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Speaker 1: All right, fish and filtered, We're back first in person podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today we have Joey Wendall of the Miami Marlins. Joey,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time. Nice you gonna

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Speaker 1: let you take it away.

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Speaker 2: I guess we can start with recency bias here. You

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Speaker 2: guys just came back from Atlanta started facing the Cardinals,

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Speaker 2: and that first game in particular, I thought it was

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Speaker 2: interesting that Miles Michaelis was really able to show you

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Speaker 2: guys down for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: What made him so tough to face? And after the

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Speaker 3: first inning.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I mean I feel like we did a

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Speaker 4: really good job in the first inning kind of getting

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Speaker 4: to him, you know, executing, getting getting those two runs across.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean I think he did a good

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Speaker 4: job just kind of keeping us off balance. Knew that

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Speaker 4: coming in he wasn't a guy with overpowering stuff. He

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Speaker 4: was kind of a unique guy who was gonna locate well,

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Speaker 4: kind of keep you off balance, you know. But I

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Speaker 4: feel like we did a good job competing, and then

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Speaker 4: you know, we got him for a couple more there.

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Speaker 5: Excuse me. At the end, I think too.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if those runs are on him or not,

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Speaker 4: but I know, we we started a little something while

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Speaker 4: he was still in the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously the moment of that game was when Andre

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Speaker 2: Balante came in the big pinch a by Yuli Guriel.

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Speaker 3: Were you as surprised as we all were when that

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Speaker 3: pinch that move was made?

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Speaker 5: Not at all? Actually everything's just that.

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Speaker 1: But who don't want to time fine?

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Speaker 6: Here into the corner, one.

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Speaker 2: Run is home.

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Speaker 3: Here comes the.

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Speaker 6: Second FROs is not made? Any Ulie Corriel times up?

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Speaker 4: He he said, Hey, Polante's you know, a pretty severe

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Speaker 4: reverse split guy, meaning that he gets left, he's out

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Speaker 4: at a much better clip than he gets right.

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Speaker 5: He's out.

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Speaker 4: So so I had an idea that might be coming.

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Speaker 5: Obviously in that moment, you want the.

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Speaker 4: Ad bat but but you know, we pass the baton

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Speaker 4: and obviously it was the right move.

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Speaker 3: And the series before that, you know, it was a

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Speaker 3: really tough three games in the Peach State. IM just curious.

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Speaker 2: You know you're gonna have to face this team again,

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Speaker 2: maybe sometime in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: What do you think you guys have to do together

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Speaker 3: better them?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean that team is unbelievably hot. You know,

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Speaker 4: I think even before we rolled in and a couple

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Speaker 4: of games after we rolled out. I mean, there wasn't

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Speaker 4: a lot of pitchers who were able to stop them

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Speaker 4: just from scoring tons and tons of runs, you know,

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Speaker 4: so so obviously to combat that, you know, you know,

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Speaker 4: try to outslug them, you know, to to some degree.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, I really do I trust our

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Speaker 4: pitching staff and pretty much every situation against every team.

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Speaker 4: You know that that three game series didn't turn out

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Speaker 4: the way that we that we wanted it to, but

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Speaker 4: you know, I would take our our staff at any time.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I think, you know, if we want

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Speaker 4: to beat that team, we're gonna have to play well.

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Speaker 4: Like there's no cigaret. That's a really good team.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: I think if you if you were to look at

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Speaker 4: play our very best game. Obviously, they're really, really talented.

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Speaker 4: I think I saw something, you know, during their current stretch.

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Speaker 4: They have a team ops.

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Speaker 5: Of almost like a thousand.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's it's it's you know, that's that's stuff

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Speaker 5: It's it's just wild. One through nine.

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Speaker 4: They're very solid so in order to beat that team,

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Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna have to play our best baseball.

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Speaker 1: So just just going right, you know, from start to

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Speaker 1: finish in your career for now, just Cleveland. You got

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Speaker 1: drafted there, Just what was that like?

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Speaker 5: And then obviously get traded to Tampa.

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Speaker 1: So how did you receive the news? Was a little

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Speaker 1: shocking to you?

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Speaker 5: Sure?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, uh so I got drafted. I was

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Speaker 4: I didn't really know anything about professional baseball. I get,

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Speaker 5: You know, I didn't I didn't know any better.

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Speaker 4: But looking back, I can now see that, you know,

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Speaker 4: that was just a top notch organization.

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Speaker 5: They really do things the right way.

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Speaker 4: You know, they annually have one of the lower budgets

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Speaker 4: and have one of the better teams. So I think

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Speaker 4: that kind of speaks to that. So I got traded

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Speaker 4: from them in the.

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Speaker 5: Off season to I think it was Oakland.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, winter of fourteen going into fifteen, and then I

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Speaker 5: Within that organization. You know, thankful for my time there.

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Speaker 4: I got to play in in Nashville for three years,

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Speaker 4: which is, you know, a great place to play baseball,

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Speaker 5: And just enjoy you know, the minor leagues. And I did.

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Speaker 5: I really enjoyed my time there.

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Speaker 4: I was thankful, and I got my first opportunity in

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Speaker 4: one hundred at bats, play almost every day in September

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Speaker 4: actually in Mexico. So we were actually talking about Mexico,

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Speaker 4: it after a full season, and I went back and

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Speaker 4: I calculated, I think I had close to eight hundred

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Speaker 4: remember being pretty beat up after that season, there was

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Speaker 5: Of the the.

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Speaker 4: The winter ball season where I I didn't continue my

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Speaker 1: So what was Winnerball like?

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Speaker 5: It was a great experience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's you know, up until then, I had

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think in my head I went down

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Speaker 5: there and it was, you know, I'm I'm always competitive.

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Speaker 4: Any team that I'm gonna play on, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 4: of work on some things that I had struggled with,

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Speaker 5: Come February and March when we're in spring training.

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Speaker 4: But it was clear, right, you know that that winning

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Speaker 4: and I like that.

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Speaker 5: I appreciated that.

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Speaker 4: You know, my teammates all played hard, and you know,

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Speaker 5: You know, it's like it's just expectation, was just that

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Speaker 5: I think that was a good experience for me.

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Speaker 1: So you get to Oakland and you you basically just

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Speaker 1: have success right away. What was the biggest adjustment from

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Speaker 1: Is the hight level with baseball?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, I spend a lot of

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Speaker 4: I think I probably still have more played appearances in

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Speaker 4: three full years and in Triple A, and you know,

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Speaker 4: I never you know, I felt like my time with

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Speaker 5: You know, I never like knocked down the door to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt like, you know, I played solid enough

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Speaker 4: And at first, you know, the game is really fast,

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Speaker 4: thankful that that Tampa Bay gave me that opportunity. You know,

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Speaker 4: You know, that was I don't want to say the

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Speaker 5: My reputation, right, So just why no batting gloves? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: You know. I feel like if I have my helmet.

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Speaker 3: You got the back pocket.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I just like it better with them, all right,

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Speaker 5: Oh man hype man Archie Bradley when he was with

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Speaker 4: with some of my best friends in twenty twelve, getting drafted.

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Speaker 5: First time, going to the playoffs, being in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: much for the time. We appreciate that, of course.

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