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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans and welcome position of big Fish Small

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Speaker 1: Pod for Tuesday, April sixteenth, twenty twenty four. And if

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Speaker 1: the Fish are coming off a four to three loss

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Speaker 1: against the San Francisco Giants and what was just a

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Speaker 1: heart runching loss to San Francisco after Marlins did get

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Speaker 1: off to an early three to nothing lead Edward Cabrera

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Speaker 1: coming back to his first start of the year and

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Speaker 1: looked incredible. We will get to that very soon, but

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Speaker 1: of course we do have to talk about what happened

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Speaker 1: before that game, and as Max Meyer being optioned down

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Speaker 1: to Triple A with er Kerber of course being a

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Speaker 1: corresponding move. We've talked to this on fof live on

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Speaker 1: Twitter spaces all that jazz, but we have to also

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Speaker 1: discuss to hear on Big Fish Small Pots is the

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Speaker 1: big news going around in the Marlands franchise. Putting down

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Speaker 1: Max Meyer to triple A not the move I would

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Speaker 1: have done. I myself don't like this move. I can

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Speaker 1: maybe I can kind of understand it where Peter Bennens

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Speaker 1: is coming from, But just the way Max Meyer has

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Speaker 1: performed so far this season, I don't think it does

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Speaker 1: any just or justice to put him down to triple A,

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Speaker 1: just how well he's been performing. He's usually been the

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Speaker 1: best picture for the Marlins this season, going to just

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Speaker 1: above a two point one to zero er the only

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Speaker 1: picture the Marlins have had at least so far prior

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Speaker 1: to tonight last night, going six innings. Max Meyer has

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Speaker 1: done it twice and it's easily been the best picture

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins this season, pitching very well. But it

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Speaker 1: just again, it just seems like they want to limit

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Speaker 1: his innings. They don't want him to go out there

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Speaker 1: and potentially get injured in what may already have been

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Speaker 1: a lost season for the Marlins. Just very difficult to

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Speaker 1: just think about how the Marlins are going to use

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Speaker 1: their pictures now, just Max Meyer. Again, he's only twenty five.

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Speaker 1: It's not like when the Marlins did this with Yuri

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Speaker 1: just a season to go and just putting him in

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Speaker 1: Triple A, optioning him right after the All Star break.

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Speaker 1: It really caused a lot of tension with Marlins fans,

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Speaker 1: with Kim and but it was understandable just because he

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Speaker 1: was so young, twenty years old, and then look what

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Speaker 1: happened to him, what led up to Jeri Perez, him

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Speaker 1: now getting Tommy John surgery sadly, but with Max Meyer again,

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Speaker 1: I'm not really in favor of this move. I could

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Speaker 1: kind of understand it. I think it's mind me doing

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Speaker 1: a disservice to the fans. It seems in a way

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Speaker 1: that you know what you have with Max Meyer currently,

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Speaker 1: but I get to do this so early into the year.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe we are close to twenty games yet

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Speaker 1: into the season. And to have your easily best pictures

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Speaker 1: so far this season, to put him down to Triple A,

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Speaker 1: to me, I believe makes very little to no sense

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Speaker 1: really towards Max Meyer and what he's brought to the

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Speaker 1: Fish so far. Easily again best picture looks incredible for

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Speaker 1: sure fire starter for the Marlins now easily could be

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Speaker 1: a potential number two three guy for the Marlins. Just

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Speaker 1: very incredible the way he's been performing Max s Meyer,

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Speaker 1: but again for Max Smyer, his incredible performance to start

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Speaker 1: the season. To talk about another incredib performance we saw

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Speaker 1: last night with Edward Carburrow. Six innings, five hits, one

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Speaker 1: part of his start. Ten strikeouts to only one walk.

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Speaker 1: An incredible performance from Eric Caburrow. This is the Eric

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Speaker 1: Cabrera that we have been praising since he was a prospect,

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Speaker 1: as a future, as a feature ace as almost Sandy

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Speaker 1: just in the Marlins system at the time, but all

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Speaker 1: of baseball, especially pitching wise. Nasty stuff that probably has

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Speaker 1: the nastiest stuff in all of the Marlins franchise easily,

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Speaker 1: pitching wise, just really incredible from Edward Cabrero getting that

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have made him come up for Max Meyer.

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Speaker 1: You could have easily optioned down AJ Puck who has

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Speaker 1: you do feel like AJ Puck is the starter is

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Speaker 1: or at least for the rest of this year. But

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Speaker 1: maybe even Andrew Nardi, because we will get into his

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Speaker 1: again you're looking at it here. Marlon's faced off against

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Speaker 1: the Fish getting off to a hot start. Who else

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Speaker 1: and not soon after that, Brianda La Cruz hit a

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Speaker 1: very nice double to left field, bringing in Louis Rise

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Speaker 1: and Otto Lopez. Yes, that name may not sound familiar,

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Speaker 1: long ago. But very well performance also by Otto Lopez

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Speaker 1: getting himself a hit. It did strike out twice, but

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Speaker 1: really did come out there and get his taste in

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Speaker 1: the majors with the Marlins, who played very decently, I

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Speaker 1: would say so, especially in the hot corner. But really

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Speaker 1: great performance by Vi Sega ci Luisa Rise again is

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Speaker 1: getting his average up slumping the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 1: We were wondering when is the lose Tori is gonna

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Speaker 1: show up again? That we know that go up there

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Speaker 1: easily three hundred hitter again. He hit another three hit

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Speaker 1: performance last night. But the struggles really continued for the

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Speaker 1: Marlins going into the seventh inning just with their bullpen.

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Speaker 1: Their bullpen has been so taxed as of late, just

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Speaker 1: have an innings either like Sandy seven eight, even a

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Speaker 1: when guys are giving you four, five, four and two

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Speaker 1: thirds maybe sometimes if if pictures having a bad day,

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Speaker 1: three innings really taxing on the bullpen, and it's really

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Speaker 1: shown yet last night. George Soriano has not looked good

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Speaker 1: at all this season, again, giving up three earned runs

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Speaker 1: George Soriano has not looked well at all so far

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Speaker 1: Soriano and Nardi only lasted one inning, giving up three

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Speaker 1: earned runs each three hits. They have a combined twenty

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Speaker 1: two ERA between them. This is not the same pictures

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Speaker 1: Sherinano was just lights out against Some of it might

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Speaker 1: have been in and and blowouts Marlins have a high

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Speaker 1: in the year. He he better situations for George Griano

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Speaker 1: this year's rosters. Performance last season, and Andrew Ardi was

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Speaker 1: you could say, easily the best bullpen arm the Marlins

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Speaker 1: had not named Tanner Scott, and there were high hope

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Speaker 1: for Andrew Ardi even as a guy that could potentially

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Speaker 1: be an All Star for the Marlins, especially in that

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Speaker 1: not been good at all this season. His velocity has

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Speaker 1: not been the same. It feels like in every outing

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Speaker 1: It goes lower than we see it the prior time.

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Speaker 1: And with Nardi it just seems like he needs, I

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Speaker 1: want to say, a fresh start, not at all, but

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Speaker 1: maybe going down to Triple A will be the best

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Speaker 1: suit for him. Go out there, get a couple of innings,

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Speaker 1: needs to go with it, so he can get back

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Speaker 1: but you could even say the entirety of the National League.

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Speaker 1: Really going on to last season, but again, the Marlins

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Speaker 1: after hit, really got knocked around in that seventh inning.

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Speaker 1: Brian Holing did come in, had two innings in relief,

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Speaker 1: two strikeout, t one wink. Brian Holing has easily been

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Speaker 1: the best bullpen arm this year, close to already ten

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Speaker 1: eleven innings pitched for Brian Holing getting up there most

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Speaker 1: of the Marlins starters. Brian Owing has easily been the

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Speaker 1: best bullpen arm this season, which I don't know if

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Speaker 1: thinking about it coming into this year, if we wanted

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Speaker 1: Brian Holm to be the best bullpen arm or are

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Speaker 1: these going to the most innings? If I would have

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Speaker 1: told you that at the beginning of the year, I

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Speaker 1: would have said this. The season's already fallen off the

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Speaker 1: rails and right now standing at only three wins fourteen losses.

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Speaker 1: Things are looking rough for the Marlins. Hope is slowly

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Speaker 1: fading away, especially with Max Meyer being optioned. The Marlins

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Speaker 1: have to turn things around and quick if they want

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Speaker 1: to salvage anything from this season. But that's gonna do

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Speaker 1: it for me. For Big Fish, Small Pod. As always

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