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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Big Fish Smallpod. I'm at Wardal, your

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Speaker 1: host here semi regularly on the Fish Strips podcast network.

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Speaker 1: Today September twenty second, we're talking about another Rogers Rogers

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Speaker 1: matchup against the Washington Nationals. We'll look a bit at

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimps game against Memphis. But you know,

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Speaker 1: first things first, So last night Trevor Rodgers was like great. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: Like I've been perhaps critical over the summer of Trevor

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Speaker 1: Rodgers that I at times he seemed like fatigued. Now

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Speaker 1: obviously we like certainly know the circumstances surrounding what like

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Speaker 1: you have to imagine it's been a bit of it

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Speaker 1: like a nightmarage. Ye're certainly outside of the sport for Trevor,

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Speaker 1: and you can't, like I can't help but understand that,

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Speaker 1: and like really just put that into context with watching

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Speaker 1: him pitch, not that it like overshadows it, but like

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Speaker 1: it tells a part of the story. And and looking

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Speaker 1: at Trevor, he's obviously been like electric last night, ten strikeouts,

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Speaker 1: really like he zips his fastball up there like in

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Speaker 1: the highest nineties. Obviously like pinning back major league hitters

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Speaker 1: like he plays with that fastball and his ability to

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Speaker 1: like pinpoint corners and hit like like especially hit the

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Speaker 1: corners with like his breaking pitches that change up and

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Speaker 1: slider really made it hard for Nationalist hitters. They did

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Speaker 1: get like some runners on base, and Trevor did get

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Speaker 1: like the pitch count up kind of early, but honestly

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Speaker 1: like he was doing like that like like the video

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Speaker 1: game thing and where you just like every pitch seems

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Speaker 1: to like be at the corner hard to hit, really

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Speaker 1: putting the pressure specifically on the battery. Like he struck

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Speaker 1: out one Soto for the first time in forty three

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Speaker 1: at bats. That's just like it like a nuts fact

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Speaker 1: and it feels earned. It's not just like oh uh,

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Speaker 1: this coin flip one Soto struck out. It's like no, actually,

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Speaker 1: like there was like solid grounds for it. It was Trevor.

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Speaker 1: What really like struck me most about this start is

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Speaker 1: just like the the stat like a quality start that

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Speaker 1: like six innings less than three runs. I've seen it

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Speaker 1: used as like a fantasy baseball stat. I've like even

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Speaker 1: at times like mentally used it as like okay, well,

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Speaker 1: like it seems like a decent way to like check

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Speaker 1: in see how starting pitchers are doing. But really it

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Speaker 1: hit me last night that what it pushes for is

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Speaker 1: like this unnecessary length. I mean, first of all, like

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Speaker 1: six innings, three runs. That's not like an idea you'll start,

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Speaker 1: so you're already like picking just some arbitrary spot for

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Speaker 1: this like stat to be awarded and beyond that, Like

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Speaker 1: last night, really where Trevor ran into his struggles is

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Speaker 1: the third time through the order. That was like specifically

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Speaker 1: where it was. Admittedly that was where he struck out one,

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Speaker 1: so now, but that was where the damage started to happen.

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Speaker 1: That's where Trevor was pulled for Anthony Bass and certainly

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Speaker 1: later in the season Trevor has been struggling for length.

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Speaker 1: He does allow some runners on base with like some walks,

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Speaker 1: there were some hits, some stuff like that. There was

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Speaker 1: like you know, even like that drop third strike got

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Speaker 1: a person on base. So you get to the point

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Speaker 1: where you're seeing that third time through in the fifth,

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Speaker 1: sixth inningth with Trevor, and as Todd Hollinsworth noted on

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Speaker 1: the b he had a pretty consistent approach the first

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Speaker 1: time through going fastball or ely than going to the

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Speaker 1: off speed and then the second time through going off

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Speaker 1: speed first, mixing in some of that fastball later to

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Speaker 1: try to get the strikeouts or other off speeds to

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Speaker 1: get the strikeouts playing with the off speeds using the

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Speaker 1: speed difference from the fastball to off speed. And he

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Speaker 1: hasn't really shown an ability of frequency to intermix at

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Speaker 1: high velocity. Really, that's something Sandy does that helps him

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Speaker 1: sustain through games, working with his fastball and having more

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Speaker 1: of a natural feel at that, like the intensity it

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Speaker 1: takes to get the ball going that fast. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Sandy's in the hundreds. Trevor's not quite there yet but

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Speaker 1: just twenty three, so there's plenty of room for him

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Speaker 1: to take an off season settle down. See how it felt,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're I'm being I'm finding a flaw with

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Speaker 1: an amazing athlete, and not even like I'm finding the flawed.

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Speaker 1: No one's saying that he's flawed besides perhaps me, So

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Speaker 1: like take it with like the biggest grain of salt

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Speaker 1: to say that, like, Trevor needs to be doing something

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Speaker 1: different to do better in the major leagues. But length

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Speaker 1: has been a problem. Perhaps fatigue is a part of that.

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Speaker 1: With his like first full major league season, I mean,

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Speaker 1: first full season period in two years, So there's like

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Speaker 1: a natural like he just no one knows what that

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Speaker 1: has felt like. He has never specifically felt that felt

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Speaker 1: what it's like to face hitters that would actually really

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Speaker 1: challenge him so greatly for a long time. On top

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Speaker 1: of you know, the start last night. With his start

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Speaker 1: last night, he still helped his case towards winning Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year in twenty twenty one. So to call

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Speaker 1: anything about this year down at all about for Trevor,

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Speaker 1: like like, who has time for that? There's no sense

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Speaker 1: to it. There's like an inherent like just absurdity. He's

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Speaker 1: proven to us who he is. You can like, Eli

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Speaker 1: even makes the comparison today on fish drives dot Com

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Speaker 1: takes a look at Trevor Rodgers' stat line compared to

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Speaker 1: Walker Bueller's rookie stat line and like, yeah, that's where

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Speaker 1: we're at, and the fact that there's even like this

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Speaker 1: much visible room for growth for like me a podcaster,

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Speaker 1: there's so much room for his development to even like

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Speaker 1: further his abilities certainly one to watch as the game

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Speaker 1: went along for the Marlins, Nick Fortes. His home run

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Speaker 1: was the Marlins only offense of the game kind of disappointing,

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Speaker 1: Like even the way it started out with Miguel Rojas

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Speaker 1: hitting the lead off double, getting over to third but

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Speaker 1: not making it home in the first that in my

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Speaker 1: mind set the tone. But the quality of contact for

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Speaker 1: Marlins bats really stood out. The bats didn't go away

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Speaker 1: last night despite the one run. Can only imagine that

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Speaker 1: they'll be there again today against Washington as the Marlins

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Speaker 1: go for the series win at Lone Depot Park. Checking

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Speaker 1: in quickly on the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, the only Marlins

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Speaker 1: minor league team going at the moment, Peyton Burdick got

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Speaker 1: the start in left field, batting second for the Jumbo Shrimp,

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Speaker 1: right behind Brian Miller, ahead of Monte Harrison in that

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Speaker 1: middle spot there. Brian Miller, I mean we saw him

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Speaker 1: at the major league level, how he can really put

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Speaker 1: and he can like steal some bases. So that's like

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Speaker 1: certainly like a solid triple A leadoff hitter who you

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Speaker 1: want there. Let Peyton Burdock, Peyton Burdick see a lot

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Speaker 1: of pitches, help him gain that like I for triple A.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps Brian Miller can even expose something on the opposing

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Speaker 1: picture then give it to Burdick with like I mean,

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Speaker 1: he can do like literally anything I think, like a steal,

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Speaker 1: a double, a home run, a walk. He did not

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Speaker 1: have a hit in last night's game, just a walk,

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Speaker 1: so we can still look forward to that little development

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Speaker 1: in the miners. While Monte Harrison, who's like been like

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Speaker 1: the like bat of recent in Jacksonville, batting third, he

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Speaker 1: also was hitless with a strikeout. Most of the Marlins

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Speaker 1: offense came from Luins Lorenzo Quintana, that like catcher first

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Speaker 1: base bat that the Marlins got from the Astros earlier

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Speaker 1: in the year. You know, I mean there's like four

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Speaker 1: catchers at the major league level right now, so he's

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Speaker 1: perhaps a little bit blocked at this instant, but he's still,

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Speaker 1: you know, right there working it out. Nick Knighter got

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Speaker 1: the start for Jacksonville. He went four innings, gave up

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Speaker 1: three runs, seven hits, five strikeouts, but it was enough

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Speaker 1: to keep the Marlins in the game. As they went

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Speaker 1: to their bullpen, the Marlins affiliate brought the score into

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Speaker 1: their favor. The bullpen locked it down Cody Carroll and

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Speaker 1: Andrew Bayati in the eighth and ninth actually three strikeouts each.

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Speaker 1: Really good to see some developing relievers and more talent

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Speaker 1: that could soon as early as twenty twenty two, or

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Speaker 1: even in the absolute twilight of this season make it

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Speaker 1: to the show. For today, I have been at Ordal. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins will face the Nationals at six point forty

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Speaker 1: at Lone DEEPO Park as Eliezer Hernandez will go against

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Speaker 1: Josiah Gray and the Marlins will look to win this

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Speaker 1: series against Washington. For more news and analysis, stay tuned

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