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

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Speaker 1: podcast channel. I am Eli Sussman, managing editor at Fist Stripes,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about the Miami Marlins. As usual

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Speaker 1: these solo shows from me, presented by Symbol the Stock

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Speaker 1: Market for Sports, It's an off day for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: For the whole Marlins organization, get to take a breather

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Speaker 1: heading into the final leg of this road trip and

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Speaker 1: recording coming off in interesting series against the Dodgers, salvaging

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Speaker 1: the final game. With that three game set, it's essentially

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Speaker 1: the one quarter mark of the Marlins Major League season.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen wins, twenty two losses, a plus five run differential

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Speaker 1: after forty games of the one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 1: game slate. So first off, off the top of the show,

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Speaker 1: we'll just do some quick hits on this weekend's three

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Speaker 1: games in LA against the defending reigning World Series champions.

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Speaker 1: We're going to cover the first of what I hope

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Speaker 1: is going to be a regular feature on my Minor

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Speaker 1: Leaguers of the Week. Both a pitcher and a hitter

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Speaker 1: who really stood out for their performance, kind of regardless

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Speaker 1: of their prospect pedigree. Just acknowledging the guys that are

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Speaker 1: But most of this episode, the big feature will be

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Speaker 1: covering an overview of what we think of these new

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Speaker 1: Marlins players. We know that the Marlins overall were extremely

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Speaker 1: quiet on the transaction front over this previous offseason. It

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Speaker 1: was left them in a position to be second guest,

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Speaker 1: of course, if some of those low payroll players did

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Speaker 1: not do the kind of job that we were hoping for,

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Speaker 1: or if there were some obvious holes that popped up

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Speaker 1: on the team. All things considered, we've seen some of

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Speaker 1: the flaws to that offseason plan, but especially on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: that was a perfect reflect of the difference that some

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Speaker 1: of these new players have made. So I counted up

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Speaker 1: eleven guys who were acquired over the offseason had not

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Speaker 1: been with the Marlins organization prior to twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: who have now been playing with the major league team

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Speaker 1: this season. I'm going to rank them from number eleven

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Speaker 1: to number one in terms of those who have had

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Speaker 1: the biggest impact through this first quarter of the season.

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Speaker 1: Rewinding to Friday, the first game of that three game

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Speaker 1: set against the Dodgers, the Marlins lose nine to six.

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Speaker 1: Sandy Alcontra his worst start of his career. He did

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Speaker 1: eight runs in that second ending before being pulled. In

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Speaker 1: a disastrous performance for Sandy. His fastball velocity was exactly

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Speaker 1: where it had usually been, and that's about all you

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Speaker 1: can say about what was normal for Sandy. Everything else

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Speaker 1: went wrong facing a Dodgers lineup that was they're not

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Speaker 1: usually there right handers. But still all those marquee names

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Speaker 1: from Mookie Bets to Justin Turner to Max Munsey to

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Speaker 1: Corey Seeger, and they were just seeing the ball really

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Speaker 1: well against Sandy, hard contact against him. It only goes

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Speaker 1: eight runs, all of them earned. There really wasn't much

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Speaker 1: a night to forget for Sandy, and as usual post game,

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Speaker 1: One of the only other takeaways from this game was

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Speaker 1: Here that was on May fourteenth, So it took almost

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Speaker 1: That was nice to see the Marlins. They really did

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Speaker 1: we saw briefly in the Majors last season. But the

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Speaker 1: something we probably don't talk about enough. That when Sandy

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Speaker 1: of pressure on Seger, but best wishes to him getting

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Speaker 1: Three run home run Adam Duval in the Marlins jump

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Speaker 1: I guess he did his job and that he just

432
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: took the bullets to get the Marlins through that one

433
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: game that they were already trailing against the Dbacks. Didn't

434
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: show a whole lot. I mean, he's got intriguing breaking balls,

435
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: but not necessary the kind of command or the kind

436
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: of quality fastball that you need to be a reliable

437
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: relief pitcher. He's still very young. He's actually younger than Campbell,

438
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: just twenty four years old, so there is time for

439
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: him to continue getting better. He cleared waivers thankfully. When

440
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: the Marlins designated him for assignment. He reported to Triple

441
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: A Jacksonville, so we may see him again at some

442
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,479
Speaker 1: point later this year or in future years. Number nine

443
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: on these rankings, Catcher Sandy Leone also signed as a

444
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 1: minor league deal, a non roster invitee to spring training,

445
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: and he got called up at when Jorge al Faro

446
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: got injured. A great first impression from Sandy. He had

447
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: a few hits in his mate in his Marlins debut,

448
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: not his major league debut. He comes to the Marlins

449
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: with more major league experience than any of the other

450
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: hitters that they acquired over the offseason, I think, parts

451
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: of eight seasons in the majors, including with the world

452
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: champion Boston Red Sox back in twenty eighteen. Aside from

453
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: that first game, his offense has been a non factor.

454
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: I mean, to this point, you finally hit a home

455
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 1: run relatively recently. Overall, just two extra base hits in

456
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: nineteen games, and the playing time share between him and

457
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: Chad Wallack has been interesting. He's actually received more of

458
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: the playing time than Wallach. I think a lot of

459
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: people would agree that you put the whole equation together,

460
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: that Leone has been the slightly better overall catcher. That's

461
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: not saying much. Unfortunately, the other teams are still running

462
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: almost at will against Sandy when he's behind the plate,

463
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: So that's one element of the game you can't control.

464
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: Not much of a base runner, which is something you

465
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: notice when Jorge Alfaro is your usual catcher. That Alfaro

466
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: is an anomaly in that regard. Sandy a pretty typical

467
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: replacement level guy that they called up in this situation,

468
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,120
Speaker 1: we expect him to actually stick on this roster once

469
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: al Faro gets back, and maybe they send down Wallack instead.

470
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: That Leon has done enough to stick around again, that's

471
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: not a very high bar to clear, and al Faro

472
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: is still not close to getting back. In the meantime,

473
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: get you to seeing a lot of Sandy catching games

474
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Speaker 1: for the Marlins. Number eight in the New Marlins rankings,

475
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: right hander Zach Pop, who is definitely trending upward. A

476
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: big arrow pointing upward for Zach Pop. A couple of

477
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: his first appearances early on this season were disastrous. He

478
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 1: had that blown game against the Braves, he had that

479
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: Grand Slam allowed against the Cardinals, and you take those

480
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: games out of it, he has been terrific. We saw

481
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: his great stuff in spring training. That he has this

482
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: mid nineties sinker with nasty, nasty two plane movement to it,

483
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: and he's got a quality slider as well. So the

484
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: only question was going to be getting ahead and counts

485
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: in order to deploy that slider. He's had mixed results

486
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: in that regard, as I just mentioned, but when he

487
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: gets ahead he is it makes it pretty look pretty easy.

488
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: He generates a lot of grounders. That was his track

489
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: record in the minor leagues, and that aspect has translated

490
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: to the major leagues. As we're recording this. He hasn't

491
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: been used very much recently, and I think that just

492
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: speaks to the fact that all these veterans, the Marlins bullpen,

493
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: have been really getting the job done, and you'll be

494
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: hearing about some of them coming up in these next

495
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: few picks. Overall, with Pop a four point six y'

496
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: one er in thirteen and two thirds, Endings pitched those

497
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: couple key home runs that he allowed, but outside of that,

498
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed any home runs beyond that, and he's keeping

499
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: his walks down, probably a little more than I had expected,

500
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: just five walks to this point, only seven total hits

501
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 1: he has been. Overall, he's been I think you'd have

502
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: to say above replacement level, which is you generally can't

503
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 1: have high expectations for Rule five draft picks in their

504
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: very first season. He was. You know, he's technically acquired

505
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: in a trade after being selected in the Rule five,

506
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: so he has to stick on the active roster. To

507
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: this point, there's really no doubt that he is going

508
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: to be part of this Marlins bullpen for the remainder

509
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: of the season, and we'll see what they do with

510
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: him beyond twenty twenty one, all things considered, an encouraging

511
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: start to his major league career. Number seven, I have

512
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: right hander Anthony Bender hashtag bender Mania. I wanted to

513
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: put him higher, you guys know I did. Since spring training.

514
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: I've had him circled as a revelation that despite being

515
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 1: acquired under the radar on a minor league deal, that

516
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: he pretty immediately showed the kind of all the checked

517
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: all the boxes that you want from a high leverage

518
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: relief pitcher, despite the fact that he didn't have any

519
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: experience really doing that at the major league level or

520
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: even in the high minor league levels. He I mean,

521
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: he didn't even get a chance to pitch at Triple A.

522
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: They technically assigned him down there at the alternate training site,

523
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: but eventually they got that need on the previous road

524
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: trip to have him on the taxi squad, and then

525
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: they activated him selected his contracts shortly thereafter. I would

526
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: have him higher if he had pitched more. He simply

527
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: has not had the opportunities to this point. Overall, as

528
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: we record this, he has pitched five times and five

529
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: scoreless and only one hit allowed, only one walk allowed,

530
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: striking out eight. Nearly half the batters he has faced

531
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: have struck out. In the small sample. His sinker is

532
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: proving to be one of the nastier fastballs of any

533
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: kind on the staff. That the kind of amazing arm

534
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: side movement that he gets on that pitch to get

535
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: looking strikeouts, to get some silly looking swings, that it's

536
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: a great foundation for the rest of his stuff. The

537
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: key with him, like with most relievers, was going to

538
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: be getting ahead in counts, being able to throw strikes

539
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: when you need to. So far, so great for Anthony Bender.

540
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: When we see more of him, he will move up

541
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: this list for sure. Number six fellow Anthony Anthony Bass,

542
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: who I mentioned earlier, given a shout out to how

543
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: he has improved, that he had found that slider. He

544
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: has ditched his splitter, which has been curious, the fact

545
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: that he spoke pretty highly of developing that splitter earlier

546
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: this season to have it as a tool against especially

547
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: left handed batters. And the big weakness with Anthony Bass

548
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: has been facing lefties that they are really tearing him up.

549
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: I think at least one if not. Both of those

550
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: key blown saves he had were home runs two left

551
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: handed batters. Yep, you know, definitely that was the case.

552
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: And I mean since then, as the overall numbers would suggest,

553
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: he's been better against lefties, but still overall that has

554
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: been a weakness for him. And recently pitching in the

555
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: seventh inning set up to this setup guy so well.

556
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: In a few cases, don Nningley has used them in

557
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: even higher leverage situations. I mean most recently barely a

558
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: week ago, taking the loss in that extra ending game

559
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: at home when he came into a tie game in

560
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: the tenth inning. But that was really the start of

561
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: to me, what was him straightening himself out where it

562
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: really only took until that moment. All the way up

563
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: until this point, I had concerns about him being a

564
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: productive member of the bullpen. But he has figured out

565
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: that slider and he's getting so many chases on it.

566
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: He's getting great movement. He is shaping it a couple

567
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: different ways depending on the situation. You could see the

568
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: movement changed to cater to the particular batter. He's pretty

569
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: locked in right now with Anthony Bess. I think the

570
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: overall performance this season it falls below what you were

571
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: hoping for, especially considering he is the highest paid reliever

572
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: in this bullpen in terms of guaranteed money on his

573
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 1: contract still relatively early in the year, and as long

574
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: as he keeps up what he's been doing this past

575
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: week or so, he will be an important piece of

576
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: this bullpen, someone that will draw some trade interest at

577
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: the deadline, etc. Etc. That overall, it looks like he

578
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: is salvaging what was a nightmare start to his season.

579
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: Number five sticking with the bullpen, left handed Ross Datwiler,

580
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: who was I believe, the first major league free agent

581
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: signing of the Kim Ang general manager era. He had

582
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: a low one year deal coming off what was a

583
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: pretty solid season for the White Sox in relief, all

584
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: things considered, about the same guy that he was with

585
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: the White Sox last year, where he gets a surprising

586
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: amount of success with his slider. He throws his slider

587
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: a whole lot. It's like a slider cutter hybrid that

588
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: he developed once he knew that he was going to

589
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: be kind of a full time reliever. He has actually

590
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: started games this season. Don Mattingly set in spring training

591
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: pretty devinantly that Dert Weiler would be a reliever and

592
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: nothing more, and essentially things have been used in just

593
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: short situations. Those starts have been as a quote unquote opener,

594
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: never going more than two innings at a time. But

595
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: his season results overall had been pretty solid. I mean,

596
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: he had that people will remember really concerning spring training performance.

597
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: But since we have flipped the switch to real games

598
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: through fifteen and a third endings a three point five

599
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: to two earned run average and has not allowed a

600
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: home run all season long, so that's pretty impressive. And

601
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: he's having a lot of success against lefties. He's been

602
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: a competitive against righties as well. I mean, overall fine,

603
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: not a super high upside guy, really only one or

604
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: two appearances that I would characterize as dominant, but he's

605
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: a piece. He's a solid middle reliever, especially considering that

606
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: this team doesn't have very many other options against lefties.

607
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: Number four right hander John Curtis. This one they gave

608
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: up a little to acquire Curtis. They traded first base

609
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: prospect Evan Edwards to the Rays. Always some trepidation about

610
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: doing deals with the Tampa Bay Rays. They always seem

611
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: to come out on the better end of these marginal trades,

612
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: and it's still too early to judge in full but

613
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: Curtis has been impressive. He kind of liked dent Weiler

614
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: is replicating what he did the previous year. He was

615
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: a big breakout guy in the Rays bullpen in twenty twenty,

616
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: ended up pitching some important endings for them in the

617
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: postseason as well. Even in the World Series, he stumbled

618
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: out of the gate a little bit. His slider early

619
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: in the year was a mess. He just was not

620
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: keeping it down. He was not getting swings and misses.

621
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: He allowed a couple key home runs early in the year,

622
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: and since then, over the last month plus, he has

623
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: been excellent. Very recently, only for the first time he

624
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: issued a walk. He had gone more than sixty batters

625
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: this season without walking anybody for the season overall a

626
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: two point three to three EER. Maddeningly, is still a

627
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: little tentative about using him in true high leverage situations.

628
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: He seems to be below Anthony Bass on the packing order.

629
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: I don't have super strong feelings about that, especially if

630
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: Bass is doing taking his game to another level recently.

631
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: But Curtis as much as pretty much anybody on the

632
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: bullpen outside of Anthony bender. Curtis has great swing and

633
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: miss potential with that slider, and when he keeps his

634
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: fastball up and his slider down between those pitches, that's

635
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: been a very successful for formula for him overall. So

636
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: a lot of years of control ahead on John Curtis,

637
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: and so far in his first year with the Marlins,

638
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: he is making a clear positive impact. Number three, much

639
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: higher on these rankings than I initially would have expected

640
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: before doing the work, has to be Adam Simber, the

641
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: Submarine right hander acquired very low profile deal for cash

642
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: considerations at the beginning of the previous offseason from the

643
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians. He is having arguably the best season of

644
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: his career to this point. Very very quietly. He has

645
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: faced more batters than any other relief pitcher on the

646
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Speaker 1: Marlins this season. He has faced seventy eight batters more

647
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: than anybody else two point eighty four ERA. Just like

648
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: Richard Blyer, just like Ross Datweiler, he has not allowed

649
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: a home run this season zero. He's been generating a

650
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: lot of ground balls overall. He is someone that does

651
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: pitch the contact more than most of these other guys,

652
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: and that tends to occasionally lead to some very frustrating outings.

653
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Speaker 1: A few immediately come to mind of times where he

654
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: just hard hit ground balls that wants to the wrong

655
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: spot that end up leading to some pretty crooked numbers

656
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard. That those rallies are going to happen

657
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: with Simber on days when ball simply find the right spot. Overall,

658
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: he makes sense is a great compliment to this team.

659
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: We've spoken about how the Marlins infield defense is pretty

660
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: lock tight, one of the better units in the big

661
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: leagues in terms of converting balls into outs, especially with

662
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: Jazz Cheersholm back from the injured list, and that fit

663
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: has been very good. Overall. With Simber, He's been used

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Speaker 1: in a whole variety of situations. There have been some

665
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: traditional high leverage stuff. For the most part, it's been

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Speaker 1: about him entering in the middle of endings and getting

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00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: them through it, giving them additional length on top of that.

668
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: So the variety of his appearances has been very valuable,

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's able to jump into those situations

670
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: without any complaints, and overall it just has not had

671
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: any single outing that is a true blow up on

672
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: his part. A few too many hit Batsman for my taste.

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Speaker 1: Let's see overall three hit batters by Adam Simber that

674
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: has tied for the most on the team. Those are

675
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: very frustrating when the ball doesn't break the way you'd want.

676
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: That's kind of just an occupational hazard of being a submariner,

677
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: where right handed hit batters especially just don't pick up

678
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands, so when a ball

679
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: is actually headed in their direction, they may be slow

680
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: to actually recognize that they're going to be hit by

681
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Speaker 1: a pitch. That number is going to continue to be

682
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: high for him. If he does everything right outside of that,

683
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Speaker 1: he'll be an effective reliever overall. So a nice pickup

684
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Speaker 1: with Adam Simber, who likes several of these other guys

685
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: could be around for a while longer if they choose

686
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Speaker 1: not to sell high on him. Then number two we

687
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: finally make it back to the position player side. The

688
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Speaker 1: big star from Sunday's game outfielder Adam Duvall. Overall, just

689
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: he's been such a key piece to what they do

690
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. I mean, you start

691
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: with the obvious plays, the power hitting. He had been

692
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: one of the better power hitters in baseball the last

693
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: two years, and so far this season he is right there,

694
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: right behind Hayeshus Aguilar as the number two power hitter

695
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: on this seane, the number two run producer. He especially

696
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: does it in those big, high pressure spots with two

697
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Speaker 1: outs with runners in scoring position. He's been arguably the

698
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: best hitter in all of baseball in that particular situation

699
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: with two outs RISP, including of course in Sunday's game

700
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Speaker 1: hitting that home run. That those situations, they do matter

701
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: kind of more than others if you don't take advantage

702
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: of those situations. How emotionally deflating it is for the

703
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: team and how much of a missed opportunity it is.

704
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: But those at bets, there's so much riding on it,

705
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: not just to get on base, but to actually do damage.

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Speaker 1: And that's the one concern of course with Duval that

707
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: we knew coming into this was his on base skills.

708
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Speaker 1: That when everything's going great for him, he's kind of

709
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: a league average on base guy, And so far this

710
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,959
Speaker 1: season he has been well below league average in terms

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Speaker 1: of his OBP. It hasn't really been anywhere close to

712
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Speaker 1: three hundred at any point this season currently in the

713
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: two seventies, with him only has drown a handful of

714
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: walks this season compared to more than four strikeouts, by

715
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Speaker 1: far the most strikeouts on the Marlins team, even though

716
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Speaker 1: he's not starting exactly every day, but he's starting pretty

717
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Speaker 1: close to every day, just because of the Starling Marte

718
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Speaker 1: injury and because of what he's done defensively, the fact

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Speaker 1: that he entering the season and to the early portion

720
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Speaker 1: of the season, there was no indication at all that

721
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Speaker 1: he could like viably play center field. He'd never really

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Speaker 1: done it for any extended period in the big leagues,

723
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Speaker 1: and yet here he is at age thirty two. With

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Speaker 1: Marte still out for the foreseeable future, he has started

725
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Speaker 1: a handful of games in center field for the Marlins

726
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: and looked totally comfortable doing it. He's at his best

727
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: when he's playing in the corners, though in left field

728
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: and right field that signature play on Sunday coming as

729
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: a right fielder. He has four outfield assists on the season,

730
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: and he has shown good range despite his age. Despite

731
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: not looking like particularly like a dynamic athlete, he covers

732
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: a lot of grounds and gets good reads off the ball.

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Speaker 1: He has been one of the better overall outfielders defensively

734
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Speaker 1: in baseball. I don't think it's stretch to say he's

735
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Speaker 1: been one of the better overall defenders at any position

736
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Speaker 1: in baseball. You don't know if that will keep up

737
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Speaker 1: for the entire season. If he's playing every single day,

738
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Speaker 1: that's something he has not done for a full length

739
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Speaker 1: season since his Cincinnati Reds days. So far, he's been

740
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Speaker 1: just a huge piece to this team. He gets you

741
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Speaker 1: frustrated during those cold stretches they happen. We were kind

742
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: of warned about this. His track record was pretty clear

743
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Speaker 1: that there are some lulls in his production that will

744
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Speaker 1: really frustrate you. But he compensates for that. He really

745
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Speaker 1: does when he catches fire for a couple of games

746
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Speaker 1: at a time, and overall, even though the stats would

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Speaker 1: tell you that he's technically like a below average hitter

748
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Speaker 1: in terms of weighted runs created, Plus that the situations

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Speaker 1: that he's coming through in and the way that the

750
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: team has needed him due to their concerns about their

751
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: other outfielder options, that he has been an ideal fit

752
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: and he's been worth the money to this point in

753
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: the first year of a deal that also has a

754
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: mutual option tacked on at the end. Very interesting decisions

755
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: about what exactly they'll do with him when Starling Marte

756
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: gets back and when the next wave of apfield prospects

757
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: are ready to make an impact. Number one on this

758
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: list referenced him earlier coming off one of his shakiest

759
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: appearances of the season, where there haven't been very many

760
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: whatsoever because Dylan Floro has exceeded expectations. He's been one

761
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: of the better relievers in baseball in my opinion, probably

762
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: the most valuable reliever that the Marlins have had this season,

763
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: right there with Jimmy Garcia. But Yimmy, of course a

764
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: returning player after being with the Marlins in twenty nineteen.

765
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Speaker 1: That Dylan Floro has been exceptional to a sub one

766
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: era zero point nine to six. Same thing with base

767
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: runners allowed zero point nine to six Parenning less than

768
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: one base runner. Perenning, hasn't hit a batter all season,

769
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Speaker 1: has only walked four batters this season, hasn't allowed a

770
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Speaker 1: home run all season. The peripheral numbers are gorgeous for

771
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Speaker 1: Dylan Floro in his age thirty season. He's had some

772
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: good seasons before, as recently as last year with the Dodgers,

773
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: he was firmly above average out of the bullpen. He

774
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: pitched in some big spots in the postseason. He was

775
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Speaker 1: never really viewed as a primary setup guy or true

776
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Speaker 1: stopper in the back of the bullpen, and he's taking

777
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: this game to another level this year. His changeup has

778
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: been terrific, the kind of movement he's getting, in the

779
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: location he's getting with that. Overall, just throwing strikes to

780
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Speaker 1: the edges of the zone. That's something that's so important

781
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: effective strikes. Not just throwing strikes, but actually putting them

782
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: in places where opponents can't do damage. He generates a

783
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: ton of ground balls, and he's just shown that he

784
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: can handle the high pressure situations. One of the worst

785
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: appearances of his year was that actual save opportunity in

786
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 1: extra endings against the Braves. He blew that one. I'd

787
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: say overall that was his lowest moment of the year.

788
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: That was almost a month. Since then, he has gone

789
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 1: back to being terrific. He has been one of the

790
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: most important relievers on this team, and he does it

791
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: in a way that I think is sustainable. I mean,

792
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: as long as his command remains that precise and he

793
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: continues to use all three of his pitches, his fastball, slider,

794
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: and changeup, keeping batters off balance with how he's deploying

795
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: those weapons that this is going to continue. He has

796
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: this year earning less than one million dollars, and that

797
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: makes him a terrific bargain for this team. So that

798
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: appearance on Sunday must have felt good, knowing that he

799
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Speaker 1: didn't quite have his best stuff and yet still gets

800
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: puts up a scoreless sending against the team that traded

801
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: him away just a few months ago. So you look

802
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: at that group, no superstar in the bunch, A lot

803
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: of relievers in there, a lot of relievers that are

804
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: either meeting or exceeding expectations. And that's why the Marlins

805
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: as a unit have had won the best bullpens in

806
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: all of baseball surprisingly to this point. That was a

807
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: priority for them over the off season, and so many

808
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: of these guys are as good as advertised, if not

809
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Speaker 1: even better. That's going to do it for this episode.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see your power ranking of new Marlins.

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Speaker 1: Those are the eleven names. I'll have them listed on

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00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: the website page if you need to keep track of them.

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Speaker 1: How would you rank them in terms of guys that

814
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Speaker 1: have had the biggest impact on the team through the

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Speaker 1: first quarter of the season. Enjoy your off day between

816
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: the Marlins and the minor league affiliates as well. Root

817
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: on your Florida Panthers and your Miami Heat as they

818
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: are just starting their postseason runs in their respective leagues.

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Speaker 1: Upcoming coverage for us, of course, when the games get

820
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday, we'll have our fish Stripes live stream

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00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: on Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube. We'll have our daily coverage

822
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: on Fishstripes dot Com, our minor league reports that come

823
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Speaker 1: out almost every single day following the minor league games.

824
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Speaker 1: Got our game recaps, we have more analysis from me.

825
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Speaker 1: I did recent stuff on Garrett Cooper, on Richard Blier,

826
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Speaker 1: and I'll have more coming up on balls and strikes

827
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Speaker 1: and the umpiring in Marlins games this season. I should

828
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Speaker 1: have something relatively soon on two way player Sean Reynolds,

829
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Speaker 1: who's currently with the Jupiter Hammerheads, and how that experiment

830
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: is going for them in Jupiter. What else, of course,

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Speaker 1: we have our daily small pods on Tuesdays through Fridays

832
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: that will keep you out on the daily stuff. And

833
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Speaker 1: a final tease that we're hearing this week. On Friday,

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Speaker 1: it's known that the Marlins will be wearing for the

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Speaker 1: first time their Nike City Connect uniforms that they seem

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Speaker 1: to The hints are they pay an homage to Cuba

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Speaker 1: in some form or fashion, but that reveal should be

838
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Speaker 1: coming any moment now in terms of what those uniforms

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Speaker 1: look like, and I'm sure there will be a lot

840
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Speaker 1: of thoughts about that as the Marlins debut those for

841
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: the first time and may be adding them to their

842
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: uniform rotation on a somewhat regular basis. Should be a

843
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: fun storyline to keep us occupied on this off day

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Speaker 1: as we look forward to the second quarter essentially of

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Speaker 1: this Marlins season. It's been a fun start to it.

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Speaker 1: Keep listening, stay engaged, subscribe, rate and review to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Always appreciate your support and your feedback. I'm Eli Susman,

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Speaker 1: Go Fish.