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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this edition of Big Fish Small

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Speaker 1: Pod for Monday, November twentieth two Thoy twenty three, and

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Speaker 1: if you are news with the small Pod, here we

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Speaker 1: like to give you all the information about the Marlins

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Speaker 1: for that particular day all season long in ten minutes

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Speaker 1: or less and Marlins fans, I have a very fun

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Speaker 1: series coming for you with big Fish Small Pod as

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Speaker 1: each day I will be giving you positional targets in

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Speaker 1: free agency for the Miami Marlins.

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Speaker 2: This episode will be starting.

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Speaker 1: Off with catchers, as the following one will be discussing

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Speaker 1: infielders outfielders, and then we will be ending it off

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Speaker 1: with starting and relief pitching. Should be a very fun

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Speaker 1: week here on big Fish Small Pod as we discuss

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Speaker 1: these free agents for next year. First off, the catching position,

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Speaker 1: which maybe the biggest need.

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Speaker 2: For the Marlins as they had non tendre.

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Speaker 1: Jacob Stallings who was the starting and then platoons with

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Speaker 1: Nick Fortes over his last two years with the Fish,

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Speaker 1: and the Marlins need a catcher desperately for this catching position.

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Speaker 2: It is fairly top heavy.

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Speaker 1: There's mainly one guy the Marlins could potentially target and

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Speaker 1: then the rest will cost less and less for the

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Speaker 1: catching position. I believe the number one target the Marlins

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Speaker 1: should look after is Mitch Garver from the World Series

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Speaker 1: champions Texas Rangers, had his best season in the majors

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Speaker 1: with nineteen home runs fifty RBIs two seventy batting average,

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Speaker 1: which is really one of the best in his career.

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Speaker 1: Previous one was two seventy three and twenty nineteen when

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Speaker 1: he was the Twins that all the year.

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Speaker 3: But deep field, Hay's going back at the wall. It's God,

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Speaker 3: It's a Grand Slam. Mitch Garver breaks it open for

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Speaker 3: the Rangers.

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Speaker 1: But the thing with Mitch Garver, he has not seen

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Speaker 1: more than one hundred and two games in his career

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Speaker 1: at catcher. The most is one hundred and two back

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, so him to get that consistency and

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Speaker 1: playing time might be a factor, and he is getting

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Speaker 1: up there in age, but again not having seen the

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Speaker 1: field as much in his career could be could mean

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Speaker 1: that he has less wear and tear on his body,

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Speaker 1: and that catch position desperately needing for the Marlins, and

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Speaker 1: last year a two point one war his best since

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Defensively negative point zero five, but with

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Speaker 1: his offensive powers. You can take back a little bit

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Speaker 1: on his defense to Marlin's neat power at that catching

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Speaker 1: position where we've seen the lack there of the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, and someone that can go and give

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Speaker 1: you close to twenty home runs. If he can go

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Speaker 1: back to twenty nineteen where he had thirty one home runs,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins will be in a way better position than

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Speaker 1: they were just these last couple of years. It will

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Speaker 1: cost a pretty penny to get Mitch Garver. Looking at

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Speaker 1: some predictions and what potentially could be seen for his caliber,

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Speaker 1: it might be somewhere in the three year, forty million

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Speaker 1: dollar range to get Mitch Garver to Miami. I would

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Speaker 1: love to see Mitch Garver in the Marlins uniform, but

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Speaker 1: this is one of the players that Marlins have to target.

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Speaker 1: Next up, we're gonna go ahead and go more locally

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Speaker 1: with Yasmini Grondal from Havanakua, played at the University of Miami,

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Speaker 1: went to Miami Springs High School. He is a Miami

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Speaker 1: boy through and through and to him come back to

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Speaker 1: Miami might just be the change of scenery which he

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Speaker 1: has needed.

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Speaker 2: Has not been.

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Speaker 1: Well for Yes Money Grondal since he signed that mega

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Speaker 1: contract with the Chicago White Sox. He had career years

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers that eventually got him that contract. This is

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Speaker 1: a guy who at his peak can give you close

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Speaker 1: to more than twenty home runs. He had four straight

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Speaker 1: seasons of more than of twenty two or more home runs. Again,

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Speaker 1: is something that the Mormons Despolate needed. Again, you're sacrificing

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Speaker 1: his base running ability, one of the worst in terms

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Speaker 1: of getting home to first base, not the best. And

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Speaker 1: for him defensively, he has had points where he has

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Speaker 1: been really great defensively and there are other points where

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Speaker 1: he ranks negatively in defensive war for a catcher. But

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Speaker 1: again with Yes Money Grondal, it is the offense that

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Speaker 3: And Grendal blisters won the left for a hit then

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Speaker 3: attendee stops at second and Yes Money grind all of

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Speaker 1: But Grondal will definitely have to be that second tier

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Speaker 1: choice for the Marlins if all things considered, with Mitch

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Speaker 1: Garver do not fare well, But with Grendal, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get any stolen bases. He has only twelve in

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Speaker 1: his career you're his walking prowess. It's been better, it's

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Speaker 1: fallen off a bit. But if they can continue with

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Speaker 1: the Marlins in that clubhouse and get definitely just to

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Speaker 1: change of scenery, he can go back to where he

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Speaker 1: was getting close to eighty walks one hundred and nine

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Speaker 1: But with Guy's money, Grondal just a different option for

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Speaker 1: the Marlins will be significantly cheaper than Mitch Garver and

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Speaker 1: won't and it won't have that many years attached to

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Speaker 1: his contract. The next one close to Mitch Garver in

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Speaker 1: terms of games played at bats will be Tom Murphy,

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Speaker 1: the thirty two year old catcher from the Seattle Mariners.

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Speaker 1: UH with Tom Murphy again, a guy who his most

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Speaker 1: games played is ninety seven back in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: but a guy who could also give you that home

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Speaker 1: run power. He had a stretch where you can give

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Speaker 1: you close to ten home runs a season. He was

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Speaker 1: mainly a backup catcher for the Mariners, and even in

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Speaker 1: his backup year this season, in only one hundred and

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Speaker 1: an eight seven to three OPS. This is one of

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Speaker 1: the most underrated catching free agent targets for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: This is someone who has been very good defensively throughout

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Speaker 1: his career, has not posted a negative WAR in his

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Speaker 1: games back in his rookie year in twenty fifteen on Colorado.

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Speaker 1: But he has not seen significant playing time except for

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Speaker 1: better with everyone involved there, he could potentially see himself

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Speaker 2: Because I have all these mentioned, he has been the

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Speaker 2: best defensively.

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Speaker 1: Again with his WAR and his ability to hit the ball,

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Speaker 1: he can get two ninety this year. Last season only

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Speaker 1: fourteen games three zero three and his majority of playing time.

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Speaker 1: You can go back to twenty twenty one two to

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Speaker 1: the Marlins want to see more of that. Twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: Tom Murphy had a two seventy three batting average with

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Speaker 1: an eight five eight OPS. He had a career one

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Speaker 1: catcher with a seven six y nine OPS just in total.

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Speaker 1: He can slug the baseball five thirty eight slugging for

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Speaker 1: a catcher last season one of the highest in terms

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Speaker 1: the middle with Nick Fortes. Lastly, another Miami boy played

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Speaker 1: in Miami Day College Kendall Campus, very close to the

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Speaker 1: Lone Depo Park, Victor Carratini with the Milwaukee Brewers catcher

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Speaker 1: slash first basement and with Kartini you're getting a variety

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Speaker 1: in his entire career. A guy who could go and

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Speaker 1: give you plenty of games played. We've seen that with Apodres,

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Speaker 1: not so long ago, one hundred and sixteen, just coming

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Speaker 1: off a division title with the Morawaukee Brewers when he

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Speaker 1: posted the seven eleven pete s. Will not strikeout as much.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to strike out a ton forty five

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Speaker 1: strikeouts to nineteen walks. Just very a solid catcher for

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Speaker 1: the Marlins and again defensively one of the better in baseball,

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Speaker 1: and will just not cost as much as the other players. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is a guy thirty years old, so you can

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Speaker 1: potentially give him maybe a two year deal at most

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Speaker 1: stuff and see you could see him maybe long term

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Speaker 1: splinting with Nick Fortes. You look at some of his

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Speaker 1: platoon splits. We've seen most of his games against right

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Speaker 1: handing pitching with a two six to two batting average

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Speaker 3: Kartini right field back walker at the wall, it's gone

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Speaker 3: three run blast Pictor Caratini putting an exclamation point on

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Speaker 1: But then you go ahead and look at him against lefties,

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Speaker 1: two point fifty batting average. His slugging is paffed from

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Speaker 1: four to sixteen to two eighty nine to a six

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Speaker 1: to eleven ops, but all the other numbers fairly the same.

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Speaker 1: do the same, but again will not cost as much

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Speaker 1: as maybe the other guys. But that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for this big fish, small pod Mitch Garver. He has

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Speaker 1: money Grande, Tom Murphy, Victor Quarantini, and this has been

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Speaker 1: big fish, small pod. As always go fish