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Speaker 1: the fish Stripes podcast channel with me Eli Sussman, the

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Speaker 1: managing editor of Fish Stripes, where we cover your Miami

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Speaker 1: Marlins every day in our own way. A whole lot

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Speaker 1: of programming notes to get to before we go into

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Speaker 1: this episode of the show, exiting the Major League All

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Speaker 1: the MLB Draft. So Spencer Morris, he's our amateur scouting expert.

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Speaker 1: He's going to drop on Thursday by the time you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this his big overview of what the Marlins

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Speaker 1: did in their twenty round draft this year. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to check that out fishstripes dot com. Slash Prospects go

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Speaker 1: to fish stripes dot com. Also on the site, Adam Akbani.

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Speaker 1: He's making his Fishtripe's debut as a writer, breaking down

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Speaker 1: the Marlins heating development struggles in recent years. Finally, also

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, we just recorded a new trivia show of

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Speaker 1: Marlin's Jeopardy featuring Jeremy Tasha of Ballyt Sports, Florida. Those

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Speaker 1: or Twitter or Facebook. Always accepting fan submissions for Jeopardy

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Speaker 1: and Daniel Rodriguez, brought on Ben Carlyle, the publisher of

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Speaker 1: And if you're wondering what the connection is the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: diving into the Wan Sodo sweepsticks. One of the best

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Speaker 4: Us, absolutely, guys. I appreciate you'all having me out in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good question. You know, when you

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Speaker 5: And it's a program that you know, and we talked

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Speaker 5: He's a spin rate guy. Before spin rate was kind

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Speaker 5: of really emerged as one of those catchy phrases that

436
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 5: you hear across you know, minor league and Major League baseball,

437
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 5: and he really utilized.

438
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 4: You look at his minor.

439
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 5: League numbers, they were really absurd coming up through the

440
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 5: Padres system. When he was at Tech, he was a fastball,

441
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 5: slider guy. I know he's developed into a little bit

442
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 5: of a cutter guy now that he's gotten into the

443
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 5: big leagues.

444
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 4: But just a great guy.

445
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 5: And like I said, I had the opportunity to play

446
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 5: with him at Louisiana Tech. But happy for him and

447
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 5: all the success that he's had throughout his career.

448
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 6: And what have you seen from the Bulldogs last year?

449
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 6: Because last year was easily one of the best seasons

450
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 6: in team history, making a tournament again for back to

451
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Speaker 6: back years and winning the conference for the first time

452
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 6: since the eighties. How was that also watching it? And

453
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Speaker 6: also the performances from Krigger and from Caid.

454
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you go. Like I mentioned earlier, that

455
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 5: Tornado in twenty nineteen, You hate to say something that

456
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 5: something like that would kind of lay the foundation for

457
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 5: where they're at right now, but in a way it did.

458
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 5: You guys are familiar with college athletics with the transfer portal,

459
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 5: and guys can so easily leave, and not one player

460
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 5: left off that team. The twenty twenty team was slated

461
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 5: to play at a high school field for its home

462
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 5: games all year.

463
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 4: Obviously, the season gets shut down due to COVID, And

464
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 4: you mentioned Krigger.

465
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Speaker 5: He was one of those guys that he signed with

466
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 5: Louisiana Tech knowing that they didn't have a home field.

467
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 5: So you know a lot of credit goes to him

468
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 5: for holding that commitment. And they go through that twenty

469
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 5: twenty season, COVID hits.

470
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 4: And you know that.

471
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Speaker 5: Kind of put a stop on I don't know if

472
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Speaker 5: you can necessarily say that's a good thing or a

473
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 5: bad thing. Obviously some guys got their eligibility frozen at

474
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 5: that point. But once they got the stadium rebuilt, they

475
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 5: opened it in twenty twenty one. It just kind of

476
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 5: created that wave of momentum to where we've got to today.

477
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 5: You know, all those guys stick around. You get the

478
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 5: extra year due to COVID. That paid off for them

479
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 5: big and twenty twenty one, when then they posted the

480
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 5: regional and They kind of carried that over here into

481
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 5: twenty twenty two with Kyle Krieger Kate Gibson, two older guys,

482
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 5: it was kind of their time to lead. Ryan Jennings

483
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 5: another right handed pitcher that was selected by the Blue Jays.

484
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 5: Taylor Young was a second basement selected by the Dodgers

485
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 5: in the eighth round, and really all those guys just

486
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 5: kind of rallied together and it's kind of established that

487
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 5: blue collar mentality that they take on that Lane Burrows

488
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 5: kind of heads up as the head coach, and it's

489
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 5: been I'll be honest, it's been really really fun to watch.

490
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 5: It's been impressive to watch just to kind of see

491
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 5: the rise of the program. And then now that we're

492
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 5: into the offseason, they had some former top one hundred

493
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 5: guys out of high school transferring in from LSU in Texas,

494
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 5: A and M, so you've kind of been able to

495
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 5: see the bump up and recruiting as well.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to get into your guys in just

497
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: a moment really quickly. I think it's we should probably

498
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Speaker 1: cover the number one tick that the Marlins made in

499
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: this draft class, just because he was in state. He

500
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: did play head to head against Tech this past season.

501
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: And that's Jacob Barry, who actually, as of earlier today,

502
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: he's agreed to terms with the Marlins. They're gonna play

503
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: six million bucks to bring him in. And I'm curious

504
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: about anything. It was only one year that he played

505
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: for LSU, after he transferred in from out West. If

506
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: there's anything that you saw from him, how closely did

507
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: you follow his season?

508
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I actually did some radio for about a

509
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 5: year and a half here in Rusting. So going back

510
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 5: to February, LSU came up to Rusting. They'll take one

511
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 5: midweek around the state, you know, per year, and we

512
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 5: got the opportunity to interview Jay Johnson, the head coach,

513
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 5: down there on the day of the game. And that

514
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 5: was one of the questions I'd ask because we were

515
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 5: familiar obviously that Barry had transferred in. And he just said,

516
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 5: he's the purest hitter he's ever been around. And I

517
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 5: think you get the opportunity to see him in person,

518
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 5: and I don't think anything wows you physically as far

519
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 5: as how he's built or what he does. But he

520
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 5: just barrels the baseball so well. And I know a

521
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 5: lot of people talk about how some of the batted

522
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 5: ball data is not all that impressive.

523
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: But I legitimately believe you could throw him in Double

524
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 4: A right now.

525
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 5: And I mean, I would imagine if you gave him

526
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 5: the next two months of the minor league system, you'd

527
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 5: start him in Triple A the following year. I just

528
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 5: believe he's that good of a hitter. A lot of

529
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 5: questions about his defense, and I don't know. I think

530
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 5: there's a chance he could end up as a d H.

531
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Speaker 5: He's not the most overly athletic kid in the world,

532
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 5: which gives you some you know, gives you some hesitation.

533
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 5: And we got to see him. I believe he played

534
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,479
Speaker 5: right field the day he was in rusting it just

535
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 5: he doesn't have a lot of fluid movement, I guess

536
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 5: when it comes to his athleticism. But I believe in

537
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 5: the bad I'm a huge Cubs fan myself, so I

538
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 5: was hoping he was getting to number seven and they

539
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 5: would take a chance to get him there. But I

540
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 5: can tell you he is one of the best hitter.

541
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Speaker 5: I think he's the best hitter in this college class.

542
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 5: And I think he's.

543
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 4: Gonna do nothing but at the major league level.

544
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, the question I wanted to ask

545
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 6: was against LSU really had really great performances. First off,

546
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 6: from Cade, I'm looking out his status right now. He

547
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 6: had fin inning three hits, one walk, eight strikeouts. Just

548
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 6: what did you see from Caine and even Kyle finished

549
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 6: up the game against LSU when they're doing so good

550
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 6: against one of the top teams of college baseball.

551
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 5: So first I want to tell you guys a little

552
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 5: bit about Cage's story. It's so interesting, it's so cool.

553
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 5: He actually started his career at the NAI school over

554
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 5: in Shreeport, LSU Shreeveport, and to be honest with you,

555
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 5: numbers weren't great. Mid six e R's got hit around

556
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 5: a bunch and it's a good NAI conference, but it's

557
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 5: not a guy that you would, you know, create a lot.

558
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 4: Of buzz too.

559
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 5: When he transferred back to Louisiana Tech, He's from Ruston

560
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 5: and that was kind of his thoughts as far as

561
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 5: why he wanted to come back was to be the

562
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 5: you know, play for his hometown school. And Lane Burrows

563
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 5: gave him a chance to walk on the needs Tommy

564
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 5: John Surgery and so it's like, oh, man, like, is

565
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 5: he ever going to get the opportunity to play again,

566
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 5: and then twenty twenty one hits.

567
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 4: He's a guy.

568
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 5: You hear so much about how he performs in the fall.

569
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 5: First outing of the years actually down in baton Rouge

570
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 5: at LSU believe he gave up a grand slam in

571
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 5: his first inning, and you're like, oh, man, like you

572
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 5: know what's gonna happen. But a couple of weeks later,

573
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 5: number four Old miss comes to town. He goes I

574
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 5: believe seven innings, shuts him out at home over those

575
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 5: seven innings.

576
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 4: And you're like, all right, you know this guy's a guy.

577
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 5: But the one thing that sticks out about Kate Gibson

578
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 5: beyond what he does on the mount, he's an ultimate competitor.

579
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 5: Like when he takes the baseball, he's coming right at you.

580
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 5: He's not gonna pitch around guys. He don't care you

581
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 5: know what your name is, what kind of accolades you've

582
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 5: accomplished in your career. He's going to come at you

583
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 5: with a fastball, change up in curveball, and he commands

584
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 5: the strike zone really well. He's obviously an older kid,

585
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 5: havn't been in collegeably for six years, so I think

586
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 5: I'll be most interested to see, you know, how the

587
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 5: Marlins decide to use him. Being so old, I would

588
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 5: imagine you stick him in a bullpen and kind of

589
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 5: see what he can do.

590
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: And you look at this past year for Louisiana Tech.

591
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 5: He started out as the midweek guy, moved up to

592
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 5: the Sunday guy, then he was the Friday night guy

593
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 5: by the end of the year. But I'll tell you

594
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 5: the biggest thing for him on the mound, he's got

595
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 5: really good fastball, really good curveball, and going in on

596
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,479
Speaker 5: right handers when his when his fastball is right, Uh,

597
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 5: that's when he's at his best, is going in on

598
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 5: right handers and then using that curveball to play off

599
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 5: of it.

600
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

601
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 3: I was just looking at one of his games.

602
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 6: He probably had his best game I getst the team

603
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 6: here in Miami against Fyu with his longest eight innings,

604
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 6: five strikeouts. Just what type of picture you did you

605
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 6: see him as? Does he can he go of these

606
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 6: deep inning seven eight, nine innings?

607
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 3: D see him like that? Or would you saw him

608
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 3: at LA Tech?

609
00:31:59,400 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 6: Yeah?

610
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 4: I think he's better suited as far as a multi

611
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 4: inning reliever.

612
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 5: And you know there's all these so many different things

613
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 5: that professional organizations can do with guys that can allow

614
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 5: them to get deeper into games. But there was i've

615
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 5: been eight or nine stars this year where he would

616
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 5: give you shutout baseball over the first three or four

617
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 5: innings of the game, that he would kind of lose

618
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 5: it once he hit that sixty sixty five to seventy

619
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 5: pitch mark. So I think he's probably better suited to

620
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 5: be a multi inning reliever, which would allow him to

621
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 5: predominantly become a fastball curveball guy, which I think.

622
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 4: Are is easily his two best pitches.

623
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: As you did mention a little bit older than most

624
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: of these other drafts, I think, yeah, twenty four and

625
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: a half at this point, So that's that is unusual.

626
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: But you understand why when you go through his story

627
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: for sure?

628
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 4: No, well yeah, oh absolutely, And I think that's the thing.

629
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: You know.

630
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 5: I mean, it's hard to stick a guy in single

631
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 5: and allow him to start knowing that you know his

632
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 5: clab and he's almost twenty five years old, and so

633
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 5: I think that would probably be the best case scenario

634
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 5: for him.

635
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 4: And you guys know how this works.

636
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 5: But I think that for him, multi inning bullpen guy,

637
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 5: and I think he'll have some success in the lower

638
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 5: level minor leagues just because of how seasoned he is,

639
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 5: and you know how much experience he has.

640
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you didn't walk a lot of guys too,

641
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 6: But I was looking at he had close to one

642
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 6: hundred strikeouts less than twenty walks, So he's also really

643
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 6: able to just limit walks whilst maintaining high strikeouts.

644
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 4: No, yeah, that's just like Krigger.

645
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 5: Both those guys, they're coming at you and you might

646
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 5: hit him around the yard some days, but they're not

647
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 5: going to get themselves into trouble by putting guys on

648
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 5: base for freebies. And like I said, when he's really

649
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 5: rolling is the fastball inside the right handed hitters, and

650
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 5: he allows that big breaking ball, big twelve six curveball,

651
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 5: which is extremely difficult to hit.

652
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 4: That's when he's at his best.

653
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 5: And I think, you know, probably his best astribute is

654
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 5: just that no fear, Like I mean, he's coming at

655
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 5: you with that kind of bulldog mentality, which I think.

656
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 4: Is kind of what made him successful in college.

657
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 3: Well, that was.

658
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: Really a perfect breakdown of Gibson. Might as well do

659
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 1: the same with Krigger. These highlights from the game against

660
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: LSU at LSU on the road coming fished the final

661
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: four innings of that game, depensive extras as well. I

662
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: think piled up eight strikeouts and relieves in that game.

663
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: And he just really fascinating season. I think he may

664
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: have pitched in about as many games as anybody in

665
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: Division one this year. He made thirty seven appearances, you know,

666
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: more than one's every other game, So that that is

667
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: really that's what starts me the most, is just the

668
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: usage that he was used in all these different situations

669
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: and that they really leaned hard on him this past year.

670
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 4: Oh, there ain't no doubt about that.

671
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 5: I think Lane Burrows that's the one thing that he

672
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 5: talks about with Kyle Kriger's like, you know, if it's

673
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 5: a tight game late, he doesn't even have to look

674
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 5: up down to the bullpen. He knows he was getting

675
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 5: ready to come in the game, and he just kind

676
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 5: of runs to those big situations. That's kind of how

677
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 5: he's built. The heartbeat never gets too high. You mentioned

678
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 5: that LSU game down in Baton Rouge. You know, Louisiana

679
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 5: Tech had a late lead in that game, I believe

680
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 5: it was seven to six, and the twelve they get

681
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 5: two owns, second third with no outs and he figures

682
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 5: out a way to get out of and he's just

683
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 5: I mentioned how big of a competitor Kate Gibson is.

684
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 5: I could go beyond that with Kyle Krueger. I mean,

685
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 5: this kid wants the baseball every time the game's.

686
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 4: On the line. And you know, you say that, you

687
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 4: think reliever, you think of college closer. That he's kind

688
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 4: of a two pitch guy.

689
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 5: I think if he was twenty years old, you probably

690
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 5: send him out as a starter because he's got a

691
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 5: really good change up, really good slider. Obviously the fastball

692
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 5: has been up to ninety seven, but he can really

693
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 5: really pitch and thirty seven appearances.

694
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 4: He kind of got worn down later in the year.

695
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 5: The numbers, you know, the season totals weren't really they

696
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 5: don't accurately describe it. I guess you could say, uh,

697
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 5: he appeared five games in six days in the Conference

698
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 5: USA Tournament, appeared in I believe three of Louisiana Tech's

699
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 5: regional games.

700
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 4: He was just the guy that they went to with

701
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 4: the game on the line.

702
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 5: He's probably my most favorite kid that I've covered at

703
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 5: Louisiana Tech over the last six years.

704
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just wanted to ask about Kyle just what

705
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 6: did you see from him? And you mentioned you high

706
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 6: leverage moments there against LSU conference was a tournament.

707
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 3: Just how did he handle pressure?

708
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 6: Just you know him better than us who you've probably

709
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 6: been around him more, and just how is it him

710
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 6: handling pressure and you know, be able to take the

711
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 6: ball and say, I'm gonna go out there and you know,

712
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,959
Speaker 6: beat this ranked team or I'm gonna go off against

713
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 6: their best hitter.

714
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

715
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 5: You know, if you took a picture of him, if

716
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,720
Speaker 5: you brought him in a game basis loaded no outs,

717
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 5: you'd never know if there was nobody on, nobody out

718
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 5: in a than nothing game. And that's just how he is,

719
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 5: and he lives for those moments. He's another kid, like

720
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 5: I said, he's been through a lot. He committed Louisiana Tech,

721
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 5: they didn't have a stadium, had Tommy John surgery in

722
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 5: the summer of twenty twenty, came back, you know, eight

723
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 5: or nine months, and was back into the fire in

724
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, and then you can kind of see

725
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 5: the stuff really tick up here. In twenty twenty two,

726
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 5: fastball kind of got up to ninety seven and Lane

727
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 5: Burrows told us a funny story. I believe it was

728
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 5: the night of that LSU game that we get to

729
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 5: talk to Jay Johnson. He said he kind of looked

730
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 5: around the clubhouse a week or two before the season

731
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 5: was starting. It was like, guys, I don't really know

732
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 5: who our closure is gonna be this year, and he

733
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 5: said not. Fifteen twenty minutes later, the pitching coach was like, hey,

734
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 5: you kind of pissed off Krigger and he was like, well,

735
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 5: that's kind of what I was intended to do. And

736
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 5: I think that kind of helped propel him to the

737
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 5: year that he had.

738
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 4: But he's just such a competitor. He can fill a

739
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 4: multitude of roles.

740
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 5: You know, he obviously had the nine saves he's had

741
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 5: out where he's gone four or five innings.

742
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 4: At different times.

743
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 5: He's that guy that you kind of look for as

744
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 5: an older senior sign that's gonna really he's gonna get

745
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 5: through single A, he's gonna get through high Yeah, he's

746
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 5: gonna be a guy that you kind of found out

747
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 5: what he's made of when he gets to double A.

748
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 5: But it wouldn't surprise me to kind of see him

749
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 5: move up, continue to move up through a system. Just

750
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 5: with his ability to pitch. He could really really pitch.

751
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 5: He's a three pitch guy that can really get after hitters.

752
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 4: Yeah.

753
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a popular opinion, but

754
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: there are some analysts I really trust that are curious

755
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: if he could actually be a starter in the pros

756
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: and going all the way up, because you mentioned the

757
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: three pitches he has, and I think there may even

758
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: be like a second breaking ball there that he may

759
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: have put in his back pocket when he was pitching

760
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: out of the pen that he could bring out if

761
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: he was in the starter role. I've just heard amazing

762
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: praise for the kind of stuff that he has and

763
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: how potentially you don't usually see it in that direction,

764
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: right when somebody the final year in school is only

765
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: out of the pen and they get stretched out in

766
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: the pros. But he that he really is one overall

767
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: this entire draft of the Marlins, Like, he's somebody that

768
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: has really opened my eyes when I dig into the

769
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: kind of potential that he could have in the pros.

770
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it's like I said, if he was twenty

771
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 5: years old, I don't think there's any doubt. I think

772
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 5: you send him out as a starter, and you kind

773
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 5: of see what he can do before you push him

774
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 5: into the bullpen if he proves he can't do it.

775
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 5: But yeah, you know, he can play off that slider

776
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 5: some he can shape it in different ways. And I mean,

777
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 5: you guys know how it is with the video these days,

778
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 5: with Major League teams kind of getting their mind as

779
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 5: far as spin rate and changing breaking balls and changing

780
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 5: sliders or changing change ups in fastball shape and all

781
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 5: that type of stuff. So h but I think he

782
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 5: can really be successful. I think Kate can too, if

783
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 5: he's used in the right way and you kind of

784
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 5: get put him in those right spots. And you know,

785
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 5: a lot of it is, you know, you a lot

786
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 5: of it's luck at the end of the day. But uh,

787
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 5: these are two guys, especially Krigger and Gifts, and they

788
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 5: can really really get after it on the mound. And

789
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 5: I think that that's probably one of the things that

790
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 5: attracted Major League teams to of the most, is just

791
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 5: how competitive they are when they get on the mound.

792
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

793
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 6: Just how was it just watching this team this year

794
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 6: because I was just looking up, you know, multiple guys

795
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 6: drafted right handed picture Ryan Jennings Win and I believe

796
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 6: the fourth round just how was it just watching this

797
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 6: pitching staff, you know, when you have multiple now guys

798
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 6: who are drafted going to the majors.

799
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know Jennings and Krigger and Gibson, you know,

800
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 5: they weren't the three guys at the beginning of the year.

801
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 4: Jonathan Fincher is actually a big left handed pitcher.

802
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 5: There was an All American a season ago that didn't

803
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 5: have a bad year in twenty twenty two by any means,

804
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 5: but he wasn't drafted.

805
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 4: And Jennings, you know, he was a fourth.

806
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 5: Rounder from the Blue Jays a lot like these guys

807
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 5: had faced some adversity.

808
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 4: Was the Saturday guy to start the year.

809
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 5: Struggles gets put into a bullpen, and I think that's ultimately,

810
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 5: you know, was a blessing for him and why he

811
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 5: got drafted. He goes up to ninety nine as a reliever,

812
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 5: you know, in the two weeks he's a reliever, and

813
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 5: then every time you show up to start, there's five

814
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 5: or six scouts in the stands, and so it kind

815
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 5: of defines how the program is built. Like I was

816
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 5: saying earlier, it's just a blue collar, get after you

817
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 5: type attitude. Taylor Young was picked in the eighth round

818
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 5: by the Dodgers. He's a five to eight second baseman,

819
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 5: played some short stop, won a Gold Glove as a

820
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 5: second baseman in collegiate baseball in twenty twenty one. They

821
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 5: moved him to shortstop here in twenty twenty two his

822
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 5: twelve home runs. It's just the program, and it kind

823
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 5: of it seems funny to say, but that's kind of

824
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 5: how it's been built.

825
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 4: Just a bunch of guys that.

826
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 5: Didn't get a whole lot of recognition out of high school.

827
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 5: All three or Krigger and Jennings or junior college guys

828
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 5: Gibson mentioned went to the NAI school and then Young

829
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 5: was a little five eight second basement out of high school.

830
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 5: So that's just kind of the mentality. They kind of

831
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 5: carry that around with themselves. It's just kind of being

832
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 5: that underdog again and kind of proven how good they're

833
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 5: going to be.

834
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: Well, let's get you out of here on this way

835
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: too early, a full calendar year away. But of the

836
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: guys that are still with the team that are gonna

837
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: be draft eligible next year, is there anybody that that

838
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: you have your eye on that you think as an

839
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: an opportunity to really open some eyes during the twenty

840
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: twenty three season. Heading into the draft.

841
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 5: I'll give you all four names. I mentioned Jonathan Fincher earlier.

842
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 5: I think these three pitchers getting drafted in the you know,

843
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 5: in the top ten rounds, it will be good motivation

844
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 5: for him as he closed out the summary pitch in

845
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 5: the Cape earlier this summer and so he got some

846
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 5: good experience up there, and I think that'll be good

847
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 5: motivation for him coming back. Also, Phil Matula is another

848
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 5: guy that's playing in the Cape right now.

849
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 4: He's an outfielder. He turned down an offer from.

850
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 5: The Braves last summer, came back in twenty twenty two,

851
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 5: didn't have as good of a year, but he's a.

852
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 4: Really, really good runner.

853
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 5: He's probably a six to eight to sixty guy, has

854
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 5: a lot of power as well. Played some first base

855
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 5: for Louisiana Tech this year, but I think ultimately his

856
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 5: defensive home is probably out in left field. And the

857
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 5: final two names probably the upper echelon guys. George Corona

858
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 5: is a catcher out of Miami. He was I believe

859
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 5: he's picked in the thirty ninth round out of high

860
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 5: school by the Royals. He's coming off a year he

861
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 5: started a little bit slower, but really came on strong

862
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 5: late in the year.

863
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 4: Hit two eighty.

864
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 5: I think he had sixteen home runs, had a fifty

865
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 5: three percent caught stealing rate. He's up in the Cape

866
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 5: as well right now. And then finally Cole McConnell. He's

867
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 5: really really fun. He's a center fielder. He's probably a

868
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 5: corner outfit er professionally, some of the batted ball data

869
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 5: wasn't as good, but he's just a really really good

870
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 5: pure hitter.

871
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 4: Hit three point thirty this year, had nine home run

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Speaker 4: seventy six RBIs.

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Speaker 5: It was actually just last week. Was named an All

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Speaker 5: Star in the Cape for this summer. So they got

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Speaker 5: some guys coming back that are obviously have a chance

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Speaker 5: to be drafted.

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Speaker 4: I mentioned a transfer from LSU.

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Speaker 5: Brody Drost was a top one hundred player coming out

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Speaker 5: of Barb High School. In twenty twenty, he'll be draft

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Speaker 5: eligible as well. So I would expect the program now

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Speaker 5: that it's kind of gotten off the ground and really

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Speaker 5: gotten rolling, they're gonna have multiple guys drafted over the

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Speaker 5: next few years.

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Speaker 1: That'd be fun. Tradition Every single year the Marlins go

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Speaker 1: back to the well with tech and get more guys here.

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Speaker 4: Hey, guys, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 5: The funny thing is, you know, I would like to

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Speaker 5: go ask some of these scouts, you know, who are

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Speaker 5: you here watching? You know, what are you checking out?

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Speaker 5: And a lot of times scouts, you know, they're gonna

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Speaker 5: tell you who they're watching. But the biggest thing that

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Speaker 5: they would tell you about the program is just kind

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Speaker 5: of the culture surrounding it and how they are able

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Speaker 5: to keep guys here, guys don't transfer out, and how

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Speaker 5: unique that is. And Parker Bates was a kid that

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Speaker 5: was picked in the ninth round last year by the Royals,

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Speaker 5: and he was a little bit similar to that as

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Speaker 5: far as they just believe in the culture.

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Speaker 4: They know the players are more mature and they're.

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Speaker 5: Not kids that you're gonna have to necessarily worry about

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Speaker 5: in their transition to professional baseball. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 5: kind of see where the program goes, to see if

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Speaker 5: they can become one of those programs they can compete

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Speaker 5: with an LSU or an Old Miss more than just

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Speaker 5: in a midweek game year and a year out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll be following it as closely as we can,

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Speaker 1: and a vice versa. Hopefully in just a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Once these guys get signed, get on the mound to excite,

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Speaker 1: to get some highlights of them and with Marlin's affiliates,

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Speaker 1: and we'll send them your way here. This drives me,

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Speaker 1: This is really weird excited. Like I said, these particular picks.

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Speaker 1: With both Gibson and Krigger, we're a couple of my

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Speaker 1: favorites in this entire draft class that Marlin's made. So

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Speaker 1: with Daniel Rodriguez, I'm eli Susman Ben Carlisle of Lead

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Speaker 1: Tech Blue covering the Louisiana State Baseball program and alum

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Speaker 1: of the program himself, and seems like a proud alum

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Speaker 1: of what this program has taken off in recent years.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us so much, Ben, This has

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Speaker 1: been awesome.

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Speaker 6: Thank you Ben.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys, I appreciate it.