1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's episode of Frozen Marlin. I 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: am Andrew Dahl, and today is July twenty ninth, and 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: this is actually big Fish, Small Pot. So where we're 4 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: at today? The Marlins have finished up a series split 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: at the Great American Ballpark facing the Cincinnati Reds and 6 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: look to a three game set against the New York 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: Mets with the Major League Baseball trade deadline set for Tuesday, 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: August second. So where are we today with the Marlins. 9 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: I don't know where we are today with the Marlins. 10 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: I'm myself really feeling that Frozen Marlin title a little 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: bit scrambled, a little bit like lost for how I 12 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: feel about this tea. All the talk is all really dramatic. 13 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: The talk of Pablo Lopez possibly being traded, the talk 14 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: of the Marlins making everyone but Sandy available in talks, 15 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: the talk that the Dodgers and Astros have given some 16 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: calls to the Marlins about Garrett Cooper. It's all this 17 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: stuff that I don't know what to do of, all 18 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: of these rumors, all of this gossip and hearsay and 19 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: who say. And it'll be Tuesday when we actually know 20 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: how this all sorts out. We'll just have to wait 21 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: and see. I do a few topics to talk about today, 22 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: keeping a focus on this icy status quo for Miami, 23 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: and really like I'm just feeling them, just like moment 24 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: to moment these days with the team. Something about selling 25 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: at this deadline feels like it would be really like 26 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: prohibitive for twenty twenty three, and something about by and 27 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: large really feels like it's rather foolish, foolish in the 28 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: sense that going for some talent now might hurt the 29 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: Marlins in the future, should they trade some future star 30 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: players and all that is like future concerns. So really, 31 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: where I'm at with this deadline and where it seems 32 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: that the Marlins front office has been keyed to is 33 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: towards the stars we saw them trade for Starling. Marte 34 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,679 Speaker 1: had conversations this past winter for Iron Buckston Brian Reynolds. 35 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 1: Buxton obviously signed that extension to stay in Minnesota. By 36 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: all accounts, he's happy there and they are happy with him, 37 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: and there was really no chance that the Marlins would 38 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: get involved with that relationship between a star player and 39 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: a mid market team. Brian Reynolds, on the other hand, 40 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: just seemed to be a trade that just couldn't come 41 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: to fruition for whatever reason there Perhaps the Marlins were 42 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: a little bit too stringent on the prospects they were 43 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: willing to part with. Maybe the Pirates were asking for 44 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,839 Speaker 1: just simply too much. And Brian Reynolds isn't quite that 45 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: like upper echelon of star player in Major League Baseball. 46 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: Think like you're Juan Soto in Shoheyo Tani, who have 47 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: both been talked about as possible, possible like trades happening 48 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: between now and Tuesday. And that is itself remarkable, the 49 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: fact that there are these two actual, entirely like universally 50 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: considered star players that can be anyone in baseball, some 51 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: on the mound and at the plate. And that's the 52 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: environment we're in. Personally, I take that to mean that 53 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: this is a great time to buy. This sort of 54 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: available talent just doesn't happen. We've seen how the Marlins 55 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: have been handling this, handling themselves like Sandy is unavailable. 56 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: That's like your upper echelon star talent here in Miami 57 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: pitching tonight, and prior to the season, we heard talk 58 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: of like Eury Perez being a untouchable prospect being that 59 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: he has the sort of potential to reach that height. 60 00:04:54,560 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: I'm not literally talking about the man's stature, but in sense, 61 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: he does seem like someone that could supersede even Sandy. 62 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: That's all like future projection and tea leaf reading. It's 63 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: not like a guarantee that it'll reach that point. But 64 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: he's certainly earned top status amongst Marlin's prospects, and it 65 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: seems like a great deadline to be buying. Like the 66 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: fact that the Angels and the Nationals have made these 67 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: players available to even the extent that they already have 68 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 1: made them available, is kind of absurd. I'm inclined to 69 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: even look down on that as a fan, Like, who 70 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: do they realistically think that they're going to get back 71 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: in a trade that's going to be anywhere close to 72 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: that almost inarguably top five player in Major League Baseball. 73 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: Let's say that applies to Soto and Otani, and the 74 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: talk is that, like the Angels are looking for a 75 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: team's top four prospects, and that does for the Marlins 76 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: means something like Perez and Khalil in the Sallas and 77 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: Max Meyer at certainly like a substantial total. But the 78 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: talk with all of these prospects is that they are 79 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: probably gonna be good players in baseball, and sometimes just 80 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 1: like probably going to be good isn't nearly as solid 81 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: of talk as what you get when you're actually there. 82 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: Like there's even a chance that, like in this theoretical 83 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: universe where the Marlins trade for Juan Soto and they 84 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: give up Uri Perez for it, that eventually Perez comes 85 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: up and is amazing for the Washington Nationals. But there's 86 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: also reality that, like Juan Soda might just continue to 87 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: be amazing for the Marlins, Like do you think that 88 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: Uri Perez is going to be like too good to 89 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: face one Soto? Or will there always be this like 90 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: ketchup game being played with the younger player looking to 91 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: his senior. Like I've said, where I'm at with this 92 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: Marlins team is that it is like a frozen moment. 93 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: I feel like on ice as a fan, waiting for 94 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: whatever happens next, with no real clue for what that is. 95 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: And honestly, credit to the Marlins FO for keeping all 96 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: this pretty tightly secret, like absolutely credit where it is due. 97 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: But ultimately what I'm hoping for myself at this deadline 98 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: is that the team does buy more than it selves, 99 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: and I expect something of a real like scramble of that. 100 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: Like in my mind, I'm imagining this Marlins team scouting 101 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: furiously the farm system of rival teams while also looking 102 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: to target some major league talent of their own, and that, like, operationally, 103 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: must be just a huge workload, just getting scouts to 104 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: all of these games and being on top of the 105 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: latest information to actually make the right choices to make 106 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: sure you don't get a blundery end of a deal 107 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: if you trade Pablo Lopez for three prospects that end 108 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: up to be major league players like what we saw 109 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: in the return for the Christian Yelich trade. The only 110 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: way to really avoid that is is for trading for 111 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: like sure things, and there's very seldomly a sure thing 112 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: out there. The Marlins team has, over the past like 113 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: a few years, been in something of like a stubborn 114 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: climb as an organization, trading like Starling Marte for Jesus Lozardo. 115 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: Still like keeping up with talent and hoping to extend 116 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: that over a longer period of time to provide like 117 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: a sustainable base of I keep saying talent this roster, 118 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: I'd personally opined for the Marlins to avoid trades for 119 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: lottery ticket types like Alex Jackson last year, who really 120 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: seemed like a player that would be good if he 121 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: made better contact, versus making trades for prospects that seemed 122 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: to be on their way towards solid productivity with an 123 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: easier projectable path to it and less of a risk. 124 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: To get those sorts of prospects, you do need to 125 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: give up better talent than say Adam Dvall. We're probably 126 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: talking Garrett Cooper Pavlo Lopez as players that would return 127 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: those more solid prospects, but teams rightly tightly clutch these 128 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: players to a extent that might be almost a bit 129 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: of a fallacy with the ridiculous attrition rates of minor 130 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: leagues to majors to star our talent. I'm mostly in 131 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: the dark as for what these teams are asking for exactly, 132 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: so I can't quite say that a Marlin's trade for 133 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 1: a top talent wouldn't be an absolute disaster with what 134 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: they're asking for. I'm just of the opinion that this 135 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: Marlins team has been a bit frozen of late, and 136 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: tonight's start with Sandy pensilin in that Ace feels like 137 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot more conviction behind it, and that's what 138 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: we need more from this team. So for now, I've 139 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: been Andrew Dall Today Again. July twenty ninth, Marlins faced 140 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: the ment at lone Depot tonight at six forty PM, 141 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: and who knows what's gonna happen these next few days, 142 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: So stay tuned to Fish Stripes for all that will 143 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: have you covered pregame about an hour before the six 144 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: forty start on YouTube, and for the podcast. I'll be 145 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: back with you on Wednesday, and we're certain to have 146 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: more content before then, so stay tuned.