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Speaker 1: Hey, Welcome to Big Fish, Small Pot. I'm Andrew Werdahl.

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Speaker 1: Today is May twenty fifth. The Marlins are facing the

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Speaker 1: Rays today, just like the Marlins faced the Rays last

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Speaker 1: night in Tampa Bay, well Saint Petersburg specifically, as you know,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins faced the Rays. It I'm repeating myself because

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Speaker 1: it feels like it's been repeated. We know kind of

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Speaker 1: what Tampa does on a regular basis. They have a

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Speaker 1: roster of major league hitters that will take like good

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Speaker 1: swings at the plate, and a roster of major league

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Speaker 1: pitchers that I'll throw pretty hard and with a lot

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Speaker 1: of spin. They like can really develop that sort of

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Speaker 1: athlete that can put a lot into the pitch and

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Speaker 1: the sort of hitter that can maintain at Eddie swing.

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Speaker 1: They have a few like solid regulars you're like Kevin

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Speaker 1: Kiermyer that's been with them for quite a while now,

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Speaker 1: and a few like other stable players. It's a team

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Speaker 1: not quite built offensively through your like top tools, but

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Speaker 1: more like maintained offensively through that like swing that you

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Speaker 1: see with a lot of their players. And it almost

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Speaker 1: felt like you knew what was going to happen going

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Speaker 1: into the game, and that was I mean, based on

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Speaker 1: your lineup card there, Eric Gonzalez, Joe Dunan slotting in

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Speaker 1: four injuries. The Marlins middle infield now like definitely taken

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Speaker 1: down quite a bit by injuries. So the lineup showed

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Speaker 1: that lack of talent at the top certainly not an

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Speaker 1: edge in the game for Miami. It's just a really

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Speaker 1: tall task to try and hit Tampa Bay pitching. So

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Speaker 1: even the Marlins top of the roster had some struggles.

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Speaker 1: Garrett Cooper felt like he was carrying the team for

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Speaker 1: the bulk of the game. Brian Anderson on bass streak

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Speaker 1: ended and an over for the offense for to zero

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Speaker 1: the final Pablo Lopez three home runs given up quite

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Speaker 1: a few for Pablo. What I seem to notice being

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Speaker 1: that I haven't so much focused on pitching this season.

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Speaker 1: Pablo seemed to be inconsistent at times now and again,

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Speaker 1: like kind of like getting a ball in the dirt,

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Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay put like a consistent offensive push out

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Speaker 1: there against Pablo. Wasn't really batter in the lineup that

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Speaker 1: brought the intensity down. Pretty steady swings all through the lineup.

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Speaker 1: That's been something of a consistency in Tampa Bay where

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Speaker 1: even like you know, you're most like unassuming, sort of

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Speaker 1: like Brett Phillips character, can kind of come in and

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Speaker 1: have your big hit. Their offense draws a steady attack,

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Speaker 1: and quite a few players have been able to hang

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Speaker 1: in that system. And I mean beyond that, this is

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Speaker 1: a solid World Series contending team. So with Miami, we

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Speaker 1: didn't really see what you hope to see in a win.

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Speaker 1: Obviously the kind of off night for Pablo, but it's

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Speaker 1: hard really to take much forward from tonight other than

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Speaker 1: perhaps the three k's for Jorge Hilaire that might indicate that,

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Speaker 1: like Tampa's able to really like log in on this guy.

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Speaker 1: He's certainly like a bin around the block veteran, so

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Speaker 1: it's not a surprise that other teams would really know

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Speaker 1: how to pitch him at the plate. But more than that,

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Speaker 1: it's just not a great feeling when you're like big,

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Speaker 1: kind of like tower power guy comes up with three strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: It's been a bit of a rough start to the

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Speaker 1: season for Juge Hilaire, and it's been perhaps like the

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Speaker 1: opposite for Jerrera in Carnacione now at Triple A Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: kind of a blending transition there to Jerrer because he

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Speaker 1: really caught my eye tonight. He's, i mean, been on

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Speaker 1: the radar and on the move with his recent promotion

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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. Third home run of the year at Triple

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Speaker 1: A for Jerrere twenty seven at bats, three home runs,

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Speaker 1: home run every nine at bats. Pretty stellar numbers. Almost

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Speaker 1: don't even really know how to talk about it. That

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Speaker 1: sort of like power threat hasn't really been present for

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Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins offense in the last a half decade.

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Speaker 1: So I took a bit of a deeper dive into

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Speaker 1: him and recognized where he's been brought up, like really

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Speaker 1: steadily going up to like Double A last year from

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Speaker 1: High A, then going up to HIGA the year before,

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Speaker 1: just basically rung by Rung up the developmental system in

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Speaker 1: a very like rung By rung manner. I already said that,

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Speaker 1: but I want to emphasize that specific choice there could

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Speaker 1: be like vary in philosophies on how to bring your

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Speaker 1: prospects to the majors. We saw in twenty twenty, we

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Speaker 1: saw Jazz and Jezus Sanchez really get like kind of

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Speaker 1: like a peak at the Biggs before really like a

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Speaker 1: more thorough debut in twenty twenty one. So something like

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Speaker 1: that with Jerrera does seem almost like an inevitability at

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Speaker 1: this point. I mean, I'm talking myself in no expertise

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Speaker 1: on the actual decision making process currently in Miami, but

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Speaker 1: with just the perspective to say that this sort of

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Speaker 1: productive hitter is exactly what the Marlins need, and they

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Speaker 1: have been building their team in a sort of like

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Speaker 1: created dynasty type manner, and sometimes that is overly conognizant

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Speaker 1: al beer like service time, and there's like financial benefit

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Speaker 1: to potentially waiting even longer to promote a prospect than

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Speaker 1: absolutely necessary just to like try to keep as many

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Speaker 1: talented players in your clutches as you possibly can. But

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Speaker 1: what we could see is a sort of flip from

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Speaker 1: that sort of like build a dynasty lane that like

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Speaker 1: groundwork for a successful organization that like team with like

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Speaker 1: layers and layers of talent all through the majors to

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Speaker 1: the miners on paper, and get into more of like

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Speaker 1: a sort of win now aggressive approach organizationally. Now, like

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Speaker 1: we've seen a bit of a precedent for it, like

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Speaker 1: last year, really like embarrassing way to have to described

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Speaker 1: this one, But when the Marlins were kind of falling

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Speaker 1: out of it in twenty twenty one, then they made

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Speaker 1: the panic trait to get Joe Panic. It felt like

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Speaker 1: a strong, like bolstering move, but it wasn't that like

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Speaker 1: over the top move that has been hinted at with

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Speaker 1: regards to like a center field But I mean it

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Speaker 1: could be any sort of over the top move still

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Speaker 1: in the works. As the team goes into like a

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Speaker 1: distinct when now trajectory with like an increase in like

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Speaker 1: player payrol, you could before that still see these like

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Speaker 1: smaller changes in like more aggressive promotions to just ensure

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Speaker 1: you're fielding the best club at the major league level.

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Speaker 1: And if Jerrer keeps it up hitting like three seventy

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Speaker 1: with power, it's hard to argue against a promotion. Hitting is,

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Speaker 1: after all, exactly what the team needs. Anyhow, The Marlins

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Speaker 1: will be back at it with the Rays today May

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth, so stay with it on Balley's Sports Florida

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Speaker 1: for the podcast I've been Andrew Rdolph. I'll be back

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Speaker 1: with you on Friday. Until then, please enjoy Daniel Rodriguez

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Speaker 1: and the rest of fish Ship's coverage of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two Miami Marlins season. Thank you,