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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Big Fish, Small Pod. I'm Andrew Dahal

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Speaker 1: and today is July twenty second. Today the Marlins are

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Speaker 1: facing the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pennsylvania, so game will start

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Speaker 1: at seven oh five. Braxton Garrett is set to get

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Speaker 1: the ball for the Fish. And this is Big Fish,

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Speaker 1: Small Pod. So what I wanted to do is to

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Speaker 1: just take a look at some of what's been happening

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Speaker 1: now lately right here we are for this Marlins team.

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Speaker 1: And what really like stood out to me today is

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Speaker 1: how this Marlins offense just isn't quite getting off the ground,

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Speaker 1: seemingly like not even getting into the game of the game,

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Speaker 1: if you will. I'll get more into that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: But I also took a look at the minor league

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Speaker 1: system just to take a peek at who might be

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Speaker 1: deserving of a promotion down those levels. And really what

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Speaker 1: caught my eye like quickly about this Marlin's minor league

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Speaker 1: system is how like competitive this Dominican Summer League teams,

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Speaker 1: these two Marlin Dominican Summer League team both like sitting

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Speaker 1: around five hundred with about like thirty games played here

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Speaker 1: there pretty like substantially interesting. So, like the Marlins took

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Speaker 1: a really interesting approach. This past year, they added a

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Speaker 1: Dominican Summer League team. Now they're up to two total,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty like par for the course in the majors.

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Speaker 1: Not everyone does that, but like I said, like part

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Speaker 1: for the course, and they're like still staying quite competitive

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Speaker 1: as a team. Some real lake standouts to by the way,

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Speaker 1: there's like quite a few like seventeen year olds on

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Speaker 1: these teams, like batting with like an over eight hundred

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Speaker 1: ops on either end. Really like both teams themselves are

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Speaker 1: like staying in at a competitive level with their peers.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins signed literally sixty players internationally using their budget

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Speaker 1: for that, going that sort of unweaducks route. Typically you

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Speaker 1: might see a team spend like all five million dollars

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Speaker 1: on like a player two or three, just trying to

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Speaker 1: like maximize that like single talented player like get like

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Speaker 1: dollar for like premium talent. The Marlins went like a

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Speaker 1: real like bulk approach. And as much as like I

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Speaker 1: want to be like pushing for uh these guys to

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Speaker 1: like get through the minor league system, it seems like

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Speaker 1: there's just like a good thing going on in the minnican,

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Speaker 1: So it's hard to get too invested in these young

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Speaker 1: teenagers in the Dominican Summer League that are still like

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Speaker 1: you know, getting their first work in really in professional baseball.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's something to look forward to. But

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Speaker 1: what I really want to talk about today is how

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Speaker 1: this Marlin's offense isn't quite letting itself get as like

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Speaker 1: sturdy and strong as it needs to be to be

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Speaker 1: in the game. What really stood out to me from

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Speaker 1: this game against the Rangers, really, like Eli Sussman I

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Speaker 1: pointed out on Twitter in a way that I've been

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Speaker 1: able to watch hundreds of times, Jesus Sanchez facing John

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Speaker 1: Gray taking a slider right down the middle and really

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Speaker 1: like letting loose this like this island swing, meaning like

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Speaker 1: really disjointed swing from like head to toe. He seems

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Speaker 1: to like get ready for a pitch, almost like leg

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Speaker 1: kick jumping on a fastball and then seemingly readying to

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Speaker 1: reach a little bit too far out for the pitch

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Speaker 1: and getting really fooled on an eighty five mile an

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Speaker 1: hour slider which he like adjusts tries to get he

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Speaker 1: does like we clip it off and he fouls it

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Speaker 1: back to the netting, but it takes him to his

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Speaker 1: knees another foul ball, and that's not your typical two

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Speaker 1: strike swing. Mark macklamore from Sanchez and walking to twenty

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Speaker 1: and twenty two baseball, And it's not an overwhelming pitch really,

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Speaker 1: it's just a foolish moment, if you will it totally.

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Speaker 1: Like taking Jesus Sanchez as like like a development example

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Speaker 1: isn't quite what you should do with him for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: Like clearly he's not like a like a finished product

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Speaker 1: of their He's not like indicative of their like developmental capabilities.

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Speaker 1: As he came over after like quite a few years

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Speaker 1: in the minors in that trade with the Tampa Bay Rays,

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Speaker 1: so he was brought in as like a very like

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Speaker 1: tooled up outfielder, obviously a very strong player physically strong

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Speaker 1: physically like imposing presence too, with that like ideal build

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Speaker 1: for your power, like I mean compare him to like

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Speaker 1: Jorge Seilaire. On the other side, it's pretty identical what

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Speaker 1: they do and what they try to do as far

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Speaker 1: can as far as they can fairly like not holistic

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Speaker 1: approach to hitting typically even like specifically looking at these

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Speaker 1: Marlin's sluggers. What you see is them often focusing on

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Speaker 1: like in the ball out of the ballpark. Like Tommy

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Speaker 1: Hutton in response to Eli on Twitter did like point

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Speaker 1: out that, like, if you're only thinking about launch angle

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Speaker 1: and exit velo and you keep swinging from your ass,

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Speaker 1: you'll never hit that pitch. Talking about that Jesus Sanchez

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Speaker 1: of I want to call it a gopher against that

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't quite attuned to what was coming out

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Speaker 1: of the hand of the pitcher. And John Gray is

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Speaker 1: a great pitcher. Now he's not like Sandy, he's not

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Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, he's not your like star pitcher, but he

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Speaker 1: is certainly a proven solid starter over years in the

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Speaker 1: major leagues, bringing really like a lot of consistency to

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Speaker 1: with him. He'll give a hitter different looks and I

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Speaker 1: mean make him look foolish. That's the why he's been

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Speaker 1: good for as long as he's been good. But he's

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Speaker 1: not one of those overwhelming types of starters physically a

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Speaker 1: major leaguer should be getting there, except for the fact

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Speaker 1: with the Marlins that they just haven't quite been there

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Speaker 1: on pitches like that. I mean nine games that a

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Speaker 1: home run certainly is a bit doom sounding, but it's

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Speaker 1: not like that's all that. I mean, certainly they will

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Speaker 1: hit a home run at some point soon, knock on

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Speaker 1: would It's that, as Aaron Lightton pointed out, a lack

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Speaker 1: of repeatability in the swing, that Jesus Sanchez is showing

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Speaker 1: he's not quite there. He's this tooled out outfielder who's

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Speaker 1: tried to develop as a hitter and try to like

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Speaker 1: develop that consistency of his swing that some players do

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Speaker 1: have in the major leagues. It's certainly a credit to

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Speaker 1: his talent that he could be a better hitter than

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Speaker 1: those hitters in like a like a productive sort of sense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you could say that Jesus Sanchez

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Speaker 1: wouldever be a better quote hitter then Luis Rise of

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Speaker 1: the Twins, but it certainly is the truth that Jesus

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Speaker 1: Sanchez could hit for more power than Luis Arise of

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Speaker 1: the Twins. With Jyzeus, it's tough to see him like

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Speaker 1: day in and day out right now when he seems

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Speaker 1: to be somewhat lost of the plate. Not because he's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily seen it, but because he's like mechanics and

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Speaker 1: his vision aren't there in tandem. It's a process to

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Speaker 1: develop as a hitter, and he hasn't really shown the

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Speaker 1: polish that you see with the pressure from the opponents,

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Speaker 1: and obviously it is something of an unrelenting season that

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Speaker 1: goes on forever and takes one hundred and sixty two games.

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Speaker 1: So it's not that you can say that he's like

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Speaker 1: an objectively like a bad player so much as he's

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Speaker 1: clearly behind it right now. Someone who looks a little

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Speaker 1: bit better in a similar role as Hazus Sanches is

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Speaker 1: Jorge Solaire, who does go to the plate and takes

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Speaker 1: his swings at least like he's there making like three

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Speaker 1: hacks at like seemingly minimum, and they all seem to

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Speaker 1: have a chance to go out of the park should

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Speaker 1: the contact be there. It's a dangerous way to like hit.

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Speaker 1: There's obviously like a risk to the way that these

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Speaker 1: like sluggers that are going for a pole hit they

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Speaker 1: like contact the ball potentially later in the zone and

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Speaker 1: don't really give yourself the ability to hit the ball

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Speaker 1: the opposite way unless you're doing one of those Jesus

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Speaker 1: agular sort of like get that ball out of here,

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Speaker 1: sort of like foul ball moments, and you see a

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Speaker 1: much more like upfront contact point with someone like Luis

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Speaker 1: a Rise with that like spray type action. It's a

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Speaker 1: tough spot to be with miamiwhere it feels like you

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Speaker 1: have like five sort of risky sluggers at the plate

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Speaker 1: on any given day. But anyway, I feel like I

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Speaker 1: see some struggling here, so I figured give it some air.

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Speaker 1: We know the Marlins are looking at a trade deadline

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Speaker 1: coming up and potentially something of a reset, whatever that

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Speaker 1: means for now. I'd also like to say that Zach Zubia,

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Speaker 1: playing now for Jupiter twentieth round pick last year, performing

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Speaker 1: well on base percentage over four hundred seven home runs

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Speaker 1: and like two hundred seventeen at bats before the Hammerheads

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Speaker 1: shown some power. Getting on base at like a tremendous

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Speaker 1: clip sixty two walks to seventy four strikeouts really does

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Speaker 1: seem to be like forcing the count in a way

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Speaker 1: that like you'd really hope from like a six' four. Slugger,

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Speaker 1: TOTALLY i recommend taking it easy as a fan this

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Speaker 1: weekend at taking it easy as a team as, well

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Speaker 1: important dates are on the, horizon And i'm personally not

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Speaker 1: going to really feel in a particular way about this

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Speaker 1: team and like which way to go until at least

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Speaker 1: every starting pitcher has had a chance to go for

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Speaker 1: the rotation Post All star. Break so, anyhow for, Now

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Speaker 1: i've been To Andrew riddall. Game tonight is at seven

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Speaker 1: oh Five Braxton garrett facing The Pittsburgh. Pirates, Myself i'll

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Speaker 1: be In jacksonville Tonight Jesus lozarda going four innings four

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Speaker 1: The Jamba. Shrimp Will Edward cabrera also goes for The

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Speaker 1: Pensacola Blue. Wahoos but, anyhow talk to you next. Week

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Speaker 1: thanks for, listening And i'll be with you On. Wednesday