1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: A lad Solaire were the Boster Blaster to laugh, Marlins 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 1: signed him this off season. I am Andrew Ardall and 3 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: this is Big Fish Small Pod on today, April twentieth, 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. So this week, Wednesday, the Marlins are 5 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: facing the Cardinals. We saw them drop the first game 6 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: last night of the series, and the Cardinals looked somehow 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: like they did in twenty twelve, back when Jorge Solaire 8 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: was just agreed to his nine year, thirty million dollar 9 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: contract with the Chicago Cups. And around the same time 10 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: that Beyond the box Score was kind of at its peak. 11 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: So Beyond the box Score was a blog at ESPY 12 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: Nation that focused on link like your sabermetrics kind of 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 1: off that Beyond the buck Score look with a lot 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: of data and analytics. So like just wanted to take 15 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: a moment to like just recognize that, and what I'm 16 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: doing today is very influenced by that, certainly, like as 17 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: a reader of theirs. Anyhow, So today, like promised, I 18 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about Jorge still lare the newest Marlin 19 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: in a way really like a key part of this team. 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: We've seen him be just like the absolute best player 21 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: in baseball for an important moment recently, and he's also 22 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: been a guy that's led the league and home runs 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: in a separate season. He came over as like a 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: really hyped prospect and he's pretty well maintained that just 25 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: with like a great physical strength. So what I want 26 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: to do in light of beyond the box score closing, 27 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: I want to just kind of open up open the 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: doors really too, like that sort of like data analysis 29 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: as best I can. What I use primarily is Baseball 30 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: Reference dot Com as well as the Baseball Savant. Savant 31 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: is fairly new. It has a lot of good video 32 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: if you're trying to see like players against certain pitches, 33 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: really good resource for that. It's a bit deeper into 34 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: the page to get to that, but you go on 35 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: like Hororesce Hilaire's profile on Savant, you see some percentile 36 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: rankings blue for like on the low end of the 37 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: league bad generally speaking cold to like hot whores. Hilaire 38 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: for example like very like high max exit velocity really 39 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: like a like a trademark of his all throughout his career. 40 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: But anyhow, this is for you and your own like 41 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: time to just like check through. You want to like 42 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: consider with horror he Celaire that we know how good 43 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: he can be. We've seen him be good before. We 44 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: know that he has like those pitches that he can hit, 45 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: So like what is his pitch to hit? What is 46 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: he looking for at the plate? What like helps him 47 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: generate his power? So what I'd be looking for is 48 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: like a trend in like how he performs against different pitches, 49 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: a trend in how he performs against different spots in 50 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: the zone, or a trend in like the count as well. 51 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: Is he jumping on opposing pictures early? Is he like 52 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: looking like at that fastball? Maybe he's just like sitting 53 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: on those outside breaking pitches, so there's like some time 54 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: to get to a gittness bat there. Maybe I mean 55 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: totally blind, acting like I don't know who horce Celaire 56 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: is at all. These are the questions to be asking. 57 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: You also want to pay attention to who he's familiar with. 58 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: Is he maybe porge Cilaire would be expected to be 59 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: better against like your like NL central crowd versus your 60 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: NL East pictures. How is his swing? What is he 61 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: looking to do with it? Is it getting loft in there? 62 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: Is it seemingly like catered to anything? Is he trying 63 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: to pull the ball? Is he making midswing adjustments to 64 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: help him really like get great contact. Obviously he's like 65 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: a very strong person. I think we can all identify 66 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: that just you know, walking down the street. But what 67 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: is like that key to his approach is really what 68 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: you should be like looking for. You can use like numbers. 69 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: Baseball Reference is really a great resource for all sorts 70 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: of splits if you're like looking for a breakdown of 71 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: like flyball, ground ball, like day night, is he facing 72 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: like power pitchers, finesse pictures, Really just everything is there, 73 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: and if you get like a general concept of like 74 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: what the league baseline is, m or websites like fangrafts 75 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: do great job putting together some of those numbers for you, 76 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: so you can, you know, take the time get like 77 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: the feel of these players and what their strengths are. 78 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: It's not so much that they're just like good or 79 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: bad or performing poorly or well. Like we see players 80 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: go through slums all the time, and it's a matter 81 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: of having the patience to watch them as they're going 82 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: through that and seeing the changes they're making. To get 83 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: to the point now, I mean from what I feel 84 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: like I'm seeing with Jorge Cilaire, I'm definitely like optimistic 85 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: for the future. So I'm really curious what you see 86 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: when you look into his profile. If you'd like totally 87 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: like you can you know, respond to the podcast on Twitter. 88 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter or something like that. 89 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: If you just like trying to understand these things better. Certainly, 90 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: it's always like a matter of like continuing to learn 91 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: and keep an open mind as you, you know, learn 92 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: more about the sport because we aren't all like one Soto. 93 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: I think we all have something to learn here. But yeah, 94 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: that's what I have for you today. It is again 95 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: for twenty so today Marlins will again play the Cardinals 96 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: at six forty, looking to even the series, and hey, 97 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: maybe we'll see more from Jorge still there. So thank 98 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: you for listening. I've been Andrew Ridall talk to you 99 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: on Friday.