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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome. You're listening to Big Fish Small Pod.

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Speaker 1: I'm Andrew. We'd all here with you today, tonight, this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: this evening, or maybe it is your morning, but what

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Speaker 1: I'm here to talk with you about today. It really

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what time I'm talking to you at. If

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Speaker 1: you're anything like me, you just have jazz stuck in

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Speaker 1: your hat. At this point in the twenty twenty two season,

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Speaker 1: it really feels like it's worth it to go to

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Speaker 1: a game to see jazz. At the very least. Something

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Speaker 1: that I've noticed in his swing is that he's very

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Speaker 1: like in the Dance with the pitcher heyesus, Sanchez is

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Speaker 1: all so like really in like a similar space with that.

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Speaker 1: You'll like notice the way like I've noticing it maybe

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Speaker 1: more in Hazu Sanchez just because of how much more

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Speaker 1: he seems to have developed as an athlete this year

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Speaker 1: and how he is just like Bouncier and spring Ear

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Speaker 1: in the box even just between pitches like loosening up

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Speaker 1: and Jazz like is also that type of like dynamic

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Speaker 1: athlete with really like insane like kind of just like

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Speaker 1: twitch reactions We've seen him take just like pitches deep

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Speaker 1: that got on him very fast, and he had to

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Speaker 1: like redirect it with a lot of power to get

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Speaker 1: it far and away. Like it's like Byron Buxton. Like

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Speaker 1: with that like four hundred and sixty nine foot walk

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Speaker 1: off home run, we see kind of where the ceiling

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Speaker 1: is in the sport of baseball, and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: like at like the top of the stadium is kind

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Speaker 1: of where the ceiling is, and some players can really

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Speaker 1: like hit it there like you're Byron Buxton, like you're

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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm Junior. And it doesn't feel like a stretcher

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Speaker 1: a lot to say at all that what we're seeing

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Speaker 1: now is like Jazz becoming this batter that other teams

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Speaker 1: have to like make a focal point of their just

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Speaker 1: like inning. Like that's like a guy you want to

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Speaker 1: maybe work around. You don't want to give him like

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Speaker 1: a pitch to hit. It's like forces that extra degree

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Speaker 1: of concentration. And by getting to the point where other

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Speaker 1: teams are thinking about you, you're taking attention away from

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Speaker 1: other players like Aviy Garcia and like Porte Celaire maybe

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Speaker 1: like less so Orte Cilaire specifically, just that guy has

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Speaker 1: seen the most pitches on the team. So maybe batters

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Speaker 1: need to talk about Hazu's Aguilar or Garrett Cooper or

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Speaker 1: any of those other batters that haven't like quite quite

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Speaker 1: gotten it going yet, that need like maybe some matchups

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Speaker 1: where like Jazz forces the lefty pitcher and celere benefits

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Speaker 1: and agular benefits or whoever's near him in the lineup

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Speaker 1: can get like a good like shot out with a

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Speaker 1: blatoon advantage. What we're really seeing is Jazz kind of

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Speaker 1: just floating to the top of that offense that like

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Speaker 1: consideration of like who are the Marlins and who are

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Speaker 1: we about to face at home or on the road.

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Speaker 1: What you see is like a real lineup Banker and

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Speaker 1: Jazz is becoming one along with Hayesus Sanchez put in

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Speaker 1: like the Marlin's in a really interesting position where they

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Speaker 1: can use those two strong lefties to really like lengthen

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Speaker 1: the lineup and get those later favorable matchups for their

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Speaker 1: more supplemental hitters. It feels like they haven't had better

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Speaker 1: positional players since, you know, before Bruce Sherman. It really

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Speaker 1: like takes you back to your like Yelich and Stanton

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Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't know, like Hanley Ramirez before

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Speaker 1: that like the type of incredibly talented baseball player that

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Speaker 1: is also great at like the actual act of hitting

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Speaker 1: is rare in the history for the Marlins. Now, like

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Speaker 1: we are seeing a team that has taken like a

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Speaker 1: more like professional hitting direction. Like what we're seeing with

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Speaker 1: Joey Wendell is that next step towards a cricket player

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Speaker 1: with his like poor contact overall as far as like

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Speaker 1: barrels are concerned, but he's been able to like make

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Speaker 1: sure he's not getting out and keep the play alive,

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Speaker 1: and keep that bat alive and get a ball to hit.

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Speaker 1: And I mean I'm recording this after a three run

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Speaker 1: home run that essentially won the game for Miami against

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Speaker 1: the Nationals. Oh, that part of shit deep out to center.

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Speaker 1: He's not like stepping in and being your like world

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Speaker 1: beating hitter the way you're like Jazz and Jesus are threatening.

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Speaker 1: What we're seeing is a solid supplemental player bringing it

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Speaker 1: every day. John Bernie's also feeling like a player who's there.

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Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas, his numbers like haven't quite aligned yet this

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Speaker 1: season is also like maybe needing a couple of like

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Speaker 1: sharpenings towards that specific skill set of like kind of

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Speaker 1: like single get on base, avoid the out, keep the

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Speaker 1: lineup moving along to go with about like depending who

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Speaker 1: you ask, like four other hitters on the team, with

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Speaker 1: like Aguilar Cooper Anderson A, Vi Solaire de la Cruz

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Speaker 1: as you are like real like supplemental batting core and

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Speaker 1: some of that is heating up. Avi Garcia and Jorge

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Speaker 1: Solaire both have like some of the hardest hit balls

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball this year, so you know, the

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Speaker 1: fitness is there, it's just a matter of getting that

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Speaker 1: swing in line. And like Avi Garcia really like just

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Speaker 1: hasn't had it quite together this year. So we still

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Speaker 1: see like a high caliber athlete just if he's the

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Speaker 1: professional hitter we all expect him to be, he'll be

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Speaker 1: making those adjustments to get on the ball and like

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Speaker 1: crushing the ball, not in the way like one of

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Speaker 1: your like kind of cricket players really would, more in

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Speaker 1: the way of you're just straight a basher. So what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing is a Marlins offense about to make a

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Speaker 1: couple of like radars blip. You can't sleep through the

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Speaker 1: lineup anymore if you're going to face Miami. So today

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Speaker 1: April twenty seventh, the Marlins are playing the Nationals again.

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Speaker 1: It's Pablo Lopez against Eric Vetti with a seven to

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Speaker 1: oh five Eastern times start in Washington, DC. So for

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Speaker 1: the podcast, I've been Andrew dal This has been big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod. I'll be back with you on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Talk with you then,