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Speaker 1: Today is March twenty fourth, and this is Big Fish

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Speaker 1: Small Pod where we take a look at every day's news, developments,

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Speaker 1: and games for the twenty twenty one My New Marlins season.

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Speaker 1: So today, on March twenty fourth, we have an off day.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins are actually completing their last off day in

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Speaker 1: spring training before they finish out the preseason against the Nationals,

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Speaker 1: the Astros, the Cardinals, and the Mets. Yesterday, on March

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Speaker 1: twenty third, the Marlins faced off against Marcus Stroman and

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Speaker 1: the New York Mets. Seems like he's going to slot

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Speaker 1: in as like the mets number two starter, a player

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Speaker 1: who no doubt the Marlins will face when the games

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Speaker 1: start to really count, and Rizzy will count in this

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Speaker 1: seemingly a fierce National LEAGUEESET vision. So what we saw

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Speaker 1: in yesterday's game really boils down to had a lot.

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Speaker 1: Really The final score was five to three in favor

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Speaker 1: of the Mets. The Marlins pretty much have already clinched

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Speaker 1: a winning record for spring training. Not that a record

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Speaker 1: even matters, because the players aren't even giving one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent rightfully, So I don't mean to say even it's

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Speaker 1: just the fact of the matter is that yesterday's five

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Speaker 1: to three loss. In the first inning, you look at it.

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Speaker 1: Sterlan Marte hit a ball that went out of the ballpark,

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Speaker 1: called a double by the umpires and just was a

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Speaker 1: double because they don't have replay in the spring. Later

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Speaker 1: that same inning, Bryan Anderson hit what would be a

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Speaker 1: three run home run but was also called foul by

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Speaker 1: the umpires.

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Speaker 2: Regular's getting a big lead out there. It's second with

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Speaker 2: two apps, and Anderson hits one toward the left field

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Speaker 2: corner and will drop full on the chat walk. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a three. Well, there you go, a three run homer.

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Speaker 2: At least for now. Hunter Wendelsteed's already marching toward the

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Speaker 2: third base umpire Carlos store Is to talk about this.

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Speaker 1: That final score of five to three doesn't tell the

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Speaker 1: whole story. The scorer doesn't really tell the story. There's

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Speaker 1: not much of a story in any individual spring training game.

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Speaker 1: But what we can see is we saw Daniel Castano start.

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Speaker 1: He seems like he's going to slot in as something

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Speaker 1: spot starter for the Marlins, generally working in tripa A Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: but coming up potentially to start throw some innings. He

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Speaker 1: located four pitches he threw a forcing fastball, a slider,

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Speaker 1: a changeup, and a sinker for strikes. He pitched three

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Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, struck out six Mets, gave up

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Speaker 1: three runs on five hits. What's his by all means

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Speaker 1: the sort of production you hope to get from this

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Speaker 1: sort of player. He is that sort of like spot

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Speaker 1: starter type. Anthony Bender came into the game. He's a

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Speaker 1: player who's not on the forty men roster and thus

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Speaker 1: likely to start in triple A as well. He came

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Speaker 1: in and showed some frankly good stuff. He flashed ninety

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Speaker 1: seven on his fastball, if he threw a slider that

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Speaker 1: made JD. Davis look as silly by just making him

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Speaker 1: swing out of the zone. That sort of like swinging

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Speaker 1: miss potential is the sort of thing you like in

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Speaker 1: a minor leaguer that couldn't potentially be a major leaguer

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Speaker 1: with swings and misses. That's the sort of thing you

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Speaker 1: like to see in a spring training game. And Anthony Bender,

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Speaker 1: who again will likely start in the minors to start

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Speaker 1: this year, seems like he could be an asset in

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Speaker 1: this Marlin's bullpen. But for me, really, really the latest

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Speaker 1: development in the Marlin spring training situation is that it

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Speaker 1: seems like Jazz Chisholm should be the favorite for the

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Speaker 1: second base job, something of a surprise over the seeming

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Speaker 1: incumbent Isan Diaz, who didn't really play much in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty when there was the COVID nineteen outbreak amongst the players,

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Speaker 1: he did not get sick, but he did opt out

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Speaker 1: of the season. Today he did play for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: He had three at bats, he did not get a hit.

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Speaker 1: He swaying at seven pitches and missed on four of

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Speaker 1: those times. And as much as players might go to

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Speaker 1: a game without really a strategy in spring training or

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Speaker 1: trying to work on something else, by no means as

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Speaker 1: a player ever trying to not hit the ball, which

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Speaker 1: do you kind of don't want to be that critical.

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Speaker 1: It is spring training, after all, and asan Diaz is

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Speaker 1: still a player that shows some power at the plays

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Speaker 1: and shows ability to hit, an ability that he could

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Speaker 1: potentially be like one of those players that you'd like

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Speaker 1: coming up for the Marlins with the game on the line,

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Speaker 1: you might seem as like a bat off the bench.

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Speaker 1: You might, I mean, he could potentially start as a

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Speaker 1: second basement but it doesn't seem like he has it

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Speaker 1: all together at this moment, understandably, so he hasn't really

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Speaker 1: played much professionally in since like twenty nineteen, and it's

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and if you look at this Marlins team,

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Speaker 1: is he who you get the best shot at winning

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Speaker 1: with At the moment, he might not be what I

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Speaker 1: think seems like a reasonable outcome, provided that, like a

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Speaker 1: San Diez, is committed to refining his swing and becoming

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Speaker 1: a better hitter. It feels as though jazzism could slot

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Speaker 1: in as like you're generally speaking everyday second basement, give

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Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas some days off at short play jazz potentially

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Speaker 1: every day if you'd like his He's like the number

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Speaker 1: sixty six prospect on MLB pipeline. Some experts have him

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Speaker 1: higher than that. His tools are pretty off the charts,

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Speaker 1: and he's hit just some like like bangers of home

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Speaker 1: runs this spring, so you like to see that flash

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Speaker 1: and ability, and if he's putting it together, you want

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Speaker 1: him every day on the field. So it's hard to

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Speaker 1: discount that. But it's also hard to say that Miguel

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Speaker 1: Rojas should have a day off of shore. He's been

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Speaker 1: outstanding certainly compared to expectations, and as a leader on

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Speaker 1: this team, he's been a real standout, so maybe it's

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Speaker 1: something like but the ideal outcome seems to be something

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Speaker 1: along the lines of Jassism getting a lot of that

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Speaker 1: bats y'all, Rolas getting a lot of that. That's he's

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Speaker 1: not Diaz getting up chances to improve and develop, and

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Speaker 1: potentially he'll be on this major league roster as a

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Speaker 1: middle infielder. He would give this team some flexibility. He's

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Speaker 1: in the past played some third base in the Puerto

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Speaker 1: Rican Winter League, so there is some versatility to work

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Speaker 1: with there. But for now it is all speculation until

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Speaker 1: Kim Ang finalizes the roster and until the Marlin's intentions

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Speaker 1: going into this season are really clear. We know that

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Speaker 1: they want to win now and we're going to do

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Speaker 1: whatever they can to do that, but exactly how it

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Speaker 1: plays out is something we'll see over the next week

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Speaker 1: or so, so stay tuned to find it out. Over

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Speaker 1: on Fish Stripes, we are doing the Marlins Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voting, so check that out and vote. I get

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Speaker 1: it this couple days ago. It was a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun and really cool just to see all the different

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Speaker 1: eras of Marlin's history. So definitely thank you for tuning in.

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