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Speaker 1: Here we go, the official show on the fish Stripes

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Speaker 1: podcast channel. I'm Ela Susman, the managing editor of fish Stripes.

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Speaker 1: for Sports. On this podcast, we cover the Miami Marlins

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Speaker 1: every day in our own way. Make sure you subscribe

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Speaker 1: many platforms where we create content for you. Recording this

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Speaker 1: on the fourth of July, a happy holiday to everybody.

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Speaker 1: Always a very dangerous day to be recording podcasts or

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Speaker 1: any sort of content because you never know about the

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Speaker 1: background noise. The fireworks could be going off relatively soon.

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Speaker 1: The neighbors have friends and family over. But I'll try

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Speaker 1: to get this one in. It's an important episode, if

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Speaker 1: I do say so myself. Originally playing with the idea

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Speaker 1: of putting this in article form, laying out the second

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Speaker 1: half storylines for the Miami Marlins. Entering Sunday today, the

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Speaker 1: Marlins were halfway through the season, eighty one games down,

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Speaker 1: eighty one games to go, comes right before the actual

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Speaker 1: all strup break itself. It's an important inflection point and

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Speaker 1: for this Marlins team that entered Sunday at thirty five

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Speaker 1: and forty six, eleven games under five hundred, in last

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Speaker 1: place in the division by a significant margin, even further

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Speaker 1: back of the wild card. You need to get creative

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Speaker 1: with what you're following with this team, because a run

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Speaker 1: to the postseason is almost it's almost impossible at this point.

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Speaker 1: A lot has to go right, and for me, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to pick out a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: could go right and make you very happy regardless of

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Speaker 1: whether this team gets back into the mix one way

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Speaker 1: or the other. So the show was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: about these big picture topics, but the elephants in the room.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely have to at least comment on what happened

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, the Marlins going for what would have been

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Speaker 1: a series win against the Braves. They had beaten the

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Speaker 1: Braves in each of their previous two series this year.

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Speaker 1: And just a quick review if you fortunately didn't subduct

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Speaker 1: yourself to this four plus hour epic game. Not a

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Speaker 1: fond game for Marlins fans, but certainly a very notable

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Speaker 1: game in this Major League season. The Braves jumped out

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Speaker 1: in front against Zach Thompson, who else Ronald Acunya Junior

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Speaker 1: with the go ahead home run in the early innings

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Speaker 1: in the second ending, Thompson really settled down from there,

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Speaker 1: and he continues to be very impressive now through the

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Speaker 1: first five starts of his career, misses a lot of

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Speaker 1: bats and outside of that Acuna shot, he rarely allows

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Speaker 1: base runners. So Thompson was finding this game with six

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Speaker 1: strong endings. Charlie Morden looked even better early on, and

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Speaker 1: the Braves were up five to two to one entering

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Speaker 1: this sixth inning because of Morden's swinging miss excellence. And

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Speaker 1: then they really quickly turned this game around. Marte got

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Speaker 1: on Bass, Aguilar got on Bays, and then Adam Duval

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Speaker 1: does what Duval does when he is in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: And a fly ball out to left center field, hit

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Speaker 2: well carrying and gone three run home run Adam Noval.

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Speaker 2: He gets his former club again. Then the Marlins jump

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Speaker 1: It ends up being a three hit game for Duval

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Speaker 1: plus several great defensive plays. He put the team on

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Speaker 1: top right there, four to two. At that moment. They

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Speaker 1: padded on three more runs in the top of the ninth.

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Speaker 1: It looked like they were in command. It was a

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Speaker 1: question as to whether they would even go to Jimmy

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Speaker 1: was technically a non safe situation. They did go to Yimmy,

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Speaker 3: Out the game.

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Speaker 1: He was not good in this one. He actually allows

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Speaker 1: seven base runners in one ending. It's a little bit

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Speaker 1: there's no way to slice it. He was bad in

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Speaker 1: And it's ultimately Akunya again that hits that sacrifice fly

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Speaker 1: and the tenth inning, Anthony Bass takes around, he struggles,

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Speaker 1: Just doing a quick thought exercise, I had this as

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Speaker 1: the second most devastating loss of the season, right behind

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Speaker 1: that one of those Pittsburgh walk off losses where they

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Speaker 1: It's definitely in the top tier of most crushing losses

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Speaker 1: of the season and drops Marlins two thirty five and

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Speaker 1: forty seven. There are some maniacs out there advocating for

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Speaker 1: Don Mattingley's dismissal. He did not make manage a good game.

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Speaker 3: He did wait way.

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Speaker 1: Too long for Yimmy in this spot. There's no reason

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Speaker 1: the entire lead before taking him out. But that's something

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Speaker 1: we've known about matting Lee for no almost six years.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is who he is.

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Speaker 1: He has that knack for sticking with relievers, probably longer

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Speaker 1: because the pen was depleted the previous two nights obviously

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Speaker 1: for due to that Pablo Lopez ejection on Friday that

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Speaker 1: caught up with them. You know, that was the reason

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Speaker 1: why Dylan Floro was not available in this one, why

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Speaker 1: Ross Datweiler wasn't like there weren't all that many other

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Speaker 1: options for that those final few outs. I mean, would

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Speaker 1: that situation, especially if he had to come in mid

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Speaker 1: ending with inherited runners. Now Anthony Bender calls for him

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Speaker 1: to be moved into the closers role. He totally, you know,

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Speaker 1: re earned all of my confidence this weekend. He faced

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Speaker 1: nine batters in two appearances, and he struck out eight.

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Speaker 1: It's almost unheard of level of dominance this weekend against

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Speaker 1: some very good Braves hitters, including in this appearance. In

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Speaker 1: the eighth inning, he went through the top of their order.

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Speaker 1: He struck out Akunya, and he struck out Albe's in

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Speaker 1: this ending. In that ending, and Albee's was frankly the

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Speaker 1: hottest hitter on this Braves team in recent weeks, and

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Speaker 1: he went through both of them on a twice in

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Speaker 1: the same series. So there have been calls for him

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Speaker 1: see how that would not have altered, you know, the

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Speaker 1: trajectory of this game all that much in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: because I guess if you flip him, Jimmy gets the

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Speaker 1: eighth inning against those tough hitters. The Yimmy Garcia experience

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Speaker 1: boils down to this. If you watch him pitch four

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Speaker 1: game sims, two of those, he will be lights out dominance.

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Speaker 1: You'll never understand how anybody gets a hit off him.

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Speaker 1: You'll have all the trust in the world in him

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Speaker 1: saying two out of four games. In one out of four,

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Speaker 1: he'll be a little bit off his game, but just

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Speaker 1: that quality of his stuff, his ability to use three,

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Speaker 1: any of the other issues in his performance and he'll

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Speaker 1: be able to get the job done anyway. And then

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Speaker 1: one out of four games he struggles. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if it's a safe situation a non safe situation, whether

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Speaker 1: it really matters to the game or not. It's really

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Speaker 1: like one out of every four he's just going to

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Speaker 1: be off his game, and it's not always going to

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Speaker 1: He's inconsistent. You know, probably three out of those four

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Speaker 1: then the fourth then he doesn't. He's had a nice

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Speaker 1: don't think there's any big flaw in him mentally. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's any substantial splits about him that really.

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Speaker 1: It's just that he has some inconsistencies to him, as

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Speaker 1: value he'll actually have coming up on the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: in a few weeks. This is the final year that

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Speaker 1: he has prior to free agency. The Marlins will try

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Speaker 1: to unload him, but they won't be able to hide

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Speaker 1: the fact that he just is inconsistent, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think he'd be closing games with any other team. We

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Speaker 1: had the full recap of this game on fish Stripes

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Speaker 1: dot com, so I'm not going to dwell on it

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Speaker 1: much longer. Actually, I'll throw it over to Tommy Huddon

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Speaker 1: on Valley Sports Florida. He had a very concise recap

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Speaker 1: of where things were and where things ended up today.

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Speaker 2: Before that ninth in, I had a nice sheet of

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Speaker 2: paper with a lot of the positive stuff.

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Speaker 3: That's what I had to do.

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Speaker 1: Tommy is a legend. What more can I say about that?

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Speaker 2: You know me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a shill for this Marlins team. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna give you false expectations or anything. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: to be legitimately interesting that no matter what happened this year,

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Speaker 1: I entered it feeling you'd be very fascinating and critical

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Speaker 1: the opening day roster, he would have had an April

437
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Speaker 1: that was anything like his May and June and early July.

438
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Speaker 1: He would have a very strong case for being at

439
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game. He's been that exceptional keeping the

440
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Speaker 1: ball in the yard, throwing strikes, and of course he

441
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 1: had that long scoreless streak without allowing an earned run

442
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Speaker 1: that was only snapped very recently. Like he's just been

443
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Speaker 1: awesome and they've used him in a wide variety of situations.

444
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Speaker 1: It's been really inconsistent with manningly because in fact, one

445
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Speaker 1: of his first games as a Marlin was actually in

446
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Speaker 1: a tie game that he came into and then but

447
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Speaker 1: since then it's been kind of inconsistent. And it was

448
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 1: good to see that on Sunday, even though it was

449
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Speaker 1: a bad game for the team overall, that Bender was

450
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Speaker 1: using the perfect situation. He with a one run lead

451
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Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, he faced the toughest hitters in

452
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Speaker 1: the Braids lineup, and he was successful swinging a miss.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Bender does it again, a couple of strikeouts in

454
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Speaker 2: the inning and the Marlins hold on to their one

455
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Speaker 2: run lead.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Bender will probably be moved into the closer's role

457
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Speaker 1: and whether he can carry on that success over there,

458
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Speaker 1: because that's something they really need to figure out heading

459
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Speaker 1: into twenty twenty two. It's almost as big a question

460
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Speaker 1: to me as a center field in my opinion, is

461
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Speaker 1: the closer's role.

462
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Speaker 3: They've done a good job finding some of.

463
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Speaker 1: These really useful relievers on the cheap, but is that

464
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Speaker 1: something extra that it takes to close games out on

465
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Speaker 1: a consistent basis, acquiring those quote unquote proven closures. In

466
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: free agency, it can be very, very expensive, and the

467
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: Marlins will want to avoid that. So hopefully Bender can

468
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Speaker 1: prove to all of us that he is definitely that

469
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Speaker 1: guy on the minor league side, kind of across a

470
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Speaker 1: blend of both. The big storyline that you always follow

471
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Speaker 1: for a team that is likely not going to be

472
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Speaker 1: in playoff contention is the emergence of even more new

473
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Speaker 1: faces major league debuts. We're going to get some more

474
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Speaker 1: as this season goes on. The one who tops the

475
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Speaker 1: list is Edward Cabrera. We were hoping to see him

476
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Speaker 1: at some point in twenty twenty if he was fully healthy,

477
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Speaker 1: and he looks great here in right now with double

478
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: A Pensacola. He's just been exceptional. The stuff is all

479
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: the way back. After struggling with a nerve injury earlier

480
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 1: this year, he's back and he's almost He's pretty much

481
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: built up now to be a full starter, So I

482
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Speaker 1: don't even think it's all that long until he gets

483
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: that opportunity to get called up. We know how much trouble.

484
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Speaker 1: The Marlins are in great shape the top four of

485
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Speaker 1: their rotation, but the fifth is enormous question mark. At

486
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: the moment, I guess Jordan Holloway by default is there

487
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 1: almost everybody they've tried, though outside of that, you know

488
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Speaker 1: they haven't been getting the job done.

489
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Speaker 3: And we know Cabrera.

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Speaker 1: They want him to be a starter, and they trust

491
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Speaker 1: that he can be a starter at the major league

492
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Speaker 1: level with his triple digit fastball, with his really good

493
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: slider and a really good change up. I mean, he

494
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: has the potential for three plus pitches and he has

495
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Speaker 1: the frame that you trust despite his injury history. He

496
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Speaker 1: I mean, he tops the list of the most anticipated

497
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Speaker 1: debuts that we could see during the second half of

498
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Speaker 1: the season. I would do want to mention peyden verdict

499
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: that I have reached a point where I think there's

500
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Speaker 1: a decent chance that he does make his debut this year,

501
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 1: someone that was just drafted in twenty nineteen. Out of

502
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: that twenty nineteen draft, the guy that we thought we'd

503
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: see two years later would be jj Bilday. But his

504
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: struggles have been very disappointing to this point in the season.

505
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: Things could turn around for him later on, but it

506
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be any rush for him to get

507
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 1: moved up with Burdick. He's playing the best baseball of

508
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: his season right now. Over these past few weeks, got

509
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: off to a kind of a slow start, but he's

510
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: been hitting for power the entire way, and he's been

511
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: trimming down his strikeout rate as of late, from like

512
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: the low thirties percent to about twenty five percent. That

513
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: makes a world to difference. I mean, that gets to

514
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: the range where you can sort to trust him to

515
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: translate that against higher level competition. Right now, he's playing

516
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,479
Speaker 1: against guys his own age as a twenty four year

517
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: old in Double A. He's played a lot of center

518
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: fields this year, pled a bit of all three outfield spots,

519
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: and we know most of all, the Marlins are extremely

520
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: high on him.

521
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Speaker 3: Internally.

522
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Speaker 1: There's reports by the Miami Herald that they did not

523
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 1: want to trade him for potentially Wilson Contreras. So the

524
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: Cubs that it sounds like Burdick could have been the

525
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: centerpiece of a Contrarast trade and the Marlins thought that

526
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: was an overpay, and the way that it's progressed, you know, Unfortunately,

527
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: the Marlins would be nice to have Wilson on their team.

528
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have made much of a difference in the

529
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: standings though, and with Burdick, he has really surprised me

530
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: a little bit. I've been let me be clear that

531
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Speaker 1: I've been impressed by him throughout his pro career, and

532
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Speaker 1: I do believe he will have a substantial major league career.

533
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Speaker 1: I'm just not totally sure whether he's an every day

534
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: starting outfielder, and he's progressing in a nice direction, so

535
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: I think he may get that opportunity as this year

536
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: goes on. Both those guys are like consensus top fifteen

537
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: prospects in the organization. Going a little more off the grid,

538
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: Joe Dunand, who has missed almost He missed about a

539
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: month and a half of the year, even more than

540
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: that with a thumb injury, but he's finally on the ends.

541
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Speaker 1: He just completed a rehab assignment with Jupiter, going back

542
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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. He made really positive strides last year on

543
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: his own to improve as a hitter, and I can't

544
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Speaker 1: wait to see those translate in the majors. I think

545
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Speaker 1: there's a decent chance that he gets up because he

546
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: will be Rule five draft eligible after the season. He

547
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 1: plays a few different infield positions, and I mean most

548
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: important is the bat and the fact that he has

549
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: tapped into some extra power that he didn't really have

550
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen. Bryce and Brigman, friend

551
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: of the podcast. He continues to be red hot at

552
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: Triple A. He plays a bunch of positions I think

553
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: even more than dunand it's easy to find a fit

554
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: for Brigman on the major league roster. A few weeks ago,

555
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: the Marlins traded for Lorenzo Quintana, a thirty something Cuban

556
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 1: catcher slash first baseman slash DH and he's been doing

557
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: all right in Triple A. If the Marlins doo ends

558
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: up trading either Garrett Cooper or Haysier's Aguilar or both,

559
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: I guess if they trade both, then there's an obvious fit.

560
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: You call up Lewin Diaz again, and you call u

561
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: Kinana and all that. We'll see whether there's a fit

562
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: or not. But that'd be a fun story for someone

563
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: to break through this late in his baseball life. And

564
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: on the reliever side, Tommy Eveld, he's been pretty great

565
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: for Triple A.

566
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Speaker 3: Jacksonville.

567
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Speaker 1: Sean Gunther just got moved up to Triple A a few

568
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and he has been lights out more so

569
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: than any other reliever in the Marlins or organization. He's

570
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: been pitching like Bender. He's been pitching like Bender, but

571
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 1: at Double A and Triple A. Drafted back in twenty seventeen,

572
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: so not even part of this current administration. He put

573
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: up good numbers back in twenty nineteen, but that was

574
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: against younger competition. Now this year, there's not really that

575
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: many caveats to it. He is just dominating at the

576
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: highest levels of the minor league system. I wouldn't be

577
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: surprised if we see both of those guys at some

578
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Speaker 1: point down the stretch. Sticking with the prospects on the

579
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: concerning side, Victor Victor Masa's bat is a big storyline

580
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 1: of this season. His minor league debut in twenty nineteen

581
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: was a disaster for someone that they invested five point

582
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: two five million dollars in, you know, the most expensive

583
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,239
Speaker 1: international amateur free agent signing and team history, and it

584
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: was considered I think anybody considered it a good move

585
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: that at the very least he had the floor of

586
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: being like a useful defense first center fielder. And unfortunately

587
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: he just made another great catch the other night on

588
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: a Saturday.

589
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: Now the old one. There's a swing and a base

590
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 3: hit in the center. Oh no, it's not.

591
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 2: It's a time by Mesa. He makes the player, the

592
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: inning is over.

593
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: He continues to play great defense, but the bat has

594
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: been just awful awful. I mean I could throw the

595
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: stats at you, I'd rather not. But almost a full

596
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: season's worth of playing time, first at Jupiter in twenty

597
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: nineteen and now in Pensacle this year, five hundred plus

598
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: played appearances. He has no home runs. He has eleven

599
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: extra base hits. He has eleven extra base hits in

600
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Speaker 1: total over what accounts for almost a full season. When

601
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: he gets on base, he's an efficient base dealer, as

602
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: I said, a good defender. He actually won a minor

603
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: league Gold Glove in twenty nineteen. But he's hitting is

604
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: in his worst slump of his pro career at this point.

605
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: I mean it was ugly in twenty nineteen, but this

606
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: year he's barely hitting over one hundred now. He did

607
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: miss a lot of time due to injury, an ankle injury,

608
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: and he just got back from that about what a

609
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: week a week and a half ago. They finally made

610
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: a move in Pensacle to move him down in the

611
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Speaker 1: batting order. Prior to that, they were putting him in

612
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: at the leadoff spot, catering to I don't know what

613
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: his ego or preference within the organization, but finally the

614
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: green light to move him down so that the team

615
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: has the chance to actually score runs. I think he's

616
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: now coming up on his twenty fifth birthday. He's pretty

617
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: far along here at this point. And if you're not

618
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: producing at this age again playing against competition as mostly

619
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: younger than you, it's the history is very concerning that

620
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: comparable players to him just usually never get it together.

621
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Speaker 1: Sickond with the Cuban Blairs. Another debut that we're looking

622
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: forward to, a minor league baseball debut that we're anticipating

623
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: during the second half of the Marlin season is shortstop

624
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Speaker 1: Yiddi Cape. There was initially some thought that he could

625
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: be on the opening day roster of this Florida Complex League,

626
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: the rookie level league that opened up this week. He

627
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: was not on that opening day roster, so it's a

628
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: question about whether he'll debut there or actually go down

629
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,959
Speaker 1: to the dr Because the Dominican Summer League starts up

630
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: one week from Monday on July twelfth, so either way,

631
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: his debut should be coming very very soon. Potential five

632
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: tool player, is comparisons very lofty to other superstar players.

633
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: He is I think eighteen years old at this point,

634
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: turning nineteen relatively soon, so if they start at a

635
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: rookie level, he'll be facing some younger competition as well.

636
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how he progresses, how he looks, obviously,

637
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: how he hits, and whether he makes up potentially to

638
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: full season ball to low A Jupiter by the end

639
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: of the year with Griffin Conine. Griffin Conine leads the

640
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: Marlins organization in home runs well the minor leagues. He

641
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: doesn't have quite as many as Duval does at the

642
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: major league level, and I believe as of this recording,

643
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: he actually leads all minor league baseball in home runs.

644
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Speaker 1: With Griffin Conine, what I'm focused on is his swinging

645
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: strike rate. So despite his amazing product shappoloit this year.

646
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: He's been awesome.

647
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: I've seen some cries for him to be promoted to

648
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: double A pensil Coola, which I don't think he's going

649
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: to happen until probably the end of the month, just

650
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: because of how they need to move guys arounds at

651
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: double A, at triple and in the majors. You know,

652
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of a domino effect where you need to

653
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: open up actual playing time so that he doesn't block other,

654
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: like very important players from getting there at bats in

655
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: the outfield. Conine, he's having a great production this season,

656
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: but the red flag in terms of whether that will

657
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: translate to the majors is his swinging strike rate. He's

658
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: facing pretty much half competition that is younger than him,

659
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: half that is older than him, and one out of

660
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: every five times that he swings the bat, he whiffs

661
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: on it. So I just went through the Fangrafts leader

662
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: boards in some recent years, went to twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen,

663
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and it looked at guys that were at

664
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: a similar level as Conine at the High A level,

665
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: and you go through the names of qualified hitters that

666
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: were strike that were swinging and missing around twenty percent

667
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: of the time.

668
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 3: I didn't recognize any of the names these guys.

669
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: If you swing and miss as often as co nine

670
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: does at the High A level against competition that is

671
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: your age or slightly younger, you don't have success in

672
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: the majors. That you're just not gonna be able to

673
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: hit once you get to double A and triple A

674
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: because the quality of stuff gets better. His trackout rate

675
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: is slightly improved from where it was his last year

676
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: in the Blue Jays organization in twenty nineteen. No matter what,

677
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: there's not as much pressure on him as there is

678
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: on say Victor Victor Masa of course at the stage

679
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: of his career. But he does, I believe have Rule

680
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: five draft eligibility at this off season. I'll have to

681
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: double check on that, but the Marlins may need to

682
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: make a call and whether to protect him on the

683
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: forty man or not. And a key aspect of that

684
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: will be as long as he's productive, that will be fine.

685
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: But again, the big goal here is of course to

686
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: have him in the majors wearing the same uniform that

687
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: his father wore, and to do that, he'll need to

688
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: cut down on that swinging strike rate at the major

689
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: league level. Again, off the field, technically, I'm concerned, concerned,

690
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: but not really curious about Lone Depot Park attendance down

691
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: the stretch. I hope to have an article out some

692
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: things have gone in the way and be putting together

693
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: this article speculating about what the attendance could look like

694
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: now that it's open to full capacity starting on Monday,

695
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: starting with this homestand they, for the first time this

696
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: season are kind of opening up the seating to be

697
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: back to quote unquote normal And what is the draw

698
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: going to be like? I mean, this devastating loss on

699
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: Sunday side, you know, the team is where it is,

700
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: where the playoffs are not really a part of your plans.

701
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody has that intention with them.

702
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 3: But at the same.

703
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: Time, we've been the better part of a year and

704
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: a half without having normal sports experiences at stadiums due

705
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: to COVID concerns, and finally we've reached a point where

706
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: you can move past that. A lot of fans haven't

707
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: been able to attend Marlin's game since twenty nineteen. Will

708
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: they take advantage of this opera tunity because of some

709
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 1: of the young stars we already mentioned on here, Trevor

710
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: and Jazz and Sanchez and even Anthony Bender. Do you

711
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: think a few people will go to games to see

712
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: Anthony Bender pitch?

713
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 3: I think so.

714
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: I'm curious what that attendance looks like and whether how

715
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: compares to what it was like before the pandemic. This

716
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: team is much better than the twenty nineteen team, for sure,

717
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: and much more intriguing on an individual level. So I

718
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: feel like the attendant should be getting a big boost

719
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: from that, and they surely do. The team has a

720
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: lot of special promotions planned that they've been saving for

721
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: when they can finally, you know, get the most value

722
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: out of them. We'll see how those perform at Lone

723
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: Depot Park. So I'm curious to see that, not just

724
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: the size of the crowd, but also, of course the

725
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: consequences that has on the Marlins payroll. Bruce Sherman, Derek Cheter,

726
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: if either of you are listening to this show, if

727
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: somebody close to you is listening to the show, I'll

728
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: be very clear that when you have a sixty million

729
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: dollars payroll, as you did entering twenty twenty one, you're

730
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: not going to contend for a World Series with a

731
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: sixty million dollar payroll. You're not going to contend with

732
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: a seventy million and eighty million dollar payroll. I think

733
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: at the very least, this team will have to spend

734
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: at least fifty percent more on major league players ninety

735
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: million dollars or more to get in that conversation of

736
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: being a World Series contender. If that's what ownership is

737
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: really in this and all about and hyper competitive, they're

738
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: going to need to spend more money on this major

739
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: league team. In their counter to me saying that would be, well,

740
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: we'll spend based on what our revenue is that we

741
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: can only spend the money that we're earning to reinvest

742
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: into the team. And a big factor in how they

743
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: how much money goes back into the team is how

744
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: much revenue they make from attendance. And again, my counselor

745
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: to that counter is they need to make the ballpark

746
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: experience very enjoyable in order for people to want to

747
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: go to the Bark at a time when the team

748
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: is a dozen games under the five hundred mark. So

749
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: that's gonna be an inch balance to see how much

750
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: fans want to see these games versus what the Marlins

751
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: are willing to do to attract fans to these games,

752
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: and how much it has, all how much of an

753
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: impact it has, all the bottom line as we head

754
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: into what is going to be an absolutely crucial twenty

755
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: twenty one twenty twenty two off season, A topic that's

756
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: probably been on your mind that we haven't even gone

757
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: to yet but saving it towards the end is the

758
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: contract extension negotiation possibilities with players, which these guys are

759
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: finally going to get paid where you know, it was

760
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: towards the end of the twenty nineteen season when the

761
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: Marlins extended Miggy Row, when they extended Don manningly and

762
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: we'll get to both of them in just a few moments,

763
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: that they're not adverse to negotiating these deals during the season,

764
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: and especially now, I feel like there is a hope

765
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: of in some cases for them to negotiate feel good

766
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: contract extensions to help with fan morale, also help with

767
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: these players peace of mind, and also just to show

768
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: that you're willing to use some of this wide swath

769
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 1: of payroll flexibility that you have and actually you start

770
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: filling in the faces to what your payroll is going

771
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: to look like through the first half of the twenty

772
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: twenties with these negotiations. The first name that comes to mind,

773
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: of course, is Startling Marte. But he's the one that

774
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: I feel is most unlikely to be able to hammer

775
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: out a deal with because he's entering free agency for

776
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: the first time in his career. He's having arguably the

777
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: best season of his career when he's been healthy. I

778
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to be able to find common

779
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: ground on that until he actually tests the market. Moving

780
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: down the list, there are some other deals that I

781
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: think are very important for them to consider hammering out.

782
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: Because you have Brian Anderson getting another year into his

783
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: arbitration eligibility. You have Sandiel Contra and Pablo Lopez being

784
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: arbitration eligible for the first time and do to get

785
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: their first big pay bump in the first time. And

786
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: that's the stage of a career where usually you start

787
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: locking up these players. You begin to extend your team

788
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: control beyond what you can get through arbitration, and also

789
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: you try to give them a finite salary so that

790
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: potentially you can save in the long term. But those

791
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: players continue to be consistently good, like these are the

792
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: obvious candidates to extend beyond the twenty twenty one season.

793
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: This team, they just have so much flexibility on their

794
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: books beyond this current season. And if you genuinely believe

795
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: in some of the players in this organization right now,

796
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: if you believe they are building towards being a contending team,

797
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: that a lot of these familiar faces could be part

798
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: of the solution then you prove it. Then you prove

799
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,479
Speaker 1: it and you lock them up to a certain deal

800
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: that that'll be crucial for them to consider doing that

801
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: and give themselves some cost certainty. And that'd be obviously

802
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: very popular along the fans to have some continuity this franchise.

803
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: The common thread of this franchise through all the ownerships

804
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: and all the front offices and managers has been a

805
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: lack of continuity. So that'd be nice to finally turn

806
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: the corner on that. Specifically, we need to go into

807
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas. He has a vesting option in his contract

808
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: that I'll be focused on. If he makes five hundred

809
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: played appearances this season, it's an automatic deal that goes

810
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: into places for next year based on what he previously

811
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: negotiated it. If he doesn't qualify for the vesting option,

812
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: it becomes a club option and the team can decide

813
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: whether or not to keep him or not. So that

814
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: club option is five point five million dollars. If he

815
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: doesn't reach it in the team, they can buy him

816
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: out for five hundred grand and again it does become

817
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: a club option even if he doesn't qualify for the

818
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: vesting portion of it. But I think that playing time

819
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: is going to be fascinating too observed because at this

820
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: moment he's almost exactly on pace for five hundred. He

821
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: missed that time due to the finger injury. And you

822
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: know how the Marlins manage things where nobody is a

823
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: true everyday player, with the exception of maybe Starling Marte

824
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: that Miggy, it's like a day off almost every single

825
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: week to keep him fresh. So because of that, it's

826
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: no sure thing that he's going to reach this threshold

827
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: of five hundred played appearances. Even more so when you

828
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: consider that they lowered him in the batting lineup now

829
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 1: that both Starling and Jazz are healthy at the same time,

830
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: that if Nickey is going to bat in the fifth

831
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: spot or the sixth spot regularly, he gets less played

832
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: appearances than he would at the top of the order.

833
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: That will come down to the wire. On the positive side,

834
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: I am excited to see him continue climbing up in

835
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: the Marlins record books in terms of games played. He's

836
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: already tenth in Marlin's history in career games played. I

837
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: bet you did not realize that top ten all time

838
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: in Marlin's history. That's why people are so attached to him.

839
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: One of the many reasons is because at this point

840
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: he really is in that inner circle of guys who

841
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: have been with this organization a long time.

842
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 3: He is on the.

843
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: Hits list, he has the potential to be all the

844
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: way up to number fourteen by the end of the year.

845
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: Some of the names that he is with on the

846
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: hits list would really surprise you. For a guy that

847
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: is a defensive first player, even at this stage of

848
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: his career, the first thing that comes to mind with

849
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: him is how he plays defensively. That is the strength

850
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: of his game. And yet because of his time in

851
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: the organization and because that he has consistently gotten better

852
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: with the bat, he is eighteenth on the All Times

853
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: hit list right now. Next up is Gary Sheffield eighteen

854
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: hits a way ahead of him, and then it's a

855
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: small gap to a Danny hetch Varia, Preston Wilson and J. T.

856
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 3: Reel Muto JT.

857
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: Brialmuto at five point fifty five hits in a Marlins uniform,

858
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas at five point twenty. He will close that

859
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 1: gap potentially in August September at the latest to move

860
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: into fourteenth place on the all time organization's hit list.

861
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: He has come so far from where he was when

862
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: the Marlins originally acquired him. Finishing up on these storylines,

863
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: we have to look into Don Mattinglee's job security. Many

864
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: people have brought this up in light of recent events,

865
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: but even before that, my deputy editor, Lewis Eddie o Weiss,

866
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: wanted me to cover this. He, like Mickey, has this

867
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: potential club option in his contract. It doesn't have the

868
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: vesting part of it, but the team could simply pick

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Speaker 1: up his club option for two points something million dollars

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Speaker 1: next year if they choose to, and they might choose

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Speaker 1: not to. There's no reason why they would actually get

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Speaker 1: rid of him during the season. I'll be very clear

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Speaker 1: about that. Makes no sense, makes no sense to dismiss

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Speaker 1: him at this point. It's been but there have been

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Speaker 1: some things that you make you question whether he's the

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Speaker 1: right guy. The ongoing handling of the bullpen, pulling guys

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Speaker 1: too soon, putting guys in situations that they don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: belong in. There's no doubt that that has been a

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Speaker 1: factor in why the team has a plus twenty run differential,

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Speaker 1: top five run differential in the National League, and what

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Speaker 1: a bottom six record in the National League because why

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Speaker 1: there's such a contrast between their expected winning percentage based

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Speaker 1: on run scored and runs of life in their actual

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Speaker 1: win percentage. He has not had a good year in

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Speaker 1: terms of in game maneuvering. Some of that's been limitated

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Speaker 1: by the talent that he has, but in terms of

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Speaker 1: both the bullpen and pinch hitters and whatnot, it's been Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been really bad. It's been really bad, and he'll

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Speaker 1: need to do better with that. Otherwise, there are other

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Speaker 1: directions that could go. They could go internally with James

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Speaker 1: Rowson as their manager. That's the guy that I circled

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Speaker 1: as a potential manager in waiting as soon as he

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Speaker 1: was brought along as their bench coach. Or I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are plenty of other options out there that might

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Speaker 1: find this to be a desirable job because of all

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Speaker 1: the young talent out there and for the moment, relatively

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Speaker 1: low expectations with him. So it's very close to follow

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Speaker 1: with Mattingly's managerial security. He is by far the longest

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Speaker 1: tenured manager this team has ever had, and he's been

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Speaker 1: extremely popular with players, with the fans, with the media.

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Speaker 1: He's an extraordinary guy. You just wonder whether he is

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Speaker 1: the right guy to be in a leadership position as

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Speaker 1: they try to make that leap into consistent playoff contention.

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Speaker 1: And finally this one, I hope that it's not a

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Speaker 1: close call. Hopefully we get there sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Ten thousand followers on the fish Stripes Twitter account, we

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Speaker 1: are closing in very closely on nine nine hundred.

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Speaker 3: I think almost all of you.

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Speaker 1: If you use Twitter, maybe you already follow fistripes already.

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Speaker 1: If not, please spread the word. That'd be a nice

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Speaker 1: milestone to get to a huge growth, I think.

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Speaker 3: Quadrupling where we were when.

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Speaker 1: I took over the fist Stripes account during the twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen twenty eighteen offseason. We hope we bring you a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun coverage there, even in addition to what

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Speaker 1: we have on the regular site and on the podcast

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I bring that up just as

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Speaker 1: a feeling of gratitude about how big this community is,

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Speaker 1: you know, regardless of how things are going, I feel

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Speaker 1: like we find interesting stuff to stay entertained and very

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Speaker 1: niche topics to dive into, whether they're silly or they're serious.

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Speaker 1: That there's always Marlins coverage throughout the season, throughout the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, and all the off days

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Speaker 1: in between that we'll find ways to make this very interesting.

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Speaker 3: So here we go.

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Speaker 1: This is the second half of this Marlin season. One

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Speaker 1: more weekends of the All Star break, and then we

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Speaker 1: go through it the rest of the way. Most of

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Speaker 1: this month on the podcast on the side is going

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Speaker 1: to be dedicated to the trade deadline. It's a sprint

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Speaker 1: to that point and then there's still going to be

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Speaker 1: baseball after that, but we will have plenty overwhelming trade

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Speaker 1: deadline coverage of the Marlins. I mean, Elis Susman. This

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Speaker 1: show brought to you by symbol the Stock Market for

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Speaker 1: Sports and continue following along with what we do here

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Speaker 1: and we'll continue listening to what you want covered about

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Speaker 1: this Marlins team as we head into the final eighty

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Speaker 1: games of the twenty twenty one regular season. As always

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Speaker 1: go fisht Indet be helped