WEBVTT - Cam Cannarella Interview: Getting to Know One of MiLB's Best Hitters 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.800 I'm Thomas White. 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.480 You're listening to Fish on First on Foul Territory Network. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.439 Fish Unfiltered, Episode one twelve here on the Fish on 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.040 First podcast, part of the Foul Territory Network and presented 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.440 by Jetski Rentals of South Florida. I'm Eli Sussman, the 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.879 founder of Fish on First. Usually don't hear me very 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.040 often on Unfiltered. This is a bit of an unconventional 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.080 episode heading into the All Star break that I think 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.720 you guys are going to absolutely love. Coming up in 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.479 just a few minutes. Here on the pod, you'll be 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.879 hearing an exclusive interview with Cam Canerella, one of the 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.479 very best prospects in this Marlins organization. He spoke virtually 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.800 with Alex Carver and Isaaca Zoot about the incredible breakout 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.120 year that he's had in this Marlins organization and the 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.240 progress he's made towards becoming an eventual Big leaguer, his 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.360 reflections on the draft itself. This is a chance, of course, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.920 for us to plug our previous podcast episode at for 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.199 whatever reason you didn't get a chance to watch live. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.200 We had our reactions to the MLB Draft, specifically the 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.600 first round pick that the Marlins made selecting shortstop Jacob 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.200 Lombard at the top of their draft class. So we 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.040 had our old reactions from our analysts, our draft analysts 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.640 as well as everybody else on the staff. Those of 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.160 us that are just kind of along for the ride 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.000 don't know very much about the draft prospects. Most of 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.920 us in agreement that Marlins nailed that pick given the circumstances. 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.960 Although it's going to be a lot of pressure on 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:43.040 Lombard shoulders to justify that that selection given how much 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.119 of a percentage of their bonus pool, he is going 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.880 to the accountable form all by himself. Check out that 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.440 episode if you haven't already. That went up on Saturday afternoon, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.800 and it's very fitting that it goes in directly to 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.120 the Canerella interview because Canarella's selected just a year ago 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.480 in twenty twenty five. He was the second pick of 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.280 that Marlins draft class. I had an article that went 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:05.840 up on the side a couple of weeks ago. I'm 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.520 going to browse through it here about looking at the 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.240 Marlins picks from a year ago and getting up to 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.240 speed on how they're doing right now, with the understanding 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.959 that it takes many years to fully assess a draft class. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.000 For example, I would say that the twenty twenty class 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.080 is the epitome of that, right because it was headlined 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.840 by Max Meyer that for a lot of his tenure 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.480 in the Marlins organization. Seems like that was a misuse 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.440 of the number three overall pick, and all of a 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.440 sudden six years later, our tune changes on that quite 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.160 a bit, as Max is now representing the Marlins at 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.959 the All Star Game, and deservedly so. But this is 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.240 a check in on how the Marlins draft class from 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.480 twenty twenty five is doing a year later, which feels 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.840 a little bit more useful than usual, just because this 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.880 was a very rare all college draft for the Marlins. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.160 Twenty one selections all them out of four year universities, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.920 which would indicate that these players, under the most circumstances, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.280 would be quicker to the big leagues than players that 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.280 were selected out of high school for example. The Marlins 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.919 went this route, and the quick summary is that none 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.919 of these are exceptionally fast risers. We're a full year later, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.200 and I wouldn't say any of them are knocking on 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.920 the door of a call up. It would be somewhat 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.400 unlikely if any of these guys debut in twenty twenty six, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.880 although we have several that are prome to debut in 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.120 early twenty twenty seven. As we'll get to I'm going 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.760 to scroll up in reverse order, starting from the end 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.760 of the draft to the first not gonna mention every 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.080 single name on here. If you want to find that again, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.760 this is on fish on first dot Com in our 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.040 prospects section. Many of these late round picks for the 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:43.760 Marlins were on the pitching side. Cannon, Pickle, Payden, Fosher, Hayden, Cuthberson, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.680 Xavier Cardenas, R. J. Schunk. He is a left hander, 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:49.960 and for most of these guys it's been a combination 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.880 of control issues or just lack of availability. You have 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.120 players here like Cardanus, who's only pitched ten and two 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.560 thirds total innings in pro Bawl over the course of 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.440 a calends er a year shown fourteen innings, and pick 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.600 El thirty one professional endings. Almost all these guys are 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.720 going to be relievers if they do make it even 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.200 close to the major league level, and control has been 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.560 a problem overall for these guys, but relatively small investments 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.560 there's been Josh Hogue. He's a position player in the 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.799 fifteenth rounds, Carson Laws and the fourteenth rounds who's actually 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.320 been able to pitch quite a bit and had a 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.960 bit of an up and down ten years so far, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.800 which is an improvement compared to some of these guys 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.120 drafted behind him. But none of these pictures yet have 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.440 ascended beyond the high A level. I think that's what 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.680 sticks out is that arms can move very quickly through 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.160 an organization. If you show good stuff and you show 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.200 decent control, then these players can be fast tracked towards 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.240 the big leagues. And instead, the Marlins aren't going to 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.800 be getting any help from these pictures quite yet. It's 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.920 gonna take a little lot longer to go. But I'd 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.920 say Carson Laws, out of their Day three picks, he's 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.080 the one that really jumps out of the screen at 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.680 a nearly perfect performance a couple of weeks ago for 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.359 hya Ba Lloyd's the rest of these Day three picks 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.760 Catcher Wilson Weber. Unfortunately, he hasn't hit a lick and 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.119 doesn't look like he'll stick at catcher much moving forward. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.159 Jaden Williamson has been fiching out of the bullpen in 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.800 Jupiter and coming from a very very small school. He 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.560 has not performed whatsoever with a very inflated era. As 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.120 we get higher up. This is going back into the 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.520 first ten rounds of the draft. You have a utility 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.360 player Jake McCutcheon who's been primarily converted to an outfielder 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.599 at this point. Cayden Wilson very quietly got a huge 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.200 sounding bonus for the Marlins right around seven hundred thousand 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.240 dollars coming out of the draft out of Texas A 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.560 and M. And he got hurt after his very first 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.039 relief appearance in Pro Bowl, so we haven't seen him since. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.520 One finally positive to really shout out here in the 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.880 eighth rounds was infielder Amelio Barreras, coming out of Grand 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.839 Canyon University. Barreras has been a great performer for this organization, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.400 Welle of the few guys that actually hit extremely well 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.880 at low A Jupiter, which is hard to do. What 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.680 you see is that because of the conditions are so 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.600 different offensively in Jupiter, guys get moved up even if 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.919 they don't perform. But he really did more walks than 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.840 strikeouts at Jupiter before getting moved up to Beloit, and 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.200 he's continued to show good discipline with the skycarp plays 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.960 second base, shortstop, and third base, so the versatility helps. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.000 And for the moment he is snuck into our fof 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.000 Top thirty list, he'll have to get back on track 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.200 offensively to maintain that because there has been some slippage 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.599 since his most recent promotion. But that is a decent 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.000 fine to have. A self described pest of a player 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.400 who is very difficult to strike out, who can play 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.599 a lot of different positions, and who has shown some 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.000 more power I think than was anticipated thus far, but 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.359 primarily a guy that is going to cause opponents to 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.080 bleed to death with well placed singles all around the field. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.880 In the seventh round, j Clementsee became coming out of Florida. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.359 In the sixth round, Joey Vallini, he's a He looked 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.200 like he was on the verge of maybe moving up 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.640 to double A Pensacola, but has had more inconsistencies since 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.680 posting this article. Overall, he's been very dificult to hit, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.360 but also very easy to run against. So it's an 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.120 interesting profile there as a left handed pitcher who has 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.760 a huge frame, somebody that I think you will see 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.120 him at the double a level later on this summer 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.480 and then at the top ends. Injuries really have been 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.640 quite a bit of a story with all these position players. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.280 Marlins went with hitters each of their first six picks 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.480 of this draft. Chris Royo in the fifth rounds a 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.239 guy who spent most of his childhood in South Florida, 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.240 originally from Puerto Rico. He suffered a moniscous injury just 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.640 a few games into the season. He'll be back to 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.240 baseball activities shortly after the season ends, but he's not 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.679 going to be playing any more minor league ball this year. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.560 Drew Farreu has missed a considerable amount of time due 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.560 to injury as well for this team, and after hitting 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.560 at a great clip coming out of the draft in 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.000 twenty twenty five, it hasn't been the same year this year. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.840 And Max Williams, as I was writing this a couple 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.640 of weeks ago, he had been completely silenced. He had 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.800 been on the IL all season long, and just recently 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.160 made his debut with Loway Jupiter already shown some promise 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.560 in that small sample, and I expect that he'll be 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.080 up at Beloit's later on this summer, but injuries have 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.760 taken away a lot of his opportunity. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:15.160 Thus far, Cap, I've been looking for the best deals 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.720 for the All Star Game tickets in Philly. Where are 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.040 you gonna get some tickets from? 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.280 I'm going straight out to Rife Field. If Harper and 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.680 Schwarber both joined the home run derby, I want to 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.760 be catching the hometown guys hitting them. 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If these top three guys all 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.920 kind of come close to their ceilings, then that really 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.439 justifies the whole draft class. That's the realistic, the grim 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.520 realities that most of these players are not going to 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.760 be reaching the big leagues, and that's a very small 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.880 sample usually that actually stays in the big leagues over 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.240 the course of a handful of years. But usually these 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.760 top three have fascinating potentials and very different profiles from 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.120 each other as well. So weave Brandon Compton. He was 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.360 their second round pick. He's now up to the double 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.640 A level, currently ranked nineteen on the FLF Top thirty, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.920 and he is as extreme as you can get when 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.840 it comes to the three true outcomes being home runs, strikeouts, 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:04.520 and walks. It was it was absolutely mind boggling early 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.080 on this season with Beloit's how much how often he 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.080 was doing the walks and the strikeouts. He was on 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.520 pace to set of Marlins minor league record for walks, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.640 and he wasn't far behind when it comes to strikeouts. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.199 But fortunately he's actually responded very well since his promotion 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.280 to Pensacola, where the home run production has been off 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.040 the charts. Another fun wrinkle is that he is stealing 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.800 bases at a high level for a guy that I 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.000 think you could just size him up with the eye test. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.360 That is a very thick individual, somebody that you wouldn't 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.120 expect to produce even average speed, and yet to this 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.120 point his minor league career, he's on a pace of 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.520 stealing on the course of a full season a rate 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.640 he's on pace for thirty plus steals, and this season 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.840 alone he's closing in on twenty so far. With Compton, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.560 I don't think that aspect will translate to the big 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.960 league level, but the pole side power is extremely impressive 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.960 for Compton. That's going to be his carrying aspect. Between 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.520 that and the walks, that's the formula you would hope 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.640 to be a long term strong side platoon bat at 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.160 either left field or DH, a combination of those two Yeah, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:07.679 to this point, they're of course trying to make him 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.960 stick as a defender in those corner raple field spots. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.360 He may end up transitioning to first base later on. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.640 That's a possibility given some of the limitations with his 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.920 range as an outfielder. It's just that he is hitting 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.720 so so well since moving over to Pensacola and ops 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.600 closing in on eleven hundred as of this recording, and 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.400 now he's riding them on the verge of taking over 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.960 the minor league lead for this team in home runs 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.560 as a whole this year with seventeen total home runs 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.440 in seventy games slash line for the whole season at 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.959 this point two forty four fourteen four eighty eight, and 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.440 it's been Yeah, it's been really encouraging. I'd say border 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.240 lanning on a realistic best case scenario for Compton so 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.880 far that I don't really see him being an everyday 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.240 big league player, but he could become quite close to 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.520 that if his bat is what carrying him. We're gonna 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.240 skip over Canarella to talk quickly about Iva Arquette, the 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.959 Marlins top pick seventh overall, with someone of a surprise 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.240 that he was available to the Marlins in this draft, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.320 given all the hype arounds him. After an incredible junior 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.679 season at Oregon State, he ends up getting the largest 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.800 signing bonus in Marlin's history. And to this point, you know, 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.840 his stock has dropped a tiny bit. Part of it 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.760 has been due to injuries, the lack of availability coming 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.640 out of spring training. Had a core injury and had 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.960 to undergo surgery for that, so his debut was delayed 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.439 almost a full month into the regular season. As we're 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.440 talking now, he's out again for an extended period, although 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.760 he should be returning later on this year. But he's 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.120 now coming back from a finger injury that he suffered 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.480 on a slide, and he's just not hitting as well 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.120 as you would hope he of course he did at 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.080 Oregon State, but it's been about an average hitter in 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.560 pro ball. He started off pretty aggressively, had a high 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:58.120 A Beloites last summer and did solidly and he built 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.120 upon that enough, of course, to get a promotion to 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.280 Pensacola this year. But since moving up to the Double 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.200 A level, he's now been firmly below le gaverage. What's 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.560 kind of encouraging is the quality of contact is still 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.360 very good. He hits the ball very hard, and the 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.800 strikeouts are manageable to this point. It's more so that 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.560 he's perhaps the swing decisions as a whole could use 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.920 some improvement. The fact that his walk rate has gone 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.959 down so much is somewhat of a yellow flag when 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.120 it comes to our Quet as a defender. The Marlins 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.560 took him as a shortstop despite having an unconventional build 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.200 for that position six foot five, and I would say awkward, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.199 but a more of a string string being built than 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.559 a classic overall well proportioned build, and it's been working 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.120 for him. He's able to make all the plays that 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.960 he would expect, and the arm strength is there, the 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.600 overall athleticism, and I'd say the instincts are there pretty 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.120 well too. With our Quet, where there absolutely is a 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.200 scenario where he plays games as a shortstop in the majors, 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.360 I would guess that for a lot of organizations that 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.120 he there ends up being somebody else, one of his 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.240 teammates that is a little bit better overall there. It's 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.800 just that there's nothing to squealthong about him defensively, and 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.320 of course, if he's able to stick there, that changes 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.280 the threshold for what he has to do at the 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.080 plate in order to be a good everyday player. So 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.920 that is still within the realm of possibility for him 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.800 to be an above average regular, for him to produce 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.360 multiple wins per season at the big league level, and 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.240 the underlying offensive numbers are a little bit more encouraging 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.160 than the actual results so far. It's just that because 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.640 of the lack of results and because of the lack 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.600 of reps overall, we're not going to see him the 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.840 majors this year. I mean, I think the Marlins were 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.040 hopeful and not all that unrealistic with their hope that 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.400 he'd be impacting their big league team in twenty twenty six. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.400 That's not going to happen. It's more of a question 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.960 of even if he moves up any more in the 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.920 organization this year, I think most likely he spends the 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.960 rest of the summer in Double A, starts that next 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.080 year with TRIPA A Jacksonville, and then it's a matter 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.080 of saying how much he responds at the plate in 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.160 order to see where he he fits with their big 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.000 league team at some point over the course of next season. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.280 And now to smoothly transition into the cam interview, we 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.320 need to talk about cam Canerella. He has moved up 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.000 all the way to fifth on our fof Top thirty list, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.680 well just one spot behind Arquette. The perception entering this draft, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.280 or I should say, on the heels of this drafts, 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.600 is that Arquette was the headliner, and that has absolutely 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:28.000 changed to us. At fof Canerella and Arquette are neck 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.920 and neck. They are on the same tier no matter 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.680 how you slice it in terms of being pieces of 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.440 this Marlins future, and it's different profiles. Canerella plays center 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.320 field and has gone reps at all three outfield spots 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.080 this season, so different positions and different hitting profiles too. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.320 And for Canerella it's been a pleasant surprise just the 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:52.320 way that he has accumulated so many hits, so many walks, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.200 and so many home runs. His main limitation coming out 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.400 of the draft was going to be related to both 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.480 arm strength and over the fence power, and in the 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.600 power department, he has absolutely shattered anybody's ideas about what 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.360 he was capable of, especially of late since moving up 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.120 to Pensacola. He's overall this year he's simply been one 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.640 of the best hitters in minor league baseball, and that 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.640 is just shocking to say for a guy that even 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.760 last summer, their approach has looked good throughout the entire process. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.840 But to see this production an updated slash line a 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:29.160 three sixty five that's the batting average, four forty three 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.160 on base and a five ninety nine slugging percentage for 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.640 a six foot tall guy that kind of looks like 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.160 a slap hitter at first glance. To have him slugging 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.880 six hundred, to have him drawing as many walks as 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.960 strikeouts is jaw dropping. Twelve total home runs, the majority 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.920 of those have come over the last calendar month, nine 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:54.280 stolen bases, a WRC plus of one seventy seventy percent 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.240 better than the league average hitter when adjusted for the 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:02.840 league and environmental factors. Something to keep in mind is 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.040 that it has been easier overall to hit in the 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.440 Double A Southern League this year compared to last year, 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.840 so that distorts the numbers a little bit. It's just 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.800 that WRC plus accounts for that and tries to tries 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.920 to account for it overall and adjust accordingly. And even 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.080 with that adjustment, you're still talking about a guy that 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.360 is absolutely at the top of the scale for offensive 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.320 production across minor league baseball. This season, he ranks fourth 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.200 in the entire minors at any level in WRC plus 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.880 among guys with at least two hundred played appearances. Missed 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.720 a little bit of time due to a wrist injury, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.600 and since he's been back, he's been even better than 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.920 he was before. The consistency has been crazy. Twenty three 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.560 times on twenty three games reaching base out of his 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.960 last twenty five. That's been kind of hard for the 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.800 course for him when he's been healthy this season, and yeah, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.639 there's this guy is really exceptional when it comes to 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.240 that production. Especially the way that he hits home runs 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.880 out to the opposite field has really blown me away. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.440 Another element to his game that really makes a big 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.520 difference for a guy that profile wise, we thought was 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.920 gonna be a lot of singles to the opposite field 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.120 and for him to sneak it over the wall, there's 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.480 so much value to be gleaned from that. So with Canerella, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.720 there's a lot of boxes he checks in terms of 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.640 being a future everyday player for this Marlins organization. He's 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.040 the guy that I would expect to be the first 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.359 one to reach triple A. For him to be hitting 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.439 as well as he is with Pensacola, not even a 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.600 tiny sample anymore. We're talking about a month and a 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.840 half of production at that level, where since he's moved 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.720 up there, he's been hitting just as well as he 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.240 was in Beloit. Like, there's no reason why he won't 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.080 be up an additional level at some point in late 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.800 August or September. So he's gonna be knocking on the 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.520 door for a big league call up in early twenty 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.920 twenty seven. And for an outfielder, that means you could 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.920 fit him in a lot of different places, even though 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.400 center field is something he's capable of doing if there's 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.639 any spot in the outfield moving forward. Kinderella is just 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.520 a very well rounded hitter at this point, a guy 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.920 that we thought had a nice floor as a hitter, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.000 but the way that his ceiling has absolutely shot up 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.040 since entering pro ball, that's at testament to his work 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:08.760 and to what the Marls are doing on the player 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.840 development side. With that being said, yeah, we'll have a 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.560 whole lot more analysis of the twenty twenty six draft 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.320 class as that plays out over the course of the 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.399 next few hours. Check out fish On first for all 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.000 the breakdowns of that, But now we're going to talk 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.359 to Cam about how he's doing here in twenty twenty 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:25.800 six some of his goals for the rest of this 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.560 year and long term. Once again, this is with Alex 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.720 Carver and with isaacazout here on Fish Unfiltered. Enjoy this 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.280 interview with Cam Enjoy your all star break, and we 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.400 hope you keep following us here on Fish on First 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.960 throughout the rest of the twenty twenty sixth season and beyond. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.359 Hey, for the families out there looking for a different 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:47.880 path to help your child succeed at home, look into 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.199 K twelve Powered Schools. 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