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Speaker 1: Hey, Marlins fans, Welcome to a new episode of Big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod here on the Fish on First podcast channel,

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Speaker 1: your home for complete Miami Marlins coverage. I am Eli

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Speaker 1: Sussman settling into this new small pod routine fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: or less every weekday morning on various Marlins topics, given

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Speaker 1: the state of the big league team, how well things

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Speaker 1: are going relative to expectations. I think most of the

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Speaker 1: pods for the foreseeable future will focus on what's happening

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Speaker 1: in the majors. But this is kind of a continuation

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Speaker 1: of what I did for most of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four season on Mondays, dedicating those shows to prospects, doing

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Speaker 1: a spotlight on guys from each full season level of

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Speaker 1: the Marlins farm system. Low A, Jupiter, Hi A, Bloit,

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Speaker 1: Double A Pensacola, and Triple A Jacksonville. So we'll get

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Speaker 1: into them guys that for the most part, are in

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Speaker 1: the spotlight for positive reasons, but in other cases it's

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Speaker 1: a bit more complicated than that. But I want you

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Speaker 1: guys to know them a little bit better moving forward,

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Speaker 1: given how they're performing and how they could fit into

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Speaker 1: Working our way up. We begin with from low way Jupiter.

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Speaker 1: Le Omar Martinez name you almost only haven't heard before,

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Speaker 1: A right handed picture with the hammerheads. He has been

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Speaker 1: as effective as any pitcher in the Marlins org to

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Speaker 1: this point in the season. Just a couple starts for

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Speaker 1: Jupiter so far, but he has retired twenty three out

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Speaker 1: of twenty seven batters that he has faced. Signed way

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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two, more than three years ago

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Speaker 1: in in an international free agency for an eighty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars bonus, relatively modest. That was in one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest international classes in Marlin's history, so it was easy

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Speaker 1: for him get lost in the shuffle, and frankly, he

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Speaker 1: didn't perform exceptionally well in rookie ball the previous couple

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Speaker 1: of years, but he is off to a blazing start

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Speaker 1: here in Jupiter in twenty twenty five. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: more up on our site about him. Article from Alex

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Speaker 1: Carver mister Fish on the Farm, Diving into Martinez, how

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Speaker 1: they discovered him and the improvements he's made. This is

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Speaker 1: just the cliff notes on that he has struck out

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Speaker 1: sixty three percent of the batters that he has faced

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Speaker 1: as this year so far in that small sample, sixty

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Speaker 1: three percent, and that's compared to sixteen percent for Jupiter

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Speaker 1: last year when he got called up in the middle

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Speaker 1: that small sample. Will he keep it up, Probably not,

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Speaker 1: But there's a reason to believe that this uptick is

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Speaker 1: year he was averaging less than ninety one miles per

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Speaker 1: hour on his sinker. That's below average even by most

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Speaker 1: From just sick as a starter, there's still a lot

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Speaker 1: of boxes that he needs to check, but he does

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Speaker 1: check some of the boxes as a late bloomer in

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Speaker 1: this organization. A six to two right hander from the

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Speaker 1: One of the most intriguing arms in Jupiter to this

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Speaker 1: For those watching on YouTube, I will just treat you

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Speaker 1: that nasty breaking ball is how he usually finishes off batters,

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Speaker 1: whether it's in the zone or getting chases outside of

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Speaker 1: nowhere close to our own top thirty list, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: under the radar to various extents, but ones that are

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Speaker 1: Yiddi Cape, an infielder who's been with the Marlins ever

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Speaker 1: an eight sixty five ops in the Midwest League. Seven

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Speaker 1: That has been a huge plot point to this point

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Speaker 1: I think that speaks volumes about how an organization feels

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Speaker 1: guy that you could make the kiss should have been

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Speaker 1: on our top thirty list already. Kemp Alderman, the corner

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Speaker 1: outfielder drafted in second round back in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: some of a rocky ride as well. Similar to Cape,

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Speaker 1: he missed a huge chunk of last year due to injury.

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Speaker 1: They sent him out to the Arizona Fall League to

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Speaker 1: far that is carried over into twenty twenty five. Back

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Speaker 1: at the Double A level, he is slashing three seventy

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Speaker 1: from in an interview he gave to Baseball America with

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Speaker 1: Arrise trade just under a year ago. This is his

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Speaker 1: The guys we've covered on here Leo Maher Martinez from Jupiter,

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