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

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Speaker 1: Pod for Tuesday, November twenty first, twenty twenty three. And

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Speaker 1: a few are new to 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 am back again here

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Speaker 1: to give you a new small pod the free agent

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Speaker 1: class and potential target fits for your Miami Marlins. Last

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Speaker 1: episode for catchers, this episode is going to be the infield.

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Speaker 1: Decide to do more on the infield as a whole

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Speaker 1: because it is just a barren place for this free

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Speaker 1: agency class. There are are not a lot of top

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Speaker 1: names in the infield market, so it will be better

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Speaker 1: off to do maybe the top players at each position

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Speaker 1: or just a couple players that overall could solidify this

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Speaker 1: Marlins infield. And the first player we are going to

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Speaker 1: discuss comes from the Cleveland Guardians last season and that

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Speaker 1: is going to be Ahmed Rozario. You look at Ahmed

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Speaker 1: Rosario who had just not the best years last season

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Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Guardians. His slash line fell to two

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Speaker 1: six five three ZHO six three sixty nine over his

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Speaker 1: last four hundred and twelve trips to the plate, And

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Speaker 1: then when you look at his statcast metrics, they were

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Speaker 1: not great defensively. They had him at a way below

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Speaker 1: average sixteen runs negative sixteen runs below average at DRS,

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Speaker 1: which estimated is around negative eleven runs, which really marks

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Speaker 1: him as one of the worst of his career. He

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Speaker 1: fared a bit better with the then when he did

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Speaker 1: with the Guardians. You look at him with the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: his slugging went up. His ops to win up from

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Speaker 1: a six to seventy five with the Guardians to seven

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Speaker 1: zero nine with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: Sorry football down the line, both runs are gonna score.

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Speaker 2: We're sorry, Hustles in the second t skip town, go

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Speaker 2: run the third five rown Dodgers six verse sixteen. Since

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Speaker 2: becoming a Dodger.

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Speaker 1: He was once one of the top prospects in baseball,

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Speaker 1: and in this season he will be only entering his

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Speaker 1: age twenty eight twenty eight season, so he still has

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Speaker 1: a lot of things to give to the baseball world.

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Speaker 1: Last season, even with those numbers, he's still gay up

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Speaker 1: around fifteen stolen bases, home runs went down. Was a

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Speaker 1: guy that gave you close to fifteen home runs at

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Speaker 1: one point back in twenty nineteen. Before that, he had

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Speaker 1: two straight years of eleven home runs and for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: I really like this fit just because it will not

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Speaker 1: cost as much. And with Amed Rosario, it's a guy

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Speaker 1: who can play shortstop. It can even fill in at

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Speaker 1: second base for Luisa Rise and the Marlins they need

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Speaker 1: a shortstop badly. I understand Han, but he is not

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Speaker 1: going to be the guy, especially this right now. As

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Speaker 1: of right now, I would not start without Bluhan as

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Speaker 1: my starting shortstop for the Marlins. I think Amed Rosario

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Speaker 1: will be just I don't want to say that expensive.

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Speaker 1: This is someone that you might have to give two

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Speaker 1: years to, maybe the same around Rains that the Marlins

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Speaker 1: gave Jean to Girl, but I'll be more obliged obliged

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Speaker 1: to give that type of money to Amed Rosari around

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Speaker 1: two years, maybe twenty million. You are getting a right

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Speaker 1: handed infielder that at his peak could give you some

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Speaker 1: plus offense and you know, modest power and just really

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Speaker 1: great offensive per the activity, which otherwise looking at it

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Speaker 1: really below average for the Marlins. So that's one player

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Speaker 1: I would look at a met Rosario. The next player

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Speaker 1: is a player that's been linked to the Marlins. It

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Speaker 1: seems like every year for the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a trade, whether it's he's just gonna sign

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Speaker 1: with the Marlins. And that is Justin Turner now I

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Speaker 1: believe thirty eight years old, thirty nine going into next season.

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Speaker 1: He's turning thirty eight in just a couple of days

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Speaker 1: on November twenty third. So repularly wordy to you, just

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Speaker 1: In Turner if you're listening to this, but be thirty

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Speaker 1: nine on his coming up season and a guy that

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Speaker 1: you may not want to have defensively, it would just

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Speaker 1: be very difficult for him to just maintain that type

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Speaker 1: of defense at his age. And obviously with Jake Berger,

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Speaker 1: who would more than likely eat up all that space

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Speaker 1: that with Justin Turner, he would have to be the

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Speaker 1: long term de for that season. But I believe the

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Speaker 1: Marlins really are a fitness guy who offensively, if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna give you home runs, home runs, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: give you offensive productivity, which the Marlins have desperately needed,

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Speaker 1: and you can put him at DH Obviously not the

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Speaker 1: same effect that the Marlins have had with Jorce Solaire,

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Speaker 1: but this is a guy that you could put there

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Speaker 1: with DH you can platune him at times to third base,

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Speaker 1: and you can also play second and first base. So

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Speaker 1: someone who could cover the entire infield except shortstop, which

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Speaker 1: can help the Marlins. Look at the long term, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys may go down, guys may get hurt, and of

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Speaker 1: course you're gonna have a veteran like Justin Turner who

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Speaker 1: can also help and mentor the other guys. Imagine, you know,

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Speaker 1: just In Turner just helping out Jake Berger at that position.

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Speaker 1: And you look at Justin Turner last season with the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox. He had a really good year. You look

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Speaker 1: at his year there. He had a two war according

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Speaker 1: to Baseball Reference, which is really great for a guy

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Speaker 1: who's on season was thirty eight years old. He had

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Speaker 1: twenty three home runs, the most since twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Just really great stuff. You see from him at Boston

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Speaker 1: eight hundred ops, his slugging, his highacines since twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Is on base percentage at three forty five. He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna give you what he used to do with the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers and give you that high batting average and high

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Speaker 1: on base percentage. On base percentage has been going down ever,

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty twenty nineteen to now last season four

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Speaker 1: fifty five. But again someone that can help the Marlins offensively,

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Speaker 1: like Justin Turner, I believe will benefit the team more

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Speaker 1: than it does badly. And again with the money you're

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Speaker 1: gonna give him again like the Gen Sagara contract a bit,

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Speaker 1: but I think you're better off just giving Justin Turner

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Speaker 1: a one a one year deal, maybe around twelve fifteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars, and I believe it it will be worth it.

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Speaker 1: If anything, things don't work out well for the Marlins,

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Speaker 1: knocking would next season. That's someone again you can always

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Speaker 1: trade at the dead line and recover some of the

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Speaker 1: money and get some prospect capital. And you look at

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Speaker 1: some of his defensive stuff. Ratings have dipped from above

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Speaker 1: average just a little bit below when you look at

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Speaker 1: the end of his Dodgers' tenures. And then when you

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Speaker 1: go at Boston, you had Raphael Devers manning third base

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Speaker 1: and he really played designated hitter or first bates, so

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna pencil him in for nine hundred whatever

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Speaker 1: ratings at third base, so he would most likely be

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Speaker 1: the DH and for the last player really quickly less

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Speaker 1: than him in the left. Tim Anderson. Yes, the one

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Speaker 1: time it seemed like one of the best players in

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Speaker 1: baseball back in twenty twenty seventh in MVP Silver Slugging

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty two, and he just everything went

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Speaker 1: down a hill. In twenty twenty three, ohps went down

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Speaker 1: because its sixty sixty in twenty twenty three. Just one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest falloffs we've seen in quite a while

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Speaker 1: from Tim Anderson and the guy who's never gonna give

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Speaker 1: you that great defense. He had really good defense early

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Speaker 1: in his career twenty eighteen, seventeen nineteen and almost negative

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Speaker 1: you have to put him maybe on with shortstop there

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Speaker 1: and just make sure that he can get it done.

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Speaker 1: I believe Tim Anderson again, you can't give him a

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Speaker 1: long term deal. I believe this is someone again he's

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Speaker 1: alf of thirty years old. A one year deal whight

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Speaker 1: be right for Tim Anderson just almost like a proven

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Speaker 1: deal we've seen he's like an NBA and the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and with Tim Anderson again, just the metrics have not

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Speaker 1: looked good at all last season, just in a business

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Speaker 1: more season for him, He's always been almost a ground

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Speaker 1: ball hitter. We look at last season, so personal high

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Speaker 1: for him around sixty one percent. And he has interest

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Speaker 1: from other teams. You've seen everything that's happened to him,

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Speaker 1: everything with him and Jose Ramirez earlier last season, which

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Speaker 1: might be a factor in his market, but I believe

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Speaker 1: his track record should give him other opportunities with teams.

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Speaker 1: Stat cast was not good. His DRS pegged him sixteen

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Speaker 1: runs below average, so not great there. But if the

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Speaker 1: Marlins can relatively get him under ten million dollars, if

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Speaker 1: they can get him on a one year eight million,

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Speaker 1: nine maybe the most Powerance could possibly do is eleven

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Speaker 1: million dollars. But this is a guy that's also that's

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Speaker 1: gonna go out there and I prove it. But if

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Speaker 1: you do get that Tim Anderson Delvi, an All Star,

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Speaker 1: that was an MVP candidate, and you get him from

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Speaker 1: anywhere eight to twelve million dollars, then that's a home run.

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Speaker 1: That is that is assigning you make ten times out

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Speaker 1: of ten, and that's gonna be my in field targets

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Speaker 1: Amed Rosario, Justin Turner, Tim Anderson. This has been big fish,

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Speaker 1: small pot. Always go fish. H