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Speaker 1: On this big fish small pod. We're covering the Miguel

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Speaker 1: Rojas contract extension. We'll look back a little bit at

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Speaker 1: Eddie Alvarez, who might make a little more sense now,

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Speaker 1: and we'll try to wrap our heads around this December

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Speaker 1: first lockout or so it appears on the horizon. So

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Speaker 1: I'm Atie Wardhal this is bigfish small pod. What we're

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Speaker 1: covering today really begins with the news that Miguel Rojas

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Speaker 1: will be in Miami at least through twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: extending his contract. It'll be about like ten million total

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Speaker 1: for twenty two and twenty three. Jeremy Tashe really like

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Speaker 1: said it all on Twitter that Miguel Rojas already mentioning

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Speaker 1: how even if he's not the shortstop long term, he

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Speaker 1: wants to be the best he can for however, long

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Speaker 1: before transition into a utility role later in his career. Really,

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Speaker 1: what that speaks to is a maturity that the Marlins

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Speaker 1: organization hasn't really had, even like talking back like two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three, like when the Marlins were like at

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Speaker 1: the World Series like heights. Yeah, Like it's not like

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Speaker 1: Josh Beckett had his most composed years as Marlin or

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Speaker 1: Michael Cabrera, both of whom reached like career highs elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: This sort of move is like something that's distinctly different

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Speaker 1: than the Marlins of the past. So, like looking at

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Speaker 1: how the Marlins line up now as of today, look

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Speaker 1: into like twenty twenty two contracts, they have about like

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Speaker 1: forty four million committed, including like arbitration estimates, not including

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Speaker 1: like your minimum wage. That's like just like what the

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Speaker 1: organization has like committed to the payroll beyond the bare minimum.

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Speaker 1: We're not like sure these are like spock tracks, bo

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Speaker 1: traxx numbers and estimates for arbitration salaries. Obviously we don't

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Speaker 1: know what like Jesus Aguilar, Brian Anderson, Sandy al Contra

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Speaker 1: might receive going forward, but like their estimated salaries now,

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Speaker 1: Jesus expected about eight million, Brian about four and a half,

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Speaker 1: Sandy about four and a half. Those are your other

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Speaker 1: major salaries on this Marlins team. As we look to

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Speaker 1: these weeks ahead, we could see them lock in their

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three salary as well.

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Speaker 1: There's like real opportunity in these coming weeks to creatively

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Speaker 1: collaboratively elevate players with a mind for the World Series

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Speaker 1: and like committing to the Marlins, like baseball in Florida

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Speaker 1: ahead of like a time, it's hard to like pause reset.

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Speaker 1: Really what we're looking at is this December first lockout.

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Speaker 1: Baseball's like headed for it. Who like knows what it

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Speaker 1: could entail. The writing has like really just like been

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Speaker 1: on the wall. To recap briefly, like some major league

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Speaker 1: teams spend like one hundred and twenty million more than

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Speaker 1: like a team like the Marlins do, and there are

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Speaker 1: like plenty of other teams like the Marlins who haven't

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Speaker 1: really committed that much money to players on the field. Basically,

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Speaker 1: like the principle is like if you like win, fans

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Speaker 1: will come. People like baseball, people like days out. There's

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Speaker 1: like obviously a real argument for enjoying baseball. I think

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Speaker 1: we can all be on the same page about that.

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Speaker 1: And owners some are like claiming to be losing money, Well,

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Speaker 1: like the Marlins, they've basically had a valuation of one

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Speaker 1: point two billion dollars and it's not clear where these

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Speaker 1: owners could be losing anywhere near that type of money

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Speaker 1: or if it's about a matter of committing to the

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Speaker 1: roster that him they raised for example, they like had

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Speaker 1: their Montreal kick this whole I don't even want to

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Speaker 1: talk about it, but their Montreal kick it really took

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Speaker 1: the focus off the field, where they made the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and dominated in the regular season, while they were basically

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Speaker 1: like biting at the very idea of baseball in Saint

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Speaker 1: Pete and simultaneously like letting some players get away. Miguel

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Speaker 1: Rojas stands against that. Well. He also represents the miming

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Speaker 1: Mo Marlins to the players Union. It's hard not to

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Speaker 1: get like high minded about that because it's like the

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Speaker 1: exact dynamics with the Marlins that make us all think

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Speaker 1: they're poised for a breakout locking in their players earlier

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Speaker 1: ahead of that, Like whatever it is, basically, whatever this

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Speaker 1: lockout is is just it's you know, it's it's like

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Speaker 1: a toxic conflict. If the Marlins can avoid being any

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Speaker 1: part of it, that's absolutely what you want. Maybe Miguel

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Speaker 1: Rojas is a player who's like leading by example among

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Speaker 1: other players, and I think we like there's a pretty

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Speaker 1: solid argument that he is. What we're looking at here

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Speaker 1: is hopefully the groundwork for the pivot and commitment to

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Speaker 1: the near future. The Rojas contract extension also helps reframe

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Speaker 1: Eddie Alvarez's departure from the organization. On paper, the move

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Speaker 1: didn't really like make that much sense why the Marlins

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Speaker 1: would want a player like Eddie Alvarez to get away

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Speaker 1: from the organization. But now knowing where we stand as

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Speaker 1: like an organization, with Miguel Rojas as the like potential

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Speaker 1: like utility guy of the future, we were looking at

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Speaker 1: a roster spot with Eddie Alvarez that looks like less

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Speaker 1: and less likely to be his. Basically he was pinched

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Speaker 1: out of the future plan with Miguel Rojas there. And

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Speaker 1: obviously you've got other players there like Bryce and Brickman

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Speaker 1: Er Jose Devers just to name literally two of that

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Speaker 1: like five or six guys who are in that conversation

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Speaker 1: for the infield of the future as well as your

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Speaker 1: you know, current infield. It might have been a matter

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Speaker 1: of just really good transparent conversation between Eddie and Marlin's

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Speaker 1: decision makers. They could have sat him down, looked at

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Speaker 1: the future determined that like the path forward wasn't the

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Speaker 1: right for him as a you know, like a person

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Speaker 1: transitioning from another Olympic level career into what he is

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Speaker 1: now with like from what I understand, like a wife

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Speaker 1: who's like truly like the bread weather in the family,

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Speaker 1: as like a successful real estate agent. So with him,

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Speaker 1: it makes all the sense in the world that just

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Speaker 1: a good conversation could have led to the path of

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Speaker 1: Ady Alvarez testing the market as a minor league free

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Speaker 1: agent and then he could come back around later on

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Speaker 1: to the Marlins in the off season, if you know,

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Speaker 1: if it just works out like that, there's just a

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Speaker 1: last day, been a lot of clarity in Marlin's decision

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Speaker 1: making that has a lot of potential to do a

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Speaker 1: lot of good. For the most it sounds like the

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Speaker 1: Marlins are really considering the stakeholders in their decisions, everyone

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Speaker 1: who could be impacted by it appropriately addressing their power

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Speaker 1: going forward. And that's a really really optimistic look at

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Speaker 1: where this Marlins off season could be headed. Tonight, we

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Speaker 1: have Game three of the World Series Lewis Garcia versus

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Speaker 1: Ian Anderson at Truest Park in Cobb County, Georgia. The

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Speaker 1: team from Atlanta is playing against the twenty seventeen champion

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Speaker 1: Houston Astros tied one to one. Even if you haven't

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Speaker 1: been watching, it's totally worth your attention that the top

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Speaker 1: of the league has been so stagnant with the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: the Astros, the Red Sox. Those are your recent champions

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Speaker 1: along with your National League East like Wildcard. A lot

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Speaker 1: of the same teams have been in the World Series,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of those same teams have won it.

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Speaker 1: The Braves, like the Nationals, are another like one off

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Speaker 1: World Series appearance in this past five years. The Rays

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Speaker 1: are too, but they certainly figure to be positioned for more.

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Speaker 1: The Braves could be two. And I can't get over

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Speaker 1: the fact that I saw on MLB dot com article

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Speaker 1: comparing the World Series teams like positioned by position and

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Speaker 1: m Devall was the center fielder of in that conversation

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Speaker 1: as the best center fielder in the World Series. Just

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Speaker 1: blows my mind a little bit just how bad first

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Speaker 1: the position can be. Anyways, thank you for listening to

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