1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: I hope this episode of Big Fish, Small Pot is 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: the break that you need. As you know, yesterday was 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: a day off for the Marlins, and today Miami will 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: be facing Atlanta at home. Charlie Morton will be showing 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: up to face Trevor Rogers. If you've ever taken a 6 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: road trip, you know the feeling and route to your 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: destination making progress Like Miami, you're keeping an eye on 8 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 1: the numbers and you're getting good mileage. The run differential 9 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 1: has you nineteen ahead, but you still know you need 10 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: to fill up your gas tank. How do you do that? 11 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: I mean you might get off the road and fill 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: it up, or I like to go for a walk, 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: drink some water. Journal in any path, you have a 14 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: pressure to progress pretty firmly. Since twenty twenty, Atlanta has 15 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 1: been ahead of Miami. The regular season proved it twenty 16 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: nine to nine final score from the Truest Park on 17 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: September nineteenth, ahead of a NLDS match up and sweep 18 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: to close the year for the Fish. You might say 19 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: the gas tank was empty at that moment. You need 20 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: to let off the gas, take a break to fill 21 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: up so that things can begin to break your way. 22 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: Once things have changed once you have what you can 23 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: control under control. And right now Atlanta's behind Miami in 24 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: the East, their hood basically at our trunk. But thing 25 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: is change will and does happen. So a road trip 26 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: takes you somewhere new that you've never quite been, But 27 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: the same can also be found at home, taking that 28 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: time to recollect, re energize, rejuvenate, and reapproach, maybe even 29 00:02:53,000 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: the same thing you've done exactly before. So what's coming? 30 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: In the minor league's triple A debut, we had Will 31 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: Stewart make his first appearance for the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, 32 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: pitching for innings eighty five pitches probably on account, eight strikeouts, 33 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: one walk, one earned run by all accounts, just a 34 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: great movement for the organization. Will Stewart being the third 35 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: player back along with Alfaro and six of the Sanchez 36 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: in the JT Real Muto trade. This twenty four year 37 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: old is himself making things change from something more like 38 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: a throw in two. You know, someone who's right on 39 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: the cusp of the show and making their major league 40 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: debut themselves. Another player catching our i as Kyler Castillo, 41 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: twenty four year old h A with the Beloite Skycarp 42 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: hard to quite articulate what you're seeing with Kyler, but 43 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: he's bringing like an unreal discipline at the plate, walking 44 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: basically more than he strikes out, and hitting well too. 45 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: This is a player that was undrafted last season despite 46 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: great numbers in college. He had to go the route 47 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: of independent baseball to get that contract and get into 48 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: the affiliated minor league baseball system. When you're talking about 49 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: but Kyler, it's the fact that he went to New 50 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: Mexico in the Mountain West Conference, not your like major 51 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: major college competition, and he hit over four hundred in 52 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: both seasons that he played for them. A bit old 53 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: for like his competition. You're talking about someone who was 54 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: like twenty three last year at the time of the draft, 55 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: and that's typically a bit over what your scouts are 56 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: looking forward to. You know, physically, project these players into 57 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: a developmental system that they can like really regiment and 58 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: like work with their like hitters to like build their 59 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: swing or compound on what's like naturally there or work 60 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: well target specialize these skills that you can like develop, 61 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: Like We've seen a lot of pitchers develop their spin rate, 62 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: for example on sliders. So what you can do in 63 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 1: that environment is totally profound, and certainly age is something 64 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: of a consideration to that. But with like Kyler Castillo, 65 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: at a certain point you're looking at someone who, like 66 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, he's hitting three thirty eight in college, 67 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: he hit four twenty seven, and he's done it with 68 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: great discipline, like this year between Beloit and Jupiter, seventeen 69 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: to fourteen walks to strikeouts. It's something that you do 70 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: need those reps in that age to have the discipline 71 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: at the plate I can, I suppose come naturally, but 72 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: quite typically you're looking at an outstanding athlete as your 73 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: prospect who's then working his way into the form of 74 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: the baseball player. With this sweet swing and the eye 75 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: for the zone. It makes sense to build from those 76 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: like more like foundational blocks. So I don't mean to 77 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: indict a process. What I mean to do is to 78 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: build room for Kelsey Whitmore, who deserves our attention. She 79 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: is a independent league player. She's with the staaten Land 80 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: fairy Hawks. If you haven't heard of her, definitely check 81 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: out MLB dot COM's story by Bethlehem a Shame, who 82 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: wrote up a great like profile on Kelsey and really 83 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: indicates that key to her this picture and switch hitting 84 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: player is her work ethic described as like your sort 85 00:07:52,040 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: of like eighty grade kid. So with her, what you're 86 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: talking about as someone who's twenty three, that like Will Stewart, 87 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:10,239 Speaker 1: Kyler Castillo sort of like a little bit after your 88 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: dare I say a few best and progress that you 89 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: can make building a body. What you have is this 90 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:28,679 Speaker 1: more hard nosed baseball going on. Obviously, unlike Kyler, Kelsey 91 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: had no advantage of college baseball. That's a softball player 92 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: who in college had to convert from baseball to play 93 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: in college and receive scholarship money. And now we're bringing 94 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: back to baseball for the actual opportunity to play at 95 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: such a high stage. And bear with me on her 96 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: numbers for a bit because they're not there yet. But 97 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: she is working as a switch hitter and pitching. She's 98 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: not specializing yet, and she's giving it her absolute all 99 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: and to no one, probably no one else in the 100 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: sport has more motivation and more to prove it, needs 101 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: to make more of a break for herself than Kelsey 102 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: whitmore so, I think we're looking at someone in Staten 103 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: Island who's headed for the big leagues right now, she's 104 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: just in the Atlantic League, but with like former Major 105 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: League Baseball players as teammates, coaches, and with professional facilities, 106 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: the work can be done to progress her skills to 107 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: reach the top of the sport, no matter how long 108 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: the road ahead, and for Kelsey it does seem to 109 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: be more than you'd expect with Kyler or will, but 110 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: change is inevitable. By controlling what she can and staying 111 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: within herself as an athlete who can do it all, 112 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: She's given herself what seems to be like a space 113 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: shuttle like load of gas that can just drop off 114 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: the pitching if need be, to get ahead of her peers, 115 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 1: and it will be a long road for her. Much 116 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: shorter still is the road tonight in Miami with the 117 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: Marlins facing Atlanta after a day off and whatever exactly 118 00:10:54,080 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: that means for these players to refuel and reset for 119 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: a team that we all know has given them trouble before. 120 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: New episode of fish Stripes Unfiltered is also up today, 121 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: and fish Strip's Live will be with you before the 122 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: game leading up to this important home series against Atlanta. 123 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: So for now, for the small pod, I've been Andrew 124 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: were Dal urging you to keep a full tank of 125 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: guests in your car and in your metaphor.