1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Hey everyone, I am eighty Guardoll here on the Fish 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Strips Podcast Network bringing to you another episode of Big 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod. Today is August sixth, Friday morning, ahead 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: of a late Colorado start time eight forty So I'm 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: here now talking to you about the last twenty four 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: hours or south in Marlin's baseball, Starting first with Braxton Garrett, 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: Who's really who I want to talk about now. I'm 8 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: really excited by his performance last night. Has like I'm 9 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: like a little like just a tripped up of the 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: surreality of like Braxton Garrett and Lewis Brinston kind of 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: like helped win the game with some help from like 12 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: Paul Campbell. It's just not like a optic. He just 13 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: didn't expect to see that at like any point really, 14 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: even as Paul Campbell had his ped suspension early this year, 15 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: but even as the years have gone by, Lewis Brinston 16 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: and Braxton Garrett have seemingly fallen out of the picture 17 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: as like top end talent for this Marlins team. But 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: they just helped secure the series win against the Mets yesterday. 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: What Braxton Garrett looks like now is this finesse lefty. 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: He looks like rich Hill, his opponent on the mount 21 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: last night for the Mets, as both of these finesse 22 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: lefties have a feel for five or more pitchers at 23 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: the major league level and kept both teams honest at 24 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: the plate. With Braxton Garrett, I do really want to 25 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: highlight his just rare look. It was his twenty fourth birthday. 26 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: By comparison, rich Hill wasn't in the major league until 27 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: he was twenty five. And what Braxton brought yesterday was 28 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: this really low fastball velocity, not like absurdly low, but 29 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: eighty nine in today's day and age. That's slows. And 30 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: then he brought a change up that's about eighty five 31 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: miles an hour, which is fast, especially when you're coming 32 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: from a point of this very slow fastball. So as 33 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: this slow fastball and this fast changeup interact with the 34 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: hitter's expectations at the plate, they just converge. They're really 35 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: close to each other. So in that moment, that instant 36 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: that like slight disparity between those two pitches, there's so 37 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: much room for a hit or to just miss it 38 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: or hit it poorly. And despite the lack of velocity, 39 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: what Braxton Garrett is offering is another effective major league 40 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: pitcher for the Miami Marlins, who is still developing and 41 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: still has room for growth. In his five shutout innings 42 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: last night, he allowed five hits, four walks, will striking 43 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: out six. Not promising numbers. On the walks. He walked 44 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: one last week against the Patres, three more going back 45 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: on July eighteenth against the Phillies, three walks on June 46 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 1: ninth against the Rockies. Braxton has had trouble with control 47 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: as a finess pitcher. He's forced to live in those 48 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: margins of the plate, which puts you up to potentially 49 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: get pinched by an umpire, which even putting it out 50 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: of the hands of the umpire, it's just hard to 51 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: hit your spot there. It takes practice. And I've seen 52 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: like people on Twitter kind of raising the red flag 53 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: at Braxton's philosophy drop, and there's maybe some merit to 54 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: concern for that, But ultimately, what we're getting now with 55 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: this twenty four year old pitcher who has like it 56 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: feels like ten days of service at the major league level, 57 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: just with a successful start then being sent down for 58 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: ten days, it's promising that he has this room to 59 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: develop his control and his effectiveness and he used this 60 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: pitch arsenal to successfully pinched the corners of the plate 61 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: and keep major league hitters honest with strikes and get ahead. 62 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: It's an unorthodox path to dominance at the major league level, 63 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: but braxting Garrett could still realistically become a pitcher like 64 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: Rich Hill, who in sixteen years we might be looking 65 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: back on his rookie days. Well. Also, on the night, 66 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: another marlin that's seemingly been lost in the shovel, Lewis Brinson, 67 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: came through with a game winning double as Mets announcers 68 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: were just like absolutely shading him, coming down on the 69 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: fact that Lewis is the cleanup hitter, as though he 70 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: can't produce runs and as though he wasn't about to 71 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: just hit the deciding double to beat the Mets three 72 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: to one in the series. Because he was considered a 73 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: top prospect at a time he was an early draft pick, 74 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: he was traded for Christian Yelich. He had all of 75 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: this promise behind him of just transcendent ability, and he 76 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: hasn't quite panned out to be even i mean generally 77 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: an everyday player these last couple of years, but he 78 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: has developed his approach to the point that he can 79 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: still have productive at bath and stay in the picture 80 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: at the major league level. Looking at the offense on 81 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: the whole, the Marlins do have the lowest expected wOBA 82 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Which that's I mean, that's a statistic. 83 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: It's just purely on paper, and it's an expected statistic. 84 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: So it's like, if you look at how the team 85 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: performed on paper, how might this offense have performed in 86 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: this metric that tries to put offense into a single number, 87 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: And that's not quite the way to look at it, 88 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: but it does indicate that the offense is what the 89 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: offense is it There is obvious room for upgrade on paper, 90 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: be that by development or in the off season. But 91 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: without the three major baths that the Marlins have got 92 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: themselves over the last three years, trying to find a 93 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 1: center fielder with like VR and then Marte, Corey Dickerson 94 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: and left Adam Devall and right after shedding that layer 95 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: of talent, the Marlins can still win a baseball game 96 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: and we're still talking about the players we have been 97 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: for years checking in quickly on the miners. The Jacksonville 98 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: Jumbo Shrimp played a double header against the Norfolk tides. 99 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: They both scored one run yesterday, winning one game, losing 100 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: the other. The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp brought in their only 101 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: run in the bottom of the tenth inning of their 102 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: first game, as Bryce and Brigman laid down a bunt 103 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: and that forced an error from the third baseman to 104 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: bring in Justin Twine that designated Rudder at second to 105 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: win it. Eliezer Hernandez pitched four innings, again back on 106 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: the mound after injury, with five strikeouts one hit, brought 107 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: a promising outing. Jordan Holloway was also on the mound 108 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. He pitched four and a third allowed one 109 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: earned run, three hits, five walks, five strikeouts. Zach mccambley 110 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: went for the Pensacola Blue Wahoo's and had a rough 111 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: outing just three and two thirds innings, five earned runs, 112 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: four strikeouts, eight hits in four of those runs were 113 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: home runs with also three while pitches. He was kind 114 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: of all over the place, still a work in progress. 115 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: Well offensively, Peyton Burdick and Griffin Conine went back to back. 116 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: Verdick with his eighteenth at double A. I like to 117 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: think that Peyton Burdick just kind of gave Griffin Conan 118 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: a couple of pointers right before his bat, collectively figuring 119 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: out the pitcher. Be Lloyd had an offensive explosion with 120 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: eight runs. Troy Johnson had his tenth home run at 121 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: the High A level, while Cameron Meisner had two hits, 122 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: Thomas Owns three, Nick Reedy three as well. Will Brian 123 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: Holling pitched a solid seven innings, two run ball on 124 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: the mount and Jupiter played. They did lose eight to 125 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: one against the Tampa Tarpins. Tanner Allen interestingly in the 126 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: leadoff spot, recent draftee, trying to get as many at 127 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: vents as he can Otherwise. Luis Palacios pitched five innings, 128 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: allowed two earned runs, including a home run to Jason Dominguez. 129 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: Of this Yankees Tampa Tarpins team feels like news for 130 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: bowman collectors. Anyways. That's pretty much it for the fifth. Today, 131 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: the Marlins will take on the Rockies at Coors Field, Denver, Colorado. 132 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: Eight forty first pitch Sandy Alcantra against German Marquez. I've 133 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: been eighty whar ad all. Thank you for listening.