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Speaker 1: Anxious, optimistic, in a state of self denial. I'm eighty

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Speaker 1: or doll and this is Big Fish, Small Pot, the

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Speaker 1: show here on the Fish Stripes podcast network, where I

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Speaker 1: and do You Roddy take some time out of our

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Speaker 1: midweek to catch you up on what happened today in

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Speaker 1: Marlins baseball. Yesterday the Marlins were off. They had a

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Speaker 1: day of recovery rest heading back from San Diego to

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Speaker 1: Miami ahead of a CUB series. It's hard to articulate

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Speaker 1: why I'm feeling more optimistic about the Marlins over the

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Speaker 1: last day than I did before, because it's totally irrational.

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Speaker 1: They didn't play, so ultimately I chalk up the reason too.

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Speaker 1: Lewis Brinson looked a little bit more into that obviously

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Speaker 1: read Eli's right up, and what stands out to me

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Speaker 1: still is that Lewis is a player that's basically gone

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Speaker 1: on record as saying that he who wasn't focused, He

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Speaker 1: wasn't putting in as much effort as he could to

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Speaker 1: improve in baseball. Maybe he didn't see where he needed to,

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Speaker 1: but he had like a reckoning. Obviously, he took accountability

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Speaker 1: for his actions. He understood where he was at, and

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Speaker 1: to my eye, he's legitimately improved his game in a

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Speaker 1: way that could be sustainable going forward. On a day

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Speaker 1: where Major League Baseball is dreaming, for me, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: of Lewis. I'm thinking that maybe his improvement is sustainable

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Speaker 1: into the future. Maybe we're looking at an opening day

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Speaker 1: left fielder. I think and pretty much want to hold

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Speaker 1: the Marlins to the fact that they have said that

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Speaker 1: they need to in center field. That'll happen in the offseason.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps they'll have a new number one outfielder come November

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Speaker 1: December something like that. For me, a lot of the

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Speaker 1: drama in baseball is around who wins and who loses.

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Speaker 1: It's about the people in it and just who gives

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Speaker 1: you reasons to root for them, and Brinson absolutely does that.

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Speaker 1: Going on to the miners, just checking in on a

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Speaker 1: full slate of games for the Marlins farm system and

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Speaker 1: another you know, like a list future outfielder JJ Bladay.

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Speaker 1: He was on Gays five times on Tuesday, he homered

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and last night. In his first at bat,

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Speaker 1: he hit a double to lead off the game, then

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Speaker 1: he walked in the second, watched six pitches on that

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Speaker 1: and then with the next pitch in the zone, he

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Speaker 1: hit a home run. Just Bladet has kind of gotten

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Speaker 1: back on track this week. That's a lot to say,

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Speaker 1: but if you really break down what was going on

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Speaker 1: with him, it makes sense. So going into twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one during the pandemic time, MLB Pipeline reports that he

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Speaker 1: spent time working on his conditioning, just making that adjustment,

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Speaker 1: probably running a lot, kind of letting your body reconfigure

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Speaker 1: itself to probably just provide a sustained effort across a

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Speaker 1: full professional season. That's a big adjustment from college to

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Speaker 1: pro and to actually stick that landing and have a

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Speaker 1: long successful career, a lot of players do need to

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Speaker 1: take a step back, focus on their body and just

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Speaker 1: like optimize it in a human sense, not quite a

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Speaker 1: baseball sense yet, but obviously that's the goal. He's you know,

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Speaker 1: as an amateur, he was noted as because of having

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Speaker 1: an amazing approach at the plate, good with the bat.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of getting back on track with that. I

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Speaker 1: have to imagine that like nowadays, he probably knew where

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Speaker 1: He knows what he can do. He probably saw it

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Speaker 1: go down from some point in the past and very

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Speaker 1: recently in Double A, and it's probably a matter of

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Speaker 1: sharpening that up to get him going. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: say exactly with the like elaborate developmental program going on

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Speaker 1: in baseball nowadays, but players can do really focused work

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Speaker 1: to improve and stand out amongst their peers, and as such,

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Speaker 1: JJ Blade is kind of trying to make that turn

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Speaker 1: he now knows. I mean, we all knew that pitchers

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Speaker 1: and with reps and adjustments he might now have a

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Speaker 1: In Miami, Zach mccambley also had a really interesting game.

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Speaker 1: He held the Biscuits hitless for five innings, two walks,

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Speaker 1: is really important after the last three starts showing seven

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Speaker 1: two win for Pensacola. Brian Hoying in High a seven innings,

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Speaker 1: one unearned run. Anthony Maldonano came on in relief allowed

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Speaker 1: Snappers three to one. Cameron Meisner had a three hit night.

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Speaker 1: The team, however, had a collective six hits. Moving on

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Speaker 1: Jesus Sanchez, who returned on August eleventh. You know his

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Speaker 1: Zach Zerner came in at the top of the inning.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a totally regular, normal rehab assignment returning from

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Speaker 1: It'll be good to see him back in Miami, where

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Speaker 1: the outfield seems kind of maybe crowded again with players

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Speaker 1: you want to see play with. Jesus Sanchez, Brian Starling,

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Speaker 1: bad Kim Ang. The Jumbo Shrimp, however, collectively fell eight

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Speaker 1: to four. Jordan Holloway started strong He pitched two shut

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Speaker 1: two walks, then Blake Ruther double played at them and

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Speaker 1: five innings, pitched eight to four. In Charlotte, Jupiter, Victor

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Speaker 1: Mesa got his fifty first RBI Tanner Allen Marcus Chu

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Speaker 1: had five RBIs collectively seven runs in total for Jupiter,

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Speaker 1: but Luis Palasios, who had four strikeouts before allowing his

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Speaker 1: a possible win, Tony Cruz allowed four runs ten to

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Speaker 1: seven the final. In Daytona Tonight, the Marlins will face

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Speaker 1: the Cubs at home for the weekend. Jesus Luzardo will

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Speaker 1: face Adbert Alzolay, with Jesus Lose and Robinson Surios the

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Speaker 1: only hitter pitcher matchup with any precedent in this game.

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Speaker 1: The Cubs haven't been to the depots since twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: that have charted the path for the Cubs. Two tonight,

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Speaker 1: Saturday starter for the Marlins is unannounced. Sunday should be

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Speaker 1: Zach Thompson, but the Marlins will look for a series

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Speaker 1: win for the podcast that is All In. Fish Stripe's

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