Speaker 1: Sometimes White.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fish on First on Foul Territory.
Speaker 3: Network, already Fishing Filtered, episode one to eleven. Busy week
Speaker 3: with the Marlins. There's a lot going on. The MLB
Speaker 3: Draft is coming up, All Star weekend, the Derby, all
Speaker 3: that stuff. But the Marlins find themselves in a really
Speaker 3: good spot. They're currently at the moment of recording, they
Speaker 3: are fifty one and forty two, so nine games over
Speaker 3: five hundred, tied with the Philadelphia Phillies for the second
Speaker 3: wildcard spot. Phillies are if the season were end today,
Speaker 3: the Phillies do get the second I believe because of
Speaker 3: season head to head, But Marlins aren't a really good
Speaker 3: spot currently. You know the team right below them, which
Speaker 3: is the Saint Louis Cardinals, who are just out of
Speaker 3: the wildcard spot, only two games out of it, so
Speaker 3: pretty good cushion. And you could even make the case
Speaker 3: that the Moms are in a fight for the division
Speaker 3: only three games out of the top spot. So here
Speaker 3: with isaacazooit aj Ramos, Isaac, it's a fun time to
Speaker 3: be covering this team, watching this team. It can't get
Speaker 3: any better than this, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I was trying to think of the
Speaker 2: last time the Marlins were this many games over five
Speaker 2: hundred at this stage in the season. I didn't have
Speaker 2: to look back too much. Obviously it was twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: or on July fifth, they were fourteen games over five hundred.
Speaker 2: You just sort of forget how good and I guess
Speaker 2: I don't want to say lucky, but just how crazy.
Speaker 2: That team was led by Skip Schumacher and Kim Ang.
Speaker 2: But this just seems a little bit different. It seems
Speaker 2: it feels more sustainable. It feels like this team, genuinely speaking,
Speaker 2: is one of the powerhouse teams in the National League,
Speaker 2: which is just it feels weird to say in mouth
Speaker 2: on this show, given just how many years of ninety
Speaker 2: plus lost seasons we've covered you and me, Kevin, So
Speaker 2: it's great to see. Just since the month of June,
Speaker 2: it's been spectacular. Being fifteen and two at home over
Speaker 2: the last seventeen contests there is just really incredible, and
Speaker 2: to really form one of the better hopefield advantages in
Speaker 2: all of Major League Baseball despite the lack of crowd
Speaker 2: is just it's special, and it's something special is going
Speaker 2: on down here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Marlins are one of eight National League teams
Speaker 3: with a plus run differential. They have the sixth highest
Speaker 3: of those. And you look at the Phillies, they have
Speaker 3: a negative ten run differential. They should be three games
Speaker 3: under five hundred per the expected win losses. But aj,
Speaker 3: you know, just how fun is this?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: You look? I think a big reason for this success
Speaker 3: has been the offense. We're going to talk about one
Speaker 3: of the pieces that they just lost, but just how
Speaker 3: good has its been? Especially after the series in Colorado
Speaker 3: the had Saint Louis the Sacramento one, like the power
Speaker 3: was on full display.
Speaker 5: No, it's it's been a glow up.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think this team has always been exciting, even
Speaker 6: last year when I first started to work around June
Speaker 6: around it's been a year now. The team, even their
Speaker 6: losses seem exciting and you can see that they were
Speaker 6: competitive all the way up into the last out, and
Speaker 6: now they've transitioned okay, being competitive to winning ball games,
Speaker 6: to being in every ball game into competing and keeping
Speaker 6: leads once they get them, and even if they're down,
Speaker 6: they're still battling to the last to the last out.
Speaker 6: And it's funny, man, I mean, a lot of talk
Speaker 6: was was being said about the way the Marlins were
Speaker 6: doing things, all of their innovation, oh the pitch calling,
Speaker 6: all these.
Speaker 5: Different things, and now look what's happening right now. It's working.
Speaker 6: What they're doing is working their systems, the things that
Speaker 6: they have been put in place. The players are all
Speaker 6: bought in coaching this whole the whole organization is brought
Speaker 6: into this whole system and it's paying off for them.
Speaker 6: So it's really exciting to watch. It's really cool to
Speaker 6: see the growth of these guys. A lot of young
Speaker 6: guys on this team, and they to be adapting to
Speaker 6: the league a lot faster. And it is because of
Speaker 6: the information that they're given, and not just the information
Speaker 6: that they're given, but the way that they're giving it
Speaker 6: as well. They're able to translate it to where the
Speaker 6: players can understand it to then apply it, and that's
Speaker 6: one of the biggest things. So I think you're seeing
Speaker 6: the team head it in the right direction and I'm
Speaker 6: really interested to see, you know, where this leads, Like
Speaker 6: at the end of the season, what are we going
Speaker 6: to be looking at? Right And it's exciting to think
Speaker 6: about because you see the way they're playing and you
Speaker 6: see the potential of making a playoff run and just
Speaker 6: you know how baseball is, man, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 6: your record is when you get into the playoff mode.
Speaker 6: It's anybody's game. Like you get hot at the right time.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter what your roster says, or the payroll whatever,
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter what any of that says. It matters
Speaker 6: about the the best team playing at the end of
Speaker 6: the year. And once you make it, if you make
Speaker 6: it to the playoffs, then you have a chance to
Speaker 6: be that team.
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry, go ahead, no, I was just gonna say.
Speaker 3: I mean, Aja talks about, you know, a wild card,
Speaker 3: Like you look at the Marls rotation. It's what Sandy
Speaker 3: uri max and you could put them in any order.
Speaker 3: You never know what can happen, especially you know, pitching
Speaker 3: is so important in the postseason, you know, especially you
Speaker 3: know with the guys that they do have the options
Speaker 3: that they have, Tyler Phillips could come out of the bullpen,
Speaker 3: you know, and any with those situations, you could start
Speaker 3: a game, you know, Like I feel like if obviously
Speaker 3: health is health permitting, Like if the Marlins are in
Speaker 3: a situation where if the season were to end today
Speaker 3: and you're one of the postseason. They're in a much
Speaker 3: better spot than I think they were in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: On top of that, I think this offense is just
Speaker 3: so much better than the one we saw in twenty three, Isaac.
Speaker 3: I know we've tried to do our comparisons from that
Speaker 3: twenty three team, even to compare a little bit in
Speaker 3: twenty five how we thought that five team was even better.
Speaker 3: But truly, this is I think for us to at
Speaker 3: least the best team we've covered since starting on the beat,
Speaker 3: and I don't think it comes close. Like the bullpen
Speaker 3: that twenty three had is obviously phenomenal, and the pitching
Speaker 3: that they had was really good even with Sandy out,
Speaker 3: But twenty twenty six this team is so much better
Speaker 3: on so many different levels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean pretty much everyone that's getting a regular
Speaker 2: playing time at the play is sporting an OPS plus.
Speaker 4: Over league acage over one hundred.
Speaker 2: I mean you look down to their number eight hitters,
Speaker 2: you know, with freaking Ariberta Hernandez sometimes sitting down there
Speaker 2: and he's got an OPS plus a one to twenty.
Speaker 2: It's just such a lengthened lineup. It feels that you know,
Speaker 2: they're never out of a ballgame. That's so big for
Speaker 2: these starting pitchers, for guys like Tyler Phillips, guys like
Speaker 2: Sandy and Uri, they don't need to have their A
Speaker 2: stuff every single time because they know their offense is
Speaker 2: can pick them up.
Speaker 4: And that's just a huge asset to have.
Speaker 2: And I think a good offense is just as important
Speaker 2: as as pitching a defense. Despite everyone's saying it's pitching
Speaker 2: a defense, you need to have a good offense too.
Speaker 4: Look at the.
Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen Astros, you know, look at the twenty sixteen Cubs.
Speaker 2: You had good offenses and that's what really helps you
Speaker 2: catapult yourself into World Series.
Speaker 4: Contention.
Speaker 3: One guy I want to shout out real quick is
Speaker 3: Javier Sonoha. He's having an awesome month to start this month,
Speaker 3: a nine oh seven ops. He's writing a four game
Speaker 3: head streak. We know we spoke about the production at
Speaker 3: third how it just hasn't been good to be you know,
Speaker 3: the Marl and so have some of the worst third
Speaker 3: base production in baseball. I was actually looking I looked
Speaker 3: us up yesterday as between all the third basemen combined,
Speaker 3: they have four home runs hit as a group. There
Speaker 3: in the position that you would think you'd usually get
Speaker 3: some more juice. But Sonoha has certainly been a you know,
Speaker 3: a help there for sure, So shout out to him,
Speaker 3: but really quick on the housekeeping side of things. Two
Speaker 3: roster moves not confirmed yet because we're recording this before them,
Speaker 3: but Christina Dinokolovan will be dot Com reported that Reese
Speaker 3: Hines is getting recalled from TRIPA A Jacksonville. He was
Speaker 3: acquired from the Cincinnati Reds when he was in DFA limbo.
Speaker 3: The Marlins traded Zach mccanberley the other way. Mccabley's been
Speaker 3: up a couple of times, up and in like an
Speaker 3: up and down situation, and then going on the injury list.
Speaker 3: We will assume it's going to be Owen Casey, who
Speaker 3: left the game after just like the top of the
Speaker 3: first because of a right calf strains I believe what
Speaker 3: it was or tightness. Obviously tough loscarus case he really
Speaker 3: had finally gotten a going, but Reese Hine will probably
Speaker 3: provide you some power. The big issue with with Heines
Speaker 3: is obviously the high strike out rate. If we thought
Speaker 3: Casey struck out a lot, Heines is up there too.
Speaker 3: In that sense, Isaac thoughts, I guess on Heines, how
Speaker 3: tough is it to lose Casey after he thought you
Speaker 3: were finally lengthening out this lineup at full strength. Casey
Speaker 3: obviously a huge part of that, and I know, you know,
Speaker 3: he was huge against right handed pitching, didn't really face
Speaker 3: a lot of lefties. But still, I think you're getting
Speaker 3: to a point with Casey where you're finally starting to
Speaker 3: see that early season Casey, but a little bit on
Speaker 3: a more consistent level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with Hines, it will be sort of like a
Speaker 2: shot in the dark. You know, they're hoping that their
Speaker 2: development team can unlock something with Heines, who you know,
Speaker 2: a former top draft pick. I think it was a
Speaker 2: second round pick in the same year that Blade was
Speaker 2: drafted in twenty nineteen. And he has really just proven
Speaker 2: what he can do at the upper miners. There's nothing
Speaker 2: left for him to prove, and unfortunately a very limited
Speaker 2: sample size in the major league. He just has not
Speaker 2: been able to hit, has not been able to put
Speaker 2: the ball in play, and to be fair, he has
Speaker 2: not gotten a ton of runway with Cincinnati when he
Speaker 2: was in the major league, So it'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see I think this is also a timely call up,
Speaker 2: just because they have a couple of lefties on their
Speaker 2: schedule upcoming this weekend against Cleveland, does Miami and then
Speaker 2: through the all stop breaks. So maybe you know we
Speaker 2: won't see Hines for that long. But I think if
Speaker 2: there were a different time of year, or if it
Speaker 2: were a different injury, we would have seen Kemp Alderman.
Speaker 2: But I think this is just to sort of see
Speaker 2: if they can get lightning out of a bottle here.
Speaker 3: And then on the other hand, Janson Junk. We're recording
Speaker 3: this on Thursday before Janson Junk is set to make
Speaker 3: his first start off the injured list. AJ, what have
Speaker 3: been your thoughts on Junk this season so far? What
Speaker 3: do you think had worked for him and hasn't worked
Speaker 3: for him? It's been a lot of mixed results so far.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's gonna be on a pitch County won't
Speaker 3: go very long, maybe four five innames. He only made
Speaker 3: two rehab starts, one of them was cut short because
Speaker 3: of the He got hit with a comeback on the
Speaker 3: wrist and put through a pitch design on Monday. On Tuesday,
Speaker 3: and yesterday was announced that he would be starting Thursday's game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's good to have someone like Junk
Speaker 6: back in the fold. I feel like he gave you
Speaker 6: consistent starts every time every fifth day when he took
Speaker 6: the ball, so and it felt like he's figured out
Speaker 6: something since last year or yeah, last year and this year,
Speaker 6: I feel like he's really turned a corner. So I think,
Speaker 6: you know, having another solid arm in your rotation, another
Speaker 6: guy that can can get you some some innings, it's
Speaker 6: also going to help out the bullpen, and uh, you know,
Speaker 6: I I just feel like, you know, he's he's really
Speaker 6: raised the ball on what he's been able to do.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's always he's had to be a control guy.
Speaker 6: But along with that control, it seems like they tweaked
Speaker 6: the pitch usage and they tweaked just a few things
Speaker 6: on on how to maximize not only the location that
Speaker 6: he has, but the pitch tunneling as well.
Speaker 5: So I feel like he's a guy that.
Speaker 6: You know, is a stabilizer in in the in the
Speaker 6: staring staff, and there's another guy that can can give
Speaker 6: you some link and again, uh, the way this bullpen
Speaker 6: has performed, especially with the starting injuries, the injuries to
Speaker 6: the starters has been amazing and so now you get
Speaker 6: another starter back, it could possibly potentially give you a
Speaker 6: little bit more rest on that on the back end
Speaker 6: of the bullpen. I'm sure that those guys need it,
Speaker 6: even though the All Star breaks coming up, you know,
Speaker 6: so they're gonna be extra rested. And when you have
Speaker 6: the talent that you have in that bullpen and they
Speaker 6: have some rest and it's to restart that that's even
Speaker 6: more deadly that they can be back there. So it's
Speaker 6: gonna be it's gonna be good to have him back,
Speaker 6: and uh, it's good to it's good for Junk to
Speaker 6: be back as well, because I feel like he was
Speaker 6: really starting to cement the way he was throwing and
Speaker 6: figure some things out to to really maximize his abilities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got your rotation set for the next at
Speaker 2: least a month or so two months, and this could
Speaker 2: be all the way through, should we say October. I
Speaker 2: think that's what you got because you were hoping maybe
Speaker 2: on Snelling and Thomas White contributing if things were to
Speaker 2: get sexy in the second half of the season, but
Speaker 2: unfortunately that's not gonna be the case. But this could
Speaker 2: be on barring anything on the trade deadline. This could
Speaker 2: be your your starting five during crunch time.
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Speaker 3: Are you fine with this rotation? Tyler Phillips, a guy
Speaker 3: who went five innings the other day, You could have
Speaker 3: even like I was a little surprised he took him
Speaker 3: out pretty early in the game because he actually on
Speaker 3: he could go longer in games. He went eight in
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, I believe, and you could give you some length,
Speaker 3: but they did decided not to do that, you know,
Speaker 3: especially on a day where you knew after Junk was
Speaker 3: gonna come back and he wasn't gonna go very long,
Speaker 3: So they went with Gibson out of the pen for
Speaker 3: two Peterson and the end of it with with Fairbanks,
Speaker 3: who his last two outings have been pretty good. Or
Speaker 3: are you Are you fine with where they're at there?
Speaker 3: Do you still think they should add another starter if
Speaker 3: they are in a position a month from now to
Speaker 3: buy or a couple of weeks from that at this
Speaker 3: point to buy, or do you think this is it,
Speaker 3: this is what they'll go with and they're finally regardless
Speaker 3: of you know, lack of depth and triple A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't complain with the results regarding yesterday's telor
Speaker 2: Phillips start because anytime you have a combined shutout, obviously
Speaker 2: they did the right thing. But I think this must
Speaker 2: be with later on this season, like the future being
Speaker 2: kept in mind here, because with Tyler, they obviously feel
Speaker 2: he's gonna be started for the rest of the season,
Speaker 2: if not maybe the rest of his Marlins career.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I I'm not sure why they didn't stretch him out
Speaker 2: last year if that were the case, but it would be.
Speaker 4: Fine if you had.
Speaker 2: You know that Thomas White or Robbie snowing down there
Speaker 2: ready to contribute and help. I'm not sure what they
Speaker 2: think about Brax and Garrett at this point. Honestly, I'm
Speaker 2: surprised we haven't seen him either, because he could fill
Speaker 2: a role in either long as a long man in
Speaker 2: the bullpen or in the starting rotation. But the fact
Speaker 2: that they haven't gone to him yet it's a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, eye opening a bit. So if it were me,
Speaker 2: I definitely would be adding at least a little bit
Speaker 2: of pitching depth at the deadline, and from what I've heard,
Speaker 2: I haven't heard Sodian pitcher or relieve. But I've just
Speaker 2: heard long Man Bridge type guys that could help contribute
Speaker 2: at some point, but you just don't want to have
Speaker 2: to go up and call up Dax Fulton or Bradley Blaylock.
Speaker 2: No offense of those guys, but they could use a
Speaker 2: little bit more depth here because we don't know how
Speaker 2: long year he's gonna be able to go deep in
Speaker 2: the games. They don't even let him go deep in
Speaker 2: a perfect game. You don't know how long Tylor Philps
Speaker 2: can go into games. You don't know how deep Jens
Speaker 2: and Jungle be able to go into games. So I
Speaker 2: think some more innings would behoove this.
Speaker 3: Team, all right, Moving on to the All Star All
Speaker 3: Star weekends coming up. I know AJ was able to
Speaker 3: participate in one of those. Must have been fun, real quick,
Speaker 3: Max Meyer, Auto Lopez, the Marlins two All Star representatives,
Speaker 3: first time since twenty twenty three. They'll have multiple guys
Speaker 3: going to the Midsummer Classic. Who knows, maybe another one goes.
Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler obviously should be added in there, and I
Speaker 3: believe he's not added because he can't pitch the game,
Speaker 3: which is stupid because he certainly has earned himself the
Speaker 3: right to go. Robleski from the Dodgers probably may go
Speaker 3: to assuming, you know, all the good guys start to
Speaker 3: fall out. But Sandy could have a shot. Everyone seems
Speaker 3: to be under the impression, just the way he's thrown
Speaker 3: the last month, that he could have a shot. He's
Speaker 3: the innings leader, leads IMLB an innings pitched. That was
Speaker 3: the talk of the town yesterday that they think maybe
Speaker 3: Sandy could be added to the roster. But Isaac and
Speaker 3: I see your face. I think you don't think Sandy's
Speaker 3: very deserving, which is fine, but thoughts on Maxinatto getting in.
Speaker 3: There are two guys who are very deserving of it,
Speaker 3: and I think a couple of snubs on the Marlins side.
Speaker 3: I think with with Liam and Xavier Edwards.
Speaker 2: That I don't think Sandy's deserving. I think he's deserving
Speaker 2: every year when you're leading the league in innings pitch.
Speaker 2: I just don't think he has performed the last month though.
Speaker 2: Yeah he has the wins, but even he's just been
Speaker 2: you know, there's too many big numbers there on his
Speaker 2: line from what I think in order to be appointed,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I don't I don't see it.
Speaker 3: Take a lot of these days for a picture to
Speaker 3: get in there.
Speaker 2: I feel like right well and with Auto and Max,
Speaker 2: just two complete fantastic stories from different ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 2: Right you have a number three overall pick in Max Meyer,
Speaker 2: who has really dealt with such a myriad of injuries
Speaker 2: all his entire career. He's been told he's a reliever
Speaker 2: by me and a lot of people.
Speaker 4: Since he was drafted.
Speaker 2: Right he was even closing games out for Minnesota in college,
Speaker 2: so we all thought that was his future. I thought
Speaker 2: that they were wasting everyone's time by having him the rotation,
Speaker 2: and he has just proven everyone wrong in such a
Speaker 2: big prolific weight, not losing his first game until July
Speaker 2: of this year. So incredibly deserving for Max Meyer and
Speaker 2: Otto Lopez, like we always say, designated the for assignment
Speaker 2: twice before the twenty twenty four season, Miami picked him
Speaker 2: up for nothing. We saw the potential with the glove
Speaker 2: right away in twenty twenty four, we saw some potential
Speaker 2: with the bat last year, and it has all come
Speaker 2: together here in twenty twenty six into one of the
Speaker 2: best individual seasons I've seen by Marlon shortstop since Haley
Speaker 2: Ramirez was yere in two thousand and nine, So incredibly
Speaker 2: deserving for both of them, and honestly two of the
Speaker 2: better guys in that club house. Max sort of keeps
Speaker 2: himself a little bit quiet, and then Auto Lope is
Speaker 2: just one of the nicer guys in the entire league.
Speaker 4: So really deserved for them both, and very happy.
Speaker 3: Max won't be pitching the All Star Game because he
Speaker 3: lined up the pitch yesterday against Seattle or Monday or Tuesday, sorry,
Speaker 3: and he is going to pitch Sunday, So the series
Speaker 3: finale against the Guardians, he will be in Philly. He's
Speaker 3: going to go through all the festivities. He'll be introduced
Speaker 3: to I'm sure a booming crowd of Phillies fans when
Speaker 3: they introduced the violins because of the and the least
Speaker 3: but AJ thoughts on this, and I want to get
Speaker 3: your your side of this. How were you told you'd
Speaker 3: be going to the All Star Game? Was it similar
Speaker 3: to how most people are told where they're told in
Speaker 3: the clubhouse, where you know they announced all the guys,
Speaker 3: or how to go for you guys.
Speaker 6: So I'll touch on that first, then I'll talk about
Speaker 6: the Well, no, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5: Talk about the guys first.
Speaker 6: First of all, you know, I relate to these guys
Speaker 6: in a sense where in the middle of their careers,
Speaker 6: especially with Max Meyer, you know he's drafted, you know,
Speaker 6: high up, but it was almost improbable at some point
Speaker 6: right in his career. Now at the beginning, you're thinking, yah,
Speaker 6: you know he's going to be this or whatever. And
Speaker 6: for for Otto Lopez designated for assignment twice, there's a
Speaker 6: certain belief in yourself that you.
Speaker 5: Have to have to be able to withstand all of that.
Speaker 6: All of that, all those obstacles, and for Otto to
Speaker 6: be able to overcome those and still believe in himself,
Speaker 6: and for Max Meyer to overcome all of the talk
Speaker 6: that a lot of the media were doing about him,
Speaker 6: you got to truly believe in yourself and to be
Speaker 6: able to accomplish something and to make an All Star
Speaker 6: team has got to be a is a great feeling
Speaker 6: that I relate to that I was drafted twenty first round,
Speaker 6: signed for one thousand dollars, but I believe that I
Speaker 6: was an All Star even from then and all throughout
Speaker 6: my career. I believe that I was someone that can
Speaker 6: achieve something like that, and I always believed in myself
Speaker 6: even though people were telling me, we're trying to put
Speaker 6: a ceiling on who I was as a player. And
Speaker 6: then to finally to overcome all those odds and to
Speaker 6: be told that you're an All Star is one of
Speaker 6: the greatest feelings in the world, man. And so hats
Speaker 6: off to both of those guys to continue to work
Speaker 6: to not allow the negative parts of their career to
Speaker 6: stunt their growth or inhibit their success.
Speaker 5: And honestly, to be able to do this, you have
Speaker 5: to use all of those.
Speaker 6: Negative things that happened to you to fuel you to
Speaker 6: be a better players.
Speaker 5: And that's what they did.
Speaker 6: They use all of those those things to continue to
Speaker 6: work and continue to improve on how they improve on
Speaker 6: their game and be good enough to be to make
Speaker 6: an All Star team. As far as the way I
Speaker 6: was told, it was a little bit different than what
Speaker 6: these guys were. I mean, every time I hear a
Speaker 6: call up or someone get named to an All Star
Speaker 6: and I see the video of it, I get a
Speaker 6: little bit emotional because it reminds me of when I
Speaker 6: was told, right, and it's a dream come.
Speaker 5: True for us. We Jeffrey Laurier, which was.
Speaker 6: The owner came in at the time, came in and
Speaker 6: uh he was in the in the manager's office.
Speaker 5: I think who was it? It was it.
Speaker 6: Uh, it was maddingly mattingly I think sixty and Uh
Speaker 6: So they called us in, like, hey, we're gonna have
Speaker 6: a meeting and they called me for that, Noel Rodney,
Speaker 6: Jose Fernandez and who is the Marcelo or Zuna? Yeah,
Speaker 6: and we're all in there and.
Speaker 5: He's like, all right, guys, we have some we have
Speaker 5: some news for you.
Speaker 6: And Jeffrey wanted to be the one to tell us
Speaker 6: and he was like, you know, I wanted to first
Speaker 6: and foremost congratulate you guys on becoming an All Star
Speaker 6: All Star. You know, appreciate all the work you've been
Speaker 6: putting it, put it putting in, and uh, you know,
Speaker 6: we're looking forward to to seeing you guys out there.
Speaker 6: And then gee, was one of those additions for the
Speaker 6: for the the home run derby? Yeah, and uh yeah
Speaker 6: it was. It was a cool time, man, because you
Speaker 6: think about all of the things that you had to
Speaker 6: overcome to get there. And for me, it really hit
Speaker 6: me once I saw my family there at the All
Speaker 6: Star Game, Uh, sitting there watching me and just being
Speaker 6: able to hug them and and and love them because
Speaker 6: they'rere the reason that I was there. Their belief in
Speaker 6: me when no one else had any belief. Uh, you know,
Speaker 6: my my my parents, man. Uh, they and my brother,
Speaker 6: my sister, and my grandmother right there and my my
Speaker 6: brother's wife and.
Speaker 5: Man, we uh. It was just an amazing moment.
Speaker 6: To be able to share that with them, because they
Speaker 6: were the reason that I was.
Speaker 5: An All star.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Those tough days when I felt like, man, I don't know.
Speaker 5: If I have enough.
Speaker 6: I don't have you know, when I specially I was
Speaker 6: in the minor leagues, like there's so much, so many
Speaker 6: people that are better than me, and and I'm not
Speaker 6: getting any opportunity or whatever it was. I called my
Speaker 6: dad and he he called me down.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: All those moments allowed me to keep believing in myself
Speaker 6: so that I can continue working. And then it's something
Speaker 6: like being an All Star. So I imagine that the
Speaker 6: path for Auto and Meyer was somewhat similar in some instance.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there was times where they were like, man,
Speaker 5: do I have it? Do I have enough?
Speaker 6: I've been you know, in Auto's case, I've been let
Speaker 6: go by two teams like, what does that mean for me?
Speaker 6: And to continue to battle through that, that's such an
Speaker 6: amazing thing. And then to be an All Star and
Speaker 6: be deserving All Star and lead the league in the
Speaker 6: average and hits and all these different things, and Max
Speaker 6: Meyer turning that corner, So you know, I really feel
Speaker 6: those moments with them. I get chills thinking about, you know,
Speaker 6: those guys going to the All Star Game. It's well
Speaker 6: deserved and I'm extremely happy to see something like that.
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Speaker 4: Let me ask you, AJV well one.
Speaker 2: I think it's cool that Laura tolds you in person,
Speaker 2: because if I am on the franchise show. In twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: John Carlo got the he it was a phone call
Speaker 2: from Jeffrey that he's the aulsar for the day. And
Speaker 2: what made me think of this? You had four other
Speaker 2: teammates go with you. Where were you happy, like relieve
Speaker 2: that you had, especially your one of your boys go
Speaker 2: with you, or did you've liked to go alone?
Speaker 6: Like no, Now, I was happy, and the more the merrier,
Speaker 6: because when you go to those things, man, it's it's
Speaker 6: it's weird. I wasn't the most social guy with other players,
Speaker 6: because you know, being a bullpen, you really even like
Speaker 6: run into guys.
Speaker 5: You know, when you're on the field, you kind of.
Speaker 6: Talk to the first basement and second basement when you're
Speaker 6: on basis and stuff like that, so you kind of
Speaker 6: have more of an understanding. But as a reliever, laid
Speaker 6: in and guy and always kept to myself as far
Speaker 6: as like on the field, you know, I always felt
Speaker 6: like the team was the enemy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So that was like my my mentality. So I didn't
Speaker 6: I knew other guys, and other guys knew of me,
Speaker 6: but like not enough to like just go hang out
Speaker 6: with somebody somebody else, you know. So having my teammates
Speaker 6: there to share that with, right was really cool. And
Speaker 6: Jose Jose, you know, everyone knows him, so uh, you know,
Speaker 6: brighting his kind of coattails and meeting other players that
Speaker 6: I may not have met because I wouldn't have went
Speaker 6: up to anybody because I don't want to be a
Speaker 6: fanboy at All Star game because we're all over there,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So, you know, being able
Speaker 6: to meet some of some of those guys and be
Speaker 6: among the best in the game is a kind of
Speaker 6: a surreal moment, especially as I sit here right now,
Speaker 6: you know, the retired, just thinking about Damn, I was
Speaker 6: really an All Star.
Speaker 5: That's really cool.
Speaker 2: You had a pretty it was a pretty loaded NL
Speaker 2: All Star team. Who's one guy that you were like,
Speaker 2: that's so and so, like, who's the one legend in there,
Speaker 2: because there's a couple David Ortiz.
Speaker 6: David Ortiz was was the guy that were it was
Speaker 6: It felt surreal. I mean, it's a guy you grew
Speaker 6: up watching, you know, and for him to be there
Speaker 6: and it just that's a legend. It's a legend, man.
Speaker 6: So that was that was the guy that kind of
Speaker 6: like was the uh just the big big name for me,
Speaker 6: and yeah, you know, and then uh, I've never really
Speaker 6: had a chance to talk to Bryce Harper, like playing
Speaker 6: against him, but.
Speaker 5: We sat together on the bus and chop it up
Speaker 5: a little bit. Like so he was a cool dude.
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't expect I didn't know. I didn't
Speaker 5: know much about it.
Speaker 6: But again, you know, the other team's enemy, so like
Speaker 6: always like I hate that guy, you know, yeah.
Speaker 5: When you're in the batters.
Speaker 6: But I kind of had a little bit of a
Speaker 6: Tyler Phillips like I hate Batters type the feeling, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. So, uh So, being able to
Speaker 6: chop it up with some of the guys that I faced,
Speaker 6: what was a cool experience and be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: they're human too.
Speaker 5: It's cool, Like, you know, I don't have to hate them,
Speaker 5: they're cool people.
Speaker 2: Good to find out Bryce Harper was only two for
Speaker 2: eleven against you in your career, not.
Speaker 5: That Yeah he didn't, he didn't do all that much
Speaker 5: against me.
Speaker 6: But again, like you know, it's when I face those
Speaker 6: guys I faced like the superstars always raised my game
Speaker 6: because I was like, all right, let's see how good
Speaker 6: you are. And then I you know, I always wanted
Speaker 6: to show my stuff against some of the best. Sometimes
Speaker 6: I'd walk a guy if I had two outside, walk
Speaker 6: a guy. Uh, to face a Harper. I know, that's
Speaker 6: not the thing that you want to do. And my
Speaker 6: dad would always come He's like, hey, you got to
Speaker 6: stop doing that. They're gonna make you pay for that.
Speaker 6: But like, I want to face that guy. I want
Speaker 6: I want to face the best in this game in
Speaker 6: the biggest situations. That's what I want to do, you know.
Speaker 6: So so yeah, man it again, I was you got
Speaker 6: to have a screw loose to.
Speaker 5: Be able to pitch. I definitely had a couple of
Speaker 5: screws loose.
Speaker 3: What was the what was the Derby experience? Like because
Speaker 3: Big G was in there, and then it was a
Speaker 3: whole group of you guys. I think you mentioned this
Speaker 3: on another episode where you guys started the thing where
Speaker 3: you guys gave G the water and all that stuff. Yeah, break,
Speaker 3: Now the Derby's going back to the swings, not the timers.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a lot cooler this year too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was I mean, being able to watch the
Speaker 6: home run Derby. I mean again, I revert to whenever
Speaker 6: I was a kid watching the Home Run Derby on
Speaker 6: on TV and just being like, look at all the
Speaker 6: guys and their cameras and their kids, and they're sitting
Speaker 6: down on the on the foul lines and just watching it,
Speaker 6: and so like I was, I was living a literal dream,
Speaker 6: you know. And and to know that my family was
Speaker 6: in the stands, uh to see G go off, just
Speaker 6: go off and and and he wanted I believe too,
Speaker 6: he won. He wanted the Derby there. And afterwards, uh uh,
Speaker 6: we were in the tunnel. My I have my family
Speaker 6: come down and my dad got to hold the home
Speaker 6: Run Derby trophy and he took a picture with him
Speaker 6: and G. So it was a cool moment. I will
Speaker 6: say that I'm glad now that they have an extra
Speaker 6: day off after that, because when you go to those
Speaker 6: that that All Star break, it's not really a break
Speaker 6: for the people who made the All Star teams. Now
Speaker 6: they have an extra day off so that you can
Speaker 6: actually have a break. But I remember leaving there just
Speaker 6: I felt like I didn't have a break because I didn't.
Speaker 5: I was tired. So the second half started off.
Speaker 6: A little bit sluggish for me, I believe, but but yeah, still,
Speaker 6: it was a moment that I'm never gonna forget. It
Speaker 6: was one that I wish I would have gotten more
Speaker 6: more merch and stuff from.
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't. My ego and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Was like, I'm gonna be back, don't worry about that.
Speaker 5: I'll do it again. I'll be better. I'll be back.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, wasn't able to be back. But still, man, it
Speaker 6: was an amazing moment. And I imagine that those two
Speaker 6: guys Meyer and and and Lopez are gonna have a
Speaker 6: great time. And it's it's something that man take as
Speaker 6: mini pictures, take as many memorabilia whatever, man, because it's
Speaker 6: it's truly an accomplishment and you got you gotta maximize
Speaker 6: your time there.
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Speaker 2: Auto said he has his red carpet outfit already set
Speaker 2: up from a few weeks ago. You strike me someone
Speaker 2: that would you know, prepare an outfit as well for that?
Speaker 4: What did you wear the red carpet that here?
Speaker 5: I did wear? I wore a suit. I wore a
Speaker 5: gray suit.
Speaker 6: But this this was this was before like all of
Speaker 6: the red carpet stuff.
Speaker 5: If it was a red carpet, I would have definitely elevated.
Speaker 4: You've done something weird, and I.
Speaker 6: Would have done anything weird. It would have been man,
Speaker 6: I don't I'm gonna do anything. Were something fly man,
Speaker 6: it'd be something.
Speaker 5: Fly nice and things like, oh look at him go.
Speaker 5: I definitely would have had it picked out.
Speaker 6: As soon as I would have found out I was
Speaker 6: an All Star that next day, I would have had
Speaker 6: called somebody like, hey, let let's let's get something made
Speaker 6: real quick, because I got looking sharp.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just I remember seeing guy like Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 4: I forget who else last year's Red card. They wear
Speaker 4: some strange things. Not strange, not something I could pull off,
Speaker 4: but interesting. The choices. These days it's.
Speaker 5: Called fashion man.
Speaker 6: But now then I think Greg gam singer for MLB Network,
Speaker 6: was wearing shorts.
Speaker 4: Yeah with the cable dresser. I'm sorry. He's a great guy.
Speaker 5: He he he.
Speaker 6: Goes for the for the shock factor and everything, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. Like he that's his like gimmick.
Speaker 5: He likes to do that. He likes to be shocking.
Speaker 3: That's like the weird factor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and like same thing, like he likes
Speaker 6: to talk about the jinks, like a I'm I don't
Speaker 6: jinx anybody, but.
Speaker 5: Talks about like, oh, someone a no hitter.
Speaker 6: And you know, like he's like he's the he likes
Speaker 6: to cause controversy, but in a in a positive type
Speaker 6: or you know, funny type of way.
Speaker 5: So that's that's his thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll never forget when in twenty four he called
Speaker 3: the Yoshinobi I'm a Moto no hitter before any Marlin
Speaker 3: even took that bad and Jazz took him deep. First pitch, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 5: Like he may throw a no hitter and then bamn Homer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first pitch. Yep, you mentioned the break a j
Speaker 3: So they do get the fifteenth and the sixteenth off,
Speaker 3: and then they have the Marlins get off to a
Speaker 3: road trip right away, three in Milwaukee, which is tough.
Speaker 3: Then a Houston team that is starting to surge. So
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens there. But I think we'll wrap
Speaker 3: it up here. All Star weekend coming up, we'll have
Speaker 3: some stuff on the draft as we get back. The
Speaker 3: Martins have the fourteenth pick, two days. I think it's
Speaker 3: one through four the first day with the comp stuff
Speaker 3: in the middle of the competitive bound rump picks, and
Speaker 3: then uh the rest of the way through Sunday at
Speaker 3: eleven thirty, So so weird time with the draft. One
Speaker 3: point thirty is right before the Marlins game. There's a
Speaker 3: game that day, and then obviously Sunday Day two there's
Speaker 3: also a game, so a little weird. I prefer the
Speaker 3: draft when it's on a Sunday night where everything's over
Speaker 3: by that point. So anyways, we'll wrap it up here.
Speaker 3: We have a cam Canerell interview towards the back half
Speaker 3: of the week. We had the draft stream on Saturday,
Speaker 3: I believe at two thirty. So that's always a very
Speaker 3: highly viewed because either the Marls can make a great
Speaker 3: pick and we'll all be very happy, or it could
Speaker 3: be what we saw two years ago and it'll be
Speaker 3: a catastrophic reaction from us. They're there, yeah, yeah, yeah, Aja,
Speaker 3: we got to show you the video of two years
Speaker 3: ago that was that was really bad. But anyways, up here, I'd.
Speaker 6: Like to think that like now that they have they're
Speaker 6: figuring out what what's successful with their players, so they
Speaker 6: have more of an understanding what to look for, So
Speaker 6: I would like to think it would be more of
Speaker 6: a a little bit more educated, not that it was
Speaker 6: never educated, but a little bit more understanding of the
Speaker 6: right type of player to put in your system.
Speaker 5: So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. The PJ one was like a shock factor
Speaker 3: thing more than anything. But yeah, all right, we're wrapping
Speaker 3: up here. Two more uh two more episodes dropping this week.
Speaker 3: A lot of content coming up, all being Philly for
Speaker 3: All Star weekends, so I'm excited for that. But anyways,
Speaker 3: from AJ, Isaac and myself, will see you guys on
Speaker 3: next week. Beast out and I was always go fish
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