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Speaker 1: Yo, Welcome to fish Bites. This is Eli Sussman, in

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Speaker 1: as all these platforms. We are providing unique Miami Marlins

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Speaker 1: coverage with the season now rapidly approaching, just a matter

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Speaker 1: of weeks away from spring training, and that's going to

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Speaker 1: be what this theme of this episode of fish Fights

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Speaker 1: is about. Is preparing you for all the key dates

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Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty Marlins calendar, from some coming up

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Speaker 1: just in a few days, others throughout February March opening

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Speaker 1: Day and beyond into the season, and then even after

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Speaker 1: the season, all the key dates on the calendar. Still

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Speaker 1: awaiting word from the Marlins about certain promotions coming up

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Speaker 1: during the season. So those won't be included, but a

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Speaker 1: certain number of games that you want to keep your

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Speaker 1: eye on, deadlines that relate to how the Marlins are

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Speaker 1: going to manage their roster, how they're going to pay

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Speaker 1: their players. All that stuff very important for a team,

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Speaker 1: even as we're still in the middle of a rebuild.

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Speaker 1: Before getting into all those special dates, we begin with

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Speaker 1: your Marlins weekly News. Facing a roster crunch, the Marlins

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Speaker 1: had to make the difficult decision to designate Austin Dean

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Speaker 1: trade partner for him fairly quickly. He's going to the

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Speaker 3: Gentlemen, my name is Gary Denball. I'm the vice president

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Speaker 3: of player development and Scouting for the Miami Marlins. This

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Speaker 3: camp is the start of building a great team and

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Speaker 3: a franchise that plays not just for one championship every

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Speaker 3: fifteen years, but every year. We're out there competing for

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Speaker 3: championships every year. You're the guys that are going to

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Speaker 3: be looked to to set the standard for the way

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Speaker 3: everybody in this organization goes about their business. This is

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Speaker 3: the group right here, fellas, This is it. This is

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Speaker 3: the group that's going to represent us as we go

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Speaker 3: on to become a great organization. Again, the owner of

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Speaker 3: this team set the standard for how to be a

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Speaker 3: professional over his twenty year career, and I don't think

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Speaker 3: there's anybody that can argue with that. The first thing

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Speaker 3: that we're going to cover these words on this sheet,

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Speaker 3: this is what we are about. First one on the

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Speaker 3: list is we respect and abide by the rules of

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Speaker 3: the Miami Marlins and Major League Baseball. The next one,

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Speaker 3: we respect ourselves, our teammates, our opponents, our fans, and

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Speaker 3: the game, and we represent all with dignity. For those

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Speaker 3: of you that think you're not a role model, think again,

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Speaker 3: because we want all the kids all across the world

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Speaker 3: to watch how you go about your business as in

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Speaker 3: Miami Marlin and say I want to be like this guy.

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Speaker 3: Next one, we treat our teammates' staff, coaches with respect

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Speaker 3: and dignity while appreciating our individual differences. The number one word.

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Speaker 3: We will treat everybody we encounter with respect. Next line,

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Speaker 3: as we master fundamentals, developmental and physical skills and maintain

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Speaker 3: top physical condition by working harder and smarter than any

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Speaker 3: other organization. Last few years, we strive to become championship

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Speaker 3: Major League players for the Miami Marlins. We expect to win,

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Speaker 3: and of course that says who we are. You are

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Speaker 3: not just a Miami Marlins player.

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Speaker 2: You're not.

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Speaker 3: You're a Miami Marlins player that's now a part of

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Speaker 3: the Captain's Camp and the expectations will be high going forward,

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Speaker 3: So let's go out and meet them.

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Speaker 1: As a reminder, fan Fest admission is free. You get

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Speaker 1: in complimentary just reserving tickets online at Marlins dot com.

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Speaker 1: You can reserve up to four per person this year,

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Speaker 1: so be sure to take advantage of that, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there'll be a lot of things on location that

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Speaker 1: you may be tended to buy. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: good time. I'll be sure to have several of my

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Speaker 1: staff members there as well to chronicle it all and

478
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: to meet some of you guys in person. After that,

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Speaker 1: just a few days later, February twelfth, that's when pitchers

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Speaker 1: and catchers report. That's the mandatory report date. As I've

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Speaker 1: mentioned what the captains camp. We already have a lot

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Speaker 1: of players that are in town for a number of

483
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Speaker 1: weeks at this point, but that's gonna be the loose

484
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Speaker 1: deadline for the pitchers and catchers to make it up

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Speaker 1: to Jupiter for the beginning of those team workouts together,

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Speaker 1: and then on February seventeenth, that is the first full

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Speaker 1: squad workout with the pitchers, the catchers, and all the

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Speaker 1: other position players. Based on last year and what other

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Speaker 1: teams do, it's usually between sixty five and seventy players

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Speaker 1: that participate in Major league spring training. In addition to that,

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Speaker 1: you may sometimes see once the exhibition schedule get started

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Speaker 1: in the grave Fruit League, minor league players sometimes come

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Speaker 1: over to appear in certain games. There are a few

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Speaker 1: long road trips in Florida during the grave Fruit League,

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Speaker 1: and you generally don't want some of your more revered

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Speaker 1: veterans like putting that extra wear and tear on themselves,

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Speaker 1: So those are the opportunities for some of the minor

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Speaker 1: league camp guys to get involved in that as well.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a really hectic time because we're

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Speaker 1: at a time where the Marlins have so much of

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Speaker 1: their farm system strength concentrated in the those higher minor

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Speaker 1: league levels High AAA, Triple A, and so many of

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Speaker 1: them are going to be in major league camp the

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Speaker 1: whole time and others are going to be coming over

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Speaker 1: at selection moments to participate in games. That first game

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Speaker 1: is going to be February twenty seconds against the Mets,

507
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Speaker 1: and the first home game of the Great League is

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Speaker 1: the following day, on February twenty third. Fast forwarding a

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Speaker 1: little bit on March tenth, that is a final day

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Speaker 1: if the Marlins want to save some money on players

511
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Speaker 1: that they have big questions about, I should say it's

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Speaker 1: a final day to make cuts to your arbitration eligible players,

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Speaker 1: your pre arbitration eligible major leaguers, while owing only thirty

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Speaker 1: days worth of their salary. At this point, the Marlins

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Speaker 1: have agreed to terms with most of their arbitration eligibles

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Speaker 1: Adam Conley, Josse Urina, Jonathan vr and they'll be going

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Speaker 1: to an arbitration case, arbitration trial, and arbitration hearing. Let

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Speaker 1: me get that right, an arbitration hearing against heyesus Aguilar

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Speaker 1: to determine what his exact salary will be with any

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Speaker 1: of those guys, If for whatever reason, they see something

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Speaker 1: early in spring training that's really discouraging and they aren't

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Speaker 1: able to find a trade suitor for them, the Marlins

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Speaker 1: can make a cut by March tenth, and oh them

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Speaker 1: less than one sixth of that total salary. It's not

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Speaker 1: fully guaranteed the way that major league veteran deals are.

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Speaker 1: So it's at that point in the year where for

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Speaker 1: a team like the Marlins, still in a rebuild and

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Speaker 1: still some questions about what exactly their revenue streams are

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Speaker 1: going to look like long term, that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a deadline for them if they're really conscious about their payroll.

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Speaker 1: And then a couple weeks after that is when the

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Speaker 1: season starts on opening Day against the Phillies, a first

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Speaker 1: pitch time at four to ten PM. Our current speculation

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Speaker 1: is that Sandy Alcntra is going to get that opening

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Speaker 1: day start. Urania had it the last two years, but

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Speaker 1: with the way that he finished out his twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: season and with the way that a Confert finished out

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Speaker 1: his twenty nineteen season on a high note, we expect

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Speaker 1: that honor to go to Sandy to begin the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty season, hosting Bryce Harper, jt real Muto and the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: With new manager Joe Girardi, It's gonna be the third

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Speaker 1: straight year that the Marlins host on opening Day, and

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Speaker 1: they were unsuccessful in the last two opening days, trying

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Speaker 1: to reverse that trends, and they're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: of different players than the past couple of years, so

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Speaker 1: maybe that will do the trick. Naturally, there is a

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Speaker 1: fixation from fans on what the Marlins opening day roster

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Speaker 1: is going to be, who's your opening day lineup going

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Speaker 1: to be, when in reality this stuff is not all

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Speaker 1: that important. Even in the most successful years for teams,

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Speaker 1: there are so many moves that to be made to

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Speaker 1: a roster changes as a result of injury, of poor performances,

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Speaker 1: of prospect promotions, of personal issues, and of course of

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Speaker 1: trades that you make with other teams to bring in

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Speaker 1: new guys from outside the organization. Whatever group the Marlins

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Speaker 1: bring in an opening day is gonna look nothing like

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Speaker 1: what they finished the year with. And the first interesting

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Speaker 1: milestone to make significant changes or high profile changes will

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Speaker 1: be April eleventh. That's the earliest date that minor leaguers

560
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Speaker 1: can debut without being able to gain a full year

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Speaker 1: of major league service time. For the Marlins, being cost conscious,

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Speaker 1: it's a deadline that's going to carry some weight. You've

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Speaker 1: seen it around baseball carry a lot of weight at

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Speaker 1: the moment, Chris Bryant and the Cubs, more than five

565
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Speaker 1: years removed from the initial dispute, are still our waiting

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Speaker 1: a hearing from an arbitration panel about whether he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be eligible for free agency this coming off season or

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Speaker 1: the year after that, because the Cubs were very blatant

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Speaker 1: with how they manipulated his service time. As the current

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Speaker 1: collective bargaining agreement is well, we'll have to wait to

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Speaker 1: see exactly what the findings of the arbiter is in

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Speaker 1: Brian's case. That may dictate how the Marlins use this

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Speaker 1: deadline coming up this year. Usually they're not so conspicuous

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Speaker 1: with it, holding down a player a bit longer past

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Speaker 1: the deadline before actually bringing them up. But you need

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Speaker 1: six years of major league service time, six full years

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Speaker 1: in order to gain a free agent eligibility, and the

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Speaker 1: way that teams circumvent this historically is by waiting until

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Speaker 1: that deadline, waiting until just a couple of weeks into

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Speaker 1: the regular she's gonna call you up, so that you

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Speaker 1: don't have the service time necessary to qualify for a

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Speaker 1: free agency until after your seventh year. Some prospects that

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Speaker 1: this may impact Nick knightderd in six, so Sanchez monte Harrison.

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Speaker 1: With Montey in particular because he's a little on the

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Speaker 1: older side for a top prospect, Marlins already have him

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Speaker 1: under control through his entire twenties. Hopefully they will just

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Speaker 1: base that decision on the merit of his performance and

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Speaker 1: the competitors at that position, But just something to keep

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Speaker 1: in mind. April eleventh, that's when it's no longer a

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Speaker 1: full year for players to gain service time. At the

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Speaker 1: end of that month, April twenty eighth to the thirtieth,

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Speaker 1: that's a Puerto Rico series against the Mets in San Juan.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins have played in Puerto Rico in the past,

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Speaker 1: as recently as twenty ten, and these are going to

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Speaker 1: count as Marlins home games. Only seventy eight home games

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Speaker 1: scheduled at Marlins Park this year, with these three also

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Speaker 1: the Marlins being the nominal home team and perhaps having

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Speaker 1: somewhat of a home field advantage right considering the proximity

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Speaker 1: from Puerto Rico to Miami as opposed to Puerto Rico

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Speaker 1: to New York. Although New York does have a pretty

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Speaker 1: big Puerto Rican population. I know, as a guy that

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Speaker 1: grew up in New York that there's a big presence there,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not sure how much of a home field

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Speaker 1: advantage will be there. The Marlins will have I have

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Speaker 1: a very prominent Puerto Rican player on the roster next year,

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Speaker 1: being Isan Diez. Meanwhile, for the Mets, it's a very

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Speaker 1: awkward turn of events as Carlos Beltron, who was named

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Speaker 1: their manager over the offseason, being parting ways mutually, with

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Speaker 1: the organization being reported frankly as more of a firing

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Speaker 1: as because of his involvement in the Houston Astros signed

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Speaker 1: stealing scandal, which we're going to be touching on a

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Speaker 1: little bit later in this segment. And he's a very

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Speaker 1: prominent Puerto Rican player, one of the most successful Port

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Speaker 1: Rican layers of his generation or any other, and so

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Speaker 1: now he won't be involved in this directly, although the

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Speaker 1: Mets closer Edwin Diaz will be. He's coming off bad year,

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Speaker 1: but just a couple of years before that, one of

618
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Speaker 1: the premium relief pitchers in all of baseball. So, assuming

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Speaker 1: he re establishes himself as an effective option early in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, by the time that series comes around at

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Speaker 1: the end of April, he's going to be a main

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Speaker 1: attraction I imagine for all the fans and attendance should

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Speaker 1: be a great atmosphere. We saw the Indians and Twins

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Speaker 1: play there in Puerto Rico not that long ago. And

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Speaker 1: something that I just remembered by doing the research for

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Speaker 1: this is that although the Marlins haven't been back there

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Speaker 1: since twenty ten, they were supposed to be back there

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen against the Pirates. There was this two

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Speaker 1: game series set up in Puerto Rico in homage to

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Speaker 1: Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican Hall of Famer, and they

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Speaker 1: had to call that off on relatively short notice because

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Speaker 1: of the outbreak of the Zeca virus. So I had

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Speaker 1: remembered the Zeca virus outbreak mostly in the Caribbean and

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Speaker 1: South America, and I didn't remember that the Marlins had

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Speaker 1: to reschedule games because of that. Those games were played

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Speaker 1: instead in Miami instead of Puerto Rico, because of the

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00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: risk to the players. In any event, now Puerto Rico

638
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: again is facing a lot of adversity. It's really been

639
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: a tough few years for that islands, of course, with

640
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: Hurricane Maria and more recently the earthquakes, a series of

641
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: earthquakes that have hit the islands and cause some damage,

642
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: took down electricity for a lot of people. You just

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00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: got to hope that by the time we get to

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Speaker 1: this point on the calendar, everybody's in the best condition possible,

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00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: and that these teams are able to bring some joy

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Speaker 1: to that island where it has a really great baseball tradition,

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Speaker 1: and from the games that have been played there in

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Speaker 1: the recent past, it's an excellent atmosphere. So I want

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Speaker 1: to give those fans a great show when that happens.

650
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: Moving on into the middle of the season, June tenth

651
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: to the twelfth, that's going to be the Major League

652
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: Baseball Amateur Draft being held in Omaha, Nebraska, which is

653
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: the site of the College World Series. Of course, players

654
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: eligible for the draft include both high schoolers and college players,

655
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: but for the Marlins in particular this year, where they

656
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: hold the number three overall pick, it's a class where

657
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: the three standout prospects. At this moment in time, we're

658
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: still close to five months out and so the twenty

659
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: twenty college season hasn't even started yet, But at this moment,

660
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: there are three very obvious candidates to go at the

661
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: top of the draft. Austin Martin, Spencer Torkelsen, and Emerson Hancock.

662
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: The Marlins not a full blown tank job last year,

663
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: but they did shed a lot of veteran players down

664
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: the stretch and ended up losing a lot of games.

665
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: They ultimately didn't get the number one overall pick, but

666
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: it's hard to go wrong. At least based on what

667
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: we know publicly about those top three players. At least

668
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: one of them is going to be available to the

669
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: Marlins at number three overall, This will be the highest

670
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: draft position that the Marlins have had since Tyler Kolek

671
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. That one did not play out all

672
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: that favorably to the team, but considering the way that

673
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: the Marlins front off is handled the twenty nineteen draft,

674
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: they were very critically acclaimed for the way they were

675
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: able to maneuver their draft bonus pool, sign a lot

676
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 1: of key players above slot value, and yet still fit

677
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: all them within the overall bonus pool loose cap that

678
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: they have. It was very encouraging the way that they

679
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 1: scouted and then ultimately signed key players last summer, hoping

680
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: to do more of the same this time. Because of

681
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: the signed ceiling scandal, the Astros do not have their

682
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: first round or draft second round draft pick this year

683
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. As a result, the Marlins move up

684
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: a slot for a couple of their picks. Number three

685
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 1: overall stays at number three, but their second pick moves

686
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: up to number forty overall, then number sixty two, seventy fifth,

687
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: one oh five, one thirty five, and then every thirty

688
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: picks from there onward. But that's four picks in the

689
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 1: top seventy five. This is a great opportunity entering a

690
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: year where they have an elite farm system. But as

691
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: I've mentioned a couple of times, they have a lot

692
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: of talent concentrated in the high minors, so once those

693
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: guys graduate to the majors, you can't count them as

694
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: part of the farm system anymore. You always need new

695
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 1: waves of talent, and that's why they hold the draft

696
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: every year. For all the pain that fans were subjected

697
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: to last summer watching a non competitive team, this is

698
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: a silver lining to going through all that. Shortly after

699
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: the draft June sixteenth, that is the earliest date to

700
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: trade a player who was signed as a free agent

701
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: the previous offseason. I was actually not aware of this data.

702
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: I knew about it in basketball, weirdly enough, but not

703
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: in baseball. This is, according to Cott's Baseball Contracts, very

704
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 1: valuable resource that I've been diving into, more so recently

705
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: than ever before. And this was listed by them as

706
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: it's right there near the middle of the year, not

707
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: quite at the midway point, but pretty close. And that

708
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: would go a decent way to explaining why you don't

709
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: see all that many trades before the middle of June.

710
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: It's because there is a literal rule about it where

711
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: players that you just signed you need to hold on

712
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: to them for a certain length of time. That is

713
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: relevant for the Marlins because a lot of their changes

714
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: this offseason have been made via free agency. I mentioned

715
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: some of the names already, Corey Dickerson, vr Aguilar, Curvelli,

716
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: also Jimmy Garcia. All these guys just signed out of

717
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: free agency, and it could get to a point by

718
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: the middle of the Yearhere the Marlins again have to

719
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: admit to themselves that they're not contending for the postseason

720
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: this year, which means that your veteran player is the

721
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: one on expiring deals or close to expiring deals. They

722
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: become trade bait, especially at a time where you have

723
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: interesting internal options in your farm system. That's the date

724
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: to circle June sixteenth, where if a certain number of

725
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: circumstances come together, if you have your guys in the

726
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: minor leagues ready to take a step forward, and you're

727
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: veterans are playing well and commanding a lot of trade interest,

728
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: that's the point where the Marlins will be able to

729
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: actually officially start shopping them. Then on July seconds, that

730
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: is the start of the twenty twenty twenty twenty one

731
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: international amateur signing period. This has been a very This

732
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: was a very big milestone for the Marlins last year

733
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: where they picked up three young shortstops all in the

734
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: same day, spent most of their bonus pool all at once.

735
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: It's almost as much spending as the draft. It's not

736
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: quite as much spending, but almost as much talent, I

737
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: should say, as the draft. You're able to sign if

738
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: you managed your money right, You're able to sign dozens

739
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: of young amateur players, for most of them being about

740
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: sixteen years old. There is one interesting twist to the

741
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: international signing period this year for the Marlins where all

742
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: the way dating back to last summer, they've been linked

743
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: to Cuban shortstop Yiddi Cape, who is going to be

744
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: entering his age seventeen season coming up, and he was

745
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: technically eligible to sign last year during the international signing period,

746
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: but decided to hold off on that in order to

747
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: wait until all the draft pools, all the signing bonus

748
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: pools reset. Just like with the draft, you have a

749
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: certain amount of money that you can spend before facing

750
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: very steep penalties for it. And the way that the

751
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: timing of his defection from Cuba lined up, it just

752
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: made more sense for him to wait. And he's going

753
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: to be a Marlin. This stuff is not supposed to

754
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: be all so public, but Cape on Instagram has been

755
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: very consistent with posting about his workouts with the Marlins

756
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: Dominican Academy. We had an article pretty recently on fishtripes

757
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: dot com detailing who he is as a player and

758
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: what he's been working on in the Dominican is tall,

759
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: and he hasn't yet fully filled out, but his physical

760
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: frame has drawn some comparisons to Carlos Korea to you

761
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: guessed Derek Jeter, depending on how he fills out, could

762
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: end up as a third base third baseman eventually, but

763
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: he has a really well rounded skill set, his tools

764
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: across the board ranking as average or above average, and

765
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: the expected price tag. This is based on reporting from

766
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: Keith law and who's now at the Athletic not ESPN,

767
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: and also from Baseball America. They think he's gonna be

768
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: about a three and a half million dollar player, which

769
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: before the Marlins trade for any international bonus slots, just

770
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: based on the money that they're given directly by MLB,

771
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: this is going to take up the majority of their

772
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: entire signing bonus pool, so they better be pretty sure

773
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,720
Speaker 1: about Cape. Shortly after that July fourteenth, that's the MLB

774
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: All Star Game at Dodger Stadium. Each of the past

775
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: couple of years, you know, the All Star Game has

776
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: not been all that interesting for Marlins fans because you've

777
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: only had one All Star apiece in those years. In

778
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen it was Sandy al Contra, and it was

779
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: kind of awkward because he wasn't all that dominant in

780
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: that first half of the season. It was pretty blatant

781
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: that he was picked because every team had to have

782
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: one representative. The year before that it was JT. Realmute.

783
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: That one was extremely well deserved, and ever since then

784
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: he has made an air tight case that he's the

785
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: best catcher in all of baseball. The year before that

786
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, and that is when Miami hosted the

787
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: All Star Game and festivities, but for the first time

788
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: since then, this could have a lot of interest to

789
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: Marlins fans because they have players newly acquired that have

790
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: been All Stars in the past, like Hayesius Aguilar in

791
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and they have young players who have the

792
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: potential to take a step forward, whether it's Brian Anderson,

793
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: whether it's one of these young pitchers. Sandy al Contra

794
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: could still get better. Pablo Lopez is someone I'm very

795
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: high on. I would say that more so than any

796
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: other pitcher. Pabla would be my best bet to represent

797
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: the team in the All Star Game. If you look

798
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: across the National League, it's still a very deep league.

799
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: Not a lot of teams tanking this year. Not really

800
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: any teams that are like very obviously tanking this year,

801
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: which means it's difficult. It's gonna be difficult to win

802
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: games even with all the improvements the team has made.

803
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of competition every position, but

804
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: this is more a year that certainly more likely than

805
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: the past couple of years for the Marlins to have

806
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 1: multiple All Stars. Later in July, on the twenty sixth,

807
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: that is gonna be the Hall of Fame induction ceremony

808
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: in Cooperstown, New York. As I'd mentioned, Derek Jeter is

809
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: going to get in. He's gonna be there, and he's

810
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: gonna have to take some time away from Marlins baseball

811
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: operations in order to go to Cooperstown and make a speech.

812
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: He has not been all that shy the past couple

813
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: of years, as with the Marlins, of addressing the media

814
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: and answering questions, so and of course he had plenty

815
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: of practice that during his career, but it'll be very

816
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: interesting to see what he says on that stage because

817
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: although he is comfortable speaking in front of cameras speaking

818
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: about other people, he's always tried to deflect attention away

819
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: from himself. So in this setting it's pretty much impossible

820
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: to do that, especially if he is elected unanimously, that

821
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: he's going to have to acknowledge some of his own

822
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: career production and I'll just be curious exactly how that

823
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: speech goes and whether he ends up referencing anything that

824
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: he's doing with the Marlins currently in that honor, which

825
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,439
Speaker 1: is all based about his playing career, Let's be clear

826
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: that he's just being honored for being one of the

827
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: most successful shortstops in baseball history. He'll have to get

828
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 1: back to the team pretty shortly after that, because July

829
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: thirty first, that is the MLB trade deadline. Marlins have

830
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: been busy last year. There were especially busy the year before,

831
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: not so much in twenty eighteen. But this team is creative.

832
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: They made very surprising trade last year, the one for

833
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: one sending Zach Gallon to the Diamondbacks for Jazz Chisholm.

834
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: So it's unpredictable just on paper. The players you think

835
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: are the most obvious trade candidates are a couple of

836
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: the ones we mentioned already, like Vr and Aguilar. Ones

837
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: that are more complicated, like Caleb Smith, who drew some

838
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: interest at the trade deadline last year. But at this

839
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: point you're gonna have a much better idea of who

840
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 1: he is as a pitcher. Well, it'll be an extra

841
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: year removed from his last surgery, and there will be

842
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: a lot more internal pictures that are gonna be ready

843
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: to break through for the Marlins in the rotation, so

844
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: it will be a question of whether they want a

845
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: clear space for those young guys while getting more young

846
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: talent in return to address other positions. Adam Connley, who

847
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: for the moment is still what the Marlins, somewhat surprisingly,

848
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: took a big step back in twenty nineteen. But if

849
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: he's able to regain his twenty eighteen form, then sure.

850
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna draw some interest as a reliever,

851
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: not necessarily the way that Nick Anderson did last year,

852
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 1: but he is an uncomfortable at bat, I'll give you that,

853
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: no matter how much he struggled in twenty nineteen. His delivery,

854
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: the velocity he gets on his fastball, it's especially for

855
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: left handed batters. It's difficult to look at. And there's

856
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:27,479
Speaker 1: gonna be some contenders interested in that later in the year.

857
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: September first, that's when active rosters expand. This is gonna

858
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 1: be the first year that active rosters have twenty six

859
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: spots instead of twenty five, and it's also the first

860
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: year that they're gonna do away from the forty man

861
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: expansion rules. It used to be that anybody on your

862
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: forty man roster could be eligible to play in the

863
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: majors in September of the season, which totally changes the

864
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: strategy of the game, the way you manage a pitching staff.

865
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: How could have players available for very specific roles down

866
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: the stretch and the imbalance when you had some teams

867
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: that had forty healthy players versus those that were much

868
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: lower than that. It created very awkward viewing experience and

869
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: it created very long games. I think that was the

870
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 1: main takeaway is that September games, especially those that don't

871
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: have any consequences regarding the playoffs, were just unbearably long,

872
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: very frequently exceeding four hours for nine in games. This

873
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: new change should do away from that because now the

874
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: maximum expansion is just gonna be twenty eight active roster

875
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: spots in September, less players get their debuts. It means

876
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: that feel good stories last year, like Brian Moran, who

877
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: was recently defaded by the Marlins, the only reason that

878
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: he was able to come up with the team is

879
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: because they had all those extra spots, because they were

880
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: able to expand their roster from twenty five to thirty something,

881
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: and he was able to sneak on the roster and

882
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: pitch in a handful of situations that was a feel

883
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: good story when he faced his brother, Colin Murran, and

884
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: an unprecedented meeting of brothers when one brother was making

885
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: his major league debut. So it's gonna be a different environment,

886
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: but still will be an opportunity to see some new

887
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: faces that don't come up during the regular part of

888
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: the calendar. Coinciding with that, the first series the Marlins

889
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: play in September, from the first to the third, that's

890
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: against the Astros on the road. In minute made Park.

891
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: I know some fans are savoring the moment when the

892
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: Astros come to Miami and you get to blue those

893
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: cheaters in person. That's not gonna happen just once every

894
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: three years that you have these interleague matchups with each

895
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: division in the American League. This year it's the AL

896
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: West being that interleague matchup, and the only three games

897
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: they play against the Astros will be in Houston. Well,

898
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: there's gonna be We expect to be seeing more twists

899
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: and turns to the sign stealing saga between now and then,

900
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: potentially implicating other teams. But for the moment, the Astros

901
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: are everybody's public enemy, so that should be an interesting

902
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: series to watch. The final game of the twenty nineteen

903
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: regular season will be September twenty seventh versus the Mets.

904
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: Just like the past few years, every team gets to

905
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: play on the final day of the season and at

906
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: the exact same start time three ten pm Eastern Time. Hopefully,

907
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: Don Mattingly continues his tradition where he picks a honorary

908
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: acting manager from the player pool every year, last year

909
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: being Miguel Rojas, and the team was successful. The others

910
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: in the history of this tradition aj Ellis, Martin Prado,

911
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: I think JT Real Muto. It's been a different player

912
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: every year. My pointless prediction this far out is that

913
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: Francisco Cervelli gets the honor of managing the Marlins in

914
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: their twenty twenty season finale. Assuming this team doesn't quite

915
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: have what it takes to make into the playoffs. There's

916
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 1: still a couple of dates in the next offseason that

917
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm already looking forward to. November twentieth and twenty twenty.

918
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: That is the deadline to set the roster in advance

919
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: of the Rule five draft. There wasn't all that much

920
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 1: drama around that this past year. I mean, there was

921
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: the bold decision to finally release way in Chin to

922
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 1: make room for all the prospects you wanted to protect.

923
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: But that was the good baseball decision all the way around.

924
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: Not wholly surprising, but you know something notable. It's gonna

925
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: be really messy heading into the next Rule five draft

926
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: because you have even more prospects that, assuming they haven't

927
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: made their major league debut yet, they're just going to

928
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: be eligible for the Rule five for the first time,

929
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: and the Marlins are not gonna be able to protect everybody.

930
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: Here are the most notable Marlins names that will be

931
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 1: Rule five eligible for the first time next Winner Braxton Garrett,

932
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: Trevor Rodgers, gerar and Karnacione, Hose Evers, Brian Miller, Luis Pelasios,

933
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: Riley Mayhan, Joe Dunand, and Tyler Stevens. Most of those

934
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: guys were very effective on the field with Marlin's affiliates

935
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: this past year, and that Rule five draft will ultimately

936
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: be on December tenth. There's hardly any president for adding

937
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: all those guys to a forty men roster at the

938
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 1: same time at the expense of actual experienced major league players,

939
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be some tough calls. There's probably going

940
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 1: to be some trades as Marlins rejiggered their roster heading

941
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty one, which potentially is that first year

942
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: where they can see that window opening for them to

943
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: be a relevant team. Spoiler alert. This list of important

944
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:56,280
Speaker 1: Marlins dates is going to expand as we get closer

945
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: to the regular season, the team will reveal more details

946
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: about its promotional schedules. There are always some giveaways in there,

947
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: bark in the Park for you to bring your dogs,

948
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: throwback opportunities, days where the team will be wearing throwbacks,

949
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: other special guest appearances. So as that information comes up,

950
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: we will keep you informed about it on Fish Stripes.

951
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: And this is a little premature, but we're hoping to

952
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: set a date or two during the regular season to

953
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: have Fish Stripes meetups at Marlins Park, ones that I'll

954
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 1: be able to make it down for as well. So

955
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: once we set those in partnership with the Marlins, we're

956
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: able to get everybody a very reduced rate to attend

957
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: those games, and we'll try to pick dates that as

958
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,240
Speaker 1: many people as possible are available for. I'll pass along

959
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: more of that information as well. This is Eli Suspen

960
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: from Fish Bites. Make sure to subscribe to the pod

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00:55:50,400 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: if you don't already Go. Fish included and incapted in

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