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Speaker 1: Today is June first. The Marlins will play twice today.

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Speaker 1: It's the Rockies and traditional doubleheader, with the first pitch

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Speaker 1: set for three ten PM. I'm Andrew Werdahl, and to

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Speaker 1: offer a brief qualification, I've opened a franchise, worked in

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Speaker 1: the sport, and I think I've seen an eighty hitter

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Speaker 1: like an eighty grade contact hitter. If you haven't seen

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Speaker 1: him play Luis Arrise, let me tell you he rakes

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Speaker 1: right now. He's leading the league an on base percentage

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Speaker 1: with a three fifty one batting average for the Minnesota Twins.

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Speaker 1: Nicknamed Regandhara the Sprinkler for his spray that he whiffs

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Speaker 1: less than any Marlin, chases less than any Marlin, and

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Speaker 1: makes contact with those chase pitches more than any Marlin.

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Speaker 1: It's remarkable contact numbers. Key to his performance really is

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Speaker 1: a deeply rooted contact swing. He's always had an advanced

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Speaker 1: sense of the strike zone, and even at seventeen in

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Speaker 1: the minors, he was forcing more walks than he was

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Speaker 1: taking strikeouts. At every level of the developmental leagues, he

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Speaker 1: holds at least a career three h nine batting average.

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Speaker 1: Watching his video on Baseball Savan just like hit after hit,

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Speaker 1: he obviously takes notice of the ball, and then he

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Speaker 1: has the instincts to anticipate where the ball will be,

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Speaker 1: and he pairs that along with his ability to time

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Speaker 1: and target his swing to deliver clearly in a stance.

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Speaker 1: He compromises his physical power for quick contact so that

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Speaker 1: he can make that adjustment and deliver a punch to

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Speaker 1: the pitch, and the result is a direct swing towards

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Speaker 1: whatever part of the field is natural to the pitch,

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Speaker 1: a radically different approach than you see from any Marlin.

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Speaker 1: What Arises bringing is a technical ability to work with

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Speaker 1: a pitch, and he's doing it at high velocity. According

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Speaker 1: to Aaron Gleaman of The Athletic, Arise has been platooned

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Speaker 1: some around lefties, so it's not like his workload at

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Speaker 1: twenty five years old has come without some limitation. But

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Speaker 1: his stand up performance leading the American League in on

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Speaker 1: base percentage and sitting some against lefties not so much

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Speaker 1: as a hedge on his inability to hit them. It's

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Speaker 1: more that the swings he makes are more demanding on

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Speaker 1: his body. Chasing out or cutting in to that fastball

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Speaker 1: slider after identifying the pitch just is more of a

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Speaker 1: difficult motion for a hitter using their torso and being

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Speaker 1: forced to adapt without the strong sense of support that

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Speaker 1: you might find facing a pitch from the opposite hand. So,

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Speaker 1: with this artist's technique, taking pitches outside outside and taking

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Speaker 1: fastballs down and into the opposite field, fighting off tough

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Speaker 1: fastballs with the just the touch of a vat, Luisa

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Speaker 1: rises the best in the league against four scene fastballs.

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Speaker 1: Sure that is skewed away from those same sided abs

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Speaker 1: that some Marlins might face, But as a comparison point

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Speaker 1: is fastball run value per baseball savant value tops the chart.

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Speaker 1: Well only Forge Celaire has been a significant producer against

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Speaker 1: the for scene for Miami. Number two for Miami Miguel

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Speaker 1: Rojas probably the best one to one comparison with a

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Speaker 1: Rise as a batter rarely misses and rarely strikes out.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, Miguel has had trouble with the fastball,

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Speaker 1: but his best years have come with success against it.

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Speaker 1: Also on that Jazz and Ba have been able to

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Speaker 1: put a bit of work into a fastball that's like

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Speaker 1: a bit better than average, while Cooper and Stalins need

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Speaker 1: it really like I to eye, it's tough to talk

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Speaker 1: about the Marlins, because the other side of that leaderboard

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Speaker 1: really exposes Miami. Avi Garcia, Jesus Sanchez, John Birdie, and

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Speaker 1: Jesus Aguilar all offer production as subpar as Miguel Rojas

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Speaker 1: is above half your lineup not up to speed on

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Speaker 1: the fastball. You have Avi who's been forced to face

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Speaker 1: this new slider forward mix at the plate and seemingly

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Speaker 1: can't adapt to it. Looking back, he has had some

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Speaker 1: ebbs and flows against the fastball, but this year certainly

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Speaker 1: looks has come without much of his regular production. Jesus Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: you have getting much more of a kitchen sink approach

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Speaker 1: at the plate, and he hasn't seemed to fit an

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Speaker 1: approach to each pitch with its own plan. He's been

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Speaker 1: able to really like put some pole into some pitches

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Speaker 1: and the whiffs carrying through the lineup five Marlin's rank

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Speaker 1: in the bottom forty per width percentage per Baseball Savant,

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Speaker 1: while others rate highly. For chasing pitches. With Luis Arise,

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Speaker 1: you have your master just watching the pitch come in

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Speaker 1: and taking reaction to it and doing with it whatever

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Speaker 1: seems best for the pitch itself, going the other way

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Speaker 1: or hitting it down the line or really just watching

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Speaker 1: it go for a ball. Most of your marlins can

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Speaker 1: certainly put a drive into the ball, but there is

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Speaker 1: a question of whether or not they're all really seeing it,

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Speaker 1: And that's a really big, multifaceted question. You have to

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Speaker 1: be literally in the moment seeing the pitch, but you

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Speaker 1: also have to be like seeing how the opponent is

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Speaker 1: approachingous that you can even begin to anticipate and expect

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Speaker 1: those fastballs seemingly. With Avi, you have a hitter that's

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Speaker 1: getting more sliders and then get the getting beat by

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Speaker 1: the fastball because he's gearing up for that pitch getting

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Speaker 1: fooled by it. It's different than anything he's really seen

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Speaker 1: in the past. So he has to be able to

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Speaker 1: making that adjustment and recognizing what's happening at the plate

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Speaker 1: in the moment, and working with coaches to get fully

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Speaker 1: ahead of that. So what I feel like I've seen

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Speaker 1: with luis a Rise is a bit of like a

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Speaker 1: beacon of what like a hitter can be at the

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Speaker 1: major league level. I've been watching him a lot, and

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Speaker 1: it honestly feels like watching a pinball machine, little flipper.

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Speaker 1: It's just a I don't even know how to talk

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Speaker 1: about it. He just doesn't miss in Miami, though, it

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Speaker 1: really does seem to be something getting lost at the plate.

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Speaker 1: Checking it out obviously, Avi Garcia had some good fastball

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Speaker 1: numbers with Milwaukee last year, and Hayesu's Aguilar had some

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Speaker 1: good fastball numbers against as Paul's when he himself was

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Speaker 1: a Milwaukee Brewer. So I checked out their coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: and they did do a thing where they replaced their

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Speaker 1: coaches this past offseason, so I didn't dig much deeper

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Speaker 1: than that, but it really caught my eye that they

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Speaker 1: are now going with two hitting coaches along with an

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Speaker 1: assistant coach. Reading more into a rise, Rocco Baldelli, the

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Speaker 1: manager for the Twins, offered up that there is so

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Speaker 1: much more information these days and that the extra coach,

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Speaker 1: which the Minnesota Twins also employ, a second hitting coach

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Speaker 1: along with an assistant, has helped stay on top of

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Speaker 1: that workload. And it might be easy to get down

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Speaker 1: on the Marlins and think, oh, well, there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of talk on social media about firing Don Maddingly,

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Speaker 1: but it seems to be that there might be more

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Speaker 1: of a need to get additional hitting minds in on

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Speaker 1: this staff to help these hitters see what's coming to

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Speaker 1: them in adapt to these new problems like these slighter

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Speaker 1: dominant approaches, or just to help your young players like

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Speaker 1: Caesusanchez get their bearings in the majors. And of itself,

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Speaker 1: it almost feels like the Marlins are falling behind in

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Speaker 1: the new wave of hitting in the majors. Anyhow, I've

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Speaker 1: been Andrew Berdahl, and that doubleheader begins at three ten