1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to Big Fish Small Pod. I'm Andrew Werdahl. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: Today is May eleventh. Really there is something I want 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: to address, so I'll try to be brief and keep 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: it within the scope of a podcast that I could 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: even conceivably present for you at this hour of the 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: day and of the season, so to speak. I had 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: like a thought that I really wanted to dismiss earlier today, 8 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: and I mean, I think I. 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: Think I've pretty well worked through it. 10 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: The thought was that maybe I want to win less 11 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: than any other Marlins fan. And yeah, you know, coming 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: off like a like a one and nine stretch where 13 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: I feel like I watched a great week or so 14 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: of baseball for Miami, it's I don't know, a little 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: bit like healing just to to stay. 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: In that. 17 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: Feeling where I know I watched good baseball and that 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: does like like track a bit like Fangraphs. They do 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: a power ranking. They've lauded the Marlins into their like 20 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: solid contender bucket for a few weeks now based on 21 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: like a very like analytical. 22 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: Approach to baseball. 23 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: And I know that i've certainly like let myself be 24 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:38,199 Speaker 1: diluted before by the Marlins, Like I remember when Josh 25 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 1: Johnson and Anael Sanchez were like slated to come off 26 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: the IL after recovering from like surgeries. In the narrative 27 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: for them, like I think like two thousand and eight, 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: was that these players were to be the trade deadline 29 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: acquisitions for a Marlins team that was performing well despite 30 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: their like league life was payroll like for a reference, 31 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: the movie Moneyball about the low spending Oakland Athletics. Like 32 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: both the Oakland Athletics and the movie Moneyball had a 33 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: bigger budget than Miami did for talent in two thousand 34 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: and eight, And I'd certainly like where I was deluded 35 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: was that I bought into the line of the upgrade 36 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: that like Josh Johnson on Abal Sanchez, they'd come back 37 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: to the team and they would be the upgrade Totally. 38 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: I didn't take into account how difficult it would be 39 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: for them to come back from such injuries like both 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: on a Ball and Johnson struggled with like length for 41 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: their start just as an example, I mean, there wasn't 42 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: anything like wrong with their performance, like they deserve to 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: be at the major league level, and they were productive 44 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: additions to the roster, but it wasn't that like flip 45 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: a switch and the team is better type upgrade that 46 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: I was really like thinking at the time. By comparison, 47 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: like the Marlins were in talks with the Boston Red 48 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: Sox to get like many Ramirez to their team, and 49 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: that would have been like that like real kind of 50 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: like lock it in sort of upgrade that like really 51 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 1: like veteran player been all around the league really established 52 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: in their like high level of performance and in their 53 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: consistency of it. And this Marlins team isn't quite full 54 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: of any players that are really truly. 55 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 2: Like that much of like a like a minted. 56 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: Name, Like there's not a player on the roster that 57 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, they're a lock for the Hall 58 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: of Fame. Well we're watching is this development of like 59 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: these players these the team itself Like there's been a 60 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: real like organizational shift in the structure and does like 61 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: much as it's one thing to like say like the 62 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: Marlins aren't like in quote. 63 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 2: When now mode. 64 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: They're more in that like build a dynasty mode where 65 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: you do need to have these underlying pieces of infrastructure 66 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: to like stay in contention year and in year out. 67 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: You have to have like a baseline level of performance. 68 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: So like I mean, you have a couple of like 69 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: outfielders kind of installed as that right now, think like 70 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: you're Avi Garcia, Jorge Selaire, Like that's a baseline level 71 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: of production from your outfield, and you have that around 72 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: infield with some like club controlled players right now, and 73 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: you have your like catch your lucked, and you have 74 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 1: like your line up pretty well set all around. I 75 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: think this is the best I've seen the Marlins play 76 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: at least since like really I became a fan like 77 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: two thousand and three World Series, like none notwithstanding we're 78 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: talking like two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. 79 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: I think this is the best Marlins baseball we've seen 80 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: since then. And I think that's been obvious this past week. 81 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 1: Even the players have been like pretty there at the plate, 82 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: Like Jorge Silaire has been taken his swings, like Jazz 83 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: has been taken his swings still some like you know, 84 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: like there is an element of like play to it. 85 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: You do have to try and fail in like experiment 86 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: at the plate to try to really figure out major 87 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: league pitchers at their best. So I mean there are 88 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: going to be struggles to any like young player in 89 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: Major League baseball with that, So we're seeing a bit 90 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: of that, like all through the roster, but we're also 91 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: seeing this really like adepth ability to like make good 92 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: swings with consistency and withholding. 93 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 2: That type of like. 94 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: Force at the plate all nine innings with like a 95 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: toughness behind, Like. 96 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 2: Those are all like great. 97 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: Traits for a sort of like sustained success. And as 98 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: much as like this has been a one and nine 99 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: stretch and you don't want that, it sort of feels like, well, 100 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: next year, you're just like reapproaching the Diamondback. You can 101 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: almost maybe pencil in maybe five more wins if you 102 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: really feel like that's an opponent you can really like 103 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: lock down going into a future season knowing pretty well 104 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: what they're going to do to you. And certainly at 105 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: this point you try not to make it six losses 106 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: to the Diamondbacks and like a week and a half. 107 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: But it's not about. 108 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: That so much as it is the Violins have been 109 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: like still locked in the last week two weeks despite 110 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: the losses. You can see the effort and that's what 111 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: will continue to pull this team through the rest of 112 00:07:53,440 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: the season and beyond it. So, yeah, the Marlins, we'll 113 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: be back at it today. Even at three point forty 114 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: Eastern Standard time, they'll be taking on the Diamondbacks again 115 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: in Phoenix. Sandy takes on the Desert and it was 116 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: the podcast I've been Andrew Wardall, thank you for listening, 117 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: and I hope you sleep well tonight