1012
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 6: of the season too. I was like, nah, dude, like

1013
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 6: that's you, that's you used it all year. And happy

1014
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 6: for him. You know, he's a he's a great player,

1015
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 6: and what he did on defense is impressive, you know,

1016
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 6: infield and outfield is like two different worlds, so it's

1017
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 6: really awesome to see that.

1018
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Venezuela and show pay too yet I

1019
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: think nine pitching appearances which had him play seven different

1020
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 2: major league positions, which is just.

1021
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, definition of utility that kid. So it's awesome all.

1022
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: Right, So we'll wrap it up there. Griff really appreciate

1023
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,919
Speaker 1: you taking the time. So from Griff and Isaac and myself,

1024
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: we'll see guys on in two weeks. Peace out and

1025
00:46:49,719 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: it's always go Fish.