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Speaker 2: This is the official show on the fist Stripes podcast

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Speaker 2: channel with me Eli Sussman, the managing editor of Fists Stripes,

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Speaker 2: where we cover your Miami Marlins every day in our

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Speaker 2: own way, and that every day coverage has continued in

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Speaker 2: recent weeks despite the lack of official show episodes. It's

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Speaker 2: when it's as bleak as things have been recently for

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Speaker 2: this Marlins team. And we've had you covered on our

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Speaker 1: Go to fish stripes dot com.

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Speaker 2: There have been games happening. That's the beauty of the

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Speaker 2: baseball season. Always games happening, but it felt like just

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Speaker 2: the same thing over and over and over again with

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Speaker 2: the team's offensive limitations with the same exact players in

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Speaker 2: But this past weekend was an interesting one, so I

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Speaker 2: The big breaking news that really wasn't surprised too, and

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Speaker 2: then many of us covering this team is Jazz Chisholm

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Speaker 2: Junior officially being ruled out for the rest of the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two season. We haven't seen him on the

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Speaker 2: amazing games and where he still stands with his team

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Speaker 2: as to what he did, what he showed when he

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Speaker 2: a bright spot of the Marlins moving into twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: On the other side of the break, we'll go through

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Speaker 2: this past weekend from the Marlins, and then, of course,

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Speaker 2: Friday in Miami between the Mets and the Marvelins, the

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Speaker 2: first game of the series, a rare wire to wire

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Speaker 2: the night went three for three with a walk, including

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Speaker 3: Now, since this went out toward center field pretty well

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Speaker 3: Welcome home, Garrett Cooper.

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Speaker 2: I had an article go up on fish Strips last

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Speaker 2: For New York ten strikeouts for Taiwan Walker, no walks

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Speaker 2: players with two and a half wins above replacement. Whether

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Speaker 2: you go by Fangrafts or Baseball Reference, they are almost

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Speaker 2: perfectly in sync on Jazz's value in that limited time.

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Speaker 2: I pointed out that I think him Gian Carlos Stanton,

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Speaker 2: Starling Marte. It's a very short list of guys that

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Speaker 2: were about this much value while playing so few games

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Speaker 2: for the team. He was that type of all round

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Speaker 2: player that contributes in all those various ways with his bat,

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Speaker 2: with his base running, with his defense. The Marlins went

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Speaker 2: twenty seven and thirty three in games that Jazz played.

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Speaker 2: That's a four point fifty winning percentage only six games,

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Speaker 2: but low five hundred when he doesn't play. This is

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Speaker 2: entering Monday's doubleheader against the Rangers, not including those games

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Speaker 2: thirty and forty nine without Jazz that's a three point

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Speaker 2: eighty winning percentage on pays four one hundred losses. This

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Speaker 2: is one hundred lost team without Jazz, which again is

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Speaker 2: both a reflection on his ability but also the shortcomings

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Speaker 2: of his teammates. There was just no reason to believe

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Speaker 2: that this Marlins team would not improve from where they

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Speaker 2: were in twenty twenty one, given what they invested in

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Speaker 2: order to improve the team, particularly offensively, also defensively with

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Speaker 2: guys like Stallings and Wendel. They did make some marginal

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Speaker 2: improvements to the bullpen going outside the organization, and beyond that,

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Speaker 2: they just retained a lot of the talent that they

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Speaker 2: had the previous year. You know, the hope was, the

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Speaker 2: very reasonable expectation is that with these acquisitions and with

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Speaker 2: some considerable improvement from their young guys internally, that this

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Speaker 2: team as a whole would take a noticeable step forward

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Speaker 2: this year. It's never about making the playoffs. Honestly, even

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Speaker 2: making five hundred woulds a pretty big stretch. But for

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Speaker 2: this team to be in this position where they are

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Speaker 2: almost identically on the same track as last year without

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Speaker 2: Jazz coming back hits on the table that they can

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Speaker 2: finish even worse than last year sixty seven and ninety

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Speaker 2: five record, And that is despite Jazz himself being one

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Speaker 2: of those few players that did live up to his expectations,

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Speaker 2: somebody that did take a noticeable step forward in several

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Speaker 2: important categories in ways that look pretty sustainable moving forward.

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Speaker 2: He just has not had many other guys in that

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Speaker 2: same category with him. Jazz is a bright spot. Jazz

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Speaker 2: is a success story of the season. During the second

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Speaker 2: half of the season, where there's been so little positives

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Speaker 2: to cheer about, you have to wonder how much differently

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Speaker 2: the performance of the team would be on the field

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Speaker 2: and how much the vibe of this fan base would

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Speaker 2: be at this time if Jazz was on the field

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Speaker 2: and just available, if he was just there every single day,

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Speaker 2: that would make a big difference down the stretch. He

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Speaker 2: is going to be spending time with this Marlins team.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be hanging around the team, even under the

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Speaker 2: understanding that he won't be playing again this year. I

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Speaker 2: think that's a positive for everybody involved, just to have

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Speaker 2: him there, just to have him soaking it up and

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Speaker 2: being a part of this team even when he can't

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Speaker 2: actually contribute on the field. At this very moment, we

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Speaker 2: have a small conversation in our Fish Strips group chat

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Speaker 2: over the weekends about him and the potential of a

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Speaker 2: contract extension, this being kind of a unique window that.

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Speaker 1: They have now where he has shown so much.

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Speaker 2: Ability but hasn't been able to turn the second half

498
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Speaker 2: of the season been able to validate himself as like

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Speaker 2: a no doubt superstar player. So in a way, things

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Speaker 2: have gone well for him this year and it's been

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Speaker 2: good for the team. But being without him to this

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Speaker 2: point and the question surrounding his durability that somewhat takes

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Speaker 2: away leverage from him, and also you think would make

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Speaker 2: him more open to having some security in case of

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Speaker 2: another injury that pops out of nowhere and keeps him

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Speaker 2: off the field. The last two seasons combined is two

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Speaker 2: fullish seasons in the big leagues. It's a total of

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty four games out of a possible

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Speaker 2: three twenty four, so that's less than sixty percent of the.

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Speaker 1: Total Marlins games.

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Speaker 2: He's been available to play in, some of that selectively

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Speaker 2: due to benching against lefties, but most of that too

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Speaker 2: to injury. So because of that, it puts him in

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Speaker 2: a fascinating situation where I think there is still common

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Speaker 2: ground that could be found between these teams, the team,

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Speaker 2: all these parties, both the team and Jazz and his

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Speaker 2: representatives on a deal. So it's four more years of

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Speaker 2: club control beyond this year. Would they explore a deal

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Speaker 2: that adds additional years to that and in exchange for

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Speaker 2: type of value that keeps him below what he would

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Speaker 2: probably earn as a free agent, him sacrificing a little

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Speaker 2: bit of that upside financially, but of course getting a

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Speaker 2: whole lot of the gain a lifetime of security. This

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Speaker 2: will be a major topic to explore this offseason, no

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Speaker 2: doubt about it. The potential to work out something long

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Speaker 2: term with him, to instill some confidence in the fan

527
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Speaker 2: base that he's going to be around in that he

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Speaker 2: is a building block for this team moving forward. Something

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Speaker 2: to keep him happy, something to keep him in the

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Speaker 2: right mindset and put them in a position where he

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Speaker 2: feels that he should be validating that investment that they

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Speaker 2: make in him. I think it can make sense all

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Speaker 2: the way around. Still some time to hammer through the

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Speaker 2: specifics about what that could look like. You know, it

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Speaker 2: would probably have to be a bigger guarantee than what

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Speaker 2: they gave Sandy so I wonder how that would play,

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Speaker 2: of course, given that context between those two in the

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Speaker 2: way that they are viewed within the organization. But I

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Speaker 2: look forward to explaining that in other topics. As I said,

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Speaker 2: I've been watching every single game down the stretch, even

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Speaker 2: if I haven't been doing these solo pods. You can

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Speaker 2: hear my thoughts a couple times a week every week

543
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Speaker 2: on the Fish Strips Live series preview shows that we

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Speaker 2: continue to do. But I'll be doing these official show

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Speaker 2: episodes more regularly in September and October as well. We'll

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Speaker 2: be doing some as soon as the regular season ends.

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Speaker 2: We have some other ambitious ideas for a special series

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Speaker 2: in mini series within the show that you guys would

549
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Speaker 2: find interesting. As we look forward to the future of

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Speaker 2: this organization, it's going to get better. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it could get much worse than it has been during

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Speaker 2: the second half of this season. But if you're still

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Speaker 2: listening to us, if you're still following the team closely

554
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Speaker 2: and still sharing your thoughts about it with us, and

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Speaker 2: we're immensely grateful for that, raid and review the podcast

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Speaker 2: wherever applicable, encourage others to listen to it as well.

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Speaker 2: Here on the Fish Stripes podcast channel, I have ben

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Speaker 2: Eli Suspan.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the support and go fish