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Speaker 1: Hey, I am at Wordal and this is the Big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod. If you've listened before, you know what

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Speaker 1: you're doing. If you're new, this is the show here

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Speaker 1: on the Fish Strips podcast network where we just catch

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Speaker 1: you up on like the last day of action and

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Speaker 1: set you up for the days I had so really quickly,

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Speaker 1: what I want to talk about today is Braxton Garrett.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about his start. I want to

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Speaker 1: look in a bit on Lewis Brinson. A lot is

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Speaker 1: being said about him, so I'll keep that to a

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Speaker 1: like a like a note and check in on the

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Speaker 1: minor leagues. See what is up Pensacola. They had a

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Speaker 1: fun one up there, So yeah. Quickly getting into last

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Speaker 1: night's game, the Padres and Marlins face for the second

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Speaker 1: game or their series at Petco Park in San Diego.

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Speaker 1: Craig Stammon got the start for the Padres in a

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Speaker 1: bullpen game. Well, Braxton Garrett got the start for Miami.

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Speaker 1: Braxton looking to kind of follow up on a really

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Speaker 1: good outing last time around, but he surprised me last

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Speaker 1: night by not really featuring his changeup that seemed to

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Speaker 1: be like the feature of his attack last time through

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Speaker 1: the rotation. But pretty much. It was out of his

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Speaker 1: arsenal last night. There seemed to be a couple of

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Speaker 1: reasons for that, Like the Padres were definitely like on

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Speaker 1: him from a start, and they weren't going to really relent.

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Speaker 1: It's a hard Padres attack, So every battery there's like

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Speaker 1: at least a guy who you can like visualize playing

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Speaker 1: every day, Like Tommy fam is like the minimum And

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Speaker 1: that's like I'm being like catastrophic when I say that

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Speaker 1: he's a great baseball player. So like as the outing

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Speaker 1: went on, Braxton seemed to get kind of stuck in

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Speaker 1: his fastball sinker throwing his like curveball either out of

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Speaker 1: the zone or like trying to pinch that outside corner away,

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Speaker 1: and he got pinched a bit by the umpires a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. On that seemed like he executed the

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Speaker 1: pitch perfectly, and it's great to see that he can

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Speaker 1: just deliver that curveball right where he wants it up

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Speaker 1: in the zone, A hard pitch for any hitter to

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Speaker 1: do anything with, just extending out that far and then

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Speaker 1: up to do something with the ball. Last night, Braxton

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Speaker 1: showed more of his skills as a finesse pitcher, but

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Speaker 1: seemed to be pushed away from what to me seems

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Speaker 1: like the artery of his attack. Well, the Marlins themselves

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Speaker 1: had a pretty good attack all through. Twelve hits on

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Speaker 1: the night for Miami, Lewis Brinston kind of got it going,

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Speaker 1: starting in the first inning with a just a well

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Speaker 1: hit single to write for the game's first RBI. And

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Speaker 1: on Lewis, people are talking about him. He's getting hot,

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Speaker 1: looking at like his just rolling numbers. On Baseball Savant,

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Speaker 1: it's his like everything's spiking. He's just performing so well

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Speaker 1: over the last as couple of outings or so. Eli

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Speaker 1: Sussman has a good write up on him up today,

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Speaker 1: as does Kenny Kelly over at Beyond the buck Score

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Speaker 1: also on s B Nation. What really sticks out to

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Speaker 1: me about Lewis and I didn't really see it last night.

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Speaker 1: They Padre's pitchers actually stayed pretty well away from Lewis.

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Speaker 1: But a couple of times now I see Lewis just

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Speaker 1: like take the ball like up and in for that

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Speaker 1: home run in the first game of the series. That's

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Speaker 1: been a thing I've noticed in his swing. He seems

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Speaker 1: to be able to stay tighter and get around on

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Speaker 1: a ball inside and do with what he wants well. Also,

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Speaker 1: just like staying tight, get into those lower breaking pitches

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Speaker 1: a little bit slower, they fit the same swing path

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Speaker 1: and following through well, keeping fans on the bat like

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Speaker 1: a fundamental, but like a fundamental personally, I'm wondering whether

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Speaker 1: or not this is like an actual like physical development.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps he's like really strengthened his risk. That's a really

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Speaker 1: like baseball specific muscle group. So if he's strengthened that

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Speaker 1: and can keep it tighter, allow his like Fangrafts rated

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Speaker 1: eighty sixty five raw power, Pangraps rated eighty raw power,

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Speaker 1: we wish that's just that's John Carlow, who himself made

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Speaker 1: like a major adjustment with his swing as a Marlin.

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Speaker 1: Looking at that twenty seveneen year, it was just like

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Speaker 1: night and day. Players do make these adjustments and can

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Speaker 1: bring them to success. Obviously, lewis very different player than

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Speaker 1: Gean Carlo. He doesn't have as much like firepower just

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Speaker 1: in that swing. It's more of like a spray swing

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Speaker 1: where he just can get that like double down the

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Speaker 1: maybe a sustainable point, but we'll see as the season

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Speaker 1: goes on what we're actually looking at, but for now

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Speaker 1: seems hot and last night the Padres really like stayed

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Speaker 1: to what like three or four years of just conditioned

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Speaker 1: response to Lewis Brinson has been. In the game itself,

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Speaker 1: early scoring by the Marlins was doubled up by the Padres.

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Speaker 1: They just matched him pretty much run for runt, scoring

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Speaker 1: two in the fourth and breaking the game their way.

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Speaker 1: After a wild pitch by Braxton Garrett, Eric Cosmer came

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Speaker 1: around to score, Will Myers went to third trench Grisom.

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Speaker 1: It was that second before Tommy fam singled on a

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Speaker 1: ground ball to third baseman Brian Anderson made it to first.

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Speaker 1: Will Myers scored, and that was not the deciding run

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Speaker 1: as it went to the seventh. Nego Rojas great double

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Speaker 1: brought in a run, but the Padres matched it against

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Speaker 1: Richard Bleier. They got one through Aaron Nola singled to left.

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Speaker 1: Alfaro played it well, but Adam Fraser was still able

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Speaker 1: to score from second. As for Alfaro's throwing error early

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Speaker 1: in the game, frankly, it struck me as just humbling.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy fully adjusting to a new position.

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Speaker 1: The bat does look better as the Marlins looked to

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Speaker 1: avoid this sweep tonight four to ten, San Diego quickly

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Speaker 1: catching up on the Miners. The Jumbo Shrimp played the

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Knights last night. Eliezer Hernandez had a tremendous start,

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Speaker 1: going five innings on sixty two pitches, really great ratio,

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Speaker 1: will striking out ten batters. He did allow a home

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Speaker 1: run to their cleanup hitter, Gavin Sheets, who's spent some

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Speaker 1: time in the majors and rightfully is their cleanup hitter,

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Speaker 1: and only allowed one other hit, a double, And with

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Speaker 1: that double though, he did actually pick off the runner

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Speaker 1: at second, So it's just like the home run was it.

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Speaker 1: If this was a major league performance, I think he

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Speaker 1: might be close to a major league return. In the sixth,

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Speaker 1: Leyman Diaz an RBI single and came around to score

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Speaker 1: on an error while the Shrimp scored two runs and

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Speaker 1: Parker bug gave up two runs to the Charlotte Knights

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Speaker 1: as the Jacksonville Shrimp fell three to two. In Pensacola,

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Speaker 1: we had a game that like really stood out. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's still like mid air, but currently the score

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Speaker 1: is tied seven to seven tenth inning suspended due to rain,

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Speaker 1: so we'll kind of see what happens. But this is

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Speaker 1: just like a It's just like a lot of a night.

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Speaker 1: JJ Bladet has gotten on base five times in this game,

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Speaker 1: just one single, four like hits, but four walks. Looking

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Speaker 1: deeper at his at bats. He swang at every strike

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Speaker 1: and let every ball go for a ball. He exhibited

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Speaker 1: perfect plate discipline and even fouled off every strike. He

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Speaker 1: didn't miss once. He just hasn't been like hitting this

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Speaker 1: like night last night. I think really zeros in on

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Speaker 1: that skill. It's being able to do what Lewis Brinson

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Speaker 1: seems to be doing, which is just taking a pitch

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Speaker 1: and doing what you want with it. That's an area

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Speaker 1: for growth as Bloodey goes through the miners and does develop.

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Speaker 1: It's funny to be back with like a regular season

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Speaker 1: in regular games, and it really does highlight how much

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Speaker 1: development can change a player year to year. Well on

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Speaker 1: the mound, this game was anchored by a great star

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Speaker 1: by Kyle Nichols five innings, eight strikeouts. Now he now

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Speaker 1: leads Marlin's minor league pitchers in strikeouts, ahead of Jake

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Speaker 1: Eater Edward Cabrera, Max Meyer. Yeah, this is a lot

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Speaker 1: of talent we're talking about. The Bloyd Snappers fell ten

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Speaker 1: to six behind an efficient offensive attack. Seven hits, six

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Speaker 1: runs for Bloyd, while in Daytona the Jupiter Hammerheads fell

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Speaker 1: ten to six. Tanner Allen had his first two hit

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Speaker 1: night of his professional career. Tonight again four ten. Start

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Speaker 1: time for the Marlins and Padres. Expected starters were looking

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Speaker 1: at Ryan Weathers for the Padres and Sandy for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: That is all for the podcast. We will be back

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Speaker 1: to your ears tomorrow