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

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Speaker 1: podcast channel on the last Sussman, the managing editor of

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Speaker 1: Fish Stripes, where we covered the Miami Marlins every single

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Speaker 1: day in our own way recording this show coming off

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Speaker 1: a sweep, only the second time all year that the

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Speaker 1: Marlins have swept a series against anybody, and just like

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Speaker 1: the previous one way back in early May against the Diamondbacks,

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Speaker 1: this one happened at home at Lone Depot Park. It

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Speaker 1: puts the Marlins in sole possession of fourth place in

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Speaker 1: the National League East, which they have not been since

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Speaker 1: very early in the season, vaulting ahead of the free

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Speaker 1: falling Washington Nationals. We're going to get into this past

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Speaker 1: weekend that put them in that position because it's a

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Speaker 1: very rare stretch of high quality, well not quite highly

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Speaker 1: successful baseball for the Marlin. It's not so sure about

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Speaker 1: high quality as we'll get into. First reminder to rate

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Speaker 1: Depot Park. A lot of festivities going on, Puerto Rican

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Speaker 1: Heritage Night, bark at the park where you bring your

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Speaker 1: Probably not what it would have been if the Cubs

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Speaker 1: were still a relevant team, but that roster is unrecognizable

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Speaker 1: from where it was when these teams we have previously

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Speaker 1: met early in the year in Wrigley. They made that big.

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Speaker 1: They kind of pulled off the band aid on their

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Speaker 1: old cores and made those trades all at once in

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Speaker 1: one flurry. And a lot of the players they've called

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Speaker 1: up in their plays not exactly highly regarded top prospects. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: a lot of members, especially of their pitching staff, that

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Speaker 1: on what's going on with every team, and I had

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Speaker 1: really no insight into some of these players, and as

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Speaker 1: it turns out, many of them did not really endear

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Speaker 1: themselves much during this performance. Over these three games. We're

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Speaker 1: going to go through them one by one because there

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Speaker 1: are plenty of positives, but also, you know, some red

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Speaker 1: flag some disappointments along the way. With this Marlins team,

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Speaker 1: we're at a point in the season where I want

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Speaker 1: to celebrate the fact that they're on this winning streak,

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Speaker 1: which matches their longest winning streak of the season. They

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Speaker 1: any point, so they'll have a chance to do something

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Speaker 1: unprecedented on Monday against the Braves. But despite that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the main focus at this time of year is figuring

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Speaker 1: out which of these players really matter to the future

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Speaker 1: of the organization, particularly in twenty twenty two and beyond.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, the highest scoring game at Lone Depot Park

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Speaker 1: all year, fourteen to ten over the Cubs. To me, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest story of this game, you might

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Speaker 1: want to say, of course, was eleven runs scored in

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Speaker 1: the second inning, which ties a franchise record for the

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Speaker 1: biggest single ending rally in Marlin's history. But the biggest

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Speaker 1: Is hayeshus Lozardo struggling and what was my opinion his

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Speaker 1: worst outing as Marlin. He's going backwards in terms of

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Speaker 1: Then he went to Coors Field. That was ugly, but

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Speaker 1: It was really not good. He again did not have

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Speaker 2: And do not chase it. Far out of the zone.

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Speaker 1: And his next matchup as things are currently lineup, would

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Speaker 2: But when he was.

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Speaker 1: Early on in this one, remember the Marlins have fell

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Speaker 1: because Lozardo just was not very effective right now. Through

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Speaker 1: Lozardo is old friend Caleb Smith. There's nobody else in

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Speaker 2: This one's got a chance. This one is gone.

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Speaker 1: Brian Delacruz another big game. He had the grand slam

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Speaker 3: Three two, Yeah, this one is shot out to the field.

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Speaker 1: This is the right side and the right shade. He

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Speaker 1: He was somebody that right off the bat very first

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Speaker 1: it's not the only thing that matters, but it is

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Speaker 1: a very important thing. Dela Cruz looks like an absolute

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Speaker 1: Saturday five to four win over the Cubs. Zach Thompson,

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Speaker 1: This was one of the better games for his change

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Speaker 1: Thompson on my prospects list that I put out earlier

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Speaker 1: I think I've kind of seen this misunderstanding from people

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Speaker 1: But the true talent behind that is not all that

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Speaker 1: That's a conversation for another day. They end up blowing

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Speaker 1: So in this one, he put a few runners on

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Speaker 1: one of them scored on what was a basis clearing

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Speaker 1: So in this one, if you saw, it was with

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Speaker 1: it was him in this position, based on what we

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Speaker 1: saw from how he managed both Floro and Anthony Bass

440
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Speaker 1: at times during that stint, I think he would have

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Speaker 1: gone to Bender for a third day in a row.

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Speaker 1: With Mattingly, he is so reluctant to do that with

443
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Speaker 1: just about everybody to go to the same pitcher three

444
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Speaker 1: days in a row, especially if they've pitched full innings

445
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Speaker 1: on the previous days. So Bender seemingly unavailable except for

446
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Speaker 1: like crazy emergency situation and said they had Bass stretched

447
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Speaker 1: out for the end of the seventh and the eighth inning.

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Speaker 2: They go to Flora. In the ninth. First two batters

449
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Speaker 2: reach against.

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Speaker 1: Flora, one on a kind of a well placed ground ball,

451
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Speaker 1: the other one on a long at bat where he

452
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Speaker 1: just was not able to put the guy away. And

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Speaker 1: this just goes back to Floro's general lack of ability

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Speaker 1: to get those whiffs. He is well below average in

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Speaker 1: terms of getting swings and misses on pitches, and that

456
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Speaker 1: is what almost turned this into a disaster because it

457
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Speaker 1: ends up in a very long walk. So they had

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Speaker 1: two on in the inning, and he had thrown like

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Speaker 1: fifteen pitches and hadn't gone anywhere yet. From there, he

460
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Speaker 1: really dug down and found that swing and miss stuff.

461
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Speaker 1: The rest of that ending was extremely impressive, bearing that

462
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Speaker 1: change up low, elevating the fastball in perfect spots where

463
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Speaker 1: they couldn't really put in play in the mid nineties.

464
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Speaker 1: His fastball d low in this game was almost as

465
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Speaker 1: high as it had been at any other point of

466
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Speaker 1: the season. He gets it done, but this just shows

467
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Speaker 1: kind of a limitation in his game. Even when he

468
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Speaker 1: really has his good stuff and is feeling right, it's

469
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Speaker 1: just not quite closer quality in my opinion. This is

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Speaker 1: something again we'll revisit in an article coming up on

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Speaker 1: fish drives dot Com. With him, Paul Campbell ends up

472
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Speaker 1: getting the win. This is something that I mentioned when

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Speaker 1: Campbell was coming back from his suspension. Initially, I wasn't

474
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Speaker 1: sure whether he would come back at all, depending on

475
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Speaker 1: how the front office feels about his alibi for why

476
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Speaker 1: he was caught with performance enhancing drugs. They ultimately stick

477
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Speaker 1: with him. He looked pretty good during his rehab assignment.

478
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Speaker 1: It is translated to the majors. I guess, so he

479
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Speaker 1: only faced a couple hitters in this one to get

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Speaker 1: out of that sixth ending, and the last out he

481
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Speaker 1: got was a loud fly ball, so I don't want to.

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Speaker 2: Give him too much credit on that.

483
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Speaker 1: And let me see if I could get the exit

484
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Speaker 1: fe low on that flyout too, and the sixth inning

485
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 1: it sounded a lot louder than it was. I guess

486
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Speaker 1: it was only ninety miles per hour off the bat

487
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Speaker 1: of Jason Hayward hits a dead center field. It made

488
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Speaker 1: my heart skip a beat though when I saw it

489
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Speaker 1: happening live. Campbell still has not allowed to run since

490
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Speaker 1: he returned to the big leagues, and this is after

491
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Speaker 1: having a really bloated eer early in the year. He

492
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Speaker 1: looked bad when he was put in starting or you know,

493
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: long relief situations for the most part. Now he's being

494
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Speaker 1: given simpler assignments, but still very important assignments. This was

495
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Speaker 1: high leverage in a one to one game at the time,

496
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Speaker 1: and a runner on base to take over in that spot.

497
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Speaker 1: So he already has the trust of the team. And yes,

498
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Speaker 1: I don't know if his upside is super sexy. They

499
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Speaker 1: just want to again get him through the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season and then kind of reassess from there. As

501
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Speaker 1: a Rule five pick where you can't get sent down

502
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Speaker 1: to the minor league, so you either figure it out

503
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Speaker 1: in the big leagues or you're hurt, or you go

504
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: back to.

505
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Speaker 2: Where you came from.

506
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 1: He's a guy to keep falling closely down the stretch,

507
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: just to make sure that he is which Paul Campbell?

508
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Speaker 2: Is he right?

509
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: Is he the guy that was out early in the year.

510
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: See the guy we're seeing now? Is he somewhere in between?

511
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: That's been a nice development. I would say that you

512
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: have a useful pitcher. Let's say with that pick, it

513
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: is unusual to make two Rule five draft picks, and

514
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: that both of them turned out to be useful major leaguers.

515
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: The last time the Marlins did that and double dipped

516
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: with Rule five guys was in twenty seventeen. Heading into

517
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season. That's where they got Eliez or Hernandez.

518
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: That's where they also.

519
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: Got Brett Graves.

520
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: And you probably have not thought much about Brett Graves

521
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: since the twenty eighteen season. Hopefully, with this combo, it

522
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: could be a little bit more that combo being Paul

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Speaker 1: Campbell and Zach Pop. So I wanted to quickly mention

524
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 1: Zach Pop because he was not involved in the series.

525
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: He went on the injured list with what the Marlins

526
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: are calling right middle finger soreness, his soreness in his finger,

527
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: and he's on the ten day I l that's a

528
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: little bit eyebrow raising. And so after taking a moment

529
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: to think about it, and with some input from my

530
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: guys that know better and that you never take the

531
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Speaker 1: stuff for what meets the eye, this could be just

532
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: about roster manipulation. So Zach Popp has already he's been

533
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: on the roster for essentially this entire season to this point,

534
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: meaning that he has met the threshold for Rule five picks.

535
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: You need to be on the active roster for at

536
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: least ninety days during the season in order to satisfy

537
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: those conditions that make sure that those restrictions no longer

538
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Speaker 1: apply to future seasons beyond this year twenty twenty two

539
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: and beyond. He could just be treated like any other

540
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: young major leaguer who still has all of his minor

541
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: league options. That being the key, and so he's already.

542
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,959
Speaker 2: Past that point. He's been pitching so well.

543
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: Right before going on on the IL, he did something

544
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: really interesting with his slider coming out of the All

545
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: Star break, where all of a sudden he's throwing it

546
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Speaker 1: a couple miles per hour faster and is moving a

547
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: little bit differently than it was before, And it's really

548
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: his fastball that's performing so much better. During that stretch,

549
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: he had a really great run of just keeping balls,

550
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: keeping runs off the board, keeping balls on the ground,

551
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Speaker 1: and his overall stats for this year, I want to

552
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Speaker 1: just look at them quickly in case they're potentially his

553
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Speaker 1: final stats for the year. I know that sounds crazy

554
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: when you just go through an instance of finger soreness,

555
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: but just in case that this is it for him,

556
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: it would be a four point three six ERA with

557
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: forty strikeouts and forty three and the third innings pitched.

558
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: Only allowed three home runs in forty three and a

559
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Speaker 1: third innings. That's crazy by twenty twenty one standards. With

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Speaker 1: him mostly just that two mix of that nasty sinker

561
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: and that equally nasty slider. You know, it's a formula

562
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: that works for Anthony Bender. It works at times for

563
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Speaker 1: Anthony Bass.

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00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: It works for a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of good pitchers being able to do that moving

566
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Speaker 1: forward with Pop. The reason why it might be a

567
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: season ending situation is just because we're coming to the

568
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: point of the year where obviously winning is not the

569
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: sole priority with the team. They want to evaluate as

570
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Speaker 1: many guys as possible. With Pop, you can't send him

571
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Speaker 1: to the miners, and he's frankly performing well enough that

572
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: he wouldn't deserve to get sent down either. But you

573
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: want to have room for players who we didn't see

574
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: in this series but just got called up on Saturday.

575
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: George Guzman, the heart throwing right hander, former highly regarded

576
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: prospect last year, well really this year, he's just been

577
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Speaker 1: knocked off course by injury, and after giving a shot

578
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: to be a starter for most of his pro career

579
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: to this point, is seemingly finally being specified into a

580
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: heart throwing late ending reliever, and they want to see

581
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: what he looks like in the major leagues. One way

582
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Speaker 1: to clear that spot is by putting Pop on the

583
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: IL and maybe eventually moving him to the sixty day

584
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: IL so he no longer counts against the forty man

585
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: spot as well. If there's some other nice performing pitchers

586
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: you want to take a look at down the stretch

587
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: or position players as well. The way to do that

588
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: is by opening up more forty man spots with pop.

589
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: So we'll see with him. I'd be disappointed if they

590
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: didn't find a way to bring him back because I

591
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: think he still has some stuff to show down the stretch.

592
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: He wants to solidify himself as potentially on their opening

593
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: day roster next year. He has that potential. It's a

594
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: possibility though that things are up for him. About half

595
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: an hour into the pod and I haven't mentioned Hasius

596
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: Aguilar yet. He was one of the first guys I've

597
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: put in my notes. Though You'll remember early in the

598
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: year he had some wacky home road splits.

599
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Speaker 2: He was.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps the best hitter in baseball in away games for

601
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Speaker 1: April and May and.

602
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: A lot of June.

603
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Speaker 1: There was a stretch where he had his first twelve

604
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Speaker 1: home runs of the on the road. None of those

605
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: came at home in the first few months of the

606
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Speaker 1: regular season. Those started to even out around the middle

607
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Speaker 1: of the year, and then entering this weekend, he had

608
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: only three home runs at Lone Depot Park all year,

609
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Speaker 1: and in this series he had two one on Friday,

610
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Speaker 1: during that huge ending one on Sunday as well, that

611
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: gave them an insurance to really put this game away.

612
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: He's a guy that I guess many could have thought

613
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Speaker 1: would be fading as the year went on. We remember

614
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: that just based on reporting that was out there from Craigmish,

615
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: from many of the National reporters, it didn't seem like

616
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: he was particularly close to getting traded anywhere, despite leading

617
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: the National League and runs batted in, and despite being

618
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: an extraordinary clubhouse presence and not being saddled by any

619
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: sort of significant contract beyond this season, and yet they

620
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: ended up holding him through the deadline. It forced Lewin

621
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: Diaz to be back down to the miners. As not

622
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: a fan of that. I wish they would have I

623
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: was of the camp that they should have sold for

624
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: whatever they could have got for Aguilar and given Leywin

625
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: a chance to kind of claim this job. Since then,

626
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: Aguilar has found his second wins. This is one of

627
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: the better hot stretches that he has had as a Marlin.

628
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: That is saying a lot. He's been a consistently great

629
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: hitter last year and throughout this year, but it's hard

630
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: to find a time where he's been more more productive

631
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: in the power department than he is during this recent

632
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 1: stretch right before and after the trade deadline. So he

633
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: now has eighty four RBIs and the Marlins still have

634
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 1: what forty four games to go in this season.

635
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Speaker 2: He's he's a lot.

636
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: Of fun to watch, and it's not just you know,

637
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: in those run production situations. He does sometimes make something

638
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: out of nothing as well in this one. Just as

639
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: his raw stats are really good, this is almost on

640
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: par with where he was during his All Star campaign

641
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen. It's going to be a clumsy

642
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: fit going forward, even if they have the designated hitter.

643
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of building a roster where you

644
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: have two first base only guys in Aguilar and in

645
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: Leywin Diez. I feel like they might do that, though,

646
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: and it's not the worst thing if he's hitting at

647
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: this level. There was a stretch during the season where

648
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: you know he's a solidly above average hitter. But yeah,

649
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: let me just pull up the number right now. As

650
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: we're again heading into the middle of August. So this

651
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: is a pretty big sample size at this point. Coming

652
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: off another big game on Sunday and his twenty second

653
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: home run of the year. What is his weighted runs

654
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: created plus? Again, this is where one hundred represents league average,

655
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: and Aguilar is up to one twenty two WRC plus,

656
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: which is exactly where he was last year during that

657
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: shortened season. But this he is not wearing down whatsoever

658
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Speaker 1: at this point, So up to one twenty two entering

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Speaker 1: this new week at the plate, and it's been a

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Speaker 1: joy to watch him. Just like Thompson and Bender and

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Speaker 1: Eliez or Hernandez, He's another example of a guy where

662
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Speaker 1: the Marlins picked him up for essentially nothing, you know,

663
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Speaker 1: just claiming the right to pay him off of waivers

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Speaker 1: from the Tampa Bay Rays, and they end up getting

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Speaker 1: a super productive hitter the past couple of years who

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Speaker 1: they have the right to and seem to be planning

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Speaker 1: to retain for yet another season in.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Another storyline that started right before this weekend but was

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Speaker 1: gave us even more information to evaluate was Jorge Alfaro

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Speaker 1: as a left fielder. It started in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the Rouson stint and I'm sure it was thought of

673
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Speaker 1: rep before Rausingk came was moved into the active manager spot,

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Speaker 1: but with Alfaro within a couple of days he went

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Speaker 1: from being there pmor catcher to being their primary left fielder.

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Speaker 1: During this weekend series. He played all three games in

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Speaker 1: left fields. He started two of those in left field,

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Speaker 1: and he started the third one act catcher and then

679
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Speaker 1: moved into left field for the final endings. Let me

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Speaker 1: think of who, whether it was Todd Hollinsworth, I can't

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Speaker 1: remember where, whether I was watching the TV broadcast or

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Speaker 1: the radio broadcast with Glenn Geffner at the time. I

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Speaker 1: think it must have been the TV broadcast where they

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Speaker 1: rightly pointed out Severino and Todd hollins Worth that they

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Speaker 1: were showing a lot of confidence in alf airo To

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Speaker 1: as a part of a double switch to move him

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Speaker 1: into left field during what was at the time just

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Speaker 1: a one run game, a two to one Marlins lead.

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Speaker 1: To this point, he hasn't had a ton of difficult

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Speaker 1: plays to test him. There was one, if I recall,

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Speaker 1: where he was kind of clumsy running down a ball

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Speaker 1: in the corner that potentially gave the runner an extra base.

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Speaker 1: That was prior to the series. Though overall, he just

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Speaker 1: hasn't had a whole lot of opportunities to test his

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Speaker 1: route running. The arm has had its moments it's been

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Speaker 1: a little inconsistent in terms of hitting cut off men

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Speaker 1: and getting you know, the right height on those throws

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Speaker 1: coming in. Overall, there's nothing that's really egregious about it, though,

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Speaker 1: that really says he's that much worse as a defensive

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Speaker 1: left fielder than he was as a defensive catcher, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, when you compare it to league standards.

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Speaker 1: I went on the record on this pod not that

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Speaker 1: long ago saying that this should be the time to

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Speaker 1: simply cut ties with him. That if they were maybe

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Speaker 1: a priority to acquire Alex Jackson, they have several kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting catchers waiting in the wings at trip LA

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Speaker 1: right now, and that if they were ready to move

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Speaker 1: on from Alfaro as their catcher, then they didn't need

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Speaker 1: to wait till the offseason. They could have designated him

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Speaker 1: for assignment right now, swallowed the money that was remaining,

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Speaker 1: and just open up those roster spots for guys that

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Speaker 1: you want to evaluate. I didn't expect them to go

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Speaker 1: through with that, and I don't have much confidence in

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Speaker 1: them doing it anymore. During this stint, you know, the

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Speaker 1: bat has ticked up a little bit. You know, the

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Speaker 1: offensive numbers have been right around league average since position

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Speaker 1: change was still a lot of strikeouts with him, that's

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Speaker 1: always going to be there, and that's you know, the

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Speaker 1: main frustration with him is that he's just so undisciplined

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Speaker 1: and struggles so much to identify pitches and distinguish between them.

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Speaker 1: So he's been a better version of himself, he hasn't

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Speaker 1: been a great version of himself. And you have Haysiu

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Speaker 1: Sanchez who's almost due back from the IL. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's been gone for almost a month, remember him, Hayesiu Sanchez.

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Speaker 1: One of our favorite rookie storylines during that spell that

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Speaker 1: he had as her every day left fielder. With him

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Speaker 1: on the verge of returning, I'd like to see him

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Speaker 1: as her every day left fielder again and not split

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Speaker 1: playing time with Alfaro in anyway, not try to force

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Speaker 1: him in there. So, as I'm recording this on Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: Sanchez is again in the Jacksonville lineup on rehab. This

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Speaker 1: will be what his fourth rehab game and it should

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Speaker 1: be his final rehab game. I would expect him back

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Speaker 1: in Miami at some point during this upcoming Brave series.

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Speaker 1: They're going to put him on the roster and probably

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Speaker 1: not going to get rid of Alfaro yet for some reason,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't bet on them getting rid of MAGNERI

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Speaker 1: Sierra either. I think we could finish off with Sierra,

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Speaker 1: and you know this roster situation in general. He did

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Speaker 1: have a couple legitimately clutch hits in this series, both

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Speaker 1: on Saturday and on Sunday. He came through in really

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Speaker 1: key moments for a guy that, as I mentioned before,

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Speaker 1: had a ridiculous stretch without any run production whatsoever early

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Speaker 1: on this year. And you know, he has thankfully improved

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Speaker 1: in that regard.

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Speaker 2: There was nowhere to go but up, and he has

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Speaker 2: gone up.

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Speaker 1: We know what he does in center field and all.

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Speaker 2: The outfield spots wherever you need him.

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Speaker 1: What he does as a base runner is fine. Again,

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Speaker 1: I've mentioned this before that there haven't really been those

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Speaker 1: signature base running plays from him that we saw at times,

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Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty during that nice stretch that he

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Speaker 1: had with everybody else out due to COVID that you know,

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Speaker 1: he is a plus in that regard, but not somebody

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Speaker 1: that is using that speed quite as I would hope

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Speaker 1: that he did. Like Corge al Faro, he is out

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Speaker 1: of minor league options. And like Alfaro, there seems to

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Speaker 1: be a decent number of other outfielders in the wings

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Speaker 1: that should be getting playing time over him.

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Speaker 2: Moving forward, with the way that.

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Speaker 1: Lewis Brinson has totally flipped the narrative about him, with

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Speaker 1: how much Brian de la Cruz has impressed us, with

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Speaker 1: the talent that Haesus Sanchez has right there, are they

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Speaker 1: going to really have a roster with Brinson, de la Cruz, Sanchez, Alfaro,

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Speaker 1: and Sierra. I guess it seems like it, but I

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Speaker 1: don't agree with it. I don't agree with it at all,

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Speaker 1: being that Sierra is kind of in the same position

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Speaker 1: with Al Farow, where it's hard to imagine him being

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Speaker 1: on the roster entering next year due to the limitations

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Speaker 1: in his game and the limitations with his roster status,

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Speaker 1: the fact that he is finally going to be arbitration

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Speaker 1: eligible and earning a little bit more than the league minimum,

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Speaker 1: and when the Marlins have other outfielders in the wings

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Speaker 1: who will be earning the league minimum and have more

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Speaker 1: upside certainly than he does. So that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: conversation for upcoming episodes, is how they put together this

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Speaker 1: roster down the stretch to I guess, make it as good,

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Speaker 1: make it good, make it viable and competitive, but kind

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Speaker 1: of more importantly, just to get the right players on

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Speaker 1: the roster who have some role to play moving forward,

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Speaker 1: that have some that you're motivated to find out more about.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see them instead of Sierra. To

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Speaker 1: fit Brian Miller back into the equation, all he got

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Speaker 1: was a cup of coffee right after the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: before being sent back down.

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Speaker 2: Miller does a lot of the same things as Sierra.

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Speaker 1: Except that he has all of his minor league options

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Speaker 1: left and he has the ability, on all things being perfect,

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Speaker 1: he could he at least has the potential to knock

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Speaker 1: the ball out of the ballpark and just consistently hit

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Speaker 1: line drives in a way that Sierra, even during this

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Speaker 1: glorious weekends, he wasn't necessarily making great quality contact, even

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Speaker 1: though he was getting some nice results going along with it.

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Speaker 1: As I said Uptip, the Marlins are in fourth place,

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Speaker 1: sole possession of not last place in the National League East.

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Speaker 1: First time in a while we've been able to say

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Speaker 1: that I'm not surprised based on what we saw at

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Speaker 1: the deadline. Right after the deadline, the Nationals were still

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Speaker 1: several games ahead of the Marlins and the standings, but

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Speaker 1: just being an objective and comparing the talents that those

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Speaker 1: teams had on their rosters moving forward, the Nationals really

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Speaker 1: left themselves with absolutely nothing. With the exception of Juan Soto.

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Speaker 1: It's Juan Soto and a bunch of guys. So those

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Speaker 1: teams still have a couple series to play against one

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Speaker 1: another that I guess will ultimately determine where they stand

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Speaker 1: in regard to each other in the standings.

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Speaker 2: But my expectation is that.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins do finish in fourth place, not something that

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Speaker 1: necessarily means much of anything. I'm sure it is a

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Speaker 1: minor victory for the front office that makes them feel

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Speaker 1: like they're making progress compared to where they were in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. To have that result not

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Speaker 1: so much because of what the Marlins did, but more

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Speaker 1: so what the Nationals did to themselves. That was somewhat

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Speaker 1: of a theme of this series two against the Cubs.

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Speaker 1: The Cubs in the Nationals are in that same boat.

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Speaker 1: They have not left themselves with very many major league

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Speaker 1: quality players on either side of the ball, and that's

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Speaker 1: how you get all these defensive errors being made, all

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Speaker 1: these meat balls being thrown, all the walks and hit

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Speaker 1: by pitches that were thrown in this series as well

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Speaker 1: to give Marlins extra opportunities, and they took care of business,

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Speaker 1: so credit to them. It's a much different challenge this

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Speaker 1: upcoming series against the Braves. Will be previewing it as

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Speaker 1: we always do on Fish Stripes Live, presented by three

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Speaker 1: Monday's game. I'm looking forward to that and we'll have

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Speaker 1: plenty of our coverage on fishtrips dot com. This series

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Speaker 1: preview written article from Nicole Cahill love some of my

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Speaker 1: own analysis about some of the topics referenced earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show. There's still so much on my mind. I

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Speaker 1: can't quit them. I can and imagine many of you

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Speaker 1: are in that same camp where you can't help but

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Speaker 1: pay attention to this for the time being and see

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Speaker 1: exactly what they do with the second wind down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: Eli Susman signing off, thanking you always for listening. Leave

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