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Speaker 1: Fresh episode of Fish Bites. It's Eli Sussman, Fish Stripes

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Speaker 1: managing editor, addressing you as the Miami Marlins are flying

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Speaker 1: into Philadelphia to get their twenty twenty MLB regular season underway.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure whether baseball would get here in the

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Speaker 1: first place. Who knows if we'll be able to get

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Speaker 1: to the finish line. But every day recently it has

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Speaker 1: been that little step forward that brings a sense of relief.

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Speaker 1: A lots of analyze and lots of debate with regards

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Speaker 1: to the Marlins, and that's kept our days busy. It's

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Speaker 1: kept our minds racing, and there's a lots of breakdown.

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Speaker 1: To help me do that properly. We have former Fish

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Speaker 1: Stripe staffer, a good friend, most popular fish by toast

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Speaker 1: we've ever had, and definitely one of the world's leading

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Speaker 1: experts on all things Marlins. It's Danny Martinez. Are you

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Speaker 1: ready to play ball?

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Speaker 2: I am ready to play ball. That's one heck of

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Speaker 2: an introduction that I have to live up to. But

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Speaker 2: it's definitely definitely nice to be back here with you, Eli,

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Speaker 2: And just like I said, have a conversation with you

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Speaker 2: and then also play ball and let's talk from Fish Baseball.

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Speaker 1: We still get people on the main website who aren't

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Speaker 1: on Twitter that are constantly asking about you and when

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Speaker 1: you get your takes on things, and I tell them,

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Speaker 1: you know, just find you on Twitter. You're still there

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Speaker 1: and you're still like staying on top of absolutely everything,

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Speaker 1: and you're a great person to bounce ideas off of.

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Speaker 1: And we're I guess for transparency, we're checking in right now,

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Speaker 1: right before the second exhibition game in Atlanta. By the

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Speaker 1: time people will listen to this, the game will be

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Speaker 1: over and the team will be in Philly, and I guess,

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Speaker 1: just off the top, just a general feeling that you

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Speaker 1: time in what four and a half months. I think

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Speaker 1: I speak for both of us that from being like

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Speaker 1: on Twitter during the game yesterday, the kind of conversations

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Speaker 1: and the kind of engagement on there, in the intensity

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Speaker 1: a game that's in couent, that was that kind of

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Speaker 1: exceeded my expectations.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, there was a lot of passion on the timeline

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Speaker 2: yesterday for an exhibition game, and I think part of

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Speaker 2: that right elized that people are just starving for sports

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Speaker 2: and starving for baseball in general. But it's still the

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Speaker 2: Marlins and it's still an exhibition game. For people to

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Speaker 2: be as excited as they were, you know, inning one

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Speaker 2: that one inning with Conley, it shows you again that

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Speaker 2: there is some foundation of a fan base here that's

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Speaker 2: give them something to be passionate about. So it was great.

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Speaker 2: It was great to have live baseball, and it was

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Speaker 2: great to see the fan base excited.

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Speaker 1: And I mean there's only so much we could take

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Speaker 1: away from these exhibition games themselves, of course, because they

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Speaker 1: don't count. You know, it's the same approach you would

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Speaker 1: take for a spring training game, although it feels a

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Speaker 1: little bit more relevant because we're so close to the

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Speaker 1: regular season. It has been a pretty good preview of

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Speaker 1: the players that will actually be on the opening day

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Speaker 1: roster and have certain roles. And what we've seen with

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Speaker 1: these two games is what seemed to be a pretty

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Speaker 1: lineup is going to look like. And they were slightly

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Speaker 1: different lineups for the first game versus the second game.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into that, it was only a couple

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Speaker 1: of days prior to that that you mentioned an ideal

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Speaker 1: opening day lineup from your perspective, what you think would

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Speaker 1: have been the best way for the team to approach

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Speaker 1: the season, And that's what I wanted to go through

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Speaker 1: with you an opportunity to weigh in on a lot

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Speaker 1: of different players. I'm just gonna read it for the

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Speaker 1: people that didn't see it when you post it. Originally

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Speaker 1: your ideal opening day lineup from a few days ago.

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Speaker 1: So had Jonathan Vr leading off, is the Dhson Diaz

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Speaker 2: So Ison hitting in the second hole is obviously the

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Speaker 2: most controversial thing about this lineup, right aside from Monte

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Speaker 2: and you know, we could talk about service time and

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Speaker 2: Isan hitting second is the one that would never allow

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Speaker 2: And my reasoning for it is also controversial. I know,

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Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of supporters when it comes

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Speaker 2: to two elements of lineup construction. One, I guess I'm

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Speaker 2: it matters who's hitting in front and behind you. I

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Speaker 2: do believe just the psyche of a picture how they're

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Speaker 2: going to attack you. The risk reward is the better

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Speaker 2: you changes depending if you have Brian Anderson behind you

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Speaker 2: versus if you have, with no disrespect to anybody else,

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Speaker 2: I'm Miguel Rojas behind your Magneren Sierra. I will not

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Speaker 2: buy regardless of the data that the picture feels the

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Speaker 2: same way. So that's the first controversial part and why

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Speaker 2: I have he's with a little bit more protection in

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Speaker 2: guess I'm not a traditionalist. So the traditionalists would say

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Speaker 2: also disagree with that. I think you place the prospect

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Speaker 2: or right before their primer, where they're going to hold

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Speaker 2: most value, and then you allow some sink or swim.

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Speaker 2: Basically the opposite of what eventually ended up happening with

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Speaker 2: lollis Bringston. So that's where I placed the san and

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Speaker 2: that's why I placed them in the two holes.

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Speaker 1: Here's san Diaz and he's done it again.

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Speaker 3: You're a fly ball well, hit right there, that'll clear

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Speaker 3: Consecutive games, and as you reference, pretty much all these

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Speaker 1: Obviously with Brian Anderson what he showed last year, the

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Speaker 1: far of being the primary catcher and Rojas eighth the

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Speaker 1: other one that doesn't seem like it's going to go

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Speaker 1: through with the Marlins insisting that well now stating that

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Speaker 1: Monte is not going to be on the opening day

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Speaker 1: surprised that he wasn't included there, and even if he was,

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Speaker 1: it was a little unclear exactly what his playing time

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Speaker 1: the active roster. But I'm wondering how at what level

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Speaker 1: is your dissatisfaction with that decision on a scale of

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Speaker 1: the process and his fit will come later in the year,

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Speaker 1: to ten being outraged, where are you in terms of

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Speaker 2: Yes, so the answer to that is going to include

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Speaker 2: put out this ideal lineup. I can be honest, I

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Speaker 2: had not considered that only six days were left to

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Speaker 2: you're not going to get like the revolutionists harah anger here,

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Speaker 2: because now that I understand it's six days, I'm not

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Speaker 2: I think that the service time manipulation needs to be

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Speaker 2: to do better at giving a little bit more power

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Speaker 2: to the player. But oh mind rebuilding year three. If

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Speaker 2: it's only going to cost you six days for a

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Speaker 2: whole year, I'm not sure that I could validate, even

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Speaker 2: when we talk about the competition, they're not exactly the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: They're not exactly really competing in higherly this year. So

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Speaker 2: I would place it at I would paste that at

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Speaker 2: a whole year of Monte and the value that comes

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Speaker 2: with that for just big days. Do you feel like.

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Speaker 1: You personally are are ready to play every day in

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Speaker 4: It like that one hundred percent. Ie, I've prepared myself mentally,

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Speaker 4: infaisically to be in the big league. Watch the other people.

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Speaker 4: Want to experience this with other people that's been in

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Speaker 4: I'm ready for the big leagues. I actually I don't

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Speaker 1: Well, this is where I push back on you a

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Speaker 1: little bit because while my intensity is it's quite a

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Speaker 1: early thirties. And I mean players we do see some

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Speaker 1: Most are not. Though it is possible to already be

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Speaker 1: be with a lot of conventional top prospects. I guess

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Speaker 1: my bigger area of disagreement is that, of course, the

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Speaker 1: later on. They have thirty spots right now, and they

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Speaker 1: don't have a minor league system set up either, So

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Speaker 1: he's going to be around their other top prospects in Jupiter.

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Speaker 1: But the concerns that maddingly cited for example, or that

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Speaker 1: we just didn't have a role for him to play

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Speaker 1: every single day, yeah, well there are really no other

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Speaker 1: opportunities for him to play every single day in real

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Speaker 1: competition without minor league baseball going on, and that lack

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Speaker 1: of having that viable alternative hang up for me. But

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Speaker 1: more so the fact that you don't have to start

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Speaker 2: Right it could have.

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Speaker 1: Been a situation where he impressed during summer camp. They

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Speaker 1: I feel very guilty about Vessia because it was when

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Speaker 1: just that one swing, you know. Otherwise his outing was fine,

434
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Speaker 1: and people that watched the game know that it was

435
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Speaker 1: other relievers that were guilty of it. But so as

436
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Speaker 1: long as he can bounce back from that, and I'm

437
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Speaker 1: sure he can that, I think that's a pretty good choice.

438
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Speaker 1: And he's someone that doesn't necessarily jump off the page

439
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Speaker 1: in terms of his his raw tools, but just the

440
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Speaker 1: performance that he's had, the way that he pitches work

441
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Speaker 1: off of one another, and the work ethic he has. Yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: he's he profiles pretty well as being that back of

443
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Speaker 1: the ends of a bullpun guy moving up the experienced ladder.

444
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Speaker 1: We're just going to focus on Marlin's players that were

445
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Speaker 1: in the major leagues last year returning Marlins players from

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. You've already mentioned Isan, We talked about him

447
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Speaker 1: briefly early on. He would count in this category just

448
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Speaker 1: any of the guys that have returned from last year.

449
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Speaker 1: Who is your ticket? Do you think that will be

450
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Speaker 1: the most improved player on this team among guys that

451
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Speaker 1: we already saw last year.

452
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to go with Alfaro. I think that

453
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Speaker 2: the James Rolson effect here, the you know, the do

454
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Speaker 2: damage to be aggressive, fits really nicely with the pop

455
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Speaker 2: and quite frankly with what seems to be his mindset

456
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Speaker 2: at the plate of Alfaro. I'm not going to pretend

457
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Speaker 2: to know what Alfro and Ralson have spoken about or

458
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: have been trying to develop in their private, you know,

459
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Speaker 2: meetings and training, but I would imagine that if there's

460
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Speaker 2: someone who can truly truly take a next step, specifically

461
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Speaker 2: because of Ralston and his ability to get in a

462
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Speaker 2: player's head or in a hitter's head and develop a

463
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Speaker 2: game plan together, it's gonna be Alfie behind behind the plate.

464
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Speaker 2: So that's that's definitely my choice. With the understanding that

465
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Speaker 2: you would be a sexy choice to pick here as well,

466
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Speaker 2: but it's gonna go without borrow.

467
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Speaker 1: I believe I'm the only one when this article comes

468
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Speaker 1: out that went with Pablo Lopez, considering last year was

469
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Speaker 1: kind of a step back from him from his rookie season,

470
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Speaker 1: but being fully healthy right now, he's adding a cutter

471
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Speaker 1: to his pitch mix and understanding that he was somewhat

472
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Speaker 1: unlucky with the results that he got last year. That's

473
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Speaker 1: gonna be my guy. That's my guy.

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Speaker 2: That that's a good one.

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Speaker 5: That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, frankly, he was mediocre in his appearances last year,

477
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Speaker 1: but I think people that were paying close attention to

478
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Speaker 1: know a lot of that was that one disaster game,

479
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Speaker 1: that one disaster ending I think against Mets where they

480
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Speaker 1: left him in and I pounded and pounded and said

481
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Speaker 1: a lot of time to rethink things, to reharness his

482
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Speaker 1: building and to actually make some tangible adjustments. So I

483
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Speaker 1: look forward to seeing him in what he could do

484
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Speaker 1: this year. You al, really there's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: over right here because you recently appeared on one of

486
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Speaker 1: our favorite pods, Fish Across the Ponds, and you finish

487
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Speaker 1: up that episode by making a record prediction for the

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Speaker 1: Marlins this year. But I know you, Danny, and I

489
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Speaker 1: know that you can be as we get close to

490
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Speaker 1: this season, that optimism keeps building and building and building

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Speaker 1: inside of you. You told Fish across the ponds, you

492
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Speaker 1: told Peter that most likely Marlin's record prediction from you

493
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Speaker 1: would be like twenty six and thirty four, twenty seven

494
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Speaker 1: and thirty three. Are you a couple of days later,

495
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Speaker 1: are you still standing by that as most likely record

496
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Speaker 1: prediction or do you have a slight change to that?

497
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Speaker 2: So you know me? Well, okay, you know my optimism

498
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Speaker 2: radar gets a little bit higher as we get closer,

499
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Speaker 2: But no, I'm still sicking to it. I think I

500
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Speaker 2: think the strength of schedule is just too much going

501
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Speaker 2: against the AL East and the NL East. It's just

502
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Speaker 2: too much. And again this will be a little overlap,

503
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Speaker 2: but it's worth noting. I also truly do believe that

504
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Speaker 2: with the roster that has been constructed for this year,

505
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Speaker 2: with the Dickerson and the Aggyar and the added gays

506
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Speaker 2: in the VR, I really do believe if you gave

507
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Speaker 2: us a different strength of schedule, which of course is

508
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Speaker 2: on realistic in COVID times, I would be much more

509
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Speaker 2: optimistic of saying five hundred or better baseball. It's a

510
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Speaker 2: competent roster. I truly believe that. But no level of

511
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Speaker 2: Danny optimism is going to take me away from the

512
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Speaker 2: fact that we are going up against the Rays and

513
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Speaker 2: the Yankees and the entire na least and yes, the

514
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Speaker 2: depleted Boston Red Sox. But it's still I believe you're

515
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Speaker 2: the worst or the second worst strength of schedule in baseball.

516
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Speaker 2: So I'm sticking with my twenty seven or twenty six wins,

517
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Speaker 2: and I will be very happy for anything that goes

518
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Speaker 2: above that, and quite frankly, if it's significantly below that,

519
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Speaker 2: then go give me one of those stud pictures in

520
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Speaker 2: the draft next year and I'll be happy there too.

521
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Speaker 2: But yep, gonna stick with twenty six and twenty seven

522
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Speaker 2: on this money line.

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Speaker 1: Well, what is going to be my quick follow up

524
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Speaker 1: to this? Is there any scenario where you would find

525
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Speaker 1: yourself disappointed with what happens that season? Seeing that the

526
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Speaker 1: downside to it, You know, if they are a terrible team,

527
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Speaker 1: hurt by inexperience, hurt by their strength of schedule, that

528
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Speaker 1: they get one of those aforementioned high draft picks this

529
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Speaker 1: coming year that that'd be a nice consolation prize to

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Speaker 1: get from that. Is there any scenario that you would

531
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Speaker 1: consider this season of failure? Is there anything that would happen?

532
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Speaker 1: Is there any on the field. Let's just stick with

533
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Speaker 1: all the field, because we obviously can't control anything, any scandal,

534
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Speaker 1: any controversy, We can't anticipate that off the field. But

535
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Speaker 1: is there any situation that would leave you disappointed with

536
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Speaker 1: this Marlin season that you can think of?

537
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're still year three of a rebuilt right, this

538
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: is still the time where you're supposed to be turning

539
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Speaker 2: a corner. And to turn a corner, you need to

540
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Speaker 2: be able to have your prospect and your younger talent

541
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Speaker 2: begin to develop. Just is what it is. Twenty twenty

542
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Speaker 2: one should be at least the beginning of kind of

543
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Speaker 2: like cracking that open window of a competitive window. That

544
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Speaker 2: doesn't happen, or you don't have confidence going into twenty

545
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Speaker 2: twenty one if we do not see some developmental growth

546
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Speaker 2: of Aneath Sandias, if we do not see some plateau

547
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Speaker 2: or growth of a sandy out contra or of the

548
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Speaker 2: Pablo Lopez and the rest of the young talent that

549
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Speaker 2: we've seen in a sixty game season. Anything can happen

550
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Speaker 2: in a sixty game season. Win loss record is very variable.

551
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Speaker 2: But what shouldn't be forgiven is if our prospect in

552
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Speaker 2: our young talent does not continue to develop. If not,

553
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Speaker 2: then you're asking Sherman to open up the wallet. If not,

554
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: you're looking elsewhere. If not, some of those trades begins

555
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: to look poorly done instead of just adequate or better.

556
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Speaker 2: So my answer is absolutely there's a failure to this year,

557
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Speaker 2: and it starts with the young talent if they don't

558
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Speaker 2: develop the way we should. In year three of a rebold.

559
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Speaker 1: We're with Danny Martinez here on fish bites and we're

560
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Speaker 1: gonna get him out of here pretty soon. A couple

561
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Speaker 1: more topics we're going to go through here. A couple

562
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Speaker 1: of days prior to opening Day for the Marlins, wanted

563
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Speaker 1: to do some transaction analysis, and there's been a lot

564
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Speaker 1: to analyze because the Marlins have made so many moves,

565
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Speaker 1: almost a complete turnover, both at the major league level

566
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Speaker 1: and with so much other farm system over the last

567
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Speaker 1: couple of years. I wanted to start off by getting

568
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Speaker 1: what you think, what is, in your opinion, the most

569
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Speaker 1: successful move of any kind that you feel they have

570
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Speaker 1: made since new ownership took over after the twenty twenty

571
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Speaker 1: seventeen season, A move that has yielded some major league results,

572
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Speaker 1: one that you see as being a great value in

573
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Speaker 1: terms of what they gave up. Like, what do you

574
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Speaker 1: point to so far that really gives you confidence about

575
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Speaker 1: this front office's ability to win to when whether it's

576
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Speaker 1: trades or really efficient signings. I guess you don't have

577
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Speaker 1: to pick exactly one, but what do you think has

578
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Speaker 1: worked out the most so far? Specific examples of what

579
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Speaker 1: has worked at the most, and it gives you confidence

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Speaker 1: about the way that this team operates.

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Speaker 2: Now, if we had to choose just one move, I

582
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Speaker 2: actually think it's the Ozuna move. But I think it's

583
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Speaker 2: a part of the Ozuna move that I want to

584
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Speaker 2: highlight here. I want to highlight the fact that, for

585
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Speaker 2: whatever reason, ironically enough, this organization might be better at finding

586
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Speaker 2: gems in trades than getting the right priority centerpiece for

587
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Speaker 2: a trade. And we see that with Dak Gallen coming

588
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Speaker 2: back in that trade. No one knew who that Gallon was.

589
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Speaker 2: Even the higher you know, fangraft type of places still

590
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Speaker 2: had questions about Zach Gallen. And now Zach Gallen has

591
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Speaker 2: obviously developed into what he developed into and then flipped

592
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Speaker 2: for what I truly do believe is a superstar feeling

593
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Speaker 2: in a jazzism which has his own doubts in his

594
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Speaker 2: own rights. But still then we see that with Nick Anderson,

595
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Speaker 2: we see that with Trevor Richards identifying these gems and

596
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Speaker 2: then being able to utilize that value to get a

597
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Speaker 2: Hey Su Sanchez, to be able to even later on

598
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Speaker 2: with getting Sergioma to come in get la Win Diaz.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's see under the radar moves. I've

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Speaker 2: learned very quickly with this organization. You shouldn't just kind

601
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Speaker 2: of turn your cheek to any of the small moves

602
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Speaker 2: that you think are small, because without Nick Anderson we

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Speaker 2: don't have Heyesu Sanchez precise or possibly so, I think

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing here is being able to highlight and

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Speaker 2: scout and identify and acquire the gems.

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Speaker 1: And on a similar note, I mean one that you

607
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Speaker 1: didn't mention, but I'm sure we've talked about a lot before,

608
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Speaker 1: is how they were able to One of the very

609
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Speaker 1: first moves they made after the ownership chains was to

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Speaker 1: deal with the Yankees trading away a little known prospect

611
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Speaker 1: in Michael King and getting both Caleb Smith and Garrett

612
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Speaker 1: Cooper back in return into guys that were totally expendable

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Speaker 1: for the Yankees that were being squeezed off of their

614
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Speaker 1: forty man roster to the Marlins that the Yankees at

615
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Speaker 1: that point felt they were essentially giving away. And how

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Speaker 1: both those guys have shown a lot of flashes of production.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there was at one point, if twenty nineteen

618
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Speaker 1: was only a sixty game season, Caleb Smith would have

619
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Speaker 1: been one of the better starters in the league. And

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Speaker 1: there was also that same point in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season where Garrett Cooper was the hottest

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Speaker 1: hitter in the Yankees lineup. And the sample size that

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Speaker 1: both those guys are still really small. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: both in their ret now, in their late twenties, but

625
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Speaker 1: when I see like those short bursts of excellence from them,

626
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Speaker 1: that's something that me when when I'm analyzing players, if

627
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Speaker 1: you've shown like that level of high, high level performance.

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Speaker 5: Favorite home run this year courtesy of Garrett Cooper, who

629
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Speaker 5: sends one deep to the left center field that's gone

630
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Speaker 5: a solo hover for Garrett Cooper.

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Speaker 2: His eleven.

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Speaker 1: That could be tapped into in the future, that there

633
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Speaker 1: is a path to them getting even better than they

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Speaker 1: were last year when Cooper was more or less an

635
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Speaker 1: average everyday player, and when Caleb of course had that

636
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Speaker 1: amazing hot streak, and even when he regressed later in

637
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Speaker 1: the year partially due to injury, if not mostly due

638
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: to injury, that he was on pace to be a

639
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Speaker 1: solid middle of the rotation type of guy. And I

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Speaker 1: mean this comes in light of the news that Michael

641
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Speaker 1: King is now going to be on the Yankees opening

642
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Speaker 1: day roster. He could have a long career ahead of them.

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Speaker 1: But considering where they were at that time, where they

644
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: really just needed to fill places on the depth chart

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Speaker 1: for that twenty eighteen team and now they played much

646
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Speaker 1: bigger roles in twenty nineteen, both in line to play

647
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Speaker 1: big in twenty twenty. That's when that I just couldn't

648
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Speaker 1: say enough praise about how they were able to identify

649
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Speaker 1: those guys based on things that didn't show up. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have major league track record at the time at

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Speaker 1: all when those trades were made, and yet like turning

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Speaker 1: them into something real. And I guess the jury is

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Speaker 1: still add on that a little bit to see whether

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Speaker 1: either of those guys still have a higher level that

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Speaker 1: they can reach. But that's one I'm super encouraged about.

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Speaker 1: On a related note, we wanted to look at guys

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Speaker 1: that haven't reached the major leagues yet particular moves. These

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Speaker 1: would be, I guess the super recent moves, the ones

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Speaker 1: where they either gave up a substantial major league asset

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Speaker 1: or whether it was with some of these recent draft picks.

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Speaker 1: One I guess. Once again, I won't limit you to

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Speaker 1: just one particular move, but if there's one in terms

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Speaker 1: of one of these recently acquired prospects that they had

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Speaker 1: that you feel most confident is going to be successful,

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Speaker 1: someone that we haven't seen at the major league level yet,

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Speaker 1: and that it doesn't necessarily have to be a guy

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Speaker 1: that will come up this year, but once that you

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Speaker 1: feel we're steel a great value that this team got

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Speaker 1: and that you're especially high.

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Speaker 2: On the beauty of the Marlins the last year is

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Speaker 2: they've added so much young and now I'm talking young

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Speaker 2: like teenager, young talent in the ISA, the international free

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Speaker 2: agency and through the draft that you and I could

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Speaker 2: spend a whole show on that, I'll choose one guy

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Speaker 2: I think Jackson Fulton is a first round talent that

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Speaker 2: they were able to get this year, maybe some injury

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Speaker 2: concerns and obviously along ways away from ever pitching at

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Speaker 2: Marlin's Park, but that pick itself was beautiful. That pick

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Speaker 2: almost got me more excited and most of us more

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Speaker 2: excited because we didn't think that Maximi was going to

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Speaker 2: be the pick than Max. But that pick was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: So I love that you and I could talk for

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Speaker 2: an hour and a half on the draft being and

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Speaker 2: the international free agents. But mine is always still going

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Speaker 2: to be my favorite guy. Again, I spoke about it

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Speaker 2: with the crew from England or from the UK, but

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Speaker 2: the acquisition of Diaz, I truly believe he will be

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Speaker 2: a cornerstone first baseman for the Marlin And you know

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Speaker 2: where I'm what I'm gonna say next. This is the

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Speaker 2: guy I identified two years ago that I wanted on

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Speaker 2: the Fish. I wanted him to be the Rule five

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Speaker 2: draft pick. I wanted them to acquire him in the

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Speaker 2: off season, and then finally on my honeymoon, they acquire

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Speaker 2: him for Sergio Romo. He is He is truly, in

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Speaker 2: my heart going to be a superstar at first base

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Speaker 2: with significant pop and a good glove as well. Now

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Speaker 2: apparently Joe Cursorrows is they're playing him in the outfield too,

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Speaker 2: so some versatility, but Laylan's going to be a guy.

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Speaker 2: Lane's going to be a guy, and if there's one choice,

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Speaker 2: that's that's the choice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm totally on board with him too. Just an

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Speaker 1: incredible season that he had in the miners last year,

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Speaker 1: and as you said, you picked him out even before

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Speaker 1: this quote unquote returned to like a high level of performance.

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Speaker 1: He had that high prospect pedigree ever since he entered

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Speaker 1: pro ball, and then his stock dipped so much in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. He had some struggles, he had some injuries,

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Speaker 1: he had I think a season ending wrist injury that year,

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Speaker 1: and he was available for everybody. I mean, how often

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Speaker 1: does that happen when you have a guy like this

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Speaker 1: that was unprotected in his first year of Rule five

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Speaker 1: eligibility and nobody got him, and now he can end

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Speaker 1: up in this kind of situation. I hope we see

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Speaker 1: him really soon because he's it's it's a performance and

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Speaker 1: it's the work ethic as well, because a big difference Mate,

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Speaker 1: that really contributed to what he is right now as

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Speaker 1: a player is what he did with his physique and

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Speaker 1: how he trimmed out a lot of bad weight put

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Speaker 1: on a lot of good weight, and that just allowed

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Speaker 1: him to tap into that amazing skill that he has

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Speaker 1: even a little bit more. But we have a full

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Speaker 1: season here on deck for the Marvel full season with

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Speaker 1: the entire season. It's not a pole. We have an

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Speaker 1: entire season of base on the entire sixty games of

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Speaker 1: us on deck that would have been for a while.

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Speaker 1: And I know you're gonna be around to follow every

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Speaker 1: moment of it, and of course we're gonna be doing

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Speaker 1: so here on Fish Stripes and on Friday it all

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Speaker 1: gets started in Philadelphia. Danny. We're gonna have you back

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Speaker 1: in the future, of course, and we're gonna have our

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Speaker 1: correspondence pretty much every single day on Twitter, I imagine as

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Speaker 1: this moves forward. And thank you for coming on the pod. Brother.

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Speaker 2: This is great, absolutely, man, it's a pleasure, and.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have plenty of coverage coming for you this

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Speaker 1: season as it gets going, from me and from everybody

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Speaker 1: else here on our Fish Stripes team. So until then,

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Speaker 1: keep listening, guys. Make sure you're subscribe for all the

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Speaker 1: latest episodes. Check out shows on the podcast channel not

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Speaker 1: just me earning their stripes is still going, Marlin's Barbecue

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Speaker 1: is heating up with red Garcia and Alex Contraris, So

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