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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans, and welcome to the edition of Big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod four Thursday, March thirty first, two thousand

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Speaker 1: twenty two. And if you are to the small Pod here,

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Speaker 1: we'd like to give you all the information.

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Speaker 2: About the Marlins for that particular day all season long,

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Speaker 2: and Marlins fans, we are inching closer and closer and

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Speaker 2: closer and closer to opening day.

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Speaker 1: We are only eight days away and to the best

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Speaker 1: day of the year with baseball starts. We've had a lockout.

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Speaker 1: We have all that craziness for almost close to one

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Speaker 1: hundred days and days getting near.

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Speaker 2: But first to.

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Speaker 1: Talk about the Marlins, and we do have some topics

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Speaker 1: to discuss, and the first one to mention is the outfield.

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Speaker 1: And you might be wondering what's wrong with the outfield.

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Speaker 1: It is specifically the center field position. We have no

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Speaker 1: idea who currently is going to be our starting center fielder. Recently,

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Speaker 1: Don Nangley trotted out to the center field a few

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Speaker 1: days back. Brian Anderson. You might be wondering why Brian Anderson.

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Speaker 1: He did place left field or I should say right field,

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Speaker 1: corner outfield primarily a third baseman. I believe he is

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Speaker 1: better at third base in those corner outfields. He did

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Speaker 1: not look comfortable in center field position. He did not

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Speaker 1: look just really great. He missed tracking a baseball a

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Speaker 1: fly ball during a game. He did not look good.

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Speaker 1: He not looked comfortable. It didn't look natural. It's probably

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Speaker 1: the main word to say. He didn't look like it

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Speaker 1: was his natural position, Like he was a little a

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Speaker 1: deer at the headlights in that position. But it looks

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Speaker 1: like the center fielder would most likely be Sue Sanchez

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Speaker 1: or a vs L Garcia. I will go more with

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Speaker 1: Sanchez due to his younger, more athletic compared to a VCIL.

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Speaker 1: But I think Sanchez will be the better option, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like he will get more of the Bowlkwark defensively,

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Speaker 1: obviously offensively, it's gonna be completely different than that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a shining point for Miami, Garcia and Sanchez, Aguilar, Cooper,

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Speaker 1: so Layer even now you're in Jazz Chisholm, but we're

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Speaker 1: maybe talking about the defense. That's probably gonna be a

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Speaker 1: moot point, especially that center field position. Everything else looks

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Speaker 1: really locked up and he looks great for opening day

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Speaker 1: except center fielder, And you might be wondering you mentioned

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Speaker 1: Garcia and Sanchez and even Brian Nations, But what's with

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Speaker 1: Briandon Lacruz And thank you for asking. Briandon la Cruz

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Speaker 1: got optioned down to Triple A. Why why? Yes, he

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Speaker 1: is now a minor leaguer. They optioned him down a

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Speaker 1: few days back, and that is probably the most shocking

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Speaker 1: move so far this off season. And that's saying a

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Speaker 1: lot these moments have done and moving down Briandon la

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Speaker 1: Cruz was not on my bingo card. Seeing him get

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Speaker 1: moved down was shocking. He was really most are consistent

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Speaker 1: last season and I want to say probably sixty games

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Speaker 1: he played around there, mostly towards after the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: when the Marlins traded him from Ming Garcia. And really

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Speaker 1: looking back at the Marlins won that trade, and winning

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Speaker 1: that trade really means that the player that you got,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna play him as often as dukanis as he

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Speaker 1: won the trade, but they wanted to send him down

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Speaker 1: to Triple A. I don't get it. They're way better

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Speaker 1: play He's a way better player than most of those

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Speaker 1: guys on that roster, way better than Roman Quinn. Roman

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Speaker 1: Quinn is probably gonna make the roster now compared to

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Speaker 1: Brian de la Cruz, and that leaves me speechless. I

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Speaker 1: have no clue what is going on in that area.

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Speaker 1: Starting Roman Quinn compared to Brian de la Cruz, I

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Speaker 1: do not get that. Also, Delano to the Shields, another

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Speaker 1: player getting the nod or Brian de la Cruz. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Shields will probably be better as a bench bad

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Speaker 1: If Brian de la Cruz is there and the Shield's

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Speaker 1: on the bench, I'll be fine this Shields. It's a

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Speaker 1: very serviceable. He's a good player. I do like a

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Speaker 1: one hundred times more than Roman Quinn. I just wish

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Speaker 1: Brandon the Cruiser on this roster, I really do. There's

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Speaker 1: an expanded roster, which means you could throw in then

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Speaker 1: the cruse perfectly fine. But it looks like the Morlins

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Speaker 1: are just so keen on relievers. Kim Ang mentioned it

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Speaker 1: that now they're focusing to relievers and it looks like

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Speaker 1: they have no clue what they are doing at all.

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Speaker 1: It is crazy to even look at this roster and

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Speaker 1: look at the reliever because Sean Armstrong, Zach Popp, you

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Speaker 1: trust those guys in high leverage situations. Because the guy

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Speaker 1: I really trust out is mainly Dylan Flora and who

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Speaker 1: knows what's gonna happen to him. Richard Blayer just got

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Speaker 1: a contractor synd and he's good, but he's only a

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Speaker 1: groundball pitcher. That really leaves you Anthony Bender. Would you

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Speaker 1: trust Anthony Bender going up against once someone in the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the ninth inning, because I'm not sure there

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Speaker 1: are options for closers. But it looks like this is

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Speaker 1: what Miami is gonna be left with in terms of

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Speaker 1: the reliever role. That really hurt Miami not going after

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Speaker 1: a lever, and the reliever market was really great to stop.

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Speaker 1: You could have gotten one, could have gone two guys.

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Speaker 1: Even if you got one guy, you're probably one guy,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Janson Andrew Schaffin. God, there's so many guys out

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Speaker 1: There's anybody really cost what five six million dollars at

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Speaker 1: most ten? Kelly was sixteen. But even if it's for

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Speaker 1: a year, I'll do it. But Marlon's really wants someone

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Speaker 1: in house. That is their motive. That's their goal to

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Speaker 1: keep them in house, to spend less money as possible.

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Speaker 1: But it looks like this is your twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: Miami Marlins DLC in AAA and no closer. I'm Daniel

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