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Speaker 1: Hey, Marlins fans, Welcome to a new episode of Big

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Speaker 1: off day in a reminiscing mood. Going back to the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three team, it was really just a year

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Speaker 1: and a half ago that this odd collection of characters

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Speaker 1: did something that no Marlins team had done in twenty

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Speaker 1: years by qualifying for the playoffs at the end of

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Speaker 1: a full length season. It seems a little fluky at

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Speaker 1: the time, and I think in hindsight that has kind

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Speaker 1: of been validated by the results on the field. It

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Speaker 1: has not been that long, so many of these players

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Speaker 1: still in the primes of their careers or theoretically near

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Speaker 1: the prime of their careers, and yet their production has

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Speaker 1: gone down the drain. This group so clutch that you

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Speaker 1: remember their record in one run games. They qualified it

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Speaker 1: with the worst run differential ever for a postseason team

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Speaker 1: in MLB history. Didn't make a ton of sense that

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Speaker 1: they had a winning record, much less one enough to

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Speaker 1: get into October, but they did it. People took a

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Speaker 1: lot of pride in that it was naturally divisive when

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Speaker 1: the Marlins had a front office change that ensuing offseason

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Speaker 1: pretty promptly flung themselves into a rebuild. They didn't really

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Speaker 1: give this team a chance to show what it can

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Speaker 1: do the following year and to validate their performance. As

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Speaker 1: painful as that was in the moment, I think it

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Speaker 1: turns out it was for the best, because if you

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Speaker 1: look at where these players are in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: most of them not even with the Marlins anymore. I mean,

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Speaker 1: would that current group be all that much better than

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Speaker 1: the current rebuild that they're enduring at the big league

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Speaker 1: level In reality? Under Peter Bendix. Just as a refresher

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Speaker 1: for those watching on YouTube, they can see the names

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Speaker 1: of players that got the most plate appearances on the

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Speaker 1: Marlins that year. It is headlined by Brian Delacruz, led

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Speaker 1: the team in games and played appearances runs, vetted in

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Speaker 1: a lot of counting stats as their main left fielder

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Speaker 1: that season, followed closely by Luis a Rise in the

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Speaker 1: play parents department, a career year for a Rise, a

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Speaker 1: Marlin single season record with a three to fifty four

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Speaker 1: He was about as clutch as anybody on this team

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Speaker 1: and even provided moderate value defensively at second base. Jorge

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Speaker 1: Solaier hit thirty six bombs for that team. John Birdie

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Speaker 1: emerged as their primary shorts up down the stretch of

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Speaker 1: that season and hit better than we're accustomed to sing

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Speaker 1: from him. Hayes Susanchez prominently involved Jazz Chishom junior his

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Speaker 1: Julie Gurryell than I may have remembered at the time

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Speaker 1: as a part time first baseman DH of that group,

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Speaker 1: Jean Segura made it through about half the year as

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Speaker 1: cut by his new team. Garrett Cooper, same deal with him,

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Speaker 1: say from him. Prior to that, the catching tandem was

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Speaker 1: Nick Foortes and Jacob Stallings. Neither of them really hit

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Speaker 1: at the trade deadline. The acquisitions they made Josh Bell,

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Speaker 1: Jake Berger, those guys were crucial down the stretch of

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Speaker 1: the season to giving the Marlins a little bit more

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Speaker 1: offense and keeping them afloat. Overall, it was a below

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Speaker 1: were times where it was hard to understand exactly what

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Speaker 1: Yuri Perez emerges early on in May, called up just

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Speaker 1: not as effective down the stretch. He and Sandy both

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Speaker 1: So thank goodness for Jesus so Lozardo, Braxton Garrett. Both

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Speaker 1: his breakout season where he finally rained in those control

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Speaker 1: issues that had held him back for so long. He

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Speaker 1: Scott that year. He was terrific. Andrew Nrdi was huge

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Speaker 1: Stephen Okert, aj Puck. Puck was the one who started

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Speaker 1: be all that productive collectively in the present day. Fish

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Speaker 1: Gene Sigura, Joey Wendell seemingly are on their way into retirements,

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Speaker 1: been maybe the worst outfielder in baseball all rounds, and

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Speaker 1: so far this year. Jake Bergers just got to mooted

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Speaker 1: single year of his big league career. Jacob Stallings has

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Speaker 1: reached a new low offensively, if that was possible. John

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Speaker 1: Birdie has regressed back into a little used bench player

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Speaker 1: for the Cubs. Garrett Hampson doesn't have a single extra

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Speaker 1: the position Blair side Nick Fortes, Jesus Sanchez. They're fine.

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Speaker 1: Nick Fortes is one of three catchers on the current roster.

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Speaker 1: Hayesu Sanchez misstime due to injury, and he's off to

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Speaker 1: a slow start overall this season. His future with the

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