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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this edition of big Fish Small Pod.

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Speaker 1: And for those of you who may be new to

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Speaker 1: big Fish Small Pod, he would like to give you

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Speaker 1: all the information about the Marlins in ten minutes or

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Speaker 1: less and here is a brand new episode in my

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Speaker 1: five part series where I communicate talk to get some

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Speaker 1: insight from members of the Marlins community. And for this

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Speaker 1: episode we have mister Sean Millrick.

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Speaker 2: Shawn.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you on.

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Speaker 2: Danny, thanks for having me. Obviously, we've got plenty to

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Speaker 2: talk about in the exciting world of Marlins free agency.

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Speaker 1: It's a good thing that the podcast is ten minutes

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Speaker 1: or less because that's about as much we can get

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Speaker 1: out from this off season. And of course, first Marlon's

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Speaker 1: not making any major league signings small trade, it seems

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Speaker 1: like a lot of front office retooling. Sean, what have

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Speaker 1: you seen from this off season from the Marlin so far?

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Speaker 1: Now we're in.

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Speaker 2: The middle of jam Well, I mean, as you said,

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Speaker 2: we've seen nothing in regards of adding you know, MLB

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Speaker 2: of a team that you just made the playoffs last

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Speaker 2: year with you know, definitely a little bit of luck.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think it was thirty three and fourteen

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Speaker 2: and one run games. You know, they're probably not doing

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Speaker 2: that again, but still, you know, it's a team that

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Speaker 2: geled together. You know, it's the best most fun I've

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Speaker 2: And you'd love to see the Marlins you add to it.

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Speaker 2: But it's spent a lot of below the fold stuff

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Speaker 2: in terms of player acquisition. You know, guys some minor

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Speaker 2: able to break in, you know, a little mob experience,

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Speaker 2: but not you know much. You know, last year the

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Speaker 2: We could be like, well, maybe that's a guy that

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Speaker 2: I think a utility bad in that case, or at

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Speaker 2: least it feels like it. And you know, they're they

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Speaker 2: didn't bring back sol Air. They've got holes that catcher

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Speaker 2: were worse in all of baseball, And just that leaves

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Speaker 2: you scratching your head as a fan for what they're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a lot of different moves. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: the full season of Jake Berger, Josh Bell, see how

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Speaker 1: they do a full time at a Marlin starter. But Sean,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, just what move do you

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Speaker 1: think the Marlins should make. Let's say they had to

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Speaker 2: When the when the off season first started, I was

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Speaker 2: What about you, Is there a name that you're identifying

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Speaker 1: Man you mentioned Steph Luca. I would have liked someone

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Speaker 1: I think Lorenzen would have fit perfect. We're seeing him

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Speaker 1: But it's just looking at the players and thinking, can

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Speaker 1: just difficult. I would say maybe another catcher would be great.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Garver again would have been great. If the Giants

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Tim Anderson, I really like a lot. I

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Speaker 2: I think they'll end up trading one pitcher. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: I figure as today, I tell you it's gonna be Cabrera,

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Speaker 2: you know, I love having him down on the team.

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Speaker 2: You know, local, local boy dude wears the Florida Panthers

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's fun, fun to have him around.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think they'll move one arm. I think

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Speaker 2: they'll but otherwise I think they will try to keep

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I want to also get your thoughts just

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Speaker 2: The Fish right now. No, you know, they didn't replace it.

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Speaker 2: They didn't replace their home run leader. This is going

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Speaker 2: to be every full season since twenty seventeen. They have

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Speaker 2: pretty sure I'm right about that. We're just continuing that again,

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Speaker 2: the best case scenarios. I guess they're assuming that Wendell

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Speaker 2: anyone other than you or I. I guess you know,

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Speaker 2: would count, would count is improvement, but you got to

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Speaker 2: replace that. I'm solar power. I have them at seventy

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Speaker 2: four wins. You know right now, that's what I would guess.

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Speaker 2: You know, not that you know Selari's to ten win

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Speaker 2: they haven't. You know, there's not some hot shot rookie

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Speaker 2: think Burger will have a good season, but make a

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Speaker 2: There's a lot to like about the twenty twenty four Marlins,

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Speaker 2: but seventy four wins right now, I think they're out

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Speaker 2: you have that. I think Marlins fans would kill to

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Speaker 2: winning seasons in a row, make the playoffs two years

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Speaker 2: They're playing the long game when they should be kind

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Speaker 1: And oh, I would love it for the Marlins just

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Speaker 1: to potentially win the division on the last game, just

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Speaker 1: to have that that the last series and it turns

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Speaker 1: out it's a division. You know, whatever wins that gets

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Speaker 1: the division. But hopefully we see that sooner rather than

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Speaker 1: later with the Marlins and Seana. The last question I

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Speaker 2: Well, I've kind of tipped my hand a moment ago,

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Speaker 2: but I expent a big year from Jake Berger. I

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Speaker 2: think you had saw him really take a step last season,

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Speaker 2: you know, earlier in the year, and it's you know,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of better park for it. But you know,

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Speaker 2: their home runs for the White sow so then you

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Speaker 2: kept meshing home runs and he came over. But when

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Speaker 2: he came over to the Marlins, he just really started,

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Speaker 2: you're hitting the ball. He kind of changed his approach

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Speaker 2: hit over three hundred and over fifty games at Miami.

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Speaker 1: Burger extended his hit streak to six games back in

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's a three hundred hitter, but I

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Speaker 2: don't think he's I think he made real improvements, so

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Speaker 2: I kind of expect those to stay, you know, since

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Speaker 2: he since he came over, I think he could you know,

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Speaker 2: easily post you know, probably a career high or you're

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Speaker 2: thereabout your in batting average and be a thirty homer

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Speaker 2: thirty homer at least bat I'm very excited to have Berger.

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Speaker 2: You're into system and for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Sean is a quick one. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on doing this late

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Speaker 1: and night and you're welcome on any stream Jeopardy.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait, looking forward to it. Thanks for having me

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Speaker 2: go Fish