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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans, and welcome to this edition a Big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod four Thursday, March twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: a date it was yesterday with news with the biggest

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Speaker 1: news coming out of Cragmish that the Marlins did trade

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Speaker 1: John Birdie to the New York Yankees. It was a

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Speaker 1: three team deal also bobbing the Tampa Bay Rays in

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Speaker 1: the Marlins even John Cruise, the twenty eighth ranked prospect

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Speaker 1: in the Yankee system outfielder, and Shane Sasaki, outfielder from

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays. Wow, this deal came very surprisingly

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Speaker 1: to a lot of us. I would say really so

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Speaker 1: because how close it was to opening day and what

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Speaker 1: it meant for the Marlins losing someone and John Birdie,

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Speaker 1: who was a veteran who's a leader in that clubhouse

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Speaker 1: at right before being treated. He is, or what I

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Speaker 1: should say was the longest tenured position player on the

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Speaker 1: Marlins to now being traded to the New York Yankees,

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Speaker 1: where it looks like John Birdy will be the starting

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Speaker 1: third basement for the Yankees. They have some infield, some problems.

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Speaker 1: They have a little bit of a third base. What

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Speaker 1: John Birdy will give him for more that utility flexibility

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Speaker 1: could play all over the field for them in New York.

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Speaker 1: But Marlons wise, it seemed like John Birdy was almost

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Speaker 1: an odd man out. He was due three point six

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Speaker 1: million dollars, which might be a little too rich for

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Speaker 1: the Marlins taste. And they did have guys who could

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Speaker 1: play similar positions like John Birdy had got Exaber Edwards

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Speaker 1: who's injured right now, but that's someone who could fill

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Speaker 1: in that John Birdie role. Nick Gordon could play all

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Speaker 1: over the field. And you also have Vidal Bruhan who

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Speaker 1: they did trade earlier in the off season. Four I

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Speaker 1: also with the Tampa Bay Rays with John Birdy, he

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Speaker 1: is getting up there in age thirty four years old.

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Speaker 1: The speed is not going to be either how it

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Speaker 1: was before in his career where he was the stolen

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Speaker 1: base tramp not too long ago. But I would say

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Speaker 1: he was very successful specifically the last two years. If

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Speaker 1: you go by Baseball reference, two point four war in

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Speaker 1: each of the last two seasons. Four point four war

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Speaker 1: just in those two years for John Birdy, which you

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Speaker 1: look at some players for them Larlens, that would rank

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Speaker 1: pretty highly for them. For John Birdie. You know who's

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Speaker 1: gonna fill that spot mentioned before Zaber Edwards gets back

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Speaker 1: from injury. You have someone Nick Gordon, you have Vidal Bruhan.

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Speaker 1: Jonah'bride looks to make the rosters now favorite to fill

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Speaker 1: John Birdie's spot in the in the opening day roster

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins. Someone again. The Marlins got him from

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Speaker 1: the Oakland Athletics not too long ago in this offseason

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Speaker 1: and for him Jonah Brian again looks like he's gonna

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Speaker 1: make the roster fill in that John Birdie roll. Younger

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Speaker 1: than John Birdie and you look at his statistics. Jonah

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Speaker 1: Bride last season really it was more you could say

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Speaker 1: luck pace. He wasn't as lucky as maybe his numbers

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Speaker 1: should have been. But the Marlins are looking like Jonah

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Speaker 1: Bride can maybe fill in to that John Berdie role,

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Speaker 1: and they maybe they feel like they have multiple guys

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Speaker 1: who can beat like John Birdie again, all those guys

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Speaker 1: I mentioned can plain multiple positions, and maybe the Marlins

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Speaker 1: feel like they can have John Birdy light in a

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Speaker 1: way with those players and won't cost as nearly as

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Speaker 1: much as they want to spend in three point six

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Speaker 1: million dollars. But from John Birdy, let's go ahead and

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Speaker 1: quickly talk about these two prospects for the Marlins. To

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Speaker 1: losing all those guys John Birdy, they are getting John

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Speaker 1: Cruise from the New York Yankees. And John Cruise very young,

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Speaker 1: and I mean extremely young. He's only eighteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Just a kid, John Cruise's. But he did have a

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Speaker 1: fairly good season last year in the FCL. With John

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Speaker 1: Cruse again, you're gonna get a little bit of power there.

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Speaker 1: Just looking at some of his numbers, ten home runs

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Speaker 1: and only a one hundred and seventy haven't at bats

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Speaker 1: nice numbers there? Average was there at two ninety four.

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Speaker 1: It was really projected him to be almost as a

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Speaker 1: breakout candidate in the Yankee system. He was rated relatively

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Speaker 1: highly for someone who just got into major who got

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Speaker 1: and just really playing two professional seasons, signing with the

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Speaker 1: Marlins from the Dominican Republic, and you look at his

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Speaker 1: Florida Complex League numbers in twenty twenty three, one thirty

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Speaker 1: only forty eight games. Again with those one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy seven at bats, and you look at him in

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Speaker 1: the hammer head there, just filling out a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the roster there. See, if you get improved on

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Speaker 1: his season last season, maybe he can go up the

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Speaker 1: levels relatively quickly. This is the guy against the Yankees

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Speaker 1: organization has been known to have some pretty good hitters

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Speaker 1: in their farm system, and if this guy can continue

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Speaker 1: that trend with the Yankees over here with the Marlons,

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Speaker 1: then maybe it might have been a good trade. But again,

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at it right away, it might not

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Speaker 1: go so much in favor with the Marlins just because

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Speaker 1: you're trading a guy who has so much Major League

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Speaker 1: experience has been so helpful for the team for the

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Speaker 1: last five seasons. For a guy who was only eighteen

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Speaker 1: years old. To go from that, let's go to Shane Sasaki,

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Speaker 1: twenty three years old, posts one thirty w RC plus

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Speaker 1: at hi A last season for him. This is the

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Speaker 1: guy who's older again, way older than John Cruz. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty three years old, and with Shane Sasaki you are

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Speaker 1: getting that older experience again in hya A last season,

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Speaker 1: seven home runs, thirty nine RBIs, walk thirty times, but

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Speaker 1: also struck out sixty five times, twelve stolen bases, has

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Speaker 1: eight forty can really slug the baseball with a four

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Speaker 1: low A a couple of years back for ninety seven

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Speaker 1: slugging in about three hundred and forty six at bats.

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Speaker 1: So this is the guy who could potentially move up

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Speaker 1: the levels fairly quickly and someone you can even see

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Speaker 1: in maybe a year or so, just what he could

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Speaker 1: do with the bat hit for average. Again, you look

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Speaker 1: at a couple of years ago twenty twenty two, really

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Speaker 1: great seasons for him a three twenty four average in

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Speaker 1: those eighty nine games played, but career WRC plus one

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Speaker 1: three two will most likely starting double A Pensacola. But

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins, losing John Birdy is gonna hurt someone

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Speaker 1: in his leadership. What he does for this clubhouse, for

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Speaker 1: this team, not just down the field, but off if

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Speaker 1: it could really important when guys were injured last season,

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Speaker 1: John Berdy played multiple positions, maybe sometimes positions where he

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Speaker 1: wasn't I don't want to say ready, but maybe so

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Speaker 1: didn't have the ability to play those positions full time.

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Speaker 1: We look at a shortstop positioning. John Birdy was coming

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Speaker 1: into last season as relatively the main shortstop at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. Progressed with John Birdy one oh

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Speaker 1: three ops plus for him last season. Really great. Sean Brady,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be sad to see him go. All of

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Speaker 1: us here at fish On first wist John Brady nothing

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Speaker 1: but the best in his Yankees career and so on.

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Speaker 1: Amazing to watch John Birdy. It does suck to see

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Speaker 1: him go, but we'll be happy to watch him succeed.

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