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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this edition of big Fish Small Pod,

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Speaker 1: fourth Thursday, May sixteenth, twenty twenty four. And if you

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Speaker 1: aren't into the small Pod, he would liked to give

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Speaker 1: you all the information about the Marlins for that particular

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Speaker 1: day all season long, in ten minutes or less. And

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Speaker 1: as always, big Fish Small Pod is presented by MPT

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Speaker 1: College Consulting. You can check them out at MPT Collegeconsulting

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Speaker 1: dot com and Marlins fans. In this episode of big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod, we will be recapping a bit of

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Speaker 1: the series between the Miami Marlins and the Detroit Tigers,

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Speaker 1: where the Marlins took back to back games, very low

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Speaker 1: scoring games, but in both cases very great pitching performances.

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Speaker 1: We'll look at yesterday's game where Trevor Rodgers had easily

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Speaker 1: his best start of this season to go along and

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Speaker 1: beat the Detroit Tigers to nothing, and then we'll also

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Speaker 1: look at again winning. These two great games are great,

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Speaker 1: but again with this you also have to look at

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Speaker 1: what's the potential in terms of training players. Margins have

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Speaker 1: already trayed Luis Arias, there's articles coming out. John Hayman

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Speaker 1: recently put out something talking about the Martins potential and

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Speaker 1: training Hiszus, Louzardo, Jazz Chisholm, Tanner Scott something recently on

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Speaker 1: MLB dot com where they talk too different for an

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Speaker 1: office people around the league, and two execs mentioned that

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Speaker 1: potential trade targets around the league are Hiss, Azzardo and

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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm. But let's go ahead and talk about a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the game between the Marlins into Detroit

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Speaker 1: Tigers two nothing ballgame. Trevor Rodgers got the start. Five

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Speaker 1: five innings of work for Trevor Rogers on this game,

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Speaker 1: but it was very good. He only allowed three hits,

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Speaker 1: no earn runs, only two walks, but again six strikeouts,

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Speaker 1: the most strikeouts he's had since April seventeenth against the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. But very great start for Trevor Rodgers

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Speaker 1: in a way that he's performed seeing him as of late.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy that it seemed like it just

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Speaker 1: almost a shell of that twenty twenty one self. But

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Speaker 1: what he did this game against Detroit, maybe this is

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Speaker 1: just a turning point of him trying to at least

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Speaker 1: reach back to the heights that we did see all

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Speaker 1: those years ago. And for this game for Trevor Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what he did in that amount of work,

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Speaker 1: he only pitched only eighty three pitches. Again, doing that

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Speaker 1: in five innings, that really just equals out to about

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Speaker 1: maybe fifteen sixteen pitches an inning. But overall, again what

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Speaker 1: you're seeing with the Marlins, they can always, you know,

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Speaker 1: something turns around with them offensively, or maybe it's the

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Speaker 1: six guys the walks again to you take that, of course,

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Speaker 1: with Trevor Rodgers, everything looked good. His pitches looked very

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Speaker 1: well in this game against the Detroit Tigers, and I

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Speaker 1: was very impressive the way he performed. I think if

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Speaker 1: he continue, this could be a turnaround season for Trevor Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: Maybe this is the point that in terms of him

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Speaker 1: go into that six inning, but again little injury history there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they felt comfortable with they had in the bullpen

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Speaker 1: up too close to one hundred innings and only in

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Speaker 1: the fixed inning, something I could very understand there with

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Speaker 1: Trevor Rodgers. But further, Marlins back to back wins, back

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Speaker 1: to back shutouts, just incredible. There was a previous small

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Speaker 1: pod and what Ryan Weathers put out and how great

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Speaker 1: he was. Easily one of the best starts this entire

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Speaker 1: season for any Mormons pitcher. But to also go ahead

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Speaker 1: Brian de la Cruz had his ninth home run of

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Speaker 1: the season, and I mentioned potential trade targets. I think

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Speaker 1: have to be Brian de la Cruz and how how,

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Speaker 1: just how he's been this entirety of the season. Just overall,

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Speaker 1: it seems like just incredible in terms of what Brian

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Speaker 1: de la Cruz has done. Just looking at some of

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Speaker 1: a lot with Brian de la Cruz in his major

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Speaker 1: league career with the Marlins. Just it seems like one

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Speaker 1: we win the best hitters in baseball, and then because

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Speaker 1: of Spike could come back up and down, But Brandon

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Speaker 1: la Cruz didn't have a solid year last season. Again,

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Speaker 1: la Cruz, it's just very streaky, streaky player. But if

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Speaker 1: This might be the peak of Brandon la Cruz. Already

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Speaker 1: But overall, I think Brandon cru is a sneaky player

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Speaker 1: in terms of maybe the Marlins could train and see

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Speaker 1: that could potentially need Brian de la Cruz. But maybe

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Speaker 1: much in terms of hot streaks and cool streaks and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But overall, just really great in terms of what the

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Speaker 1: have to trade players. Brian de la Cruz. I think

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Speaker 1: there's a sneaky option for them. They might get some

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Speaker 1: pretty good return for Brian de la Cruz, but overall

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Speaker 1: two shutouts for the Marlins against the Detroit Tigers. Incredible, too,

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Speaker 1: fantastic pitching performances. Hitting not the best in terms of

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Speaker 1: their really was just primarily that Brian de la Cruz

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Speaker 1: home run that really got those two runs for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: But overall the hitting has not been the best, but

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Speaker 1: the pitching is getting the job done, which we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens. It's only May sixteenth. We'll see how the

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Speaker 1: team looks June sixteenth, July sixteenth, But as of right now,

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Speaker 1: I am Daniel Rodriez. This is Big Fish, Small Pod

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Speaker 1: presented by MPC College Consulting and as always, go Fish