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Speaker 1: This is earning their Stripes, our show on the Fish

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Speaker 1: Stripes podcast dedicated specifically to Miami Marlins prospects. I'm Eli Susman,

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Speaker 1: the Fish Stripes managing editor, and I think we have

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Speaker 1: a fascinating, feel good conversation on deck. A reminder as

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Speaker 1: Each of those that we receive through the end of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one MLB season, we're almost there, but

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Speaker 1: A general outline for this episode of ETS, I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about one hour talking about the gorgeous fish on

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Speaker 1: the Farm rebrands that went into effect this week, and

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Speaker 1: maybe at the end a couple of minutes at the

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Speaker 1: end talking about actual prospects in the organization. How does

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Speaker 1: that sound to you, Alex.

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Speaker 2: Man, That sounds amazing.

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Speaker 3: I could talk about this for a long time because

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Speaker 3: alijandro Man shouts out to Alejandro Aras as he did amazing,

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Speaker 3: amazing work for us. Can thank him enough for everything

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Speaker 3: that he did, absolute master at his craft, and that's

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Speaker 3: why I asked for his help and it was kind

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Speaker 3: enough to do so. So yeah, I mean it looks great.

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Speaker 3: I'm really excited about it. So but yeah, it looks awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for showing it off for us, and thanks for

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Speaker 3: having me and Daniel and I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks you guys for joining me under these very

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Speaker 1: unique circumstances. As people might be hearing in the background,

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Speaker 1: I have some company at home. I won't go into

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Speaker 1: any more details on that, but that, of course is

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Speaker 1: Fish on the Farms Alex Carver. He's here with me

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Speaker 1: to go through these breakoup prospects, and so is Daniel Devivo.

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Speaker 1: Together they co host the Swimming Upstream podcast part of

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Speaker 1: Fish on the Farm, which should be available to you

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Speaker 1: wherever you're listening to us right now, So to subscribe

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Speaker 1: to that rate and review that. Nobody on the planet

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Speaker 1: does more to monitor and contextualize the state of the

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Speaker 1: farm system for Marlins fans than these two guys right here,

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Speaker 1: So thank you for taking the time for me. Daniel.

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Speaker 4: Hey, hey, Eli, No, thank you for inviting us. We're

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Speaker 4: absolutely happy to talk baseball and prospects.

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Speaker 2: With you.

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Speaker 4: It's really exciting. It's still I mean, Marlin's farm system

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Speaker 4: is still one of the best out there. So absolutely,

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Speaker 4: as I mentioned, excited to be here, and.

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Speaker 1: We're going to keep it with Daniel right off the top.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be pretty informal as we just

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Speaker 1: go through all these guys that we feel pretty significantly

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Speaker 1: showed ustuff we didn't already know. We're stuff that we

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Speaker 1: boyd for this entire theme of this episode would have

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Speaker 1: to be Urie Perez the right hand, a pitcher who

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Speaker 1: it over to you, Daniel about everything that we should

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Speaker 4: If listeners right now have ever heard any episode listening

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Speaker 4: My quick story with him is that I was, you know,

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Speaker 4: right there. But but yeah, I'm definitely a Notty Betters fanboy.

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Speaker 4: And if you didn't know about him, please please read

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Speaker 1: My favorite stat that I only just noticed today his

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Speaker 4: But he's never pitched over I think it's five innings.

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Speaker 1: And what do we think they do with him, like

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Speaker 1: I would guess things like reports the high A initially

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is the guy who has not

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Speaker 3: The the effort is just about the same on all

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Speaker 2: Handled the jump up to single advanced very well. I

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Speaker 3: I think he starts there again this coming season, jump

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Speaker 4: Let's let him meet Sandy. When he meets Sandy l Gant,

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Speaker 4: I really show him how to get ground balls. I

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Speaker 4: was looking at the exact number here, twelve point fifty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't want to be the prospect that follows

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Speaker 4: I know who Alex has. Come on, Alex, give us

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Speaker 1: What do you think of his defense? Does he really

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Speaker 3: It just it probably just didn't live up to what

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Speaker 4: So I really like him, but it does look like

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Speaker 3: And he's numbers sustained to bring it up. These numbers sustained,

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Speaker 2: It was across two levels. Of course, he started in Jupiter,

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Speaker 3: We all know that, and he made it up to

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Speaker 2: I think that speaks to his durability. Man.

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Speaker 3: I think the guy's going to be really good. Definitely

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Speaker 2: But I like this kid, man. I think you could

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Speaker 4: Do you guys say he's a top thirty right now

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Speaker 1: For me, yeah, on my personal list, I have him.

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Speaker 1: I could tell you exactly where.

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Speaker 1: I have him number twenty nine at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: Our end of season update that me and Daniel are

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Speaker 2: But we'll make that update.

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Speaker 1: We are talking about breakout prospects and the Marlins organization

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Speaker 1: this year with Alex Carver and Daniel ta Vivo, and

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Speaker 1: I know that he has the blessing of jazz, Jazz

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Speaker 1: when you really want to nitpick it, you look at

438
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 1: the defensive usage and you see that he barely played

439
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 1: any shortstop at all, like they were playing not just

440
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: Jose Salas at shortstop ahead of him, but also Khalil

441
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,360
Speaker 1: Watson and also Jordan mccantz and even other guys as well.

442
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: That they he got pushed to second base in favor

443
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,360
Speaker 1: of those guys, which I think is I wouldn't say

444
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: it's a red flag because you could still be plenty

445
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,400
Speaker 1: impactful as a player if you're like second base only

446
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 1: but just seeing that usage, I don't think it's a coincidence,

447
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,439
Speaker 1: and it could be just, you know, a pretty firm

448
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 1: statement by the organization that they want him to just

449
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 1: focus on that one spot. So I guess that's one

450
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,479
Speaker 1: other thing that stood out for me.

451
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, he got more third base innings and shortstop innings,

452
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 4: so you're right.

453
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, just talk about numbers.

454
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 3: I mean the FCL and these lower levels. They have

455
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 3: so many players at these levels, especially with middle infield,

456
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 3: and the guy got into forty three games.

457
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 2: It was one hundred and forty nine at bats.

458
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 3: I'm against the stats right now, and man, we're talking

459
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,680
Speaker 3: about the lack of power, but he showed it a

460
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 3: little bit.

461
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 2: I mean ten doubles, five triples, three homers he hit.

462
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 3: Three zero two, three fifty four four ninety seven. Stolen

463
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 3: bases were there with nine, So yeah, I mean numbers across.

464
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: The board for that guy.

465
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 3: And he's still even though it's FCL, he's playing against

466
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 3: guys that are on average, just about two years younger

467
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 3: than him. He's an eighteen year old kid playing against

468
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 3: mostly twenty year old guys. So definitely a good first

469
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 3: showing for sure for Lewis and Man that would look

470
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 3: good for my I know he did your your your

471
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 3: dream team drafts, you know a little while back in life.

472
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 3: That would look good for my picks because I had

473
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 3: both Jazz and Ian Lewis. So it would be nice

474
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens.

475
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: M h what was Oh? Yeah, So for him, the

476
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: next step is pretty straightforward, you'd think, right, he starts

477
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: next year in Jupiter probably is their main second basement.

478
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: We'll see exactly, but but definitely just you know, bump

479
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: him up a level.

480
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And he he was in my list. He

481
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,679
Speaker 4: was like neck and neck with with another kid called

482
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 4: Junior Sanchez who was drafted same season. It was Hostly

483
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 4: Solids and then Junior Sanchez Ian Lewis pretty much give

484
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 4: him the same bonus and then you know Awodie Pettis

485
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 4: and others. I mean that was a good that was

486
00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 4: a good year. And Junior sound he was injured this

487
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 4: whole year, so he absolutely went, you know the other direction.

488
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 4: But Ian Lewis is in my top thirty, like probably

489
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 4: closer to twenty than to thirty because he projects to

490
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 4: be a really good player.

491
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: I remember seeing I think the guys that prospects live

492
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: are really high on him. They had him like fourteen

493
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: or something on their Marlin's Top thirty list. So that'll

494
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 1: be inturiging to see what we want to move a

495
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: little bit more quickly. I guess with these remaining guys

496
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: back over to alex with with any other other breakout

497
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: prospects that you want to highlight here.

498
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many, and I could go one

499
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 3: of two ways here. I could go either draft or

500
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 3: I can go with an international guy. But I'll give

501
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 3: you an international guy because I think this guy has

502
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 3: been so good at such a young age, you know,

503
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 3: from the positional standpoint, maybe not as far away from

504
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 3: Yuri and what he was able he has been able

505
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 3: to do at such a young age. But Kevin Guerrero,

506
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 3: Kevin Guerrero DSL guy, he was in this year's international

507
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 3: class or this past year's international class. I should say,

508
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 3: and man thirty six games DSL. Look at the numbers,

509
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 3: I mean two eighty one, three ninety three, twenty two

510
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 3: twelve steels, thirty thirty to twenty one strike out to

511
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 3: walks ratio not many homers, but seventeen. So body's gonna

512
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 3: come along. That's gonna happen, so let's just wait for that.

513
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 3: But man, just just number numbers alone really jumps out

514
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 3: to you as a guy that could definitely be an

515
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 3: impact player, and I think could be in doing it

516
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 3: at such a young age seventeen years old.

517
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 2: So I don't have the signing bonus in front of me.

518
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 3: Daniel probably can tell you that he's better with that

519
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 3: stuff than me, and looking up these signing bonus is

520
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 3: I think it was kind of substantial, if I'm not

521
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: mistaken just looking back at my history. But yeah, I

522
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 3: mean really really, really good so far, and I'm excited

523
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 3: to see how those numbers translate when he makes the

524
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 3: state side.

525
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 2: We'll see if that happens next year.

526
00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 3: I don't know if it will still such a young dude, right,

527
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 3: I mean born in April, so he will be eighteen

528
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 3: by the start of next year. Obviously a short season,

529
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 3: so we'll see. I mean, I think it definitely could happen.

530
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 3: But a guy that has made it happen for sure,

531
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 3: I mean in his first season pro as seventeen, So

532
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 3: you're excited to see stuff like that.

533
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely not one of those this random guys who

534
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 4: had a good season. You're like, oh, who is this guy.

535
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 4: You know they got him for ten thousand, now, not

536
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 4: at all. He was given the third highest bonus in

537
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 4: the last international signing period at at six hundred thousand,

538
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 4: only behind Yudi Cape and Ronald Hernandez the catcher. So

539
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 4: I mean high pedigree. He has a high pedigree, he

540
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 4: has the tools. He's I mean, obviously just like you

541
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 4: would like to see more power, but very young and

542
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,679
Speaker 4: very projectable to grow into at six three and one

543
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty five pounds, So sky's a limit for

544
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 4: this kid as well. I just like you, I do

545
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 4: see him. Why not, right? They put eighteen year old

546
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 4: Aodie Petties in Loway, they can put eighteen year old

547
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 4: Kevin Gerero at least Complex League, Yeah.

548
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: At the very least. I think he comes over to

549
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: the US and maybe he starts, and he probably starts

550
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: in extended spring training. Then they figure out exactly when

551
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: to move him or exactly how to go from there.

552
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: But I'm surprised that we made it this far and

553
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: his name didn't come up already. So I'm gonna bring

554
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: up myself with left hander Antonio Vallez, who it took

555
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: me a little bit a little while to actually focus

556
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: on him and to take him seriously, to be honest,

557
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: because undrafted free agent in twenty twenty, which is misleading

558
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: because that was a very short draft. It was only

559
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: five round draft. Certainly in forty round system, you know,

560
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: twenty round setup, he would have been selected somewhere. So

561
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: it's just unfortunate for him, I guess, to not have

562
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: that moment, but he didn't really let it, you know,

563
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: weigh him down. With the year that he had. He

564
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: performance wise, it is right there with kind of the

565
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: top of all pitching prospects in this organization for someone

566
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: that he started at at Boloites and then went up

567
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: to Pensacola and the performance improved after he made that jump. Daniel,

568
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: you could take it from there on anything specifically about

569
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: be Lez that explains like how he did this, how

570
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: he uh what ninety nine innings of a two point

571
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: five to five e er this year.

572
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 4: I'm I'm you know, I'm with you. You know, I was

573
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 4: pretty reluctant. I wasn't going to say is a word

574
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 4: because you know, like you look at him, you look

575
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 4: at this stuff. It's nothing crazy, but you know, they

576
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 4: he started as a reliever and they gave him the

577
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 4: ball to start, and he just never gave it back.

578
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 4: You know, there's several guys out there who got the

579
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 4: chance to do it but didn't do too well. He

580
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 4: never he never gave it back. And and you know, and

581
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 4: again his stuff isn't crazy like his kper nine it's

582
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 4: that around eight point fifty, but I mean the whip

583
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 4: he's not. He's not getting hit. He's not getting hit

584
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 4: hard either. And then to make that jump to double

585
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 4: a and and and get better, you know, double is

586
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 4: not an easy level. He increased his kper nine era

587
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 4: of zero point fifty. That I mean that sounds good,

588
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 4: right and uh uh again, just he lowered his average

589
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,719
Speaker 4: against so all good signs we made. We did that

590
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 4: Meisner interview, and but we I asked him, like, who's

591
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 4: some like he named some pictures who have impressed you

592
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 4: and he's like, oh yeah, A V A V. I'm like,

593
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 4: A V A V. Who's eavy. It's Antonio Bellas. I

594
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 4: mean he's impressing his teammates. So we definitely he definitely

595
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 4: needed to be, you know, mentioned here because his season

596
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 4: was amazing, amazing.

597
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: I mean, some people are familiar with him from college.

598
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: He would did go to Florida State, and he did

599
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: pitch a couple of big games over there. But I

600
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: wanted to get some clarification from Alex on his stuff

601
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: because there were times I feel like you were trying

602
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: to hype him up a little bit as a prospect,

603
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: mentioning that he was touching the mid nineties with his fastball.

604
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: Is that it give us like a realistic idea of

605
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: what his stuff is.

606
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean from what I see and what I

607
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 3: hear on broadcast and everything else where, people are calling

608
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 3: out stacks up, particularly while he was with Double A

609
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 3: and we.

610
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: Heard Chris stragioa. I'm calling out his numbers.

611
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 3: He's like ninety three, ninety five, and he can go

612
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 3: a little higher with the fastball.

613
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 2: The slider I think is pretty good. It's not really.

614
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 3: Wipe out as Daniel was mentioning, I don't really think

615
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 3: he has that like true K pitch, right. I think

616
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 3: that's kind of what's limited his in terms of strikeouts.

617
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 3: But man, fastball sider combok's good. He's starting to really

618
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: feel out a change up. I think I think that's

619
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 3: kind of been a big difference for him. I say

620
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 3: that about a lot of prospects but it's always the

621
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 3: third pitch to come along, and for him, I think

622
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 3: it's come along pretty well. Good guy, man, I mean

623
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 3: I think he could be good in terms of the

624
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 3: back end starter at the very least. I definitely think

625
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 3: he has a four as a reliever from the left side.

626
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 3: So man, really good. I've really liked everything that I've

627
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 3: seen from him. Control looks really good. You know, can

628
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 3: get over the plate a little bit at times, and

629
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 3: that's when upper level heading is going to hit him

630
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 3: probably harder. We'll probably see that next year. There's only

631
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 3: eighteen innings at double A. Was really good, but I

632
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 3: think we got to see more of an extended stint

633
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 3: at the upper miners before we really say, okay, we're

634
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 3: we're buying into this guy's ceilings as an as a

635
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 3: as a starter.

636
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: But I think the ceiling is there for sure, just

637
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: based off what he showed this year.

638
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 3: Really good undrafted guy as you mentioned in the short draft,

639
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 3: and the Marlins did it again this year with other guys,

640
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: even in a longer draft. So a credit to DJ

641
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 3: and everybody for going out and finding these guys after

642
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: either a short draft or a long draft, masters of

643
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 3: what they do and it's exciting to see.

644
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 2: I really like Antonio. I think it's gonna be good.

645
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: I guess related to that because the same year entering

646
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: the organization, I did want to mention Jake Eder, who

647
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: instantaneously kind of like emerged as somebody that was so

648
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: much better than anybody had believed to be. He was drafted,

649
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: but he fell all the way to the fourth rounds.

650
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: He felt outside the top one hundred overall picks, and

651
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: so he's not top of mind at the moment because,

652
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: you know, spoiler alert, he underwent Tommy John surgery a

653
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: few weeks ago that will keep him out all of

654
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: next year. But man, he was I think he's even

655
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: though he didn't even make it, he didn't even need

656
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: the whole season to break out. He was a guy

657
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: that was appearing on top one hundred lists even before

658
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: the season was over. Of course, he got that big

659
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: recognition as being invited to the Futures Game alongside Max Meyer.

660
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: Those were the two reps in the Marlins organization this year.

661
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: Meyer the first round draft pick, and then Eater being

662
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,239
Speaker 1: the guy that I think people had concerns about his

663
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: consistency and his commands and a lot of concerns just

664
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: about his performance in college, which was very uneven, and

665
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: yet he comes out, he gets the initial assignment to

666
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: double A and his numbers were I mean, they were

667
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: even better than Valez's were, and they came with more dominance.

668
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: They came with more swing and miss stuff as well.

669
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: They came with dominance, especially against fellow lefties. I think

670
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: he held lefties to like a one hundred batting average

671
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: this year as well, So that I didn't want to

672
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: spend too much time on him just because he's kind

673
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: of on ice for a year, unlike any of these

674
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: other guys, but certainly someone that that was a great

675
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: story for this organization until you know, that's just what

676
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,959
Speaker 1: pitching is. Sometimes it can happen to anybody. It can

677
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: happen at any time when it just blows out and

678
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: you don't know exactly what the next steps are. But optimistic,

679
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: I guess that with time they'll come back to being

680
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: the guy that he was early on in the season.

681
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, And of course, I mean I hadn't mentioned him

682
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 4: before because he's not really a guy who was out

683
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 4: of the top thirty and made that much a big

684
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 4: jump to me, he made a big jump from like

685
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 4: twenty to five or six. Right, he was already a

686
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 4: relatively top prospect, not as high as we thought, you know,

687
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 4: as he ended up being sorry, but I mean he

688
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 4: had to talk about his season is it's just crazy.

689
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 4: I mean, he got that twelve point fifty k per nine,

690
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 4: you have a two point forty eight FIP, which is

691
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 4: just crazy good and backs up his one point seventy

692
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 4: seventy ARRA. But apart from all of that, a fifty

693
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 4: point three ground ball percentage, so he also keeps the

694
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 4: ball on the ground. I mean, he is so so

695
00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:00,959
Speaker 4: good that that breaking ball is just nasty. It's it's

696
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 4: so nasty. And after that futures game, I don't know

697
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 4: what happened, but he just randomly they only started having

698
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 4: they were only giving him three innings, and they did

699
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 4: that for like three outings or he just pitched three innings.

700
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 4: It was so weird. I remember, why did he pitch

701
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 4: three innings? That's sixty sixty you know, uh pitches. And

702
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 4: and after that it's just announced that he was undergoing

703
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 4: Tommy John So there's some story there that I guess

704
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 4: someday we'll learn about. But yeah, that that was heartbreaking,

705
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 4: you know, he's let's see right now, he is he's

706
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 4: twenty two, which is amazing, but he probably won't pitch

707
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 4: until he's around twenty four. So so so yeah, I

708
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 4: mean that that really that's a that's a tough break.

709
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 4: But he'll come back and he probably will come back stronger,

710
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 4: as we know with Tommy John and so for when

711
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 4: that happens.

712
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sucks for sure.

713
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 3: I mean we all know that. When we heard in

714
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 3: Newsy Live, I was really devastated by it. We got

715
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 3: to talk to him a little bit earlier this season

716
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 3: and everything that he was doing. But man, as Daniel said,

717
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: you could talk about Myers slider, and you can talk

718
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 3: about mccambley's curveball, but I really think that that Jake

719
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 3: Eater slider from the left side, how it just dives

720
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 3: away from hitters the way that it does, it's so incredible.

721
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 3: I really think that that's the best pitch in the

722
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: draft in that year's draft.

723
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 2: It's just so good.

724
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 3: And you know, he couples it with good fastball, good

725
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 3: moving fastball, good chain up too. So I really like him. Man,

726
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 3: it sucks that he went down the way that he did.

727
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 3: Man as Daniel said, is still just twenty two years

728
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 3: old and come back strong, hopefully by.

729
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 2: The time he's twenty four.

730
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 3: Also, as Daniel said, I hope he sticks around for

731
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: sure in the Marlins organization.

732
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: We know there's a lot of talk going on with

733
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 2: trades and everything else.

734
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 3: So man, yeah, it would be a guy that that

735
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 3: that I have no doubt knowing his mindset and getting

736
00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 3: to talk to him and getting to hear what he

737
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 3: had to say, that would come back as as as

738
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 3: advotageous as humanly possible.

739
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: And to get Tommy John out of.

740
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 3: The way early in your career. I mean, it used

741
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 3: to be like the kiss of death in baseball. I'm

742
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 3: sure you remember that. He like Daniel as well, But

743
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 3: nowadays it's kind of like it's almost like I heard

744
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 3: somebody refer to as this as like a rite of passage,

745
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 3: and I think that's really is true, that you know,

746
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 3: just to get it out of the way early and

747
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 3: get out of the way earlier in your career and

748
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 3: you can move forward. So I think that's the guy

749
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 3: that Jay could be.

750
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: But that breaking ball man that can go a long way.

751
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 4: For sure, He's never getting it, Nope, never would read it.

752
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's immune he's too perfect immune.

753
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, he got the.

754
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: Another reminder to people that as they've mentioned, as Alex

755
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: has mentioned a couple of times, is exclusive interviews with Meisner,

756
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: Cameron Meisner with Jake Eater that's on Swimming Upstream. You

757
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: can find that pod wherever you get your podcasts. There

758
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: are two more guests that just wanted to make sure

759
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: that we at least mentioned in here. One is the

760
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: man of the moments for people still following the major

761
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: league team. That'd have to be catcher Nick Fortes, who

762
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: is the first, I believe the first Marlin ever to

763
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: homer in three of his first four career games career starts.

764
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: I don't know what the exact stat is, but he's

765
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: homered three times in his first week in the major

766
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: leagues that they're being called up. Spent a good chunk

767
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: of this year in Double A. Not we could go

768
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: through the hitting stats, but the fact that he was

769
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: paired with all those pitchers, and those pitchers performed as

770
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: well as they did, I mean that probably tells you

771
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: something about who he is as a receiver, as a

772
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: game caller with all the intangibles as well. Also had

773
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: just a very good year with his bat went up

774
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: to Triple A and as I said, just made up

775
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: to the majors. I think this is more of an

776
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: Alex guy than a Daniel guy. But maybe both of

777
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: you have some thoughts about Nick Fortes and just not

778
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: so much of a focus on his home run binge

779
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: in the major leagues. But he was certainly someone that

780
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: was not like the top catching priority in the organization

781
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: entry this year, and now maybe he is. Maybe he's

782
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: pretty high up on that list of guys that could

783
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: actually contribute in a positive way in the near term future.

784
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

785
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 3: You know, I got to know Nick when he was

786
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 3: catching in twenty nineteen in single a advance with the Hammerheads,

787
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 3: and he was catching guys like Trevor Rodgers, as we

788
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 3: all know. But Trevor just talked about him about how

789
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 3: he's a great receiver, and that was really the sentiment

790
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 3: amongst all of that staff.

791
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 2: They really really raved about how he's able to.

792
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 3: Receive pitchers, And I think that's really good a first

793
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: a good first step for any catcher, right, receivability, that's

794
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 3: what she really want, and he's very good at that.

795
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 3: The arm is kind of lacked behind that a little bit,

796
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 3: but I think it could improve here as he polishes out.

797
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 3: He did have an okay year with the arm It

798
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 3: wasn't fantastic, it was okay. So yeah, I think, you know,

799
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: as that polishes out, it could be okay, especially in

800
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 3: terms of a backup catcher. And then man and you

801
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 3: talk about it the offense. That's what's really clicked for

802
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 3: him this year. And he said to us the other

803
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 3: night on a media call with the Marlins that he's

804
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 3: a completely transformed player from what he was when he

805
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 3: was drafted. And I think that that's what you see

806
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 3: with the bat is just the ability to stay back,

807
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 3: huge power potential. Showed it in Double A, got at

808
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 3: the trip as here with the Marlins.

809
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: Big jump for him.

810
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see him get challenged the way

811
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: that he has, especially where he is in his career,

812
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 3: especially that he was coming up on Rule five eligibility,

813
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 3: which I always taken into hig account. He let you

814
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 3: know that. So yeah, really really good. I'm glad that

815
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 3: he's here. I'm glad that he's getting a shot. I'm

816
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 3: glad that the Marlins have finally started to show that

817
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 3: they're going to give these kids that have really earned

818
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 3: their opportunity, the opportunity at the major league level took

819
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 3: a little longer than I would have liked, but it happened.

820
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 3: And Nick has been really good so far in the majors.

821
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: I really like him.

822
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: And you, yeah, we only got a smaller sample of

823
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: this other guy coming out of the draft. The Marlins

824
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: draft class was extremely well regarded, mostly for what they

825
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 1: did at the very top with Khalil Watson and Joe Mack.

826
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 1: But you go all the way down, I believe the

827
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: second to last position player, maybe the third to last

828
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 1: position player that they took from what was it Northern

829
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: Where did Thennett Hosteler go to school up.

830
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,479
Speaker 2: The North Dakota State? Believe that's what I thought.

831
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the oldest players in their draft class.

832
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: In fact, this pod is coming out on his twenty

833
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: fourth birthday, which is that's older than you usually get

834
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: from somebody that's just entering pro ball. The stats don't lie,

835
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: the exit velocities in Jupiter don't lie. And he is

836
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: the only Marlins drafty this year that already made it

837
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 1: up to High A and was producing in High A,

838
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: of course before their season ended. It's a small sample.

839
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: Maybe our opinions on him haven't changed too much. But

840
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: anyway you slice it, you know, the most productive player

841
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: that from this draft class during this first summer pro ball,

842
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: despite being one of the last players off the board.

843
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 4: Absolutely as you mentioned, the numbers don't lie. He came in.

844
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 4: He was the year's Verdick, is what I was calling

845
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 4: him with with my brother, meaning that he just came

846
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 4: in after his draft and and just started mashing, kitting

847
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 4: power and and and for average and then you know,

848
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 4: getting on base everything just like Burdick did when he

849
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 4: came in. And I mean, it's it's it's right there

850
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 4: to see four four ninety slugging eight p fifty ops,

851
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 4: one thirty w RC plus. Remember guys, listeners at w

852
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 4: RC plus one hundred is league average. These guy's at

853
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 4: one thirty, so thirty percent higher than than league average.

854
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 4: That's really good. Only kind of uh, you know, flying

855
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 4: you're in his Chardonnay. Is the K percentage the K

856
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 4: rate at at like twenty nine percent, which is obviously

857
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 4: pretty high. But I mean, if that's the only thing

858
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 4: to do he's going to work on, then he's good

859
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 4: because everything looks so good.

860
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I mean that guy.

861
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 3: I mean, it's more like Bennett Hitsteler. That's what I've

862
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 3: been calling him, because the guy does his hit. I

863
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 3: know that's a lame pun, but I'm using it anyway.

864
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 2: But yeah, really good. He's hit in Jupiter.

865
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 3: And to be able to go to Jupiter straight out

866
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 3: of a draft, I don't care how old you are

867
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 3: and hit three thirty seven, You got to say something

868
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: about that.

869
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: That's that's really special.

870
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 3: He also hit three home runs there, which is not

871
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 3: easy to get a ball out of that yard. And man,

872
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 3: it's it's not the biggest kid in the world, six

873
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 3: foot one ninety five and he's hitting three home runs

874
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 3: in Jupiter, Like, you got to say something about his

875
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 3: ability to get the barrel on the ball. It's really

876
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 3: big for Bennet Hosteller hits it hard. I think he

877
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 3: could eventually play multiple positions. I think he already has

878
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 3: played multiple positions.

879
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 2: Actually, I think shortstop, in the third base, maybe even

880
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 2: the outfield.

881
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong, though, I

882
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 3: think I remember seeing in the outfield once or twice.

883
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's got the positional flexibility that the Marlins like.

884
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 3: Hits the ball hard and man coming out of the

885
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 3: i think eighteenth round of the draft, out of been

886
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 3: unheralded college. That's that's awesome, And that just speaks to

887
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 3: I've said it before, I speaks to DJ and the

888
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 3: entire draft team and how they're able to scout and

889
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 3: and and find these guys because again, as Daniel said,

890
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 3: this could be another even even on a lesser skulls.

891
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 3: I think Verdick was a third rounder. This is a

892
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: guy eighteenth rounder and he's already showing up. Yeah, really

893
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 3: really nice to see it.

894
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 2: Awesome.

895
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,959
Speaker 3: I will never argue probably a day of my life

896
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 3: with a move that that DJ makes in a draft

897
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 3: in terms of long term projectability. So I really like

898
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 3: Bennett really good. I think he could be a really

899
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 3: solid player at the.

900
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 4: Major league level and the third basement. I mean, God

901
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 4: knows this. This system needs some some deaths at third day.

902
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 3: And even like right now, like right now in terms

903
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 3: of middle infielders because like you know, past Jazz and

904
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 3: maybe one or two other guys, there's not a lot

905
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 3: of There's a lot of long term talent and guys

906
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 3: like Salas and other guys Lewis, but there's not a

907
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 3: lot of like right now, guys. So maybe we see

908
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 3: Bennett get push a little harder and maybe manage the

909
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 3: middle infields. But it definitely could happen.

910
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: I promised this is the last individual guy that I

911
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: felt we needed to cover just base. Yeah.

912
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, if you don't mention the

913
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 4: guy I have, I'm going to have to mention him later.

914
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 1: Well we'll see.

915
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 4: Uh.

916
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 1: Well, this one this is based it's based mostly on

917
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: the stats. I'd say, sixth round pick in the twenty

918
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: nineteen draft.

919
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 2: M D.

920
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: Johnson with one of the better nicknames, perfect like a

921
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: perfect material to come up with catching nicknames for. I mean,

922
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: the bottom line is he was unhittable this year with

923
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: Jupiter and then up to Blite a one seventy batting

924
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: average against over a sample of one hundred and two.

925
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: Things for this guy who as he started this year

926
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: as a reliever at the very beginning, and then I

927
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: guess there's some parallels to someone like Valleise and that

928
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: you know, they moved him into the rotation and then

929
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: he was just getting everybody out in the rotation and

930
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: they never really took him out of that, and they

931
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: pushed him up a level and kind of held his

932
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: own up there. Both of you probably thoughts on this,

933
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: but this is another guy that I feel is a

934
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: big ALEX guy trying to explain what is going on

935
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: with M. D. Johnson. Is he somebody that we should

936
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: really be paying attention to moving into next year.

937
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

938
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 3: You talk about nicknames for this guy, and I've called

939
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 3: him many things. I've called him the Doctor, I've called

940
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 3: him like a lot of other things on Twitter. But

941
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 3: I think the nickname that should really stick with him,

942
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 3: at least until his promotion to single I advanced this

943
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 3: wild thing.

944
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 2: This guy was all over the.

945
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 3: Place, like the walks were insane, Like he had starts

946
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 3: where he would go like.

947
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 2: Five innings and walk to seven batters but only give

948
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 2: up like one run. Like it was crazy.

949
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you could speak to like the

950
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 3: terms of what I said before with Roger team being

951
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 3: so hard to hit at, But man, it was a

952
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 3: guy that.

953
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,439
Speaker 2: Was just so all over the place.

954
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 3: From pitch to pitch to pitch. He would throw wild

955
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 3: pitches and then he would come back and dot a pitch.

956
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 3: He would throw a pitch way out of the zone

957
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 3: that got blocked and then come back to just like

958
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 3: wipe a guy out like he was crazy to see

959
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 3: him throw in Jupiter, and I saw it a couple

960
00:46:58,560 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 3: of times.

961
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 2: It was crazy. But man, it seems like he figured

962
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: it out at the single advanced level because the walker

963
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 2: is down, you know, walk right. I'll give you the numbers.

964
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 3: Walk right with Jupiter this year was seven point eighty

965
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 3: seven walks per nine, which is absolutely insane to think

966
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 3: that he's walking eight guys per nine innings and then

967
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 3: he goes to single A advanced and it's down to

968
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 3: three point ninety four.

969
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 2: So clearly he figured it out. You know, he found something.

970
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: He found something with the coaches, found something in his release,

971
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 2: found something with the stuff. We have to ask him.

972
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what it was, but man, just

973
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 3: just refreshing to see a guy at twenty four years

974
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 3: old that can get promoted a level. Maybe when he

975
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 3: wasn't showing his best stuff. I mean, he was doing

976
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 3: pretty well when he got promoted, but still had the

977
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 3: walks to him.

978
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:37,479
Speaker 2: But man, to see him go up.

979
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 3: And figure it out, even more so against against further

980
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 3: advanced hitting is refreshing. And I think Den Morles could

981
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 3: get something out of this guy. As he said he

982
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: as a as a back end rotation piece, and probably

983
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 3: pretty quickly, as I mentioned, twenty four years old. I

984
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 3: don't see why they probably wouldn't challenge him again, maybe

985
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 3: to start twenty twenty two and send him to double A.

986
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe Daniel has some other thoughts, but

987
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 2: that's what I think.

988
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 4: So, like, if you look at his numbers, you can

989
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 4: see that he's he's fighting with that stuff versus control,

990
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 4: you know, dilemma, because I mean he showed really really

991
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 4: good stuff at LOWA, and I mean again, it's the numbers, right,

992
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 4: forty two innings pitched and twenty two hits. Then right

993
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 4: there you're like, oh my god, what is this guy's whip?

994
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 4: You know, I mean, then you see the whip and

995
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 4: it's one point thirty nine and that's because of the

996
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 4: crazy walk rate. So then he kind of last two

997
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 4: or three starts of low ay, he started to get

998
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 4: a bit better, but his k rate went down a bit.

999
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 4: He got promoted because I mean probably Miami Brass was

1000
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 4: just waiting for him to solve that problem to promote him,

1001
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 4: and so they promoted him. And yeah, I mean, his

1002
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 4: his walk rate went down, but again his k rate

1003
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 4: also went down, so I think he's just playing with it,

1004
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 4: and I'm really intrigued to see what he'll show next season.

1005
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 4: Probably yeah, I mean double A would be would be

1006
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 4: an interesting place for him to start, but wherever he starts,

1007
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 4: I'm just really interested to see if he's if it's

1008
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 4: gonna be the crazy stuff, crazy walk guy, or is

1009
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 4: it gonna be the more controlled, not as amazing stuff

1010
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 4: M D. Johnson.

1011
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 3: So we'll see you talk about you talk about the

1012
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 3: k right going down just really quickly, like you talked

1013
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 3: about the Carr going down, and it did go down,

1014
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 3: You're right, it went down to right around nine.

1015
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 2: But in in single A it was just at ten

1016
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 2: point two.

1017
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 3: Ten point two, Yeah, I'm reading that right, Okay, at

1018
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 3: ten point two, so it didn't go down too crazy.

1019
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 3: So to sacrifice a little bit of stuff from work control,

1020
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 3: I definitely think that was necessary for this pitcher, Yeah,

1021
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 3: because he was really really all over the place with

1022
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 3: with his If you look at his pitch mapping, it's

1023
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 3: like crazy, Like you could go on Baseball savon and

1024
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 3: look at this guy's pitch mapping and his single A

1025
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,959
Speaker 3: starts and it was nuts about how all over the place.

1026
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 2: And as I said, pitch to pitch, so to see

1027
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 2: him figure it out what refreshing that.

1028
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 3: I think he could definitely be good as a back

1029
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 3: end guy or at the very at least as a

1030
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 3: multiple innings leader.

1031
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: Daniel, Is that the name that was on the tip

1032
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: of your tongue a few moments ago? Or was there

1033
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 1: another guy that you want to see he wasn't.

1034
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 4: There's one other guy that I just have to mention.

1035
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 4: He's my only other guy that I would say really

1036
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 4: came into my top thirty after starting this season, maybe

1037
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 4: in the top fifties maybe, And that's George Soriano. I

1038
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 4: mean had George Soriano. This is the guy who made

1039
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 4: a pretty big leap this season. Before starting, I had

1040
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,399
Speaker 4: him as an okay pitcher, you know, just that guy

1041
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 4: who could maybe make it as a milk reliever. But

1042
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 4: he just showed some great stuff this season. The biggest

1043
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 4: difference for me is what was just the stuff, which

1044
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 4: you know can be clearly seen in the difference in

1045
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 4: K rates from twenty nineteen and in this season. He

1046
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,479
Speaker 4: had eleven point fifty k per nine between both levels

1047
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 4: he pitched that which were loway and high as well.

1048
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 4: And in twenty twenty one again. Ze point fifty k

1049
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 4: per nine. That's that's really good compared to the seven

1050
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 4: point forty five kper nine that he showed at Single A.

1051
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 4: Clinton in twenty nineteen. So this stuff is there, our

1052
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 4: buddy Ian and earning their stripes legend here. He went

1053
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 4: to see him a few times at Jupiter and he

1054
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 4: just came back so impressed. Mid nineties fastball end of

1055
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 4: just a wipeout slider, like it really is a wipeout slider,

1056
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 4: and he perfected it between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one,

1057
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 4: and you can see it. He finished with a three

1058
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 4: point forty two E array between both levels. And he's

1059
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 4: still young at twenty two, So yeah, he definitely made

1060
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 4: a big jump on my list this season.

1061
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 3: I'm going to bring up one more, and I'm going

1062
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 3: to be very brief, Eli, but Dan got to bring

1063
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 3: up one more, So I'm going to give you one more,

1064
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 3: and my guy's Paul McIntosh. Maybe not a name that

1065
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 3: a lot of people have heard of, but I'm bringing

1066
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 3: up Paul McIntosh.

1067
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 2: Undrafted at Virginia. He's twenty three years old.

1068
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 3: They sent him to i think the fc AL for

1069
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 3: like one game and then put him in Jubiter. The

1070
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 3: guy had six home runs in Jubiter in the old

1071
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 3: Florida State League ops of one point zero two zero

1072
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 3: So old for that level, yes, but coming out of

1073
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 3: an undrafted situation, just getting thrown into this organization and

1074
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 3: learning on the fly, I can't say enough for that.

1075
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 3: And I want to see that kid get a challenged

1076
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 3: because man, he definitely showed some true power potential and

1077
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 3: he's a catcher.

1078
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 4: So let's go one home run every fifteen played appearances,

1079
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 4: So I will take that with a twenty one percent

1080
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 4: k rate, so it's not like he struck out forty

1081
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 4: percent of the time. So definitely, Paul McIntosh is a

1082
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 4: name to know.

1083
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,479
Speaker 1: I'll have to dig into more of the statcast data

1084
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: during the offseason, but at a quick glance, I think

1085
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: he was really top of the scale in terms of

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Speaker 1: exit VLOT, Like he was the one guy that every

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Speaker 1: couple of games he was hitting one hundred and ten

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Speaker 1: miles per hour and just for people to put into

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Speaker 1: scale like that is major league average for like an

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Speaker 1: average hitter, that's like Brian Anderson maxit exit below and

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Speaker 1: for this guy that, like we said, just came out

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Speaker 1: of college doing that that's really intriguing. And he did

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Speaker 1: not just a catcher, but experimenting a little bit in

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Speaker 1: first base and in left field right after he got

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Speaker 1: moved up as well, so that versatility never hurts in

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Speaker 1: case the catching doesn't really stick around.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting to imagine, like where's he gonna stick?

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Speaker 3: That's what you really don't know. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: he can stick as a catcher, just because of you know,

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Speaker 3: I've seen him move a couple of times behind the

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Speaker 3: plate and it's not fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I mean, I think he's an athletic kid.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know if he has the lateral movement

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Speaker 3: for catcher, but definitely has a big league future as

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Speaker 3: a true power threat, because man, he's been really good

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Speaker 3: so far.

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Speaker 1: We could probably go on for another hour, but I

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Speaker 1: think we'll cut it off there with all the guys

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Speaker 1: that we covered our breakout prospects of the year in

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Speaker 1: this Marlins organization, not just the names it you already know,

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Speaker 1: but the names that you would know if you listen

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Speaker 1: to swimming upstream, or they'll get the guys that you

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Speaker 1: would know if you check the box course every day.

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Speaker 1: For people that don't do that. We're happy to bring

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Speaker 1: these guys to your attention, and guys will be following

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Speaker 1: certainly over the off season, we'll be prowling those Instagram

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Speaker 1: videos to see what guys are doing to stay fit

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Speaker 1: and of course heading into next year where the season

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Speaker 1: is going to be a little bit longer than it

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Speaker 1: was this year. So very exciting to see that with

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Speaker 1: some of these players that didn't get a full season in.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be hugely for some of

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Speaker 1: those guys we mentioned at the end of the recent

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Speaker 1: draft picks as well. This has been this has been

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Speaker 1: a really fun discussion for the most part. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: everybody listening to this four man conversation. Alex Carver, Daniel Devivo,

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00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: Eli Susman and this cricket that has been outside my

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Speaker 1: window all night and I wasn't able to get rid

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Speaker 1: of it. That was one of the goals for me

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Speaker 1: is to outlast the cricket and I wasn't able to

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Speaker 1: do so. Hopefully the audio quality it is still pretty

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Speaker 1: good and you guys enjoyed it. So this is on

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Speaker 1: the Fish Strips podcast. One more request if you guys

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Speaker 1: could rate and review the pod on Apple that would

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Speaker 1: mean a lot, and we'll continue to have our regular

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Speaker 1: coverage of the Marlins and their minor league system throughout

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Speaker 1: the rest of the fall. We're a year round show

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Speaker 1: and we're happy to always find new angles that keep

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Speaker 1: you guys interested. So thank you to the fish on

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Speaker 1: the Farm guys, and we'll have more content for you

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Speaker 1: soon here and on fish stripes dot com and all

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Speaker 1: of our platforms. Go fish