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Speaker 1: Here we go, the official show on the Fist Stripes

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Speaker 1: podcast channel, talking Miami Marlins every single day, covering the

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Speaker 1: team in our own way all year round. Am Eli Susman,

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Speaker 1: the managing editor of Fist Stripes, Hope you guys are

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Speaker 1: doing great to start off a new week. As usual,

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Speaker 1: these solo pods from me are presented by Symbol, the

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Speaker 1: Stock Market for Sports. On this episode, no big overarching theme.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go really in depth on these past three

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Speaker 1: games between the Marlins and the Giants out in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: In some ways, the series kind of went as expected.

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Speaker 1: They kind of reinforced some things we already knew about

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Speaker 1: the current state of this Marlins team. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: there were some very unusual happenings in here and some

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Speaker 1: individual performances that really stuck out to me, both better

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Speaker 1: and for worse. We'll get into those and what they

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Speaker 1: could mean going forward for this team. We're going to

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Speaker 1: pump the brakes on some of the outrage directed towards

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Speaker 1: particular players and at the same time just trying to

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Speaker 1: prop up some guys that may be flying underneath the radar.

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Speaker 1: Then we're going to look forward to the next series

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Speaker 1: on this long road trip coming up against the Brewers

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Speaker 1: beginning on Monday night in Milwaukee. The Brewers a team

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Giants that are overperforming what a

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Speaker 1: lot of people expected of them during this early portion

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Speaker 1: of the season. We're going to go in depth on

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Speaker 1: that upcoming series as well. We're going to lead off

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Speaker 1: with a focus on our fish Picks contest. If you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this, there's a solid chance you know what

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Speaker 1: fish picks are. Just to get everybody up to speed,

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Speaker 1: this is the third year that we are running this

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Speaker 1: contest on both fish stripes dot com and on our

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Speaker 1: Twitter account. Started in twenty nineteen, I realized that the

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Speaker 1: team was not going to be competitive that year, and

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Speaker 1: that turned out to be very true. But we still

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Speaker 1: wanted to put some stakes and some vested interest into

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Speaker 1: every single game that the Marlins played, and I think

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Speaker 1: I didn't go one hundred and sixty two deep. I

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Speaker 1: got very very close to doing fish pick props for

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Speaker 1: every game of that twenty nineteen season. We're generally speaking

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Speaker 1: five props per game. You make your picks before first

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Speaker 1: pitch for them to be eligible, and it's based on

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Speaker 1: how you think individual starting pitchers or position players will

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Speaker 1: do in that game, whether one team, whether the Marlins

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Speaker 1: or their appointment, will be leading in a certain statistical category.

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Speaker 1: And there are some fun ones too. I'd say actually

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Speaker 1: probably more than half of the props are ones that

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Speaker 1: you really can't analyze all that much. That there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of randomness involved in this and variables that you

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Speaker 1: it is that pretty much anybody can do well as

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Speaker 1: long as they're consistently playing fish picks. And so we've

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Speaker 1: played around with exactly how to run the contest and

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Speaker 1: what sort of prizes to offer. From the beginning. That's

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Speaker 1: the people that lead the contest in points for a

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Speaker 1: certain amount of time. And this coming year, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's bigger than ever so far here in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: That's probably an understatement that this has surpassed all of

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Speaker 1: my biggest hopes for the contest through what now twenty

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Speaker 1: one games of the season, where we're consistently getting sixty, seventy, eighty,

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Speaker 1: ninety even sometimes one hundred different unique users making their

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Speaker 1: into the season making their prop bets. It's totally free

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Speaker 1: seconds to make sure that this contest reaches its full potential.

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Speaker 1: I set up a special form through Google Forms that

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Speaker 1: has made it so much easier to score these individual

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Speaker 1: games for people. Make sure that you're getting rewarded for

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Speaker 1: which is what happens when you go five for five

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Speaker 1: fish Picks and you see the logo of Legends of Dad.

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Speaker 1: Legends of Dad for the moment they are sponsoring the contest.

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Speaker 1: They're partnered with us really where they're the ones offering

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Speaker 1: Picks Points leaders. You get a choice of any of

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Speaker 1: being offered are Marlins related. That's what they do. Great

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Speaker 1: thread articles. These go up several hours before the game

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Speaker 1: final word about fish Picks, just wanted to float it

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Speaker 1: out there that if you have a small business and

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Speaker 1: especially if you're based in South Florida. Just hit us

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Speaker 1: up if you want to partner with us on fish Picks.

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Speaker 1: If you're willing to offer prizes on a monthly basis,

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Speaker 1: want this to support our Fish Stripe staff and allow

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Speaker 1: the game. And then very quickly on Sunday's game, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, when we got about three

436
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Speaker 1: endings into this one with the Marlins trailing three to nothing,

437
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Speaker 1: this is one of the first games all year that

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Speaker 1: I seriously contemplated just turning it off and just coming

439
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: back to it later on and just catching up to

440
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Speaker 1: it when it was over thinking that it could really

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Speaker 1: turn ugly. With Craig Mish out here tweeting about, Oh,

442
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Speaker 1: the Marlins aren't gonna over under seven and a half

443
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Speaker 1: pitchers the Marlins will use in this game? Which position

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Speaker 1: player do you think are they're going to use in

445
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: this one? To He'll just get them through the ending,

446
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Speaker 1: And I mean, to the credit of this Marlins pitching

447
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Speaker 1: staff and their defense, they tightened it up as the

448
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Speaker 1: game went on, and they kept the game kind of

449
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 1: in play for them until the very very ends. The

450
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Speaker 1: final score ends up being four to three, losing to

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Speaker 1: the Giants and wrapping up the series by losing three

452
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Speaker 1: out of four to the Giants. The opener in this

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Speaker 1: game was Ross Datweiler, making his first start in nearly

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Speaker 1: two years at the major league level, but it was

455
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Speaker 1: just an opener situation because of the forecast. Understanding that

456
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Speaker 1: rain was in the forecast for this game, they were

457
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Speaker 1: worried about potentially having a rain delay in the early

458
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Speaker 1: endings and they didn't want to lose their starting pitcher

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Speaker 1: in that event, knowing that it was ready going to

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Speaker 1: be a challenge for them to patch together all these endings.

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Speaker 1: So Dat Leeler pitched a scoreless first ending got removed

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Speaker 1: for the real bulk guy in this situation, Paul Campbell,

463
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Speaker 1: who their Rule five draft pick, who has not been

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Speaker 1: impressive so far during his rookie season, and in this one,

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Speaker 1: he was not impressive either. That first ending that he

466
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Speaker 1: appears in this game, he allows three runs in the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the second ending, uses forty two pitches. But

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Speaker 1: I think Campbell showed enough to certainly earn him a

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Speaker 1: start when we go the next time through this rotation,

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Speaker 1: that spot comes up again. It will come up again

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Speaker 1: during the National Series on the final leg of this

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Speaker 1: road trip, and I would fully expect Campbell to make

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Speaker 1: that start. I mean, one of the main reasons because

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Speaker 1: of the lack of flexibility on their roster. I already

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Speaker 1: said it, the full forty man roster, Campbell being a

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Speaker 1: Rule five guy, cannot be options. And to my surprise,

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Speaker 1: he stretched out to seventy three pitches in this one.

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Speaker 1: I did not believe that he would be able to

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Speaker 1: go quite that far. But that's only a small step below. Actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, a normal starting pitcher's workload, and I mean

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Speaker 1: the positives in this one. Is that really all his

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Speaker 1: secondary stuff looks promising. It's his fastball that continues to

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Speaker 1: get Campbell into trouble. I cannot understand why he threw

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Speaker 1: sixty percent fastballs in this game. I mean, even for

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Speaker 1: this year, for all, he's throwing over fifty percent fastballs.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, historically that's kind of what you expect

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Speaker 1: from a starting pitcher. But we're in a new age

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Speaker 1: where you should just use this stuff that actually works

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Speaker 1: for you. And with Campbell, he's getting into trouble almost

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Speaker 1: entirely because of his fastball, which does not have it

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Speaker 1: has a great spin rate. I mean, that's something that

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Speaker 1: we've already known about Campbell that's made him intriguing, is

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Speaker 1: the spin rate on his fastball. It's simply not getting

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Speaker 1: the job done. He's not locating it as well as

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Speaker 1: his other pitches, and it certainly doesn't have the velocity

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Speaker 1: to get by hitters as much as you'd like it too.

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Speaker 1: But his secondary stuff looks pretty fine, and I'd be

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Speaker 1: curious to see what he looks like if given a

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Speaker 1: more traditional start. Actually, entering in the top of the

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Speaker 1: first ending instead of entering in the second ending, and

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Speaker 1: what difference that can make for his mental state and

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Speaker 1: his preparation for him to do that. So don't panic

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Speaker 1: about Campbell. I admit that for the season overall, he's

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Speaker 1: looked shaky. I don't think he by any means should

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Speaker 1: be guaranteed a roster spot for the whole year or

506
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Speaker 1: even half the year. That you need to continue to

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Speaker 1: evaluate this as things go on. But next his next

508
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Speaker 1: start is going to be a very important test for

509
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Speaker 1: him because Marlins really need to fill out this rotation

510
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future with other guys coming back from

511
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Speaker 1: injury and with the team for whatever reason, very reluctant

512
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Speaker 1: to sign old friend and a Baal Sanchez or to

513
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Speaker 1: sign any of the other veteran pitchers that are available

514
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Speaker 1: that they're going to go with internal options. These options

515
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Speaker 1: actually have to perform to kind of earn their spot

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Looking on the offensive side of the ball,

517
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Speaker 1: extremely frustrating for the vast majority of this day Logan

518
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: Web seven scoreless innings. So a guy that frankly I

519
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Speaker 1: knew nothing about prior to this game, and I'm sure

520
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: you probably didn't either. He was struggling. He was struggling

521
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Speaker 1: for the early portion of this year throughout twenty twenty,

522
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Speaker 1: and then in this game. It just goes to show

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Speaker 1: how anemic this offense can be for the Marlins, that

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Speaker 1: they were able to unable to really do much of

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Speaker 1: anything against Web while he was in the game. But

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Speaker 1: as has been the custom of the previous couple games

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Speaker 1: of the series, that they end up rallying against the

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Speaker 1: bullpen of the Giants. They score two runs in the

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Speaker 1: eighth inning thanks to guess who, Jesus Aguilar.

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Speaker 2: Again, they may have just done that. This is a

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Speaker 2: drive to deep left field. There goes the shutout, and

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Speaker 2: for the third day in a row, Jesus Ovular has

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Speaker 2: himself a two run home run.

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Speaker 1: That's three home runs in as many days. It ties

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Speaker 1: his career high for a streak of that kind. And

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Speaker 1: you look at his numbers. All of a sudden, and

537
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Speaker 1: after having concerns about the lack of power he was providing,

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Speaker 1: this boosts up his numbers to an ideal level. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he now has a one to thirty seven weighted runs

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Speaker 1: created plus that is thirty seven percent better than a

541
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Speaker 1: league average hitting which would be a career high for him.

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Speaker 1: He has never hit that level before, even when he

543
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Speaker 1: was that borderline All Star with the Brewers a few

544
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Speaker 1: years back, even that was a one point thirty four

545
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Speaker 1: WRC bluzz that he is now that same guy that

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Speaker 1: he was with the Brewers, and he's doing it though

547
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Speaker 1: with a different style. Where I mean, outside of these

548
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Speaker 1: home runs, it's fascinating to see how much he makes

549
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Speaker 1: contact and puts the ball in play. And when he's

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Speaker 1: doing both of those things as he was during this series,

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Speaker 1: he is exactly what you need in the heart of

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Speaker 1: the order. So you come out of this series against

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Speaker 1: the Giants, even having lost three or four, feeling very

554
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Speaker 1: encouraged about Haysius Aguilar, as I said earlier, encouraged about

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Speaker 1: Corey Dickerson, who finishes up this series now batting three

556
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Speaker 1: to four for the season. He leads the team and

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Speaker 1: hits and his defense is it's a little better than

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Speaker 1: I think what we saw last year. And his base

559
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: running really sticks out to me. His base running is

560
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Speaker 1: definitely better than it was in twenty twenty, and he

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Speaker 1: showed that a little bit more in Sunday's game too,

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Speaker 1: including beating out in infield single. The other key storylines

563
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Speaker 1: from the Sunday game were, let's go with Adam Duval

564
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Speaker 1: getting the start in center field because we know what

565
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: Brinson's limitations are all too well. And the same thing

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Speaker 1: with magneris Sierra despite the promise that he showed a

567
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Speaker 1: little bit at times on Saturday that to give this

568
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Speaker 1: team their best opportunity to score runs, you cannot go

569
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Speaker 1: with either of those guys in the lineup, and said.

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Speaker 1: They put Duval in there, and he did a quiet

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Speaker 1: game overall offensively, but the key was defensively what he

572
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Speaker 1: showed making a couple of difficult catches in deep center

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Speaker 1: fields of that ballpark, his first time ever starting a

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Speaker 1: major league game at the age of thirty two in

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Speaker 1: center field. He never started there before throughout his entire career,

576
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Speaker 1: and he seemed very adequate out there. I mean, this

577
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: is like a broken record at this point, but nobody

578
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: is going to replace Starling Marte, and Duval defensively certainly

579
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Speaker 1: is not going to do that same impression. His range

580
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: is going to be more limited than Marte's is. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that they have that option of playing him

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Speaker 1: in center, even though they didn't really do it at

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Speaker 1: all in spring training, and as I mentioned, he hasn't

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Speaker 1: done it at all in the regular season until now.

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Speaker 1: That this is a very intriguing element to his game,

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Speaker 1: and it's a big relief I had imagine to Don Manningley,

587
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Speaker 1: I'm certain that this will not be the last time

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Speaker 1: that you see Duval out there in center field at

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Speaker 1: the top of the order. We had Jazz Chisholm Junior again,

590
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Speaker 1: and this was one of his worst offensive games of

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Speaker 1: the entire year. I think pretty much is worse. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to even make the case that there's been a

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Speaker 1: lower point for him. Zero for five with three strikeouts,

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Speaker 1: and if memory serves, I think all three of the

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Speaker 1: strikeouts were chasing outside the zone, which is uncharacteristic of

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Speaker 1: what we saw from him at his best just in

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Speaker 1: the previous few weeks. But I think this is a

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Speaker 1: great time for a overview of what Jazz is doing

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00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: this year, even with this over five and overall what

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00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: is now an oh for twelve slump that he's in

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Speaker 1: with six strikeouts in that span. Ever, since the Lidoff

602
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Speaker 1: home run on Friday, his season stats still hitting two seventy,

603
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Speaker 1: still has an ops of nine to oh four. He's

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Speaker 1: still on pace for thirty one home runs in thirty

605
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Speaker 1: one stolen bases. I have I've bristled a bit when

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Speaker 1: people insist on calling him a superstar in kind of

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Speaker 1: elevating him to a certain status over such a small sample,

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Speaker 1: and I maintain that's still the case. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: when you see these numbers, if he simply stays on

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Speaker 1: this pace for the entire season, I mean everybody would

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Speaker 1: be absolutely thrilled with that. He'd be one of the

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Speaker 1: best players in the league. That's what you need to

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Speaker 1: realize is even with this slump baked into it, he

614
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Speaker 1: is doing an incredible all around contribution to this team,

615
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Speaker 1: and that he is not a perfect player. He is

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Speaker 1: a perfectly marketable player, maybe the perfect player that for

617
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Speaker 1: Miami's needs at the time, considering the uncertainty at second

618
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Speaker 1: baseball short term and long term. But he has some

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Speaker 1: swing and miss to his game. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: is ever going to go away, and it certainly is

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Speaker 1: not going to go away immediately. As a twenty three

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Speaker 1: year old rookie going through a league that is going

623
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Speaker 1: to quickly make adjustments to what he does and force

624
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Speaker 1: counter adjustments from him. That there will be streakiness in

625
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: Jazz's offensive game, but we know what he brings defensively

626
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Speaker 1: and on the basis including a good defensive play in

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Speaker 1: this game on Sunday that helps save a run in

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Speaker 1: the first ending that I mean, don't get creedy with Jazz.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's already spoiled us enough with everything that

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Speaker 1: he's doing. If he simply is anywhere close to this

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Speaker 1: player through the entire season, then it is a hitting

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Speaker 1: the jackpot. As promised. We finish up this podcast episode

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Speaker 1: with a look ahead to the Marlins and Brewers series

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Speaker 1: Monday to Wednesday at American Family Fields in Milwaukee. The

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Speaker 1: Brewers are one of the feel good stories of the

636
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Speaker 1: early portion of the season. I suppose they are in

637
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Speaker 1: first place in the National League Central at thirteen and eight,

638
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: a full two games up on the rest of the pack.

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00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: They have if I have this correctly, they have the

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Speaker 1: second best run differential in the National League, only behind

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Speaker 1: the reigning World Series champion Dodgers. I mean, we start

642
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Speaker 1: with the first thought that comes to your minds when

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Speaker 1: you think Brewers, and that's Christian Yelich old friends from

644
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Speaker 1: the Marlins. Five years of the Marlins and now entering

645
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,959
Speaker 1: his fourth year with the Brewers. He will not be

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Speaker 1: playing in the series. He suffered a lower back issue

647
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: about a week and a half ago. He's eligible to

648
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: come off the injured list, but he's not ready to return.

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00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: He's not back to one hundred percent yet. They had

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Speaker 1: him go and undergo an additional MRI on Saturday, and

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Speaker 1: they announce those results. There's no structural damage in his back.

652
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Speaker 1: It gives them confidence that he could return relatively soon

653
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Speaker 1: in the near future, but not during this series. He

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Speaker 1: will not be involved during these upcoming few games we have.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember that in previous heads head matchups

656
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Speaker 1: with the Marlins, he's done a lot of damage. He's

657
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Speaker 1: done a lot of damage against just about everybody in

658
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: the Major since that trade, but including the Marlins. So

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Speaker 1: they catch a break with him being out of the lineup.

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00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: And to be frank, the rest of this offensive group

661
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: is underwhelming to say the least. That this is does

662
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: not have a whole lot of offensive talent, and they're

663
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Speaker 1: coming off a year in twenty twenty where that was

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Speaker 1: kind of what held them back from being a good team.

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00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: Is the fact that their offense underperformed. A bright spot

666
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Speaker 1: for them has been Colton Wong. They signed him in

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Speaker 1: free agency. He actually missed already a chunk of time

668
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Speaker 1: with a minor injury and just got back from the IL.

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Speaker 1: But when he's been in the lineup, he's been an

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Speaker 1: on base machine for them. You'll recognize Jackie Bradley Junior,

671
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: he signed in free agency this past year, not doing

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Speaker 1: much of anything offensively, but he is as always awesome

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Speaker 1: in the field, and he's been playing a lot of

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Speaker 1: center field in place of Lorenzo Kine. But the one

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Speaker 1: guy we need to talk about for this Brewer's lineup

676
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Speaker 1: is Omar Narvaez, or veteran catcher, and he is if

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Speaker 1: you look at his statistical track record, it is a

678
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: wild ride that for his career. In his previous teams

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00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: with the White Sox in the Mariners, he was a

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00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: great offensive catcher by this relatively low standards of catcher offense,

681
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Speaker 1: but he was shaky defensively in a variety of aspects

682
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Speaker 1: of the game that the Brewers did not pay up

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Speaker 1: much to acquire him a couple off seasons ago, and

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Speaker 1: they thought he could be a good bargain if he

685
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: just kept hitting the way he used to. Instead, he

686
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: imploded at the Blake put up a five to sixty

687
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: two OPS like a fifty weighted runs created plus in

688
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, but his defense took a big step forward,

689
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: and they give that a lot of credit for how

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00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: they improved on a run prevention standpoint. So he kind

691
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: of his entire profile flipped around in twenty twenty his

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00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: first year with the Brewers. Now here in his second

693
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Speaker 1: year with the Brewers, he is putting it all together.

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Speaker 1: He is arguably the most valuable catcher in baseball in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Omar Narvaez is one of the MVP candidates,

696
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: the very very early MVP candidates this year. Ops over

697
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: one thousand, nearly as many walks as strikeouts, and defensively

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Speaker 1: he is doing a great job controlling the running game,

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Speaker 1: calling pitches, blocking pitches. He's already up to four defensive

700
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: runs saved in less than four weeks, so that's on

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Speaker 1: face to be just the elite of the elite on

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Speaker 1: that side of the ball as well. He has been

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00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: a star for them. He is one of the great

704
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: bargains in baseball, someone that is gonna come down to

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Speaker 1: earth eventually, but the Marlins are catching him at the

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Speaker 1: wrong time, because he is doing an incredible job and

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Speaker 1: the headliner for this Marlins, for this Brewers team, excuse me,

708
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: is it's not the offense. It is the run prevention

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Speaker 1: and it is led by their just They have an

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00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: embarrassment of riches on their pitching staff and we're going

711
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: to see the real the motor behind their success in

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Speaker 1: the series. Opener Corbyn Burns, who I guess somewhat under

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Speaker 1: the radar last year. He may have been one of

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Speaker 1: the best pitchers in baseball. In twenty twenty, I guess,

715
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: overshadowed by someone like you, Darvish, but outside of you Darvish,

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00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: the second best starting pitcher in that division. He has

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00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: continued to ascend. A guy that just a couple of

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00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: years ago was totally lost. You'll see if you look

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Speaker 1: at his stats from the twenty nineteen season that he was,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was a disaster, wasn't even in their

721
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Speaker 1: rotation much of that year, but took that mammoth leap

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Speaker 1: forward in twenty twenty and now here in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: He is. He is untouchable, virtually perfect. This year. He

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00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 1: has allowed one run through four starts on a solo

725
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: home run, and that is it. Outside of that, he

726
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: has not walked a single batter in twenty four and

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Speaker 1: a third innings. He has struck out forty batters, nearly

728
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 1: half of the batters he has faced he has struck

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Speaker 1: out so far this season a zero point thirty seven era.

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Speaker 1: It is almost identical to Jacob de Gram's stat line.

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Speaker 1: That is the company that he is keeping. Those two

732
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: have distinguished themselves this year as the most dominant pitchers

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Speaker 1: in baseball. Marlins, they were able to take care of

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Speaker 1: de Grom. They got one big home run from Jazzism

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Speaker 1: Junior and that was enough in that game. Who's going

736
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Speaker 1: to step up on Monday Night against corporn Burns because

737
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Speaker 1: he is performing at that same level, a fascinating pitch mix.

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Speaker 1: He leans very heavily on his cutter and he throws

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Speaker 1: that cutter consistently in the mid to high nineties. So

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Speaker 1: the combination of movement in V low and command it

741
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Speaker 1: has totally overwhelmed his competition so far this year. And

742
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Speaker 1: we know that he's affecting this Marlins lineup at a

743
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Speaker 1: vulnerable time that even when they use the kind of

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Speaker 1: lineup they did versus the Giants that in that type

745
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: of situation. There's they get power from Haysius Aguilar, and

746
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: they can get some power from Jazzism Junior and every

747
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Speaker 1: once in a while Adam Duvauwoll run into one. But

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Speaker 1: there are still tons of question marks in that lineup.

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Speaker 1: I know everybody's frustration with the Marlins catcher position. I

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Speaker 1: guess I should have brought it up a few minutes

751
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: ago that the contrast between the Brewers and the Marlins

752
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: that catcher could not be more extreme. Whereas the Brewers

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Speaker 1: that has been such a key for them in leading

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Speaker 1: them to this first place start, and catcher is what's

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Speaker 1: been holding back the Marlins and will continue to do so,

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Speaker 1: especially with Jorge al Farrow out of the mix for

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Speaker 1: the near future with his hamstring injury. That in many

758
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: ways these teams have a big contrast from one another.

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Speaker 1: The bullpen for the Brewers at the back end a

760
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: couple of the true emerging stars of relievers in baseball.

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00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: Josh Hater is already established as the guy you never

762
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Speaker 1: want to face at the end of games. This year,

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Speaker 1: he has allowed one hit in his first six and

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Speaker 1: two thursd A. That is it. With Devin Williams Devin

765
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Speaker 1: Williams was the National League Rookie of the Year last year.

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Speaker 1: He's been much more uneven so far this year, struggling

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Speaker 1: with his control and he's even allowed three home runs,

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Speaker 1: which is hard to imagine with the special change up

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Speaker 1: that he has, and how usually it's so hard just

770
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Speaker 1: to put the ball in play against him that they

771
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: they're getting him at a fortunate time. But other guys

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00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: in that bullpen have stepped up. This guy, Jp fire Rizon.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you much about him other than his

774
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: cool name, but he is a zero point zero zero

775
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: era through ten and two thirds. Brent Souter has been

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Speaker 1: around with the Brewers a while and he's off to

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Speaker 1: a great start. Old friend Brad Bachsberger is doing great

778
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Speaker 1: for the Brewers so far. He did not make their

779
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Speaker 1: opening day roster, but was added shortly thereafter and now

780
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: he's some pitching some important endings for them. They have

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Speaker 1: a deep bullpen. They have a deep rotation as well.

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Speaker 1: Even though the Marlins are avoiding Brandon woodrooff their number

783
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Speaker 1: two starter, they're still in line to face some other

784
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Speaker 1: really nasty arms in the series on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: That runs are going to be hard. To come by,

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Speaker 1: especially given where the Marlins are at this stage with

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Speaker 1: their available players. It's going to be Adrian Housen Adrian

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Speaker 1: Housen Adrian Houser for the on Tuesday, opposite of Daniel

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Speaker 1: Castano for the Marlins. Then on Wednesday, the Marlins have

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00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contro going and still to be determined who

791
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,280
Speaker 1: the Brewers are going to use for that series finale

792
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: against the Marlins on Wednesday. But it's going to be

793
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: an interesting series even without the Yellich storyline, and we

794
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: still have Brinson going back to his previous organization. He

795
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: did hit a home run in Milwaukee a couple of

796
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: years ago. Three years ago. Now yeah, yeah, I mean

797
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: we're pretty far away from those nice flashes that he

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Speaker 1: showed early in his Marlins career. But maybe he starts

799
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Speaker 1: at least one game in the series and tries to

800
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: produce just so many storylines to keep track of. And

801
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Speaker 1: at this point we're already running overtime with this podcast

802
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 1: going into detail about where the Marlins have been where

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Speaker 1: they're going, right in the middle of a ten game

804
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Speaker 1: road trip. So I thank you guys for listening. As always,

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Speaker 1: we will have our small pods coming up throughout this

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Speaker 1: week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday frin another pod episode with

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Speaker 1: me also coming out on Thursday where we hope to

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Speaker 1: have a special guest. Stay tuned for more details about that,

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Speaker 1: and in the meantime, on Monday night, because it is

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Speaker 1: the start of a new Marlin series, as always, we

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Speaker 1: will be streaming live on Twitter, on Twitch, on YouTube

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Speaker 1: at the Fish Stripe's accounts, so it'll be me Ethan

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Speaker 1: Podowski our new intern Kevin Barrall. Tune in to listen

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Speaker 1: to us talk about this upcoming series in more detail.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, guys, keep tuning in, rate and review

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Speaker 1: the podcast wherever you get your podcast. I'm Eli's husband.

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Speaker 1: As always, go Fish