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Speaker 1: That's what they call a winning streak. Good morning everybody,

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Speaker 1: Eli Sussman here for the Fish Stripes podcast. This is

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Speaker 1: Big Fish Small Pod for Wednesday, March seventeenth, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: For anybody who's still unfamiliar with what we do here,

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Speaker 1: Every Tuesday through Friday, we give you all the Marlins

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Speaker 1: news to get you caught up in ten minutes or less.

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Speaker 1: This particular episode will be even smaller than usual from

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Speaker 1: me because we're running a little bit behind schedule and

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Speaker 1: we're coming off a really exciting game. It is time

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Speaker 1: after Tuesday's performance to get extremely excited about Trevor Rogers.

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Speaker 1: He passed his latest test in his audition for a

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Speaker 1: Marlins opening day rotation spot, as the Marlins beat the

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Speaker 1: Nationals on the road four to three, their seventh win

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Speaker 1: of spring training against only two losses. Rogers was stretched

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Speaker 1: out to four innings, pitched about sixty pitches in this one,

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Speaker 1: racked up five strikeouts, and now has thirteen on the spring,

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Speaker 1: the highest total for any Marlins pitcher, and the specifics

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Speaker 1: of this performance were even more impressive. What I was

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Speaker 1: looking for coming into the game is maintaining that great

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Speaker 1: fastball velocity. He has in this one, he did reach

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Speaker 1: ninety six miles per hour with his best heaters and

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Speaker 1: obviously had the results go along with it. Also to

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Speaker 1: get more swings and misses with his slider, and that

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Speaker 1: was the case here as well, at least one of

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Speaker 1: those strikeouts coming directly on his breaking ball, a pitch

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Speaker 1: that he's taken big strides to improve over the past

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Speaker 1: year or so. So Rogers this was now his third

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Speaker 1: start of the spring and just as impressive as his

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Speaker 1: first couple, so that consistency is incredible to see for

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Speaker 1: someone that has to this point very limited major league

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Speaker 1: experience and pretty limited professional pitching experience as well. A

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Speaker 1: former first round draft pick, Rogers has always had that

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Speaker 1: great size about six foot five and a half and

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Speaker 1: long extension off the mounds that makes him difficult to

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Speaker 1: pick up and catch up two for a hitter, and

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Speaker 1: he's been able to command his fastball, but now he

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Speaker 1: has that extra velocity on top of it. He has

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Speaker 1: two quality secondary offerings and his slider and his changeup.

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Speaker 1: He has that confidence now facing in this game. Many

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Speaker 1: of the probables will be in the Nationals opening day

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Speaker 1: lineup and contributing for them early in the season that

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to poke holes in his game. Despite

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Speaker 1: being someone with limited experience in the upper miners, despite

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Speaker 1: the Marlins having many other adequate, if not very tempting

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Speaker 1: rotation candidates still in the mix, Rogers seemingly punched his

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Speaker 1: ticket to be on the Marlins opening day roster with

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Speaker 1: his performance. Still a couple weeks until we find out

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Speaker 1: for sure exactly what the team does, and we're expecting

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Speaker 1: to see Rodgers pitch again, either at the end of

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Speaker 1: this weekend or at the beginning of next week. The

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Speaker 1: offense for the Marlins came courtesy mostly of home runs

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Speaker 1: from Joe Dunant, his first of the spring, and Adam

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Speaker 1: Duvall his second of the spring. The first Marlins player

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Speaker 1: this spring to hit multiple home runs. Magneris Sierra, also

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Speaker 1: with a run scoring hit in this one. Pitching in

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Speaker 1: relief of Rogers, we saw a pair of pitchers make

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Speaker 1: their twenty twenty one Great Fruit League debuts. Jordan Holloway

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Speaker 1: pitched a single inning, and Paul Campbell, the Rule five

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Speaker 1: draft pick from the Tampa Bay Rays, finally got on

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Speaker 1: track two innings in this one, nearly perfect, piling up

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Speaker 1: four strikeouts keep in mind, he was facing all the

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Speaker 1: backups with the Nationals, none who are really expected to

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Speaker 1: contribute much the major league level right now, all with

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Speaker 1: mixed track records offensively, so the quality of the competition

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Speaker 1: certainly factored into his success. Nonetheless, a very encouraging step

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Speaker 1: someone that they like to get stretched out even a

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Speaker 1: little bit more to handle long relief duties in the

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Speaker 1: major leagues this season. As a rule of five draft pick,

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Speaker 1: he must be on their active roster or on the

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Speaker 1: injured list, or get sent back to his original organization.

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Speaker 1: So he'll look to take some more strides forward in

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Speaker 1: his final couple appearances of the spring, and then the

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Speaker 1: Marlins will have an interesting decision on their hands as

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Speaker 1: to whether or not he fits into their opening day

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Speaker 1: pitching staff. New on Fish Stripes recently season preview articles

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Speaker 1: prize still to be determined, but will make it certainly

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Speaker 1: worth your effort. Looking ahead to Wednesday, the Marlins are

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Speaker 1: back in action, this time hosting at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We will have credential coverage there from Hector Rodriguez. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to follow him on Twitter at Hector Underscore Baseball.

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Speaker 1: First pitch at one oh five pm Eastern Time as

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Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra gets stretched out hopefully to five innings

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Speaker 1: of work and he'll be hitting for himself as the

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Speaker 1: Marlins forego the designated hitter, getting ready to reintegrate themselves

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Speaker 1: into National League style baseball here in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We're expecting news later today from the Marlins about their

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Speaker 1: promotional schedule for April, May and June, all the great

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Speaker 1: giveaways that fans can expect. You can find the full

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Speaker 1: details soon at Marlins dot com slash Promotions. The Small

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Speaker 1: Pod will be back with you tomorrow, that one hosted

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Speaker 1: by Daniel Rodriguez. Let us know how you're liking these, Subscribe,

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Speaker 1: as always for your support. From Eli Susman. Be sure

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