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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Big Fish Small Pod. I'm Andrew Rdahl

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Speaker 1: here with you on Wednesdays and Fridays every week throughout

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Speaker 1: the season, and as much as I know we're kind

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Speaker 1: of all working our way back from this lockout, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad to have you back. We're totally moving right past

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Speaker 1: that here on Big Fish Small Pod. And if you

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Speaker 1: haven't been listening to my podcast specifically, what I'm looking

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Speaker 1: to do this season is to really zero in on

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Speaker 1: this Marlins offense. It was the biggest area for improvement

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Speaker 1: this off season. Some additions were made, and I'm already

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Speaker 1: kind of a mid coverage of that. Last Friday, if

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Speaker 1: you're interested, I did take a look at about half

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Speaker 1: of the forty man roster, just diving in deeper on

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Speaker 1: these hitters individually, and today I'll be doing the other

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Speaker 1: half here. So starting with some of the major additions.

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Speaker 1: Jorge Solaire. He's a player that really just like stats,

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Speaker 1: kind of fall apart looking at his year. Last year

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Speaker 1: he was the World Series MVP, but had a negative

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Speaker 1: wins above replacement, so he hasn't had that like stable impact,

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Speaker 1: but he can win you a baseball game his power,

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Speaker 1: his aggressive approach at the plate. He led the league

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Speaker 1: in home runs in twenty nineteen and again like he

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Speaker 1: was the World Series MVP in his next quote. Full

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Speaker 1: season stat cast has his max exit velocity in the

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Speaker 1: top six percent of the league every year since twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: top one percent last year. But the point being that

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Speaker 1: he's proven to be a stable power bat and the

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Speaker 1: Braves were really aggressive with his usage in the World Series,

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Speaker 1: batting him like first second in the lineup, maximizing his

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Speaker 1: chances to lay into one with his power, rather mirroring

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Speaker 1: his aggressive approach at the plate where he will take

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Speaker 1: swings to maximize his chance of laying into one. He

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Speaker 1: will miss, but his hits can win the ballgame, a

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Speaker 1: huge addition to this club. Now taking a look at

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Speaker 1: Joey Wendel, he's another big addition to this team for

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Speaker 1: what he does as depth and versatility. So he's really

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Speaker 1: a good hedge to Brian Anderson's injury, someone who could

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Speaker 1: step in and fill in at third base for a

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Speaker 1: long time if need be. But he's also someone that

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Speaker 1: can help manage that load for Miguel Rojas, Jazz Chisholm Junior,

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Speaker 2: So if it all goes well on.

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Speaker 1: The infield, Brian Anderson could actually be kind of like

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Speaker 1: an outfield plan B. And that's because of Joey, who

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Speaker 1: is a solid contributor. His bat has had some of

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Speaker 1: his limits exposed, so to speak. He was an All

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Speaker 1: Star last year behind a great first half, but he

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Speaker 1: of his power numbers. To me, that does suggest that

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Speaker 1: he arrives to camp prepared, but it might be that

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Speaker 1: he gets worn down and can hit the ball with

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Speaker 1: like a little bit less authority of the plague. He

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Speaker 1: might be someone that really benefits from like a properly

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Speaker 1: managed load on the infield, which is kind of ironic

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Speaker 1: given that he's like the person brought in to help

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Speaker 1: with that, but it helps him make it like a

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Speaker 1: cohesive second short and third with four players. I personally

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Speaker 1: like to look at World Series numbers for players seeing

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Speaker 1: how they perform at that height, and in twenty twenties

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Speaker 1: World Series, Jolley Wendell was just two for nineteen with

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Speaker 1: five strikeouts. To me, that does say that he's like

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Speaker 1: pretty exposed at that absolute height, but he's not here

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Speaker 1: for that peak performance. He's here for liability and there's

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Speaker 1: no reason to think he won't bring that. Now, who is,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, the biggest addition to this offense. Avid

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Speaker 1: Garcia has played in the World Series actually twenty twelve

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Speaker 1: do consider to be that quote professional hitter. He's just

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Speaker 1: So he was hitless in twenty twelve's World Series, but

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Speaker 1: he's like adapted really, really really considerably since then, going

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Speaker 1: like early on, like his battball profile moved from like

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Speaker 2: He's been in the top.

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Speaker 1: Twenty for max exit velocity every year since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: So we're looking at someone who would like comes in

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Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty one, kind of like a weird

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Speaker 1: seemed like he was another player that could benefit from

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Speaker 1: Looking at the catcher position, what a disaster last year.

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Speaker 1: But this year Jacob Stalin's has been brought in to

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Speaker 1: really be mostly a defensive upgrade, like shore up that

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Speaker 1: that he is bringing a disciplined back to the lineup.

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Speaker 1: In terms of like contact and power. He can really

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Speaker 2: In addition to them, he's.

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Speaker 1: A batter that will force the pitcher to throw strikes

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Speaker 1: to the lineup. Peyton Henry he had a really hard

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Speaker 1: eleven percent on fastball's like pretty low, But again we're

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Speaker 1: looking at a really small sample, and the fact is

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Speaker 1: that he can square a breaking pitch. His like hardest

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Speaker 1: can be said about Peyton. He's certainly someone that will

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Speaker 1: benefit more from time to develop and Triple A, and

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Speaker 1: it does seem to be the case that he will

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Speaker 2: Most stab back up to Stallings. Perhaps he has the.

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Speaker 1: Like tower power top eight percent of macs eggs of velocity,

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Speaker 1: But the problem is the strikeouts. He struck out last

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Speaker 1: off speed, you name it. He swung amiss forty percent

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Speaker 2: Least not this past year. Still just twenty five.

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Speaker 1: He could certainly have taken some time to readdress that

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Speaker 1: lighten the load now. Probably the best backup catcher option

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Speaker 1: on the Marlins roster is Nick Fortes. I find in

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Speaker 2: But as far as like backups, he seemed.

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Speaker 1: To have the most mature back in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: hitting with like average strength decent like exit velocity numbers.

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Speaker 1: He did skew pretty heavily towards the pole side profile

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Speaker 1: so he might have shown like a superior hand eye coordination,

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Speaker 1: but he also might have benefited from like a small

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Speaker 1: peak at the majors where pitchers weren't able to really

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Speaker 1: Had like his own game plan that could be exposed.

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Speaker 1: Certainly something that like can be ironed out, but certainly

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Speaker 1: something that will keep an eye.

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Speaker 2: On a little bit deeper.

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Speaker 1: Jerrering Carnascione, outfielder on the forty man roster. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to build an expectation on this batter because he like

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Speaker 1: certainly will see the miners to start twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: but he hung in there a double A in twenty one.

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Speaker 1: It just didn't like wow so much. Yet, He's showing

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Speaker 1: potential to be a developing player, getting like stronger as

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Speaker 1: well as converting those tools into impact. His home run

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Speaker 1: in spring training was promising, but just nine and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one doesn't really say Terrera's here as much as

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Speaker 1: it says he needs more time now at like the

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Speaker 1: top of the major league roster Jesus Sanchez, his raw

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Speaker 1: like a higher sprint speed and hitting the ball even harder,

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Speaker 1: and it came with good results. Overall, He definitely was

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Speaker 1: in twenty and it looks to be that he's on

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Speaker 2: Of improving his batted ball profile.

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Speaker 1: He got out of ground balls and made better contact

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Speaker 1: comp to Jesus's approach as like a tools the outfielder

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Speaker 1: converting to that more able batter. But I mean, Jesus

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, and there were strikeouts in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one owing mostly to a high wiff rate on

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Speaker 1: So as a starter, he could be really well positioned,

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Speaker 1: as still developing batter, but for now the pressure is

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Speaker 1: on him to adapt. Checking out now the captain Miguel Rojas,

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Speaker 1: he's been like such a grinder. His career overall is

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Speaker 1: a real testament to that. But each and every at

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Speaker 1: bat he'll work the pitcher, staying decently disciplined and getting

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Speaker 1: the bat on the ball. Until he sprays one into

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Speaker 1: the field. Really good profile all the way around. Not

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Speaker 1: a lot of power in his bat, But twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one did Marcus step back for him as far as

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Speaker 1: his walk rate is concerned, and that seems to be

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Speaker 1: the key to his success in twenty twenty two. It

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Speaker 1: certainly could be that with all the injuries and trades

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, that Miguel was in a position

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Speaker 1: to be more of like that productive bat and that

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Speaker 1: It also could be that he was really well exposed,

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Speaker 1: like he led the league in put ups as a shortstop,

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Speaker 1: meaning he had a lot of playing time as a

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Speaker 1: shortstop just as a grinder. The demands might have just

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Speaker 1: those razor's edge margins in twenty twenty. But he has

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Speaker 1: the intensity to meet that, but sustaining it over one

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Speaker 1: sixty two is just a different thing. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: how that plays out this year. But really, load management

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Speaker 1: could be the key. So that is the forty man

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Speaker 1: roster as it lines up right now. If you want

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Speaker 1: to hear the other half. Check out that Friday pod,

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Speaker 1: But for now, I've been Andrew Berdahl. Today, the Marlins

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Speaker 1: face the Washington Nationals at one oh five Roger Dean

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Speaker 1: In conversations about this Miami Marlins team. But for the pod,

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