Speaker 1: Hey, this is Kyle Stowers and you're listening to Fish
Speaker 1: on First. Rocky start to July goes without saying, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna break it down here on fish on First
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Speaker 1: I am Eli Susman, the founder of Fish on First,
Speaker 1: a solo show for Lisi's first few moments, but I
Speaker 1: expect others of my FLF staff to hop on as
Speaker 1: we're reacting to a series split between the Marlins and
Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies. A whole lot to get into here,
Speaker 1: as well as some big picture details about where the
Speaker 1: Marlins stands at this particular moment in time, one that
Speaker 1: feels quite a bit different from how it is did
Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours ago, when they had a
Speaker 1: record setting month of June in a variety of ways,
Speaker 1: very convenient. How that all lined up, and we give
Speaker 1: the team its flowers for that didn't necessarily I think
Speaker 1: there may have been some overreactions overall to where the
Speaker 1: team stood just in the middle of this series, having
Speaker 1: won the first two games of it and then dropping
Speaker 1: the final two as advertised the highest scoring series for
Speaker 1: the Marlins this season by a wide margin in terms
Speaker 1: of the total run scored both for them and for
Speaker 1: the Rockies combines run differential almost split right down the middle,
Speaker 1: a couple of blowout wins going in either direction, and
Speaker 1: then a couple more competitive games in between. Is the
Speaker 1: Marlins are in the middle of a three city road
Speaker 1: trip this thing, the second leg of it. I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk quite a bit about Jacob Marcy and center
Speaker 1: field on this show. Wanted to talk about the starting rotation,
Speaker 1: which has been an ongoing topic for so much of
Speaker 1: this season, and how we're kind of at this point
Speaker 1: where I think there's a fairly obvious change for the
Speaker 1: Marlins to make moving forward. And yeah, beyond all that,
Speaker 1: we'll get to all of your questions in the live chat.
Speaker 1: For those of you watching on YouTube and Twitter, please
Speaker 1: weigh in. I could use your company and glad to
Speaker 1: use your ideas as bouncing starting off points to get
Speaker 1: into whatever is on your mind. As we're getting very
Speaker 1: close to the All Star break for this Marvelins team
Speaker 1: first half of the season that has largely gone very
Speaker 1: well in this series overall, there's really no shame in
Speaker 1: splitting a road four game series regardless of the opponent,
Speaker 1: the Rockies, as we covered, as I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people just know off the top of their head,
Speaker 1: this is one of the worst teams in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: They were one of the worst teams ever in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, but they were somewhat improved this year. And
Speaker 1: even though the Marlins swept them in Miami at the
Speaker 1: start of the season, as expected, it was a little
Speaker 1: bit more competitive this time around. Overall, I mean offensively,
Speaker 1: you gotta highlights of the guys that were stepped up
Speaker 1: for the Marlins in this series. Otto Lopez continuing to
Speaker 1: be awesome and Javier Sonoa. He won our series MVP
Speaker 1: honors and even pitched the final ending of this series.
Speaker 1: But offensively, Sonoha kind of redefining his entire season basically
Speaker 1: from as statistical perspective in the course of four games.
Speaker 1: That is why we never want to lean too much
Speaker 1: on what happens in Colorado over the course of these series.
Speaker 1: And this is you gotta take it while you have it,
Speaker 1: because this is the only trip of the Marlins make
Speaker 1: into Corse Field. It is going to skew some of
Speaker 1: the stats in a really heavy positive light for some
Speaker 1: of the hitters. But things will come back down to
Speaker 1: earth over the course of the remaining three months of
Speaker 1: the season once they don't go back in here. I
Speaker 1: know that Brian, one of our regulars, is checking in.
Speaker 1: It certainly a roller coaster series to have won the
Speaker 1: first two games ten to seven, and in the opener
Speaker 1: on Monday, Sandy not even particularly sharpened that one. In
Speaker 1: his history at Course Fields has been pretty poor overall,
Speaker 1: but the Marlins able to weather that and win it.
Speaker 1: Then the blowout win in that second game was fourteenth three.
Speaker 1: Basically everything was going great, and as Thomas Shows has
Speaker 1: described it to this serious finale was especially cringeworthy from
Speaker 1: a variety of aspects of a Marlins team, where when
Speaker 1: you're playing in Corse Field, there's a premium put on
Speaker 1: having balls in play, and so from that standpoint, things
Speaker 1: look like maybe're going pretty well for the Marlins in
Speaker 1: this one, a game where they actually got a lead
Speaker 1: right off the bat and had to lead into the
Speaker 1: middle dings. A Marlins team that is capable of coming
Speaker 1: back lanes of games, but usually it's not one that
Speaker 1: blow was a ton of leads this season, however, in
Speaker 1: this one. Part of the issue was not being able
Speaker 1: to capitalize with these run scoring opportunities. The fact that
Speaker 1: they only struck out three times in the course of
Speaker 1: a whole game at Course Field, he had only scored
Speaker 1: four runs. That's an anomaly. You just don't see that
Speaker 1: very often because how often balls put in play get
Speaker 1: rewarded in the spacious dimensions of Course Field. But they
Speaker 1: went completely hitless with runners in scoring position. So that
Speaker 1: is kind of what you point to each of the
Speaker 1: last two games, not driving in Kate taking advantage to one,
Speaker 1: they'd runners on base on a game where Michael Lorenzen
Speaker 1: was frankly pretty horrible. He walked six batters on his own.
Speaker 1: This is one of the higher games for the Marlins
Speaker 1: all season in terms of drawing based on bases on balls,
Speaker 1: and yet to lose that game is Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that speaks of how much the bullpen struggled. This is
Speaker 1: one of the very worst games that the Marlins bullpen
Speaker 1: has had all year. I mean, from a runs allowed perspective,
Speaker 1: it certainly was. The Marlins hadn't allowed I don't know
Speaker 1: if people realize this, They hadn't allowed more than ten
Speaker 1: runs in a single game all season long until today
Speaker 1: when they allowed fourteen. So that shows quite out of
Speaker 1: step with what they've done this season. And something was
Speaker 1: bad luck. I mean, if you watch this game, a
Speaker 1: lot half of the runs came across in that bottom
Speaker 1: of the sixth inning, and the Rockies scored all those
Speaker 1: runs without a single extra base hit in that ending,
Speaker 1: which is a very hard trick to do. I think
Speaker 1: it's only been happens maybe a handful of times in
Speaker 1: Marlin's history, to have a whole half ending where you're
Speaker 1: only allowing singles and walks and whatever, and yet that
Speaker 1: it culminates in such a crooked number that made a
Speaker 1: difference in his game. Everybody got involved on the Rocky
Speaker 1: side over the course of this series was really Mickey
Speaker 1: Moniac and Hunter Goodman that did the most damage. Goodman
Speaker 1: is now on pace for like a fifty home run season.
Speaker 1: In Moniac, he hit home runs in three consecutive games
Speaker 1: during the course of the series. He flirted with a
Speaker 1: cycle on multiple occasions. And still I'll go back to
Speaker 1: the fact that I won't call it embarrassing when it's
Speaker 1: just a single series, when's on the road against them,
Speaker 1: a team that plays a lot better at coursefield than
Speaker 1: they do when they're on the road in the Rockies.
Speaker 1: So this is a team you're in and you're out.
Speaker 1: The stats kind of bear that out where this is
Speaker 1: where offensively they just are more explosive overall, and they
Speaker 1: showed that in this finale in particular. Now, the fact
Speaker 1: that Marlin's put up these good offensive numbers overall and
Speaker 1: they did it without anything whatsoever from Jacob Marcy, That's
Speaker 1: kind of where I definitely wanted to dive in on
Speaker 1: this one. We touched on him on the new episode
Speaker 1: of Fish on Filtered. You could get that wherever you're
Speaker 1: listening to this show, you can find Unfiltered with aj Ramos,
Speaker 1: Kevin Barrall Asakuzud, they had a little segment on Marcie.
Speaker 1: I think I'll go a little bit deeper on him
Speaker 1: because we're kind of are very close, I would think
Speaker 1: to a breaking point with him for a guy that
Speaker 1: early in this year, I think both myself and several
Speaker 1: others on the FLF staff, like we were we were
Speaker 1: preaching patients with Marcy, a guy that has such a
Speaker 1: well rounded profile who we felt was being unlucky early
Speaker 1: in the year, Like there were indicators that he was
Speaker 1: doing some of the same things positively at the beginning
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six that he was doing at the
Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty five and just wasn't getting the results.
Speaker 1: In fact, he'd made some encouraging changes that made you
Speaker 1: think the ceiling was actually going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit higher for him moving forward. And yet he's had
Speaker 1: some bright moments. I remember there was a series against
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks where he was about as valuable as anybody
Speaker 1: over the course of that series. I feel like his
Speaker 1: center field defense has been especially good in most May
Speaker 1: and June overall, and I think we've seen some highlight
Speaker 1: worthy plays, especially in recent weeks, where it's not really
Speaker 1: affecting him on that side of the but yet he's
Speaker 1: just not hitting. And this slump that he's had recently
Speaker 1: has been just a new degree of concerning compared to
Speaker 1: what he's done to this point. He's been statistically, he's
Speaker 1: been bad all year long offensively, but what he's done
Speaker 1: recently I don't think should be swept under the rug
Speaker 1: and shoudn't be grouped in this overall view of him
Speaker 1: as a guy that is due for some positive aggression
Speaker 1: like he's just been awful lately, and I think that
Speaker 1: matches the eye test. Had some opportunities today, in particular
Speaker 1: with stranded at least four runners on base when I
Speaker 1: checked in the middle of the game, and that's been
Speaker 1: that's been the frustration I think from Marlins fans that
Speaker 1: even in recent weeks, when the team has been playing
Speaker 1: as well, in fact better than any other team in baseball,
Speaker 1: there's been this frustration with Marci just because he's kind
Speaker 1: of held them back from it seems like winning these
Speaker 1: even more games. It felt like they had potential to
Speaker 1: be even more dominant in June if Marcy was anything
Speaker 1: close to a league average hitter. Yeah, the strikeouts have
Speaker 1: been a little bit high, but that's I think that's
Speaker 1: why it's been kind of hard to put your finger
Speaker 1: on what's wrong, because the overall he's putting balls in play,
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of weak pop ups overall this season.
Speaker 1: I can bring up some of his Baseball Savant numbers
Speaker 1: that kind of illustrate what's going on with Marcy right here.
Speaker 1: That his one thing he's really done that seems to
Speaker 1: be positive this year was trim his ground ball rate.
Speaker 1: He's been putting more balls in the air. He's been
Speaker 1: pulling balls more often as well. This has been a
Speaker 1: trend all year long where it felt like that was
Speaker 1: going to give him an opportunity for hit for a
Speaker 1: lot more power than he even did last season. Like,
Speaker 1: if he's sending everything to right field, he doesn't need
Speaker 1: a blast of ball four hundred feet so to get
Speaker 1: it over the wall. And that theoretically felt like as
Speaker 1: long as he's making the same good swing decisions as
Speaker 1: last year, as long as he's healthy, then he's going
Speaker 1: to get similar, if not better results. And yet it's
Speaker 1: everything else that it just isn't really going for him.
Speaker 1: You see all the really dark blue. He's just not
Speaker 1: hitting the ball hard at all compared to last year
Speaker 1: twentieth percent high entering today in hard hit rate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the average exit VLO has been low, and he just
Speaker 1: hasn't been barreling very many balls at all. He's in
Speaker 1: the twelfth percentile in barrel rate. Like even when he
Speaker 1: gets off some of his a swings aren't even going
Speaker 1: to the warning track this year. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: the concern for a guy that, as far as we
Speaker 1: can tell, physically, he's fully healthy. He's been playing almost
Speaker 1: every single game, and that's been a little bit frustrating
Speaker 1: right where he's been struggling for this extended period, and
Speaker 1: yet they're still running him out there as if nothing
Speaker 1: is wrong. To this point in the season. It's been
Speaker 1: sitting against most lefties, but even not all of them.
Speaker 1: The Martins have given him such a long leash to
Speaker 1: the point where he's a fully qualified hitter. And I
Speaker 1: mean the big traditional number that jumps out is he's
Speaker 1: the worst qualified hitter in all of baseball, just in
Speaker 1: terms of batting average, if you want to keep it traditional.
Speaker 1: But it's also, as you know, I touched on with
Speaker 1: some of those other stats, is that he's not hitting
Speaker 1: for power, so he's not slugging. He's slugging under three
Speaker 1: hundred this deep into the season, a guy that was
Speaker 1: two hundred points higher than that during his partial season
Speaker 1: debut in twenty twenty five. That's yeah, that's kind of
Speaker 1: the big concern there is that even though he's still
Speaker 1: drawing his walks, he's still getting on base, and he's
Speaker 1: still stealing bases, not stealing them very efficiently, but still
Speaker 1: running aggressively. Like there are some silver linings or reasons
Speaker 1: to think that he can still offer something at the
Speaker 1: major league level, but the fact that he's playing almost
Speaker 1: every single day, he's now really rapidly emerged as one
Speaker 1: of the weakest links on this entire roster, not only
Speaker 1: even slumming. For most of the year, A lot of
Speaker 1: the iyer has been focused on guys that have already
Speaker 1: been either cut or sent down, and now to this point,
Speaker 1: as they're looking for other ways to optimize the roster,
Speaker 1: they need to seriously take a long look at what
Speaker 1: to do with Marcie because that's the thing. He's not
Speaker 1: turning the corner whatsoever. He has about two hits in
Speaker 1: his last forty at bats to this point, and the
Speaker 1: slug is what's missing as well. Where Like there is
Speaker 1: anyway you slice it, he's one of the weakest positions
Speaker 1: players at his position, and I would say the issue
Speaker 1: here is that this is not something you could really
Speaker 1: address in a trade. Like we've been talking on streams
Speaker 1: and we will continue to talk about what to do
Speaker 1: in terms of going outside the organization and looking for help.
Speaker 1: You're not going to trade for a starting center fielder
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season just because one those
Speaker 1: guys don't really get traded very often. If a guy
Speaker 1: is producing very well, especially offensively at the center field position,
Speaker 1: then is one of the more valuable players in all baseball.
Speaker 1: You just don't see those guys get traded during the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, even if they're on a non
Speaker 1: contenting team. So that's one and then the other side of
Speaker 1: it is that this is a front office that to
Speaker 1: this point has shown no inclination to give up some
Speaker 1: of their top prospects to get a deal done. Even
Speaker 1: if a guy is available. It's very hard to believe
Speaker 1: that the Marlins would be at the top of the
Speaker 1: list in terms of what they'd be willing to give up,
Speaker 1: especially considering that how Marshie has so many years of
Speaker 1: control still to go. This is a guy that is
Speaker 1: still just what twenty four years old, about to turn
Speaker 1: twenty five, where even if this is a you could
Speaker 1: almost write it off as a lost year to this point,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it's the end of the line for him.
Speaker 1: Like there's still a lot of hope for him. Something
Speaker 1: to click. It is entirely reasonable for somebody to have
Speaker 1: a sophomore slump for back of a letter phrase, better phrase,
Speaker 1: and then bounce back and almost pick up right where
Speaker 1: he left off as a rookie. It's just that there is,
Speaker 1: you know, increasing urgency to make adjustments from a roster
Speaker 1: and usage standpoint so that they win these games. We've
Speaker 1: seen them slide him out of the leadoff spot. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be hitting lead off anytime
Speaker 1: for this foreseeable future. He hit seventh for several games
Speaker 1: in this series and that's been his most common spot
Speaker 1: as of late. So I mean that's one baby adjustment.
Speaker 1: The other considerations is that history Ruiz, who's been a
Speaker 1: very nice surprise offensively this year for the Marlins in
Speaker 1: all aspects, like defensively, his history in centerfield is pretty poor,
Speaker 1: that there is a somewhat significant drop down in terms
Speaker 1: of defense when you play him too often. Javier Sonoha
Speaker 1: we covered him just a moment go because of how
Speaker 1: much he's turned it on offensively. He can play anywhere
Speaker 1: he could play, including center field if needed. It's just
Speaker 1: at the same time when he's playing center field, then
Speaker 1: that creates a void at third base, and third base
Speaker 1: is the void that we were focusing on just over
Speaker 1: these last few weeks until Sonoha at this point is
Speaker 1: now kind of their primary option there for the short term,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of a position where we expect them
Speaker 1: they could go outside the organization and address the third baseman.
Speaker 1: So that is something that could come together maybe a
Speaker 1: month from now when the deadline actually arrives. But now
Speaker 1: the question is how do they navigate that next month
Speaker 1: at the very least when it comes to this. So
Speaker 1: just some final thoughts on what else they can do.
Speaker 1: I know that Thomas Joseph here Mensing, Andrew Pintar, who's
Speaker 1: having like a solid year, a little bit better than
Speaker 1: he was last year. He's just as good defensively in
Speaker 1: center field in my opinion as Marci. He is a
Speaker 1: pretty comparable base runner as well. It's just that offensively
Speaker 1: there are more obvious holes in him even compared to Marci,
Speaker 1: Like there is a scenario where Pintar hits even worse
Speaker 1: than Marcy does from both a power standpoint and an
Speaker 1: on base standpoint, especially at least Marcy is getting on base.
Speaker 1: Some of the other options that are on the forty
Speaker 1: men roster, They've Reese Hines, they have resigns that just
Speaker 1: acquired in a trade a month ago from Cincinnati, but
Speaker 1: he hasn't really been hitting like he's been hitting almost
Speaker 1: as poorly at Triple A as Marcy has been hitting
Speaker 1: in the Major Since that trade went down, He's had
Speaker 1: a very well for the most part, successful minor league career.
Speaker 1: But similar to Pintar, he's a guy that his skill
Speaker 1: set lends himself to a lot of strikeouts and not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of on base if who were to
Speaker 1: be called up, So that's a concern. They've Matthew Etzel
Speaker 1: as well, who they acquired at last trade deadline. I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of a stretch to play him defensively
Speaker 1: in center field. He did have a bit of a
Speaker 1: power serge earlier this season that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a much lower ceiling player than even Hines,
Speaker 1: for example, and certainly the Marcy. But he's just on
Speaker 1: the forty men roster for now, so I don't think
Speaker 1: anything is totally imminent with Marcy. The All Star break
Speaker 1: would kind of be a natural breaking point for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he continues to slump this severely. That's why I wanted
Speaker 1: to emphasize is that it's not just a continuation of
Speaker 1: bad season long performance. It's that things are getting worse
Speaker 1: and not better, Like there's just no sign of him
Speaker 1: flipping a switch. It's a lot of pop ups, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of strikeouts looking and there's not nearly enough
Speaker 1: from the other aspects of his game to make it
Speaker 1: to justify it. So, yeah, they're kind of in a
Speaker 1: tough spot just because there isn't another center fielder knocking
Speaker 1: on the door at Triple A. It's more so about
Speaker 1: do you trust any of the guys currently in the
Speaker 1: roster to take over and then kind of rearrange the
Speaker 1: seats around that, considering like if you move things around
Speaker 1: as any way to get Kemp Alderman in the mix
Speaker 1: up from Triple A and find at bats for him
Speaker 1: at either first base DH or the cornal field spots
Speaker 1: more along those lines. Yeah, there's not an obvious solution
Speaker 1: right now, but I did want to go a little
Speaker 1: bit more deep because I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: are thinking about it, even seeing some one trade candidate
Speaker 1: that OSMANI brings up in the chat, Jaron Duran from
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. That'll be something to take a closer
Speaker 1: look at as we get closer. But a guy that
Speaker 1: the Red Soxs would be selling pretty low to move
Speaker 1: him right now, and I just have a hard time
Speaker 1: seeing them do that, considering how high his value was
Speaker 1: just a year or two ago. But I kind of
Speaker 1: agree with beefcat in here that just mentally, Marcy doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be in a good spot. Mechanically, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's in a good spot either, just based on
Speaker 1: kind of the batted ball results. Kind of speak volumes
Speaker 1: about the fact that he's especially against fastballs. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go too deep in the weeds on this stuff,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of the biggest difference from last year
Speaker 1: to this year is that he's not punishing fastballs when
Speaker 1: he gets it, and he's taking a lot of fastballs
Speaker 1: for called strikes in a way that shows that both
Speaker 1: his I think, his approach, as well as mechanically, this
Speaker 1: is stuff that could be fixed in relatively short order
Speaker 1: when he gets sent down to the miners, because we've
Speaker 1: seen the Marlins do it with other guys this season,
Speaker 1: last season. Over the course of these last two seasons,
Speaker 1: there's a pretty significant number of guys that we've seen
Speaker 1: that have been able to turn it around very quickly
Speaker 1: once they get out of the very intense spotlight of
Speaker 1: the major leagues. So we're trending in this direction, I
Speaker 1: would think if he doesn't pull out of this slump
Speaker 1: relatively soon. But yeah, a whole lot more to cover.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about starting pitching,
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Speaker 1: Finishing up this conversation really quick with some comments, Griffin
Speaker 1: conin can he play center field?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Well, I shouldn't say that he can't play center field.
Speaker 1: It's just that he hasn't played center field really at
Speaker 1: any point in his life, even though he is a
Speaker 1: good corner outfielder, and you know, theoretically a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys, if you feel you're an above average corner
Speaker 1: al filder, you could fake it in centerfield. But pretty
Speaker 1: much every team that he's ever been on, it's kind
Speaker 1: of agreed that it's stretching him a little bit too
Speaker 1: much to have him out there. It's not the craziest idea,
Speaker 1: it just would be highly unconventional for a guy in
Speaker 1: his very late twenties who has really never played the
Speaker 1: position to get some reps there, But that is a
Speaker 1: name I guess to bring up. If I'm going to
Speaker 1: bring up this stere rue, I'm gonna bring up Hovier.
Speaker 1: So Noha co and I might not be worse than
Speaker 1: them in centerfield, but I think it would be a
Speaker 1: bit of a liability, if nothing else, just due to
Speaker 1: the lack of experience up there. Thomas Joseph reminding us
Speaker 1: about a Jake Mangum who is in the organization a
Speaker 1: few years ago, and it's actually turned into a very
Speaker 1: useful Major leaguer with a couple of different teams, most
Speaker 1: recently the Pirates. Now he can lay some centerfield, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be able to get him back right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe they could swing a deal as the season progresses.
Speaker 1: That's one option out there. Overall's in a pretty tough
Speaker 1: spot for them, So I kind of understanding why they're
Speaker 1: gonna let it. They're gonna let it play out a
Speaker 1: little bit longer, but something that I think the team
Speaker 1: actually absolutely has to seriously re evaluate as we get
Speaker 1: to the All Star break in terms of what to
Speaker 1: do in center field. So one other thing from the
Speaker 1: series and from this very final game of the series.
Speaker 1: This was a Ryan Gusto led bullpen game. We've seen
Speaker 1: them do that for the better part of a month
Speaker 1: ever since a series of injuries struck their rotation, and
Speaker 1: Gusto wasn't particularly good in this game. As has been
Speaker 1: the case, he didn't go deep, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: the plan where the Marlins don't trust him to go
Speaker 1: even two full times through the order. And as as
Speaker 1: mentioned before, the bullpen behind him was absolutely horrendous today
Speaker 1: between Calvin Fouchet, even John King had one of his
Speaker 1: weaker outings during what's otherwise been an excellent year. Cad
Speaker 1: Gibson in a mop up role couldn't really slow the
Speaker 1: bleeding at all. And I saw a lot of feedback
Speaker 1: on this about where's Braxton Garrett, because Braxton Garrett just
Speaker 1: yesterday and Triple A had another outstanding outing, not just
Speaker 1: eight scoreless endings, but like this is something that he'd
Speaker 1: been doing on a pretty consistent basis now for most
Speaker 1: of the season. Now. We saw Braxton come up to
Speaker 1: the big leagues on the heels of his first good
Speaker 1: stretch at the Triple A level that was all the
Speaker 1: way back in May wasn't it, And two starts that
Speaker 1: both of them followed a very similar script where for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, this guy that is so accomplished and consistent
Speaker 1: in terms of just throwing strikes wasn't able to do
Speaker 1: so during those couple of starts. He put the Marlins
Speaker 1: pitching staff in a horrible spot in those games, was
Speaker 1: only going two three innings in those outings, and they
Speaker 1: sent him back down and we haven't seen him since.
Speaker 1: And since going back down, he's been even better than
Speaker 1: he was in that previous triple A. Since the start
Speaker 1: the year, he really couldn't get much better in terms
Speaker 1: of the er standpoint one five to five is the
Speaker 1: current number on him, but it's even the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: that look better this time arounds, where it's harder to
Speaker 1: believe that he's gonna have the same lapse in strike
Speaker 1: throwing if he gets another opportunity, because in his most
Speaker 1: recent outing didn't walk a single batter. He's had several
Speaker 1: of those walkless outings over the past month and a
Speaker 1: half ever since he got sent back down for good,
Speaker 1: which is kind of what we expected, Like this is
Speaker 1: a guy that has absolutely nothing left to prove at
Speaker 1: the Triple a level he was sent down. And remember
Speaker 1: at the start of the year, because the Marlins just
Speaker 1: felt really confident that they had five better starters at
Speaker 1: the moment, or at least they had four, and they
Speaker 1: also had Chris Paddock on a guaranteed deal. Circumstances have
Speaker 1: changed pretty dramatically since then. Chris Paddock is gone, and
Speaker 1: they absolutely do not have five, really like the starters
Speaker 1: that you feel good about right now, they have three
Speaker 1: and a half maybe four if you're being generous a
Speaker 1: Tyler Phillips. And it's really and hard any way you
Speaker 1: slice it to have more confidence in Gusto right now
Speaker 1: than Braxton Garrett, given that even the Marlins themselves has
Speaker 1: kind of made it clear that they see Gusto as
Speaker 1: more of a long reliever in disguise right now. So
Speaker 1: not that there's anything in particular about this Gusto appearance
Speaker 1: that was a red flag. It's just that you kind
Speaker 1: of have this as a player overall. He's kind of
Speaker 1: baked in this mediocrity, like there's never any high expectations
Speaker 1: for Gusto. I guess it's hard to see any scenario
Speaker 1: where he actually turns into even an average starter, whereas
Speaker 1: with Braxton, like we've seen him be an average or
Speaker 1: better starter at the big league level not that far
Speaker 1: long ago, and I think we've reached that point where
Speaker 1: their schedules are even lined up very well, where Braxton
Speaker 1: would be on regular rest, if not a little extra
Speaker 1: rest to make this next appearance when this rotation spot
Speaker 1: comes up again on the next home stands, and he'd
Speaker 1: be able to squeeze in a couple starts over that
Speaker 1: final home stand before the All Star break. So more
Speaker 1: so than just the fact that I think Braxton has
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons like has the higher floor.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say higher floor just because we
Speaker 1: saw a couple outings from him earlier this year where
Speaker 1: he was as bad as a starter could be. It's
Speaker 1: just that he has the higher ceiling at this point
Speaker 1: than Gus, So he's just a better player overall, even
Speaker 1: though we haven't seen it at the big league level
Speaker 1: now for a little while. There's that, and also just
Speaker 1: the fact that, as we've covered, I think almost any
Speaker 1: way that you play this out, the Marlins should be
Speaker 1: looking to add external starting pitching on top of what
Speaker 1: they have internally. And the only reason, the only way
Speaker 1: that that might not be the case is if gre
Speaker 1: Garrett flips the switch and shows that he's right up
Speaker 1: there with any potential trade acquisition. You're only going to
Speaker 1: find out if he's one of those like real solutions
Speaker 1: if you give him opportunities to do so at a
Speaker 1: big league level. So in a moment where Gusto is
Speaker 1: the alternative, there's still a little bit of a lagdown
Speaker 1: until Jansen Junk comes back. So Junk is making his
Speaker 1: REHEB appearance right tomorrow on Friday, And if I was
Speaker 1: the Marlins, I don't know what they're going to do.
Speaker 1: If I was them, I'd have Junk making his REEB
Speaker 1: appearance on Friday, and then I would play it slow
Speaker 1: with him and having to make one more REHEB appearance
Speaker 1: the following week, and instead have Braxton make a couple
Speaker 1: of major league starts in the meantime, because you know
Speaker 1: what you have in Junk. Junk is a guy that
Speaker 1: he's going to contribute to the pitching staff one way
Speaker 1: or the other. He is out of minor league options regardless,
Speaker 1: so they can't actually statch him in Triple A the
Speaker 1: way they've been doing for Braxton. You're gonna have junk
Speaker 1: as part of this pitching staff down the stretch, but
Speaker 1: not necessarily as a starter. You know, he can be
Speaker 1: really useful in a multi ending relief role. But the
Speaker 1: Marlins need clarity on Garrett. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: is very steadily getting closer to free agency and is
Speaker 1: again at this moment, I just don't see any justification
Speaker 1: for why he's not on the major league pitching staff
Speaker 1: if you want to, like really explore all the opportunities, like,
Speaker 1: there's no reason why he's not a He could be
Speaker 1: a reliever on this major league pitching staff at the
Speaker 1: very least at this moment, at a time where they
Speaker 1: have Kid Gibson, they have Zach Brooksey. All due respect
Speaker 1: to Zac Broksy, but there's no particular reason why he's
Speaker 1: on this team right now other than if you felt
Speaker 1: like they needed a fresh arm. So Braxing Garrett needs
Speaker 1: to be part of this major league pitching staff immediately.
Speaker 1: I feel more strongly about that than I do about
Speaker 1: Jacob Marcy, for example. In either direction, they just need
Speaker 1: clarity on what he can do and if for whatever
Speaker 1: reason they still are just very skeptical about him being
Speaker 1: a viable starter anymore at the major league level, then
Speaker 1: at least see what he could potentially do out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen at a time where they're just so reliant
Speaker 1: in lefty matchups on John King, who for the most
Speaker 1: part has been incredible this year, but they do need
Speaker 1: a second viable left he Kaid Gibson is not going
Speaker 1: to become that guy. Can't put any expectations whatsoever on
Speaker 1: Andrew Nordy, who's now out within the Troy Johnson treatment,
Speaker 1: you could say, and it's well, it's different than the
Speaker 1: Troy Johnson treatment, and that of course, we've seen him
Speaker 1: at the big league level for a handful of years
Speaker 1: right now. That's really the interesting part. He's making twice
Speaker 1: the money of a minimum salaried player right now, they
Speaker 1: are still paying him that And that's an interesting wrinkle too,
Speaker 1: is that they are paying extra to not have him
Speaker 1: part of the big league team, whereas they're like relying
Speaker 1: on these other very fringe pitchers right now to fill
Speaker 1: out their pitching staff. So I feel like this last
Speaker 1: start really added some clarity to the fact that Braxton
Speaker 1: should be up at the big league level and see
Speaker 1: what you got and then reevaluate from there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. I think there is potential
Speaker 1: for this starting rotation to actually come together quite nicely
Speaker 1: if he is able to flip that switch. But again,
Speaker 1: you just don't know unless you put him in an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do so. He'd be able to face a
Speaker 1: couple solid offenses right away, right off the bat, and
Speaker 1: if he is on this next homestand between the Seattle
Speaker 1: Mariners and the Cleveland Guardians, and it's more so about
Speaker 1: looking towards the next month or so, we're having him
Speaker 1: make a couple starts after the deadline as well, would
Speaker 1: even add more clarity about what's going on. But there's
Speaker 1: overall some relatively good problems to have because they do
Speaker 1: have junk on the verge of returning, and because I
Speaker 1: don't want to skate, I don't want to gloss over
Speaker 1: Tyler Phillips too much. Like Phillips has been good as
Speaker 1: they started starting pitcher. At this point, we already know
Speaker 1: that he's awesome as a reliever, and with the exception
Speaker 1: of one blow upouting against the Phillies, Garrett has been
Speaker 1: very Garrett Phillips has been like a very positive asset
Speaker 1: since he's been stretched out. Overall, so that's a very
Speaker 1: positive development to have too, So I just feel like
Speaker 1: this is the next logical move on the pitching side.
Speaker 1: And then once Junk gets back from his injury, then
Speaker 1: and hopefully knock on wood, that the Anthony Bender situation
Speaker 1: plays out all right. There is some concern, of course,
Speaker 1: that he has a very similar injury it feels like
Speaker 1: to what he had last year that prematurely ended his
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season to his shin. But hopefully he's
Speaker 1: able to return shortly after the All Star break, and then, yeah,
Speaker 1: the pitching staff is never going to be at full strength.
Speaker 1: That's unrealistic for any team, but that's about as close
Speaker 1: as they could get if Garrett comes up, Junk comes
Speaker 1: back from his injury, and Bender has a relatively quick
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Speaker 1: FF Live, I am Eli Sussman pretty deep on the
Speaker 1: Solo show, breaking down where the Marlins stands in the
Speaker 1: middle of this road trip. As is a required, I
Speaker 1: actually need to flash up the National League Wildcard standings.
Speaker 1: I know people love to check in on this, especially
Speaker 1: when the Marlins are so close to where they want
Speaker 1: to be. As of this very moment, half a game
Speaker 1: out of that third and final wildcard spot. The Cubs
Speaker 1: are surging again to take a stronghold at the first
Speaker 1: spot in the Phillies right behind them. So the Marlins
Speaker 1: are battling with the Cardinals, Nashs, the Padres and the
Speaker 1: Pirates and Diamondbacks are still within view for now and
Speaker 1: the time being. You still got to keep it going.
Speaker 1: This stuff changes very This has change so dramatically in
Speaker 1: the course of just a single series. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: the Marlins have only lost about I think one series
Speaker 1: over the last month plus. Since the start of June.
Speaker 1: They've lost one total series, even this Rockies one was
Speaker 1: a split, and that's how they've been able to steadily
Speaker 1: climb to where they are now. At the same time,
Speaker 1: they've flipped in the other direction like they could slide
Speaker 1: pretty dramatically too. I don't think people I saw some
Speaker 1: overreactions just a couple days ago about dreaming big about
Speaker 1: not shifting the focus from the wild card race to
Speaker 1: potentially chasing down the Braves at the top of the
Speaker 1: National League East. The Praiers have been something, but I
Speaker 1: think these past couple of days are a reminder that
Speaker 1: this Marlins team is still pretty flawed. And I think realistically,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make that leap to even bring
Speaker 1: the division into the conversation for a franchise that has
Speaker 1: never won the NL East. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: going to be the year, and they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get a whole lot closer to the praise before I
Speaker 1: even put that on the table for people to consider.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so just going through these comments on everybody
Speaker 1: to see where we're at. Yeah, some of the moves
Speaker 1: that were made tactically over these past couple games to
Speaker 1: deserve scrutiny with the pinch hitting. This has been a
Speaker 1: trend that we've gone over, of course on streams kind
Speaker 1: of all year long, about how the Marlins are very
Speaker 1: strict about platooning and matching up as closely as possible.
Speaker 1: My guy, Isaac gazood his second podcast of the day
Speaker 1: as he's checking in for the final few moments of
Speaker 1: the show as well. Yeah, Isaac, I guess I want
Speaker 1: to get your words just a few minutes after I
Speaker 1: gave my thoughts on on Braxton and the rotation and
Speaker 1: the fact that this is something we've talked about a lot.
Speaker 1: I think we've kind of like glossed over the fact
Speaker 1: that Brax has been so good at Triple A, including
Speaker 1: his most recent outing was like his best one. So
Speaker 1: as watching today as the team gave up fourteen runs
Speaker 1: and a Ryan Gusto led bullpen game, do you think
Speaker 1: we're close to saying Brax get another shot. I know
Speaker 1: we went very poorly for him a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: but the way that I kind of laid it out,
Speaker 1: this is the time where they need some clarity on him.
Speaker 1: He's twenty nine years old, He's pitched parts of like
Speaker 1: six big league seasons. There's in order to get clarity
Speaker 1: in terms of what to do, potentially go out and
Speaker 1: acquire a starter at the deadline. You know, it would
Speaker 1: be great to just give Braxe one more opportunity before
Speaker 1: then and then kind of assess based on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've heard his name and over the last week
Speaker 5: we will definitely see him at one point again.
Speaker 4: I also heard probably Blaylock's name.
Speaker 5: I just think that Braxton, at least he has had
Speaker 5: some sort of opportunity. He's had some sort of monocum
Speaker 5: of success over his pretty pretty lengthy major league career
Speaker 5: at this point, so you know, they don't give him
Speaker 5: a least one more opportunity this season and be a
Speaker 5: little bit surprising. I know, how awful and how uncharacteristically
Speaker 5: bad and wild he looked in his first try up
Speaker 5: this season, and he has looked just as dominant in
Speaker 5: Triple A as he did in that first stint before the.
Speaker 4: Initial call up. But yeah, I mean we did played McCollough.
Speaker 5: How sustainable this bullpen slash Ryan Gusto turns and the
Speaker 5: rotation can be.
Speaker 4: I didn't think Gusto was awful.
Speaker 5: I think maybe they give this turn to the rotation
Speaker 5: one more time, getting out of the West Coast and
Speaker 5: getting out of these hitter paradises.
Speaker 4: So we'll see.
Speaker 5: But they having what nice lengthy home stand to experiment
Speaker 5: with some different arms, because yeah, they're gonna need to
Speaker 5: write the ship quickly.
Speaker 1: M and yeah. So there's three serius left between now
Speaker 1: and the All Star Break for this Marlins team. The
Speaker 1: next one up is against the A's. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: boots on the ground and Sacramento for the weekend series
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Geiger, who's on mostly the streams with us. Part
Speaker 1: of the reason why he's unavailable is he's gonna be
Speaker 1: driving down from Oregon to get all the way to Sacramento.
Speaker 1: Checking another ballpark off our list. Isaac has been responsible
Speaker 1: for checking a lot of the roads ballparks that we've
Speaker 1: done over the course of the few years, and this
Speaker 1: is another one to add to the Ledger. The only
Speaker 1: opportunity this will be the only time for the Marlins
Speaker 1: visit Sacramento because the next time that they play on
Speaker 1: the road against the A's that they'll be in Vegas.
Speaker 1: At this point, the A's are a team that I
Speaker 1: think we're somewhat of a sexy pick entering this year
Speaker 1: just because of how on paper, how deep their offense
Speaker 1: looked led by Nick Kurtz, of course, but with so
Speaker 1: many like standouts to different positions, it's felt like a
Speaker 1: year where they could be a contender for the first
Speaker 1: time in a very long time and bring Major League
Speaker 1: playoff baseball to Sacramento for the first time ever. But Isaac,
Speaker 1: I think they're the Marlins are catching them at a
Speaker 1: pretty good time. They's have lost eight of their last
Speaker 1: eleven games. They were leading their division for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and now they've dropped down to fourth. They got some
Speaker 1: key injuries. They just lost Brent Rooker for the entire year.
Speaker 1: They're without their starting shortstop Jacob Wilson, who was batting
Speaker 1: title contender just last year. They're without Tyler Solderstrom as well,
Speaker 1: they're starting left fielder, and their pitching staff still stinks.
Speaker 1: Like their pitching staff is almost as bad as the Rockies.
Speaker 1: The Marlins aren't going to put up I don't think
Speaker 1: quite as many runs, but they could come pretty close.
Speaker 1: Because this this A's staff collectively for the entire season
Speaker 1: as an Era A Round five, and it's been a
Speaker 1: lot worse than that lately. So, yeah, what do you
Speaker 1: think about the way that things line up for this series,
Speaker 1: these next three games against the A's.
Speaker 5: It's concerning because a lot of times when the Marlins
Speaker 5: are meeting these quote unquote teams at the right time,
Speaker 5: it's sort of they're a green light to play, to
Speaker 5: start playing well again.
Speaker 4: So hopefully that's not the case here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, regarding that pitching staff, I'm not quite sure whether
Speaker 5: to chalk it up to being in that weird ballpark,
Speaker 5: or playing a couple of games in Las Vegas, or
Speaker 5: the fact that they just simply stink. And I think
Speaker 5: it might be the latter in this case. It's just
Speaker 5: gotten a lot of guys past their prime here and
Speaker 5: we'd be remiss not to mention this season Nick Kurtz
Speaker 5: is having some familiar faces on the A's as well.
Speaker 5: But yeah, this is a pretty big series, especially after
Speaker 5: winning the first two in Denver. These first two series
Speaker 5: were sort of maybe layups here for Miami to keep
Speaker 5: the winning going. Losing the last two hurts a little bit.
Speaker 5: I was pretty certain they're gonna win at least three
Speaker 5: out of four going into today, but they're gonna need
Speaker 5: Miami's pitchesing need to show up in a bigger way
Speaker 5: here as well.
Speaker 1: With this A's team, I guess one of the few
Speaker 1: offseason moves they made was adding Jeff McNeil, a long
Speaker 1: time Marlin's killer when he was with the Mets, but
Speaker 1: he's been pretty awful this year for them as like
Speaker 1: their primary second baseman. So he's one of the few guys,
Speaker 1: the few true veterans that they have offensively. And then,
Speaker 1: aside from Kurtz being the obvious one. Shay Langleiers has
Speaker 1: been one of the better all rounds catchers in baseball
Speaker 1: this year, as was the case last year for them.
Speaker 1: So that's coming up. On the pitching side, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Tyler Phillips, it will be Sandy and then Yuri.
Speaker 1: I guess before we go to predictions, I want to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on Uri, because this is a guy
Speaker 1: I was super high on entering the year, and he
Speaker 1: was relative's expectations. He was a bust for that first
Speaker 1: month and a half on Sila's injury, like he was
Speaker 1: just getting hid a lot harder than we felt as should,
Speaker 1: having occasional big lapses and being able to throw strikes
Speaker 1: and overall it was just watching him and covering him.
Speaker 1: It was the intangibles too. It's like things would really
Speaker 1: snowball on him when things went out of whack and
Speaker 1: it didn't feel like he was truly getting it that
Speaker 1: perhaps like he was just gonna be held back from
Speaker 1: actually reaching his potential. And now, including this most recent
Speaker 1: start against the Rockies, he was pretty awesome. He allowed
Speaker 1: an early run and then he immediately shut things down
Speaker 1: from there. So, yeah, how are we feeling about Yuri
Speaker 1: at this point and his potential so far when he's
Speaker 1: been hurt and when Sandy's kind of been up and
Speaker 1: down this season, like Uri still has in my opinion,
Speaker 1: he still has the highest ceiling of any picture on
Speaker 1: this team, like especially I don't think Max now that
Speaker 1: the undefeated streak is over, it wouldn't surprise me at
Speaker 1: all if Uri is the best pitcher on this team
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, and perhaps they kind of
Speaker 1: need him to be if they're actually gonna things are
Speaker 1: gonna pay off. So yeah, at what's your confidence level
Speaker 1: in Uri? Now that he's healthy again and the results
Speaker 1: have been there a couple of starts since coming back
Speaker 1: from injury.
Speaker 5: It's been a tale of two seasons for Uri, with
Speaker 5: that second part of the season being split because of
Speaker 5: that trip to the IL, that short and sweat trip
Speaker 5: to the IL, which I'm worse of fortune.
Speaker 4: The Marls are very lucky that it was as short
Speaker 4: as it was.
Speaker 5: But yeah, with Yura, the first you know, I should
Speaker 5: say more than the first half up until maybe mid
Speaker 5: May was there. He was just walking an uncharacteristically high
Speaker 5: amount of guys and for him that was really weird
Speaker 5: because one of the things that made it was such
Speaker 5: a top prospect in Major League Baseball, was the fact
Speaker 5: that he had that stuff along with such pinpoint control,
Speaker 5: and it just wasn't showing up this season at all.
Speaker 5: In a very strange way too, because then he was
Speaker 5: also getting hit ridiculously hard.
Speaker 4: So it's good to see. I think it was a
Speaker 4: starting against.
Speaker 5: New York where he really threw what was the six
Speaker 5: and thirty intings of one run ball, and since then
Speaker 5: he's only given up tour and runs over his next
Speaker 5: three starts, and that includes his two starts since coming
Speaker 5: off the IL. He looked good in his return since
Speaker 5: being reinstated against Texas. I believe I was covering that game,
Speaker 5: and then, like you mentioned, in Denver, which has been
Speaker 5: a surprisingly good place for him to pitch. I think
Speaker 5: last year he had a pretty good start in course
Speaker 5: field as well. So we've loved what we've seen since
Speaker 5: coming back. We've loved what we've seen since right before
Speaker 5: he went on the IL, so it's good to see
Speaker 5: he didn't lose any steam since going on to the entry.
Speaker 1: M As people I'm here from the chat, the A's
Speaker 1: are one of the teams that are in a very
Speaker 1: similar payroll bracket to the Marlins, but overallto nobody spends
Speaker 1: quite as little as Marlins do on this particular team,
Speaker 1: but it is an interesting matchup from that standpoint, I
Speaker 1: suppose I do have some like vague memories the last
Speaker 1: time that the Marlins played on the road against the A's.
Speaker 1: You remember what notable event happens like two years ago
Speaker 1: when Marlins made the visits of the a Is that's
Speaker 1: when they traded a round. Yeah, moments before the series
Speaker 1: opener of that game is when he was getting hugs
Speaker 1: from the dugout, news was breaking that I got traded
Speaker 1: to San Diego. So that was the last time that
Speaker 1: these teams met on when the Marlins as the road
Speaker 1: team during that series. And you know, overall, not a
Speaker 1: lot of history between them, as you might expect given
Speaker 1: the fact that they are in different leagues and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So before prediction time got to hit our
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Speaker 1: some of those super sub subscriptions, So yeah, we've kind
Speaker 1: of laid out the situation right here, the final road
Speaker 1: series for the Marlins during the first half of the season.
Speaker 1: We're going to get the music going, and then we'll
Speaker 1: go to you, mister Isaac, for your wise predictions for
Speaker 1: these three game set between the Marlins and the A's.
Speaker 5: All right, it's going to be a new ballpark for
Speaker 5: the Miami Marlins. We'll have boots on the ground for
Speaker 5: that one. With that being said, the Marlins they're still hot.
Speaker 5: I'll still call them hot despite losing the last two. Here,
Speaker 5: you got Tyler Phillips. Tomorrow, I think Miami wins two
Speaker 5: out of three in Sacramento. Tim some sort of hots,
Speaker 5: you're going back into Miami. I'm gonna go with Tyler
Speaker 5: Phillips a series MVP.
Speaker 1: All Right. It's been very rare for me to predict
Speaker 1: a Marlins series win this season. I'll have to do
Speaker 1: it here just because the way that the timing of
Speaker 1: this goes with the pitching lines up, I think the
Speaker 1: Marlins are going to take two out of three as
Speaker 1: well from the A's on the road and finished off
Speaker 1: would be a very successful roachrip overall and do a
Speaker 1: three leg road trip, and you don't actually lose any
Speaker 1: of the series. That is an extreme accomplishment, regardless of
Speaker 1: the opponents. And I think the Marlins are gonna do
Speaker 1: it here that offensively. They're going to continue overall what
Speaker 1: they did well in Colorado. Again, the only hang up
Speaker 1: those last two couple games were production with runners in
Speaker 1: scoring position, But I think overall the season the Marlins
Speaker 1: have been fine from that standpoint, so I'm gonna kind
Speaker 1: of write that off as an anomaly. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of focus on Jacob Marcy from fans standpoint, imagine these
Speaker 1: next few games, But as long as the other guys
Speaker 1: in this line take care business and take some of
Speaker 1: the pressure off of him, they'll be fine. And I'll
Speaker 1: go with my serious MVP pick. How about I'll go
Speaker 1: with Xavier Edwards. I haven't gone with him very often
Speaker 1: this season, and he's quietly been playing very well as
Speaker 1: of late. I feel like he gets overshadowed by Otto
Speaker 1: and his leading the league in hitting and then most recently,
Speaker 1: guys that get red hot Javier Snoha in a particular series,
Speaker 1: own casing to another, I think ex Is still is
Speaker 1: extremely reliable. Trust him to be on the field for
Speaker 1: all three games, and yeah, the Marlins take two out
Speaker 1: of three, get back to their winning ways, finally win
Speaker 1: a game in July, set off some fireworks over the weekends.
Speaker 1: On the fourth of July Hidden Balls over the Wall
Speaker 1: at a Sotter Suitor Health Park whatever that is called
Speaker 1: their first and only visit to Sacramento as a Big
Speaker 1: League team. We will wrap up our show right there,
Speaker 1: Eli Susman Isaac azout here on fish on First, Live
Speaker 1: on the Fish on First podcast presented by Jessica rensels O,
Speaker 1: South Florida on the foul Territory Network. Easy for me
Speaker 1: to say if you haven't a ready got the new
Speaker 1: episode of Unfiltered with Isaac and Kevin and AJ. A
Speaker 1: lot of good stuff on there, checking in on hypothetical
Speaker 1: mid season awards that you'd be given out, and additional
Speaker 1: stuff on Marci there from them as well going over it,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more coverage from us coming up.
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll have more streams after every single series,
Speaker 1: and next week I think we'll have a bonus stream
Speaker 1: just because all of a sudden, the MLB Draft is
Speaker 1: upon us too, and that is historically one of our
Speaker 1: most popular shows every single year, so we expect to
Speaker 1: be streaming as the Marlins make their first pick fourteenth
Speaker 1: overall a week from Saturday. More details to come on that,
Speaker 1: and we hope you join us for that very important
Speaker 1: moment with this franchise as well. So a whole out
Speaker 1: of coverage about this Marlins major League team of course,
Speaker 1: everything going on in the pipeline, and ongoing coverage of
Speaker 1: any potential trade scenarios as well. We know that's going
Speaker 1: to overwhelm the conversation as it always does during the
Speaker 1: month of July. Thanks again for all the support for
Speaker 1: tuning into the show. Next episode coming up after the
Speaker 1: A series on Sunday, so follow all our coverage and
Speaker 1: have very happy holiday weekends as always, go fish yeah
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