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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans, and welcome to this edition of Big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod for April thirtieth, Tuesday, on two thousand,

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Speaker 1: twenty four, and if you are into the Small Pod here,

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Speaker 1: we like to give you all the information about the

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Speaker 1: Marlins for that particular day all season long, in ten

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Speaker 2: And as always, Marlins fans, Big Fish Small Pod is

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Speaker 2: presented by MPT College Consulting. As always, you could check

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Speaker 2: them out at MPT Collegeconsulting dot com for all your

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Speaker 2: college consulting needs and Marlins fans. I will be continuing

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Speaker 2: my series on what is happening so far with top

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Speaker 2: Marlins prospects to start the twenty twenty four season. Last

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Speaker 2: episode you could check out was a Noble Meyer in

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Speaker 2: his struggles so far this season, and now we're gonna

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Speaker 2: go ahead and talk about the number two prospect in

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Speaker 2: the Marlins organization and maybe even for some people the

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Speaker 2: way he's been performing so far in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: could be the number one prospect in some people's eyes,

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Speaker 2: and that is Thomas White, the lefty in the same

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Speaker 2: draft class as Noble meyerd in nineteen year old and

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Speaker 2: with Thomas White the way he's been performing so far

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Speaker 2: this season, he really got off to a really good start.

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Speaker 2: Struggled a bit on April nineteenth, where we will get

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Speaker 2: into later on in the podcast, and just a few

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Speaker 2: days ago, had a really good start against the Blue Jays,

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Speaker 2: going five innings there, lowering his era and overall easily

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Speaker 2: had the best start of his young professional career. But

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Speaker 2: with Thomas White, very interesting prospect there could top out

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Speaker 2: at eighty six excuse me, eighty six ninety eight miles

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Speaker 2: prospect pedigree for Thomas White. I even for me, I

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Speaker 2: believe he can easily be the number one overall prospect

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Speaker 2: for the Marlins, if not by the end of this

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Speaker 2: season the way he's been progressing, what really he showed

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Speaker 2: last game, and you really also look at the amount

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Speaker 2: of innings he's progressing and progressing and progressing, getting more innings,

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Speaker 2: more innings, going ninety seven miles an hour, ninety six

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Speaker 2: good player for the Marlins in the future, but as

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Speaker 2: of right now still very young, but it is trending

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Speaker 2: in the right direction. Let's go ahead and look at

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Speaker 2: some of his game logs. We can look at his

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Speaker 2: at maybe one of one that really wasn't the best,

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Speaker 2: the best. Let's look at what just happened on April

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Speaker 2: twenty six against the Blue Jays. He went five innings,

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Speaker 2: allowed four hits, only one earned run, only walked to

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Speaker 2: out in his career. He had a first game six

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Speaker 2: again going to his last start, he threw eighty pitches,

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Speaker 2: good numbers from Thomas White on this start. Just really

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Speaker 2: So that was easily his best start for Thomas White.

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Speaker 2: April nineteenth. Four innings, eight hits, six runs, four earned runs.

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Speaker 2: you know, you look at this game, I wouldn't say

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Speaker 2: He has that stuff, he has that pedigree. I preferably

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Speaker 2: what we've seen here is really to top out ninety eight,

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Speaker 2: start to the season. Again, flaws, but when you're nineteen

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Speaker 2: my number one prospect in the Marlon system. But that's

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Speaker 2: gonna do it for me. For this episode of Big

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