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Speaker 1: Today is March sixteenth, and this is Big Fish Small Pot.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Andrew Wrdall. I'm back for another year,

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Speaker 1: and you'll hear from me on Wednesdays and Fridays on

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Speaker 1: the Small Pot. So you might be wondering why I'm

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Speaker 1: here and what you'll get from me, you know, like

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Speaker 1: really natural questions to be asking of a podcaster. So

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Speaker 1: I am Andrew. I've been a fan since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three, and I just keep coming back to Marlin's Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Not that like what I've been watching hasn't been drastically

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Speaker 1: changing through the years, like all the people have changed,

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Speaker 1: the place has changed. At a point, I just have

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Speaker 1: to accept that I have a bit of loyalty, specifically

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Speaker 1: to the Fish, so that brings us here. Ahead of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season, players have reported for spring training.

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Speaker 1: Jacob Stalin's Avy Garcia, Joey Wendell and Louis head headline.

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Speaker 1: Who's come Lewis Brentson where Hail Farrow might be an

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Speaker 1: Astro and padre respectively. Derek Jeter is also gone, and

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a question of who's going to champion baseball.

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Speaker 1: But what we know now is that it will be

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Speaker 1: someone that is on the field. Bruce Sherman has spoken,

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Speaker 1: Kim Ang has been talking, Brian Reynolds, Don maddingly is

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Speaker 1: working with who he's got right now, spoke to Christina

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Speaker 1: Danicola of mb dot com talking about Jesus Sanchez playing

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Speaker 1: some center, Brian Anderson popping into left of it all

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Speaker 1: in an effort to get the best bats on the field,

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Speaker 1: because twenty twenty one was stark right from the start.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Glass, Now, if you are as haunted by it

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Speaker 1: as me, I mean, obviously, a pitcher like no one

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three dominated Miami on opening Day,

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Speaker 1: but sure power pitcher and the Marlins just couldn't seem

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Speaker 1: to catch up to it. The new demands on hitters

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Speaker 1: with just a renaissance of data focused training like what's

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Speaker 1: provided by drive Line and codify and most Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball teams and most Division One Baseball teams has allowed

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Speaker 1: players to develop through specifically targeted training looking at like

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Speaker 1: the top of the game like Jacob de gram show

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Speaker 1: Hey Otani. Their standout athletes like great sprinters even as

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Speaker 1: well as pitchers, and the population of hitters who can

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Speaker 1: match their high performance are few and far between, and

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Speaker 1: that's really just looking at the top. There are one

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Speaker 1: hundred and honestly, however many games there are this off season,

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Speaker 1: it has been a long lockout. I'm not gonna count

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Speaker 1: this year. I'm just excited to have ball. But the

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Speaker 1: Marlins have been to the top, and the Marlins have

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Speaker 1: the pitching to get there again. It might have more

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Speaker 1: pitching now than ever, but the twenty twenty two season

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Speaker 1: will be decided by the bat who they add next,

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Speaker 1: If they added enough, assuming another trade or signing, that's

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Speaker 1: four of probably about thirteen hitters on the twenty six

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Speaker 1: man that'll have turned over. They've got their pitchers, a

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Speaker 1: solid catcher and Stalling's they got a veteran batt and Avi.

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Speaker 1: They added infield versatility and Wendel with like a pretty

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Speaker 1: good bat to boot, making room to cram as many

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Speaker 1: hitters into the lineup as often as possible, aware of

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Speaker 1: the physical demands needed to hit velocity. There seems to

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Speaker 1: be a backbone to the roster that'll allow her days

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Speaker 1: off and hopefully more peak performance from even your regular starters.

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Speaker 1: I mean, tune into a Thursday afternoon a game, and

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Speaker 1: even Fernando tattoos, Junior doesn't quite seem up to the

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Speaker 1: demands of the game right in front of him. They've

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Speaker 1: had an off season, a lockout in time to add

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Speaker 1: something to their game, a change in swing, like Jazz

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Speaker 1: was working on some mechanics, some muscle Jose Devers supposedly has,

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Speaker 1: you know, put a few on and maybe players just

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Speaker 1: benefit from just ironing out that like nagging thing that

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Speaker 1: notice throughout the day, the week and you're second at bat.

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Speaker 1: Like two thousand and one saw some injuries to obliques

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Speaker 1: and shoulders, big muscle groups that are like necessary for

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Speaker 1: a swing. But now there's some more flexibility and the

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Speaker 1: you have had another year to brew and develop and

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Speaker 1: grow get on target for what it is they have

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Speaker 1: to hit. We've seen some success from them that we're

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Speaker 1: looking for more sustained success and we'll see if there's

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Speaker 1: an over the top bat or a polished leverage arm

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Speaker 1: in the future. But for now we're back and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. This year. I'll be focusing

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Speaker 1: on the bat. It's been just a bit of a

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Speaker 1: fascination of mine and clearly where we'll see whether or

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Speaker 1: not this Marlins team does it. So I'm on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: You can feel free to reach out to me if

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Speaker 1: you have any questions, the suggestions, things you want me

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Speaker 1: to cover on the podcast. I'll be with you every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Friday and tonight Wednesday, seven pm Fish Strikes Live.

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Speaker 1: If you're looking for that live stream. It is back

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Speaker 1: no more Jeopardy for the foreseeable, but at any rate,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to discuss, so Big Fish Small Pod

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Speaker 1: will be with you on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'll

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Speaker 1: be co hosting with Daniel Rodriguez. He'll be taken the

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Speaker 1: other days and yeah, for now I've been Andrew Erdaal.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back with you on Friday to check in

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Speaker 1: on these batters specifically. But tomorrow Daniel Regez will be here.

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Speaker 1: We'll be given this year a bit of a kickstart

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Speaker 1: ahead of the first mainfield games on Friday and ahead

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Speaker 1: of a full major league season. It's good to have

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Speaker 1: you here with us. Thank you for listening, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be back to your ears tomorrow