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

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Speaker 1: Small Pod where we catch you up on everything Marlins

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Speaker 1: in ten minutes or less. So today, the biggest news

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Speaker 1: out of Marlin's camp was Geoe Gonzalez's retirement. He was

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Speaker 1: with the Marlins on a minor league contract and as

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Speaker 1: such not guaranteed a spot on the major league roster,

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Speaker 1: and as spring training comes to its close, Geo decided

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Speaker 1: to hang it up, called a career after thirteen seasons

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Speaker 1: in the major leagues that saw him make two All

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Speaker 1: Star teams. He was in Marlin's spring camp as a

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Speaker 1: veteran pitcher. As a South Florida native, he was looking

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Speaker 1: to close his career with his hometown team. Now we

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Speaker 1: never got to see Geo take the field at Marlins Park,

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Speaker 1: but he did end his career on his own terms,

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Speaker 1: and in a sport like baseball, that's much to be celebrated.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't exactly clear how he would fit into the

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Speaker 1: Marlins plan for their pitching staff in this upcoming season.

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Speaker 1: It's surprising, but it's also not. His presence in camp

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Speaker 1: at all was a pleasant surprise enough. Later in the

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Speaker 1: day Thursday, the Marlins faced off against the Washington Nationals,

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Speaker 1: and they sent six Toho Sanchez to the mount for

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Speaker 1: his final start of spring training. In the first inning,

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Speaker 1: he struck out National's veteran Ryan Zimmerman for his first

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Speaker 1: strikeout of the year. He also faced down Nationals like

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Speaker 1: face of their franchise, Juan Soto, in an eleven pitch

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Speaker 1: at that that did result in a walk, but not

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Speaker 1: before we really saw just how competitive these two players

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Speaker 1: are with each other. They're both young rising stars in

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Speaker 1: the National League East, and we'll probably see a lot

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Speaker 1: more of them come the regular season. In the third,

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Speaker 1: six to Oh ran into some trouble. On his first pitch,

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Speaker 1: he hit Brandon Snyder to start the inning. Then Victor

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Speaker 1: Roeblace hit a double, and it felt as though the

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Speaker 1: game could get out of hand, but six to doh

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Speaker 1: recorded three outs and only allowed one run. It took

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Speaker 1: some heads up fielding by Brian Anderson to get an

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Speaker 1: out at home and a diving play by Jesu's Aguilar

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Speaker 1: to really get out of the inning by limiting the damage,

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Speaker 1: but the fact that six doh was able to contain

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Speaker 1: it back in pulled it together. Throw strikes and induce

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Speaker 1: ground balls speaks to his maturity as a pitcher. He

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Speaker 1: closed the inning with a strikeout against a new National,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. He started him off with a slider, when

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Speaker 1: to the slider through his curveball, then his change, and

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Speaker 1: if Kyle Schwarber had been like sitting on fastball to

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Speaker 1: that point in the at bat, he was not ready

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Speaker 1: for it when six to oh Blue ninety nine by

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Speaker 1: him for a swinging strike and a strikeout. The plan

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Speaker 1: is for six to zero to make another start at

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Speaker 1: the alternative training site this next week, but after that

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Speaker 1: we're in the regular season, and his stuff looks like

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Speaker 1: it's all there. Also in this game, we got a

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Speaker 1: great look at Jazz Chisholm, who let off started at

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Speaker 1: second to start the game. He took a walk, then

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Speaker 1: he stole second, then he stole third, Then he scored

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Speaker 1: on a sacrifice fly. Later he took another walk, stole second,

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Speaker 1: scored on a single, and in his third bat he

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Speaker 1: closed out his night with a single of his own,

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Speaker 1: closing his night with three stolen bay one hit, two walks,

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Speaker 1: and with the power he's already shown in the spring training.

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Speaker 1: Appearances are that he has won the second base job

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Speaker 1: and that he'll start opening Day, but there's been no

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Speaker 1: guarantee of that. For me, when I see him play,

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Speaker 1: it's hard not to look at the power and speed

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Speaker 1: and see a bit of former Marlin Hanley Ramirez, who

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Speaker 1: would start out a game and hit a home run

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Speaker 1: or hit a single and steal his way into scoring position.

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Speaker 1: Also in this game, we saw four strong innings by

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Speaker 1: Nick knightert he located his four pitch mix. He gave

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Speaker 1: up one run, one walk, and struck out five of

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Speaker 1: his fifty four pitches thirty eight or strikes, and importantly,

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Speaker 1: twelve times the Nationals swung and missed at his pitches,

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Speaker 1: which tells us that he's hard to hit. And with

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Speaker 1: a week left till Opening Day, this Marlin's pitching staff

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Speaker 1: looks like it has a really good problem where they

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Speaker 1: have more competent potential starting pitchers then they have spots

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Speaker 1: available in the rotation. Undoubtedly we'll see some of these

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Speaker 1: players start out in TRIPAA Jacksonville, but with the upcoming

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two game season, it's very clear

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Speaker 1: that we'll see some of these players later in the year,

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Speaker 1: even if they don't make the opening day roster. The

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Speaker 1: Marlins close their game with the win seven to three,

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Speaker 1: and coming up, they have three more games left in

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Speaker 1: spring training. Tonight they'll send Trevor Rodgers to face the

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Speaker 1: Houston Astros, Tomorrow, they'll face the Cardinals, and they'll close

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Speaker 1: out their season against the New York Mets on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Along with that, we'll see the opening day roster finalized

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Speaker 1: and expect many of these pitchers to be all around

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Speaker 1: the Marlins this season, regardless of whether or not they're

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Speaker 1: on that final roster. This is a situation where the

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Speaker 1: team just has too much of a good thing, and

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Speaker 1: I think we as fans will benefit. Even Don maddene

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Speaker 1: after the game reiterated that they're done giving opportunities to

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Speaker 1: players and what they're doing now is looking for who

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Speaker 1: gives them the best shot to win. So over the

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Speaker 1: next week we'll see the Marlins do exactly that. They'll

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Speaker 1: be putting together their final roster and getting set for

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Speaker 1: April first and the one hundred and sixty two games

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Speaker 1: after that. So until then this weekend you can check

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Speaker 1: out those games, audio will at least be provided for

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Speaker 1: all of them, and check out Fish Stripes go on.

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Speaker 1: Today's your last day to vote for the Marlins Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame this twenty twenty one induction, and we also

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Speaker 1: have our season previous series where we're looking through every pitcher,

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Speaker 1: every hitter, every potential player on this twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: Marlins team has a feature up and it's great to

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Speaker 1: just parse through to get to know or refamiliar eyes

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Speaker 1: in the case of some of these bullpen players that

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Speaker 1: Kim A curated probably get to know, but in the

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Speaker 1: case of players like Nick Knier, Trevor Rodgers, Daniel Castano,

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Speaker 1: it's great just to check in see where they're at,

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Speaker 1: what to expect this year, and we have all that

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Speaker 1: content there. Feel free to chime in. This is the

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Speaker 1: sort of season to be excited about. At least it

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Speaker 1: feels like that based on where we're at. It's already

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Speaker 1: been an exciting year, and hopefully we'll have more to

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Speaker 1: talk about as this and progresses, as this weekend and

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Speaker 1: into next week progresses. Check us out. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: to your ears on Monday, and until then we'll be

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