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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans, and welcome this edition a big Fish

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Speaker 1: Small Pod four Thursday April twenty fifth, two thy twenty

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Speaker 1: four And if you are new to the Small Pod,

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Speaker 1: episode of big Fish Small Pod, we will be detailing

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Speaker 1: the start for nobel Meyer for this season. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be doing a little series covering some of the

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Speaker 1: top prospects for the Mormons and how they've been doing

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Speaker 1: so far to start the year. And of course you

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Speaker 1: have to start with the number one guy and the

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Speaker 1: majority of the albums, if not all of them. Nobel

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Speaker 1: Meyer first round pick last season twenty twenty three, tenth

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Speaker 1: overall pick. Nobel Meyer has had a very rocky start

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Speaker 1: to his minor league professional season so far in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. You could just see right there his stat

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Speaker 1: line and only nine innings, but again three starts in

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Speaker 1: eight era full noble Meyer, which is something you really

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Speaker 1: don't want to see from your number one overall guy

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Speaker 1: in the form system. And to go about how nobel

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Speaker 1: Meyer has been doing, we could start off with the

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Speaker 1: first game, his first game of the season April six,

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Speaker 1: three and two third innings, three hits, two earned runs,

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Speaker 1: That game, he had seventy nine pitches he threw that

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Speaker 1: he really he only threw three types of pitches of

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Speaker 1: that game. Fifty seven of them were sinker, eight change up,

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Speaker 1: fourteen sladers. So he's really focusing on that sinker, developing it,

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Speaker 1: making sure it could be a repertoire that he can

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Speaker 1: you really look at his speed and where he topped

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Speaker 1: out and where maybe could have used a little bit

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Speaker 1: of work. The majority of his pitches were above ninety

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Speaker 1: miles poor, including a sinker which got to a max

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Speaker 1: of ninety five point one miles an hour for noble Meyer,

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Speaker 1: and most of his sinkers are in that range. You

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Speaker 1: want to go to his to his change up, and

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Speaker 1: to his slider. Again all fell below eighty five miles out,

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Speaker 1: but relatively a good start for noble Meyer. That game,

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Speaker 1: his sinker averaged about ninety two to ninety three, relatively

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Speaker 1: pretty good there for noble Mayer. And you want to

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Speaker 1: look at his slider eighty two. But just one thing

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Speaker 1: for noble Meyer that's just been very difficult for him

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Speaker 1: to really start this season is his control. You look

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Speaker 1: at that first game, thirty nine pitches were outside of

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Speaker 1: the strike zone to just thirty six that were swung

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Speaker 1: at by batters on his pitches. But to have thirty

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Speaker 1: nine pitches outside of the zone and forty were in

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Speaker 1: have from your top prospect. You'd like to see more

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Speaker 1: in the strike zone. I can understand, yes, he's trying

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Speaker 1: to throw stuff away, but thirty nine out of out

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Speaker 1: of seventy nine pitches is not what you want from

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Speaker 1: your top guy in there. His first game. Again, you

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Speaker 1: can always go oh, Jitter's first game, but overall, not

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Speaker 1: a really great performance his first game there from noble

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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and look at his next game for

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Speaker 1: a noble Meyer. A couple of days after April thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: his worst start in his professional career easily for him.

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Speaker 1: He did not get through a full inning, two thirds

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Speaker 1: was really hurting him is his walking. Is the amount

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Speaker 1: of walks. He had four walks, and you want to

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Speaker 1: look at the entirety so far this season, nine walks

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Speaker 1: to only eight strikeouts. His control is getting the better

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Speaker 1: of him, and he's a really great player, even better person,

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Speaker 1: but just to control that. He's had ten hits, given

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Speaker 1: up eight earned runs, and when you have that amount

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Speaker 1: going to hinder him or again, he's only nineteen years old,

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Speaker 1: A level, but it's something that noble Meyer will just

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Speaker 1: have to get through again. If you're going to help

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Speaker 1: But again, that was a very bad start from Noble

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Speaker 1: Meyer to the point it was only thirty seven pitches

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Speaker 1: not what you want to see. Again, three types of

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Speaker 1: Not what do you want to see there. His sinker

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Speaker 1: did have more average, had a better average than it

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Speaker 1: to see there. But again with Noble it's just pitches

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Speaker 1: That just tells you how many walks he's had, how

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Speaker 1: many walks he had this game just not what you

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Speaker 1: want to see from Noblemyer. Something that he has to

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Speaker 1: get through. He has to change that up. He cannot

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Speaker 1: maybe he could succeed as a pitcher. He had to

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Speaker 1: throw it inside the strike zone. You have to make

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Speaker 1: sure to get out. He did not get a lot

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Speaker 1: or if any in that start. But Noble Mayrier, I

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Speaker 1: something that has to change in terms of him walking

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Speaker 1: to be as a pitcher. But again, still nineteen. But

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Speaker 1: that was a very rocky start for the young Noble Meyer.

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Speaker 1: And let's go to his most recent start April twentieth,

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Speaker 1: again somewhat rocky there. He's having a hard time with

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Speaker 1: two thirds of an inning, five hits, three earn runs,

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Speaker 1: good three four to two. You can limit just two

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Speaker 1: walks every four and two third innings and three strikeouts. Again,

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Speaker 1: has to get some more guys striking out. But again

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Speaker 1: Meyer again really relying heavily on that sinker forty eight

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Speaker 1: So really getting that curveball in there and testing that

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Speaker 1: succeed again. Forty eight pitches on the sinker already, slider,

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Speaker 1: one in terms of average. But overall for noble Meyer

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Speaker 1: it has not been the best starts to his season.

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Speaker 1: again using a high round, a high pick last season

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Speaker 1: to draft him. But with Noblemeyer, it really just depends

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Speaker 1: on his control that can really hinder the development of

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Speaker 1: a picture. We've seen it. We've seen it with Eddie Cabrera.

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Speaker 1: If Eddie Cabrera could not walk guys or just half

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Speaker 1: his amount of walks in the start, he can easily

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what needs to happen with Noble Mayer. Again,

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Speaker 1: has to improve his ability to control. Again, work up

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Speaker 1: we can really trust his sinker, but making sure that

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Speaker 1: he's throwing it in the zone and not walking as

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Speaker 1: many guys. Again, you can always throw outside the strike

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