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Speaker 1: Here we go earning their stripes. On the Fish Stripes Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Symbol the Stock Market for Sports. I am

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Speaker 1: Eli Sausman, joined by Ethan Bodowski. Happy Opening Day Eve

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Speaker 1: to everybody. The twenty twenty one Marlins Major League season

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Speaker 1: is already underway. You all know that. But beginning on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: each of the organization's full season minor league affiliates Triple

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Speaker 1: A Jacksonville, Double A Pensacle A, High A Balloyd, and

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Speaker 1: Low A Jupiter finally take the field, scheduled to play

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty games a piece, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: covering them with a fine tooth comb almost as closely,

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Speaker 1: if not more closely, than the Major League Doom. We

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Speaker 1: are minutes away from being joined by Marlin's prostate Joe

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Speaker 1: Dunand can't wait for that interview. But first, let's preview

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Speaker 1: what to expect down on the farm now that we

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Speaker 1: got those preliminary rosters that have been released over the weekends. Ethan,

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Speaker 1: we were deprived of affiliated minor league baseball all of

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Speaker 1: last year. The players, the fans, the media, everybody. We're

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Speaker 1: missing that. Now it's back. It tastes good, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, it feels really good.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, my roots with you guys at Fish

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Speaker 3: Stripes are in the in the minor leagues, and so

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Speaker 3: this is where it all started for me.

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Speaker 2: Just you know, with the rebuild, it was more interesting.

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Speaker 3: Than the major league team actually was the minor league system,

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Speaker 3: and the minor league system is still very interesting, and

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Speaker 3: it could end up again that it could be more

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Speaker 3: are some really intriguing rosters. I mean, I'm looking at

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously have some talent that we've already seen

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Speaker 3: then you go on down and there's some very intriguing

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Speaker 3: I'm repping today. So yeah, it was brutal, you know,

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Speaker 3: So there's some very intriguing prospects all over the place,

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Speaker 3: and I'm really excited to start watching them again and

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Speaker 3: start following those box scores. You know, I love box

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Speaker 3: score watching, and certainly especially you know, I'll be covering

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Speaker 3: Marlins Marlin games still, but I'll be keeping up with

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Speaker 3: all of that stuff while uh, while Marlin games are

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Speaker 1: Most most nights a week, Tuesday through Sunday, you're going

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Speaker 1: to have for the most part five games to follow

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Speaker 1: at the major league level, and all these full season affiliates,

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Speaker 1: be a rookie league as well, in both the US

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Speaker 1: and the DR. It's gonna be overwhelming in all the

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Speaker 1: best ways. We're gonna have all our coverage that people

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Speaker 1: can find on fish stripes dot com slash Prospects. That's

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Speaker 1: where I automatically tag just about everything we do, including

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Speaker 1: this podcast as well. Can follow us on Twitter. It's

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Speaker 1: gotten so much that we're going to unveil on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: a secondary Twitter account for just Prospects at Phish Prospects

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Speaker 1: that more people can follow. That's just going to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we don't drown your your timelines all with

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Speaker 1: get that second account verified soon. I mean, we got

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Speaker 1: the main one verified a couple months ago. We somehow

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Speaker 1: get this new one verified too. That'll be awesome. But

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Speaker 1: more details about that at Fish Prospects. Make sure you're

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Speaker 1: following that on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: I might need the password to that account.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll give you the password today. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Ethan. We also have Kevin Krakowski is going to

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend people checking out Swimming Upstream. That's the

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Speaker 1: Fish on the Farm podcast. They spent like a full

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven years old, twenty six years old, twenty six

433
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Speaker 1: years old. Right now, he kind of is what he is,

434
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Speaker 1: but his stuff is I think it caught everybody by surprise.

435
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to translate to big results immediately.

436
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see him in the majors at some point.

437
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 1: And from what we saw on spring training, it's just

438
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,119
Speaker 1: it's a great story. It's a great story from a

439
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 1: guy that wasn't even expecting this from himself. So I'm

440
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Speaker 1: excited to see him in real games and high leverage situations.

441
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when Maddingly was asked about him, he was like,

442
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 3: I don't know where this guy came from.

443
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Speaker 2: We have no idea. He was like, I think he

444
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,200
Speaker 2: came from Awakeet or something like that.

445
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Speaker 3: But he also said that he has big league stuff,

446
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Speaker 3: and I think we've been talking about how the Marlins

447
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 3: need heart throwers at the back end. You know, you've

448
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 3: seen a guy like Jordan Holloway, Zach Pop start taking

449
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 3: people by storm. John Curtis has taken you know, Marlins fans.

450
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Speaker 3: It has grabbed Marlins fans' attention with the stuff they

451
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Speaker 3: have at the back end. So this is certainly a

452
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Speaker 3: guy who has very good stuff at the back end,

453
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Speaker 3: high leverage stuff. Very excited about him for me, Oh man,

454
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Speaker 3: I could go a bunch of different directions here, but

455
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Leywin Diaz, I'm very very high on

456
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Speaker 3: this kid. You know, he did appear in the big

457
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Speaker 3: leagues last year and it wasn't great. You know, he

458
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 3: didn't have a ton of results, but he was every

459
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Speaker 3: time he put the ball, bat on the ball, it

460
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Speaker 3: was hard and it was in a gap somewhere. And

461
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Speaker 3: it was the same thing in spring training, and it

462
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Speaker 3: was the same thing in winter ball. This year, it

463
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Speaker 3: seemed like every time he hit the ball, he hit

464
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Speaker 3: it hard. So if he can just start making contact,

465
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Speaker 3: you know, he's got his hands a little higher, they're

466
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Speaker 3: more settled in his batting stands.

467
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Speaker 2: This year.

468
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Speaker 3: He looked really good in spring training. When I went

469
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Speaker 3: out in spring training, I saw his batting practice. I mean,

470
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Speaker 3: your eyes just kind of light up watching this kid.

471
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Speaker 3: So very excited to see what Laywin can do in

472
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Speaker 3: triple A. You know, the Marlins went out and got

473
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Speaker 3: him for I think that was the Sergio Romo trade,

474
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Speaker 3: and that's certainly an intriguing guy. It. You know, all

475
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Speaker 3: reports are that the Marlins are obsessed with him. They

476
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Speaker 3: see him as possibly the top prospect in the organization.

477
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Speaker 2: Here. I agree with you.

478
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, and great Timon because Joe is

479
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Speaker 1: calling right now.

480
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Speaker 3: I was just going to say that an honorable mentioned

481
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 3: guy would be the guy that we're about to talk to. Yes,

482
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 3: and then real quick, Braxton Garrett and Jesus Sanchez guys

483
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Speaker 3: that we've seen at the major league level and I

484
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 3: want to see what they got.

485
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Speaker 2: So I'm ready for Joe though. Let's bring him in

486
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Speaker 2: right now.

487
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Speaker 1: Calling in with us Marlins prospect Joe Dunant. Take a

488
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Speaker 1: listen to this interview, our special guest on earning their stripes.

489
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Speaker 1: Has been in the Marlins organization for nearly four years

490
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Speaker 1: and he's now on the verge of a huge milestone

491
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Speaker 1: reaching the major leagues infielder. Joe Dunand is a true

492
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Speaker 1: Miami guy. Played his college ball at North Carolina State

493
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: before coming back home when the Fish selected him in

494
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Speaker 1: the second rounds of the twenty seventeen MLB Draft. I'm

495
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: not sure any Marlins prospect has done more than Joe

496
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: has over the last six months to raise their profile.

497
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,959
Speaker 1: He has taken his game to a new level and

498
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Speaker 1: now he's here to talk about it. Joe Dounand, we

499
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Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to join us here at

500
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Speaker 1: Fish Stripes.

501
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,360
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, make guys happy to be here

502
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 4: and answer your guy your guys questions.

503
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: Well, you were someone obviously highly rated coming out of

504
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,719
Speaker 1: school when the Marlins drafted you, and you pretty what

505
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: you call prototypical fast riser in the organization. It only

506
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: took you like a year from when you signed to

507
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: actually make it all the way to double A in Jacksonville.

508
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: So you know this place well. And as things have

509
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: shaken out, because now Jacksonville got bumped up to Triple A,

510
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: you're back there again. And where you were part of

511
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, all part of twenty eighteen, all twenty nineteen,

512
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Speaker 1: So you know this place well. I guess it feels

513
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: like a second home for you. What is what is

514
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: it like to be in Jacksonville right now in terms

515
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Speaker 1: of where we're still in the final stages of this pandemic.

516
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Speaker 1: Is the city more or less back to normal or are

517
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Speaker 1: there any other differences you notice about living there over

518
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Speaker 1: these past couple of days.

519
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Speaker 4: It's great, It's always great to be in Jacksonville. You know,

520
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 4: there's a great, great city. I would say for the

521
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 4: most part, it's it's pretty normal. I mean, we've been quarantine,

522
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 4: we've been in the hotel, you know, pretty isolated. But

523
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 4: I believe they've been having some events here. I think

524
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 4: they had the MMA fight, the Malsvedel fight here and

525
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 4: I think it was full capacity, and I believe the

526
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 4: NFL is doing full capacity as well. But I mean,

527
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 4: they got a great, great fan base here, and the

528
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 4: fans in our stadium is they're always packed and they're

529
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 4: always pretty lively. So it'll be good to see them

530
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 4: fill up that stadium, whether it's I don't know what

531
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 4: the capacity is, fifty sixty percent, but it'll be fun

532
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Speaker 4: to be out there.

533
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe, just you know, you missed the year and

534
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 3: so you know, I don't know, you didn't get to

535
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 3: play without the fans, so I guess it feels normal

536
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 3: to be back with them.

537
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 2: But for you when you were in spring training, you.

538
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Speaker 3: Know, after going through a whole year off, how good

539
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 3: was it when you stepped out on that field for

540
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 3: the first time and you know, you saw people and

541
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Speaker 3: the atmosphere seemed great.

542
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 4: Offspring Really it was awesome, man, it was you know,

543
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 4: when you don't play a game for a year, it

544
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 4: really you know, you miss it, and you know, it

545
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 4: was a great feeling to be back out there. I

546
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 4: actually played in dr And with Escahil and they had

547
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 4: no fans, so I kind of got a glimpse at

548
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 4: it because you know, the fans down there get pretty

549
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 4: crazy as well, so it was pretty weird playing with

550
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 4: no fans. But yeah, it was good to see people

551
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 4: back in the stands this year and hopefully, you know,

552
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 4: it keeps feeling up.

553
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: Well. Speaking of Esquhito and people that follow fitz Stripes,

554
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: they're aware of what you did down there, man, I

555
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: mean a huge not just offensive numbers, but also the

556
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Speaker 1: defense as well, winning a Gold Glove for the way

557
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: you played down there. So that one I went to

558
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: back up a little bit to twenty nineteen because you know,

559
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: the first couple of years in the Marlins organization, you

560
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: were a shortstop that's kind of flat like, you played

561
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Speaker 1: shortstop all the time at those first few levels of

562
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Speaker 1: the minors, and then it was kind of in the

563
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Speaker 1: middle of twenty nineteen you start getting some starts at

564
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Speaker 1: third base, and it was really towards the end of

565
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 1: that season and when that when third base became your

566
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: primary position. I think a lot of people would think

567
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: of shortstop as the sexiest and the most glamorous defensive

568
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: position out there. Uh, how I'm not exactly sure when

569
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: that like dialogue happened between you and the team where

570
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: they said they wanted you to focus on third base,

571
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: But was that tough for you to you know, understand uh,

572
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: all everything that comes to being a shortstop and then

573
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: having to obviously prepare for this even though it's right

574
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: next to shortstop on the diamond. There's a lot of

575
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: different skill sets that go into being a third baseman.

576
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Speaker 1: How did you take that news initially, and like, how

577
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: what steps have you taken to continue improving at third

578
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: base to the point where you're now you're you're now

579
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: a huge like asset over there at third.

580
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think that's always been uh, you know,

581
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 4: in you know, in writing, I guess, you know, always

582
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 4: predicted that I would play third. You know, in high

583
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 4: school and college, I would always I would play third,

584
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 4: and then I moved to short, and I guess the

585
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 4: pro balls, I played short and moved the third. So

586
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 4: I've always been back and forth with those two positions.

587
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,239
Speaker 4: But I would say in twenty nineteen, we it was

588
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 4: I think the second half when we traded for Jazz, I,

589
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 4: you know, we pretty much expected him to play short

590
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 4: and I was going to make the move to third.

591
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 4: But you know, I mean I feel pretty comfortable. I

592
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 4: felt pretty comfortable making that move. You know, I feel

593
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 4: pretty comfortable by third. Like I said, I played in

594
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 4: my whole life knowing that, you know, anything happened. I

595
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 4: can also play short I've always wanted to show that

596
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 4: I could play shortstop at a big, bigue level, and

597
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 4: I believe that I have. And also they got me

598
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 4: playing a little first now, so that's a big learning

599
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 4: curve for me as well. Second new world over there.

600
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 4: But you know, taking it day by day and and uh,

601
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 4: you know, just getting better, progressing slowly.

602
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe, I want to stick with the d R

603
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 3: and just ask you what's the coolest thing about playing there?

604
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: Because the winters are so exciting, it's the baseball is

605
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 3: so action packed, the fans are incredible. What's the coolest

606
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 3: thing about playing there? And then also in your time there,

607
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 3: what's like the biggest takeaway that you had from playing

608
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 3: down there, Whether it's the adjustments that you made or

609
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 3: just lessons that you learned from the guys you were

610
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 3: playing with.

611
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say in DR it's such a fun league.

612
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 4: You know, when there's fans, there's nothing that can replace

613
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 4: those fans. You know, there could be two hundred people

614
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 4: in the stadium and it sounds like it's thirty thousand people.

615
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 4: It's a fun atmosphere of playing and you know, they

616
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 4: were definitely missed this year, but at the same time,

617
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 4: it felt like it was the only baseball being played

618
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 4: at the time, So that was pretty cool also, you know,

619
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 4: being you know, I felt like everybody was watching that

620
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 4: league because obviously COVID hit and nobody was doing anything.

621
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 4: But the biggest takeaways I took this past year was,

622
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 4: you know, uh, just being able to hang around guys

623
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 4: like Bladdie Junior and Gregor Blanco and seeing those guys

624
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 4: and and all the work that they put in no

625
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 4: matter what the situation, no matter where we are, those

626
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 4: guys did their routine. They did everything that they had

627
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 4: to do every single day, day in and day out.

628
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 4: So you know, just being able to incorporate that into

629
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 4: my routine, into my work ethic was you know, seeing

630
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 4: that firsthand was pretty pretty good. And uh, it's a

631
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 4: good experience.

632
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 3: That just since you mentioned him, do you have any

633
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 3: cool Vladdie Junior stories in terms of how far he

634
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 3: can hit a baseball?

635
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 4: Well, not really, you know, you know, everything he does,

636
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 4: it's the guy. He's a he's a freak, you know,

637
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 4: he's so he's an amazing baseball player. His routine was

638
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 4: during BP, it was like the first couple of rounds

639
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 4: he was just hitting ground balls, the second and then

640
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 4: just you know, line drives up the middle the rest

641
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 4: of the rest of the way. You know, it wasn't

642
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 4: trying to hit five hundred foot bombs and like, you know,

643
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 4: like he regularly does as I think that just happens

644
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 4: in the game for him. Man, you know that's all

645
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 4: thanks to his routine and so so, I mean, I

646
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 4: don't really have any any crazy stories or anything for

647
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 4: you guys.

648
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you don't need to be modest, because I

649
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: mean people could just look at the stats. You were

650
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: every bit as good as he was over the winner

651
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: in terms of like what you were doing at the plating,

652
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: not just getting on base and hitting for power. Maybe

653
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: a different style, maybe it's it doesn't like catch people's

654
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: eyes the same way, but your production was right up there.

655
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: So if Laddie now this year he's an early season

656
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: potential al MVP contender, he must be feeling pretty good

657
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: about it about you doing the same thing if you

658
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: get that opportunity, because he because I mean, you were.

659
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: That's the thing I would surprise people. I don't remember

660
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: exactly how the Lindome MVP results got out there, but

661
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: you were. You were the MVP of your team at

662
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: least of Escaljito. That's what I thought. And uh, I hope,

663
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: I hope you felt that they appreciated you down there,

664
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: because even though they do have these biggerams and you

665
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: got to play with God, you got to play with

666
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: probably a dozen guys that have big league experience. You

667
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: deserve a lot of credit for how you perform down there.

668
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you appreciate that. Yeah, it's definitely a confidence

669
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 4: booster playing with those guys. And you know, when you're

670
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 4: playing that well and the team was playing well as well,

671
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 4: everything kind of, you know, just keeps going and it's

672
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 4: a you know, everything was going well, So you know,

673
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 4: it's a tribute to having all that work I put

674
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 4: in and and you know that year off of COVID,

675
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 4: you know, putting all that work in and every day

676
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 4: you know, all you have is yourself and and a

677
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 4: lot of times so you can either sit down and

678
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 4: you know, why did this happen? Why is all this happening?

679
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 4: Or you could get to work and I got to work.

680
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 4: So you know, being able to see that ah turn

681
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 4: out to what it was in dr and and where

682
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 4: I am today, you know, just it's a good it's

683
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 4: a good confidence booster.

684
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, well, you know we wanted we want

685
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: to dig a little bit more into work that you

686
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: put in because obviously the results are there. You have

687
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: this great interview with I think Sam Dykstra of MLB

688
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: dot com right in the middle of that winter ball season,

689
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: and you talk about how before the winner, well dating

690
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: back to like the twenty nineteen season, when you weren't

691
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: getting the results you wanted at Jacksonville that I mean mechanically,

692
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: we're kind of inconsistent with your swing mechanics, you know,

693
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: trying to decide between exactly what to do with your

694
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: lower body in order to tap into that. So if

695
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: you could just like take the fans through that process

696
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: and describe what differences you made going like compared to

697
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen then to now in terms of being more consistent.

698
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: What did you decide on that worked for you in

699
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: terms of getting your lower body really into your swing.

700
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say in twenty nineteen, like you said,

701
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 4: it was very inconsistent year, and I think it was

702
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 4: because I was all over the place with you know,

703
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 4: I was toe tapping, I was leg kicking, I was

704
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 4: I didn't know what to do with my hands, keep

705
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 4: them still, you know, in a certain spot. And you know,

706
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 4: when you have this year off, like I said, you

707
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 4: you you know, we did a lot of film study,

708
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 4: did a lot of work on my body, and you know,

709
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,959
Speaker 4: I just wanted to feel that after every swing, after

710
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 4: after every pitch, I wanted to be as the most

711
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 4: balanced that I can be. And you know that that

712
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 4: I think for me, that helps out. That just basically

713
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 4: simplifies it all. You know, be in the most powerful

714
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 4: position to hit and you know, helps me see the ball,

715
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 4: helps me stay back, it helps me balance, and you

716
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 4: know a lot of good things come from that. And

717
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 4: a couple you know, mental adjustments here and there. You know,

718
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 4: can't be in between pitches and stuff. But yeah, I

719
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 4: think just it's small things like that that you know,

720
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 4: make a big difference. And uh, but basically the biggest

721
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 4: adjustment was being balanced and in the most powerful position.

722
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 4: I think I was telling Sam that during our interview.

723
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, Joe, you know this question is coming in

724
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: every interview, But I gotta ask it because you know,

725
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: some people out there might not know, but you're a

726
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 3: Rod's nephew, you know, you got You've talked about. I

727
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 3: heard you in spring saying, you guys have a great relationship.

728
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: But growing up, like, what was the big what was

729
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 3: the one baseball specific lesson that he taught you that

730
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: has helped you most in your career.

731
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 4: So the biggest thing I take from him, you know,

732
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 4: growing up, you know, we talked hitting, we talked this,

733
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 4: we talked that, But the one biggest thing that I

734
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 4: ever taken from him is his defense. You know, you

735
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 4: gotta be you gotta be on point with your defense.

736
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 4: It'll get you on the field, It'll get you abs.

737
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 4: You show gold Glove caliber defense and you know you're

738
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 4: hitting will take care of itself, you know, but defense

739
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 4: will get you on the field, it'll it'll win championships.

740
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: It's it's very underappreciated and undervalued, but you know, it's

741
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 4: probably one of the most important things you need as

742
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 4: a prospect or as a player or as a team

743
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 4: and you know, if you want to win. So that's

744
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 4: that's definitely the biggest thing I've taken from him growing up.

745
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: Right, Well, flipping back to the offensive side just for

746
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: one more question that I think so overall minor league

747
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: baseball and add in lind Dome, I count twenty three

748
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: home runs that you've hit in official professional games, not

749
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: including the spring training stuff, and I mean, that's the

750
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: best thing you could possibly do when you're up in

751
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: the plate, is hit it out. Out of those, I

752
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: think all of us would would be like over the

753
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: moon if we just hit one home run and know

754
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: what that felt like in a real game. But out

755
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: of all those that you've hit since turning pro, is

756
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: there anyone that is most memorable to you? I mean,

757
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer to this because I

758
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: was watching you closely over the winner. But maybe you

759
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: go in another direction. Which of those really sticks out

760
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: to you, either in terms of the situation or the

761
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: quality of the pitcher that you facing. Which of those

762
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: home runs really last in your memory entering entering this

763
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: new season.

764
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 4: I would say, you know, it's probably on the same

765
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 4: page that the Grand Slam walk off uh Downald was

766
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 4: pretty special, especially against our rivals or in city rivals

767
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 4: that say down was a special one. And you know,

768
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 4: I don't really like to uh say, I like this

769
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 4: one over the other, because you know, they're all cool

770
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 4: and I love them more.

771
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 5: Safe and organ Partillo says, but down was pretty cool.

772
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 4: Down was pretty special. Now, anytime you can help the

773
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 4: team win like that, and obviously one swing and the

774
00:37:58,239 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 4: bad does it, that's it's always cool.

775
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe, one I wanted to ask you about coming

776
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 3: into this was your you know, this is this doesn't

777
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 3: technically count as pro ball, but your walk off this spring.

778
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 2: You were kind of like a big hit this spring.

779
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 2: You had a great spring.

780
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 3: You took a lot of people by surprise, I think,

781
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: and you just kind of kept it rolling from that

782
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 3: winter ball. So, you know, being in front of the

783
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 3: big league club, you know, Magles in in dugout and

784
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: I'm sure Denbo's sitting somewhere in those seats and they're

785
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 3: all watching.

786
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 2: How good did that feel.

787
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: To you know, be on this stage in spring training

788
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 3: and be able to give your team a win and

789
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 3: hit one out and walk off fashion like that.

790
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, it felt great. You know, like I said, anytime

791
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 4: it can help the team win, that's great. You know,

792
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 4: we all, uh, we're all working towards the same goal

793
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 4: and to win every single game that we play. Yeah,

794
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 4: but it felt good to hit it, you know, and

795
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 4: during spring training and and like I said that this

796
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 4: whole year, you know, being able to show what you

797
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 4: what you've improved on and and what you worked on,

798
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 4: it's very special. So I mean, at the end of

799
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 4: the day, we're all trying to everybody down here, we're

800
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 4: all trying to make it to the to the show,

801
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 4: and showing what you have and your abilities is important.

802
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 4: So you know, that was a pretty special moment.

803
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 3: Long hold three to two, runner does not go don

804
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 3: it slam from the left field.

805
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 2: Long run purpose of going back it is out of here.

806
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: I'll walk off to run Homer for Joe Donan and

807
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,439
Speaker 3: the Marlins wing it free to two. I'm just kind

808
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 3: of rolling off that, you know, showing what you need

809
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: to get to the show.

810
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: You're you're right there.

811
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: And this right after spring training you had the alternate

812
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 3: training site. Now you get the level closest to the

813
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 3: big So what was that experience at the alternate training site,

814
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 3: like after spring training? Was it just kind of competing

815
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 3: right after that really competitive spring or what was your

816
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 3: biggest takeaway from that experience.

817
00:39:54,880 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 4: The ATS was is it was tough? You know, it's

818
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 4: a little different than Spring training because there was no fans.

819
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 4: There was nobody, So it's kind of like reminute like

820
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 4: uh replica replicated of the d R like no fans,

821
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 4: but it's't you know, there was a lot of scrimmages

822
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 4: and and exhibitions. I think we played the Blue Jays

823
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 4: and Port Charlotte. You know, we saw a lot of

824
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 4: tough competition. You know, there's there's a lot of guys

825
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 4: that are on the verge or have been in the

826
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 4: in the bigs, and you know, just being able to

827
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 4: see those guys in the tough competition that there that

828
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 4: is out there, it's uh, it'll get you ready, it'll

829
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 4: get you right. And you know, I'm pretty excited to

830
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 4: get this year going with UH. Since we're starting here

831
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 4: in Triple A, I think most of the guys are

832
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 4: pretty excited to get this get this thing going. And

833
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 4: and you know we're won't We're like you guys said,

834
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 4: we're wont phone call away and you never know what

835
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 4: can happen. You know, those guys in the show, they're

836
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 4: grinding every day. It's a tough year. It's a long

837
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 4: and you know, we just want to be as ready

838
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 4: as we can be. So you know, we just keep

839
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:08,959
Speaker 4: the train rolling up there when we get there.

840
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I'm disappointed, Joe, because here at fish Stripes

841
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: we thought would be a great idea last year they

842
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: called it the Alternate Training Site, and I mean the

843
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: name sucks. It's a dumb name. It doesn't like it's

844
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: not fair to you guys that are really like major

845
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: league caliber guys. We thought it could be something clever

846
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: to come up with. We came up with the fish tank,

847
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: and we weren't able to get that to stick calling

848
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,479
Speaker 1: it the fish tank. It's not the Uld.

849
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 2: Training It was a valiant ever the two of us.

850
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: Would you support that? You think that was a good choice.

851
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that specifically for us, Yeah I would I.

852
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: Should have passed it up the chain. Well, we had

853
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: the chance and make the decision makers aware that. But yeah,

854
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: just a couple more for you, because of course you

855
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: mentioned the ultimate goal of like getting up to the show.

856
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: Be honest with us. I know you've been honest with

857
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: us already. But barely a week ago, a week and

858
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: a half ago, starting third basement of the Marlins, Brian

859
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: Anderson gets injured. He goes on the i L with

860
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: an oblique issue. During spring training. I think there were

861
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 1: more than a few games where it was the same

862
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: situation where he started the game and you came in

863
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: right after him to play the same position. Was there

864
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: any was anything in you that thought when he went

865
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: to the I l when it was an oblique entry,

866
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: you don't know exactly how long it would take to

867
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: get back, that you thought that could be the chance

868
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: to get called up.

869
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean definitely, you know anything, you know, I

870
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 4: don't know how or when I will get the call up,

871
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 4: but you know, that's definitely an opportunity or it was

872
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 4: a chance. You know. But you know, first of all,

873
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 4: you know hoping Brian was okay, and you know he

874
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 4: gets better and you gets back on the field as

875
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 4: soon as possible. But you know, just in my my

876
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 4: mental the way I'm thinking, it was just you know,

877
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 4: just be ready. That was definitely an opportunity or that

878
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 4: was a chance for a call and if it comes,

879
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 4: if it does, I'm gonna be ready, you know. Yeah.

880
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, from what we know, it does sound like he'll

881
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: be back from that injury tomorrow, should be. It went

882
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 1: really well that he got that kind of a head

883
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: of schedule. With that being said, I mean, that was

884
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: something that was out of your control. What do you

885
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: think specifically is in your control that you have to

886
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: prove for the team to eventually put you up. Is

887
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: there anything in particular that they've told you that they

888
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: definitely want to see from you before calling you up?

889
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: Or yeah, anything to make it happen and instead of

890
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: like there's a certain number of injuries that kind of

891
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: can give you the opportunity put it in your lap,

892
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: But in terms of earning that call up, what steps

893
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: do you need to take to make that happen at

894
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: some point this year?

895
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know, just I would say just showing that

896
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 4: you can do it every single pitch. I mean, this

897
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 4: is my focus, you know what I'm trying to do

898
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 4: this year and my main thing what I want to

899
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 4: improve on is showing every single pitch, every single play,

900
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 4: that you know you can dominate. Let's say for a

901
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 4: b's you want to dominate every single pitch. You don't

902
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 4: ever want to let one go, no matter the situation,

903
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 4: no matter of the count. You want to be locked

904
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 4: in focused on every single play, pitch, every single play,

905
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 4: and defensively, just make every single play and show you

906
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 4: could play third. I know I can play Go Go

907
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 4: go glove caliber third and and short and you know

908
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 4: eventually first. So just showing that I belong, you know,

909
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 4: I belong in the bigs. You know I can I

910
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,479
Speaker 4: belong playing with all the the best guys in the world.

911
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 4: And yeah, just keep showing it every single day.

912
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, that first day coming up on Tuesday, come on

913
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 1: tomorrow as people are listening to this, and yeah, pulling

914
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: six days a week as the schedule is shaken out

915
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: the way that the roster is set up. Looking at

916
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: the guys that are on there right now, Yeah, it

917
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: does seem like you'll get a whole lot of opportunities

918
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: that they're and if you get to play first, I mean,

919
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: you have a great guy to learn from over there

920
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: in Leywan Diaz where defensively he is gonna he's off

921
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: the charge. Yeah, anything else ethan.

922
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 2: That you want?

923
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to ask you one more thing, Joe,

924
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 3: I was muted. But anyway, you've been in this organization

925
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 3: now for four years. You're like a veteran in this organization.

926
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 3: And there and since you've been here, there's been a

927
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 3: regime takeover. You know, the Jeter group bought it and

928
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 3: and there's been an injection of talent and life into

929
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 3: this organization, in this pharm system.

930
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 2: How awesome has it been to see all this talent?

931
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 3: You know you talked about when you had to move

932
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 3: over the third because Jazz showed up, and look at

933
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 3: what he's doing at the major league level now. So

934
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 3: how cool has it been for you to kind of

935
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 3: sit and watch as all these guys come in, all

936
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 3: this talent starts surrounding you, and then you're the veteran

937
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 3: among them, you know the ways better than anybody.

938
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 4: It's exciting, man, It's really it's really electric, to be honest,

939
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 4: Like you said, I saw the old regime and I

940
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 4: saw the new regime, and it's night and day. You know,

941
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 4: just the culture that they built here is really amazing.

942
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 4: It's it's you. There's a place you want to play.

943
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 4: There's a place I want to be, you know, you know,

944
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 4: there's like you said, there's so much talent. There's so

945
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 4: much competition down here that it pushes you to be.

946
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 4: It pushed you to get better and better. So this

947
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 4: is where I want to be. This is the organization

948
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 4: I want to be in, truly, truly, night and day,

949
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 4: and it's it's really exciting to be here.

950
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you mentioned how much does it mean

951
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 3: to you that your call is probably going to come

952
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 3: from the organization that drafted you. That doesn't happen very

953
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 3: often in today's major leagues. Guys are moved around so much.

954
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 3: We've seen, you know, some of these guys that the

955
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 3: Moolents have traded for. I played for two three organizations already,

956
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 3: So your call is coming soon. How much will it

957
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 3: mean to you to come from the team that drafted you?

958
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 4: It means the world, you know, it's a dream. That's

959
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 4: a dream come true, truly. You know, I grew up

960
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 4: in Miami. I'm born and bred, and uh, to be

961
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 4: go to play for the city that I was born

962
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 4: in as it's a it's a dream and eventually, you know,

963
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 4: the real dream that the the real goal is to

964
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 4: win a championship here and and uh, you know share

965
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 4: that with my city and my teammates and everything. So

966
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 4: that's that'll be, that'll be, that'll be a special day.

967
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a better way to finish that off. Yeah, yeah,

968
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 2: at least that's perfect.

969
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 1: From Jacksonville Jumbo shrimping fielder Joe Dunand and potential future

970
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: major leaguer who is on just a great trajectory, especially

971
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: over the past six months last year, he has changed

972
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: his game and uh, we're wishing you the best in

973
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: luck this season.

974
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 4: Joe. Thank you.

975
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch you this year.

976
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 4: Man, Thank you guys,