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Speaker 1: watching these players. And today's episode comes from James Madison University.

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Speaker 1: It is Jack Fitzpatrick from Jamius Sports News to talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about Marlon's fourth round pick, Fenwick Tremble,

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Speaker 1: not only has easily the best name and the entirety

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Speaker 1: of the draft, but with Fenwick, Jack tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit about him. What should Marlon's fans expect with him,

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Speaker 1: give us a little preview, a little outlook on him

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Speaker 1: play or a person for maybe people who didn't watch

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Speaker 1: the Monarchs last season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, and thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: Fenwick Trimble during his time at JMU was a baller.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's no really other way to say it.

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Speaker 2: Drafted what with fourth round draft pick one twenty two overall,

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Speaker 2: so not necessarily coming into it with the highest of

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Speaker 2: the majors eventually down the road, he can be a

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Speaker 2: in some sort of deal down the road. But he's

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Speaker 2: a He's a guy that came in. He can hit

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Speaker 2: for average, he can hit for power, he can get

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Speaker 2: on base. This last year in Sun Belt play only,

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Speaker 2: he slashed three eighty six, four forty four, and seven

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Speaker 2: and also have ten or more home run He had

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Speaker 2: something along those lines, and he played his best against

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Speaker 2: the best competition this year. He started the year off

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Speaker 2: Florida State, he was hitting the ball well. He had

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Speaker 2: some multi RBI games in there. So when he has

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Speaker 2: played in some of the best competition for JMU. He's

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Speaker 2: played exceptionally well. Don't look at his summer league numbers

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Speaker 2: when he played in the Valley and the Cape, those

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Speaker 2: numbers dipped a little bit. But I would chuck that

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Speaker 2: up to maybe he wasn't fully focused, you know in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with Fenwick, I want to say, maybe something that

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Speaker 1: he really improved upon. I'm looking at some of his

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Speaker 1: at it forty four strikeouts to this year twenty three

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Speaker 1: him to do that. What was it the new philosophy,

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Speaker 1: new game plan, or maybe how did you see Fenwick

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Speaker 1: just being able to cut his you know, cut his

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point.

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Speaker 2: In fifty nine strikeout as a freeman, forty four is

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Speaker 3: His walk numbers never really changed.

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Speaker 2: Though, twenty eight walks as a freshman, thirty as a sophomore,

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Speaker 2: not like he was changing his approach and became this

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Speaker 2: patient batter at the box. He wasn't gonna stand in

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Speaker 2: six or seven pitches deep. I think he just got

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Speaker 2: better barrel to bat skills this past year from a

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Speaker 2: So he's not necessarily the most patient batter, but I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for him, what do you think maybe other

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Speaker 1: Maybe his standing out point, You could say, something that

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Speaker 2: I mean, he was definitely a leader of this team

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Speaker 2: He led the team in batting average this year. He

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Speaker 2: He of course, you gotta jump the chance to go

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and with him how do you think maybe he

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he handled the big lights in a very good way.

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Speaker 2: In the NCAA Regionals, three hits against South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: The year they had hoped in the SEC, but I

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Speaker 2: In that Raleigh Regional, he went three for five with

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Speaker 3: That's three of four games you not get hit.

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Speaker 2: One of them's a multi hit game against an SEC team,

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Speaker 3: The year off was was very very good.

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Speaker 2: He played well in the Sunbelt Tournament, get JMU into

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Speaker 3: Vocal leaders of the team.

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Speaker 2: The team really rose in some big moments, taking down

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Speaker 1: And with him with Fenwick going out in being an outfielder,

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Speaker 3: I mean in the outfield, he does what he needs

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Speaker 2: It's not like he's on the hot corner making mistakes

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Speaker 2: He's very solid in the outfield this last year a

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Speaker 2: And I know that number necessarily isn't the best number

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Speaker 2: in more as a potentially right fielder or left field,

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Speaker 2: But I think he's capable, and I think his bat

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, again looking at some of his

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Speaker 1: earlier in this season. Just you know, different ways of

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Speaker 2: I think he was two to nine last summer with

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Speaker 3: So you get both of those.

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Speaker 2: little bit of pressure with that. It's also going from

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Speaker 2: then kind of understand how to play with that type

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Speaker 3: But I wouldn't say that Fewick never knew how to

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Speaker 2: Two seventy six batter as a freshman, three forty two

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Speaker 2: there's more and more opportunities with scouts looking at him

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Speaker 2: and as a three, throw an exclamation point down your

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Speaker 2: junior year three sixty nine, he had a four P

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Speaker 2: fifty two on base six thirty five slugging percentage if

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Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, all.

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Speaker 3: Of which her career highs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, to end things off, tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit your experience covering Fenwick. Maybe things you saw

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Speaker 1: from him throughout his career at JMU could be on

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Speaker 3: All things baseball.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the next Mommy Marlins pick here in the next

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Speaker 4: It's pretty exciting time, I know for a lot of

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Speaker 1: And with Fenwick, maybe give us a little bit about

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Speaker 5: Player Fenwick is.

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Speaker 4: If you ask any of his teammates at JMU, they

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Speaker 4: You know, a lot of his teammates, they don't struggle

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and with that as well, missing his offense everything

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Speaker 1: How did you see him defensively?

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Speaker 5: There was always a sense that you know, he could

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Speaker 4: And he was manning that outfield pretty well and you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, mentioning with Fenwick as well, just

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Speaker 1: things if you have any stories from your time covering

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Speaker 4: You know, I always say he's he kind of always

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Speaker 4: media after every single game, it can probably get a

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Speaker 5: But he never showed it.

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Speaker 4: Always happy to be there, happy to play baseball, didn't

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Speaker 4: you know once he was on the baseball field, that's

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Speaker 4: what he was focusing on. He wasn't going to get distracted.

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Speaker 4: And you know I always joke too, like after talking

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Speaker 4: many times I heard him refer to one of his

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Speaker 4: you know, what's going on well for you? Why are

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Speaker 4: you you know, why why were you able to go three,

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Speaker 4: four at the plate. The answer was pretty much nine

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Speaker 4: times out of ten it was, Oh, I'm just swinging

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Speaker 4: at strikes and taking balls, and it's as simple as that.

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Speaker 4: And it was always funny because it's as simple as that,

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Speaker 4: which is a weird line because you know, not all

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Speaker 4: and or hit swing at the strikes and take balls.

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Speaker 4: You know that's not simple for most of us, but

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Speaker 4: he made it look pretty easy and kind of always

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Speaker 4: had that mindset of though, it's I'm not doing anything

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Speaker 1: Well, Katie, I appreciate your time and work with these Marmons.

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Speaker 1: Fans find you on Twitter podcast where can they find

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Speaker 1: you on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to keep up to date on any

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Speaker 4: more Jami baseball and any more prospects that may come out.

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Speaker 4: And I'm on Twitter at Katie Harper and it's Katie

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Speaker 4: with the c If any of them find me, I

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Speaker 4: promise I won't tweet too much about the Phillies. I

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Speaker 4: did almost accidentally wear a Phillies had on this podcast

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Speaker 4: today and I quickly took it off.

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Speaker 5: So but that's that's where I am. It's okay.

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Speaker 1: Another person I interviewed told me they almost wore braves,

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Speaker 1: you know, braves jersey to the to the podcast. So

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Speaker 1: it's you're but I appreciate it. Okay, have a go on.

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