Speaker 1: Fishing Filtered, Episode one oh seven, and we have a
Speaker 1: very special guest if Auto Lopez, shortstop for the Miami Marlins. Otto,
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Just before we talk about your
Speaker 1: season so far? Just six out of seven games you
Speaker 1: guys have won? Now, what has been working for the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins within the last two weeks?
Speaker 2: Hi? Hi, guys, what's up? I would say, what has
Speaker 2: been working so far?
Speaker 3: I was so many quality that bad that we haven't
Speaker 3: take these couple of days and a should The defense
Speaker 3: is good, the pitching, I mean, all the little details
Speaker 3: that we put it into, like it's it's all working
Speaker 3: so far.
Speaker 2: So we feel pretty good what we've been doing. Our
Speaker 2: work at the field. Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, you're coming off a year where you struggled
Speaker 4: a little bit against some left handed pitching, and now
Speaker 4: this year it's gonna been a comple polar opposite.
Speaker 5: You are absolutely demolishing opposite sided pitching. What work did
Speaker 5: you do over the off season to be able to
Speaker 5: have such incredible numbers slugging over a thousand against last
Speaker 5: ended pitching?
Speaker 2: Just what's got into that change?
Speaker 3: It's all about, like you just said, like the numbers
Speaker 3: we'll see in Uh, I'll be able to sit down
Speaker 3: and look at it like.
Speaker 2: Where I had to be.
Speaker 3: I had to be better like work on those details
Speaker 3: and like right now, like I'm working like a lot
Speaker 3: of more angles machines, like seeing different angle for a
Speaker 3: match up kind of like the lefties and pitching side.
Speaker 3: And I would say, is have me give me like
Speaker 3: more comforting off the plate facing those lefties and even
Speaker 3: like sigh arms and I feel pretty good so far.
Speaker 3: What like the work that I did in the off
Speaker 3: season and what I'm showing now.
Speaker 6: When you do those different angles from different machines and stuff,
Speaker 6: are you going more for a feel in the box
Speaker 6: or is it more a visual thing? What what makes
Speaker 6: you feel more comfortable? And why why do you do
Speaker 6: those specific things.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit about though, of course, the feeling.
Speaker 3: It's when you practice and you want to feel good
Speaker 3: and actually like see like different angles and make you
Speaker 3: like get your feeling of being comfortable on facing like
Speaker 3: different angle. So like what I'm trying to do is
Speaker 3: no matter where I put the machine or where angle
Speaker 3: what I would I be facing. I just trying to
Speaker 3: like just feel comfortable and feel the position that I
Speaker 3: can be strong and swing alto.
Speaker 1: Another big change for you this season is the bad speed.
Speaker 1: It's it's way up at like two or three miles
Speaker 1: an hour quicker. You're hitting for more power, which I'm
Speaker 1: assuming definitely has to do with the bad speed.
Speaker 2: What would you attribute to that?
Speaker 1: I know you guys use something called the stack bag,
Speaker 1: if you can maybe talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Who introduced that to and and how much of the
Speaker 1: help is that actually?
Speaker 2: When then when you can translate onto the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the stag has been uh I would say the
Speaker 3: Applaus for us. Joe there, our director hitting coach, he
Speaker 3: he was the one bringing this.
Speaker 2: Spind training and.
Speaker 3: I say it has to make a huge different of
Speaker 3: my vellows the swing. But yeah, it has been a
Speaker 3: lot of help to like just uh maintaining those feeds
Speaker 3: on and being comfortable swinging on like on the games
Speaker 3: because it's a little bit different because you have to
Speaker 3: see the ball and swing hard as you can, but
Speaker 3: like a Perticio Percisio spot, you.
Speaker 2: Know, uhlo I will follow up on that.
Speaker 5: Another sort of innovative thing that the Mardels have incorporated
Speaker 5: is using these I guess lighter balls or software balls
Speaker 5: should say, for batting practice. When I first heard, I
Speaker 5: thought it was a little bit peculiar, just because you know,
Speaker 5: once you do face a real baj lely basedball and
Speaker 5: you get jammed a little bit's gonna feel a little
Speaker 5: bit of a shock to your hands.
Speaker 2: And how how do you feel about these.
Speaker 4: You know, different sort of balls being used during batting
Speaker 4: practice versus a real game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like it move feels like incredibles.
Speaker 3: Makes it makes it like a different and then the
Speaker 3: real ball. So when you're facing those those small of
Speaker 3: the balls, it's kind of like moves to the angle,
Speaker 3: like it goes like right up and infusing thinking it
Speaker 3: just it just makes it harder to have a gun deck.
Speaker 3: And I would say, like that's what we're trying to
Speaker 3: do here with the Marlins. Make a more realistic to
Speaker 3: the game, so we when we get to the game,
Speaker 3: it makes it easier.
Speaker 5: So so regular balls they dive less than these balls.
Speaker 4: It's like it's easier, it's easier to hit and every yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of not easier to hit because.
Speaker 3: You know, but like the more harder you make the practice,
Speaker 3: like that's how we see in it. The more hard
Speaker 3: we make the practice, the more like games.
Speaker 6: So it would be helpful whenever you're facing a guy
Speaker 6: that has a lot of ride on his fastball, because
Speaker 6: in your mind, when you're seeing a regular baseball, your
Speaker 6: mind is telling you usually it ends up at a
Speaker 6: certain spot. But some guys have better carry. So you're
Speaker 6: able to raise your eyesight and you can practice that
Speaker 6: almost trick your mind because you have to swing on
Speaker 6: top of some of those you think get on top
Speaker 6: of the ball, correct, right, That are some of the
Speaker 6: vocabulary when there's the guys that ride.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's kind of like what you say, but
Speaker 3: like what it does is it has the ride, but
Speaker 3: with with doseball that they're so much lighter than the
Speaker 3: regular ball, so it has more spin. So uh, it
Speaker 3: just make your your swing, like we'll say the regular
Speaker 3: buzz just ride a little bit or like less than
Speaker 3: what you're thinking, but you exaggerate a little bit more to.
Speaker 2: Swing off be on top. So when the game was happening,
Speaker 2: I know, when you're in the game, like.
Speaker 3: You're not thinking about that, but like your train your
Speaker 3: mind to just get on top or like depends on
Speaker 3: what phase, what picture you're going to face that day.
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Speaker 4: How would you discover evaluate your season defensively, I'm curious.
Speaker 4: So we're obviously all used to you being one of
Speaker 4: the better defensive shorts ups in Major League Baseball. You're
Speaker 4: still grading out tremendously well, but it just feels neither
Speaker 4: are a couple more plays than there were last year,
Speaker 4: or maybe you didn't get to How.
Speaker 2: Would you evaluate your defense this year? I would say
Speaker 2: it's been good.
Speaker 3: I know I've been working like more than a little
Speaker 3: details that be put it like arrows and stuff, but
Speaker 3: like I will.
Speaker 2: Viothering my stuff to more.
Speaker 3: See what I did and see what I can work
Speaker 3: for and like seeing the past what like I did
Speaker 3: wrong and more get better this year. So what I'm
Speaker 3: training is like right now, like I go early in
Speaker 3: the game, I go early practice and just work on
Speaker 3: those those little things like it makes it like like
Speaker 3: we're doing in the cage, like make it like harder.
Speaker 2: So in the game too, it became a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: What's the toughest part of the transition that you had
Speaker 1: to make going from second base to shortstop? But what's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing you took away from that? What was
Speaker 1: the toughest part of it? And overall, just what's your
Speaker 1: comfort level at the position.
Speaker 3: Right now, I have to throw harder. I have to
Speaker 3: throw harder and move a little bit more my feet.
Speaker 2: So it's just those two changes that I've been just
Speaker 2: changed so far.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you and you and X up the middle are
Speaker 6: two of the best in the league defensively and offensively.
Speaker 6: Obviously when you when you combined, how much did playing
Speaker 6: with him in twenty twenty five help with the the
Speaker 6: I guess the connection or the feel with him, how
Speaker 6: much did that help you guys be better defensively?
Speaker 2: It helps a lot being you player to the guys.
Speaker 3: You would just spread like the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: just rebuild a connection and it is great and great
Speaker 3: so every where we do like we're trying to do
Speaker 3: it together so like we can know each other a
Speaker 3: little bit more.
Speaker 2: So I would say it's pretty good so far. Now.
Speaker 6: So I've been trying to come up with like a
Speaker 6: dual name. I don't want to say Batman and Robin
Speaker 6: because both of you guys are like the Batman. I
Speaker 6: don't know, maybe like Batman and Superman.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: If you have a better one, let me know, But
Speaker 6: do you think that you two, you and X are
Speaker 6: the best up, the in the middle, infielders, the best
Speaker 6: in the game right.
Speaker 3: Now, I would say so, like, I feel pretty comfortable
Speaker 3: on who I have on my side, so I'll say
Speaker 3: yes for myself and an next knowing that the work
Speaker 3: that he's done like so far, it's incredible to see
Speaker 3: that and just be part of that Louis Fabi.
Speaker 2: Like seeing him growing and even like making plays. It's
Speaker 2: I would say, to how you do it? Alto just a.
Speaker 9: Little bit more than a couple of years ago, you
Speaker 9: had been designated for assignment twice within a month, right
Speaker 9: and now a couple of years later, you're sitting here
Speaker 9: leading Major League Baseball and hits, you're tearing the cover
Speaker 9: of the ball, and you are potential to be a National.
Speaker 2: League All Star this season.
Speaker 4: Because what does that feel like to know that you've
Speaker 4: come so far to potentially be a nationally All Star?
Speaker 3: You just said, man, I come from so from so far,
Speaker 3: and going back to those days, it's I remember like
Speaker 3: it was tough. I even told myself that I couldn't
Speaker 3: made it again. So when I got the change with
Speaker 3: the Marlins, I would tell myself that I was the
Speaker 3: only tent and I have to like take advantage of.
Speaker 2: Them, And.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I go flashback, and like I get emotional
Speaker 3: because in that moment, nobody was there for like believe
Speaker 3: in me. And so now that like I have put
Speaker 3: so much work on and seeing what I've been done,
Speaker 3: it's it's another type of emotion, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Auto, you have a lot of people watching this,
Speaker 1: a lot of Marlins fans who want to hear from me.
Speaker 1: Why why should Auto Lopez be representing the Miami Marlins
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty six All Star Game this year?
Speaker 2: Oh man, all the work that I've been putting in,
Speaker 2: all the.
Speaker 3: How the did this treat the how the team has
Speaker 3: treated me, how defense by how cheering me.
Speaker 2: It is something special.
Speaker 3: I wish I wish I could just represent the Marlins
Speaker 3: at the All Star Break, at the All Star.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 3: I know this experience that I've been dreaming forever and
Speaker 3: and I can't wait.
Speaker 10: And I'm sure a J can can attest to this,
Speaker 10: But this is one of you and X are one
Speaker 10: of the better middle infields in Marlin's history, and a
Speaker 10: J was there for a lot of decord and the
Speaker 10: Danniege of for Rea.
Speaker 11: I think you guys surpassed them, maybe Hanley and Uglo
Speaker 11: that could be the next step. Before we let you
Speaker 11: go Auto, we have a couple of quick, rapid fire
Speaker 11: questions for you if we got a couple of minutes. Well, first,
Speaker 11: before we do that, when I ask you about the
Speaker 11: World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: This year play for team, can I dispose that experience?
Speaker 3: Like, Oh, the experience was amazing, I would say, always
Speaker 3: saying right now every time the players asking me, uh,
Speaker 3: they asked me yesterday too, and it's it was one
Speaker 3: of the things that I just fired me on for
Speaker 3: the season most like because the experience it was so
Speaker 3: much like playoff games, even like when I played like
Speaker 3: in dr like it was it was so emotional that
Speaker 3: that it's just game ready, like screen training is a
Speaker 3: little bit different because everybody's getting ready and but like
Speaker 3: those game is.
Speaker 2: More like competing, like you see pictures that you never phaze.
Speaker 3: And and just compete against other countries.
Speaker 2: Like also one's the best for them.
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Speaker 2: And then so really quick.
Speaker 4: We're You've played in pretty much every single Major League ballpark.
Speaker 11: I would like to know your favorite stadium to play it,
Speaker 11: and your least favorite.
Speaker 2: Oh, Miami is the best? Yes, yes, yes, And get
Speaker 2: to the guys.
Speaker 3: I'll be asking the same questions and they all say
Speaker 3: the same thing.
Speaker 2: Is the best field I ever play? And not because
Speaker 2: it is my team, not because of that.
Speaker 3: It's more like field like stadium, like I don't know,
Speaker 3: like something here, it's it's very fun to play.
Speaker 2: And least favorite. I don't. No, I like them all.
Speaker 3: That I liked less because this is a dream that
Speaker 3: I've been dreamed to playing the big and play god.
Speaker 6: So like, there was a field that I didn't like.
Speaker 6: It was the new Atlanta Stadium because I didn't pitch
Speaker 6: good there. I believes there, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 6: like that part. I like the old Turner field. So
Speaker 6: that but of course, so like you know, you play
Speaker 6: in the Big League, of course I like every field.
Speaker 6: I'm in the big This is my dream, but my dream.
Speaker 6: But when I kind of dissected a little bit more,
Speaker 6: I was like, Nah, that new well, I don't even
Speaker 6: know what that park.
Speaker 3: If I don't hit good in one party, I might
Speaker 3: be saying that one there you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's play for you.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, he's just sitting everywhere, so it
Speaker 4: doesn't help much.
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Compare the two answers after Auto gives says, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: ask how.
Speaker 2: They compare to A j is really quick.
Speaker 5: We're gonna talk about the clubhouse food on the road.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let you talk about the Marlin Stadium anymore.
Speaker 2: Clubhouse food on the road.
Speaker 5: Who has the best clubhouse food in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 3: No, the clubhouse, I say stuff, because all of them
Speaker 3: has been good. I like New York, but the Yankees one, okay,
Speaker 3: I know the chef to uh oh okay, well and.
Speaker 2: Far of marlings to. I mean there's so many, but.
Speaker 1: Like the Yankees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we went one time this year, so right,
Speaker 3: but I know that raff.
Speaker 2: It's one of their friends in the RS. So he
Speaker 2: when I man, I was like, oh, you work here
Speaker 2: and get trate as well.
Speaker 6: It's do you know why it's the Yankees because they
Speaker 6: do that on purpose.
Speaker 2: They have all that good to get there.
Speaker 6: They try to get you fat so the next day
Speaker 6: you're playing Fuggers. They have the best food in the league,
Speaker 6: Like they have the cross stations, they have all these.
Speaker 2: Different you were there too, so you know, yeah, I know.
Speaker 6: I playing there, I would leave there fifteen pounds heavier
Speaker 6: because they got all the stuff there. It's a tactic, man,
Speaker 6: I'm on there. I even told the Jeff last time
Speaker 6: I was there, I was like, yeah, I can get
Speaker 6: fat now. When I was playing here, I didn't eat
Speaker 6: here because I know what you'all trying to do.
Speaker 2: You know you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Then, yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 5: So that's your answer to agent Yankee Stady and best
Speaker 5: clubhouse food?
Speaker 4: Yeah good, okay, duly noted, And it'll be a tough
Speaker 4: one to compare for the two. But Otto, who is
Speaker 4: the toughest major league picture that.
Speaker 2: You faced in your career?
Speaker 3: I have few, all right, There's a Christo that I
Speaker 3: first this year and even like I have success, but
Speaker 3: it was tough to put to to face him because.
Speaker 2: Angle and.
Speaker 3: Like how he moves about too and also has been
Speaker 3: like oh but like I can't say because they if
Speaker 3: they see this, they're gonna be like, but yeah, there
Speaker 3: there's Grissel. There's of course Paul Skiing. We faced him
Speaker 3: a lot Wheelers Sunday, Yeah Sundays. I know we're facing
Speaker 3: him soon. So how did he didn't see this, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't think. I don't think Paul listen to
Speaker 2: Fish on filter get to him.
Speaker 5: They could. So I'll pivot it to a J. Who's
Speaker 5: the toughest hitter you've had to face?
Speaker 3: We got, we got Freeman, we got Yeah this year Tarver.
Speaker 3: He goes off the hitters that we have to be
Speaker 3: careful with, like where we put the Boa.
Speaker 2: It can be like all the side of the bark
Speaker 2: so right, and the few Harper.
Speaker 6: So and one guy counts as as as both Hey,
Speaker 6: the hitter and the and the picture.
Speaker 2: And the pitching we faced him both. That's gotta be
Speaker 2: one of the toughest one. All right.
Speaker 1: We will wrap it up here Auto. We really appreciate
Speaker 1: the time or let you get prepared for Game two
Speaker 1: against the Arizona Every Yeah, tough front for you guys,
Speaker 1: but got the big win yesterday.
Speaker 2: So we're wrapping up here from Isaac Outo.
Speaker 3: A J.
Speaker 1: Myself will see you guys all next week out and
Speaker 1: as always, go Fish.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah,