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Speaker 1: Welcome to Big Fish Smallpod. I'm a t Verdall, and

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Speaker 1: today we're looking back at last night's matchup between Hayesus

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Speaker 1: Lozardo and Eric Fetti. Has the Marlins faced the Nationals

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Speaker 1: the middle game of their series in Washington ahead of

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Speaker 1: today's closing game of the series at Nationals Park featuring

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Speaker 1: a matchup between Trevor Rodgers and Josh Rogers, who I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you has some interesting numbers. But first last night,

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Speaker 1: haz Lozardo against Eric Fetti. Interesting pitching matchups. You have

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Speaker 1: like a super talented Jesus Lozardo who's just like has

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Speaker 1: dominant stuff, and then Eric Fetti, who has a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Truly, he like pitched like a cardinal. I

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Speaker 1: guess dissect that a little bit what I mean about that.

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Speaker 1: But Eric Fetti, last time he faced the Marlins, he

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Speaker 1: struck out ten. Last night he struck out eight at

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Speaker 1: about five innings of work. Yeah, I don't like saying

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Speaker 1: it either, but really the story of the game was

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Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. Jesus is Zardo, he was like it's tough

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Speaker 1: into trouble early was pretty straightforward. Like Ryan Zimmerman took

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Speaker 1: him deep in the first time through the order, and

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Speaker 1: it made like all the sense in the world that

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Speaker 1: like Ryan Zimmerman, this veteran who has seen it all,

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Speaker 1: would be able to see through this developing picture, know

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Speaker 1: what's coming and then really put a blast on it,

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Speaker 1: have an impact squig. That was the damage the first

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Speaker 1: time through a solo home run by Ryan Zimmerman. The

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Speaker 1: Marlins didn't really do much the first time through the order.

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Speaker 1: Laywan Diaz had a promising foul ball, some kind of

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Speaker 1: ugly swing as a missus. Eric Fetti's curveball was really

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Speaker 1: working on these Marlins hitters, and like Jesus Sanchez was

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Speaker 1: taking big swings but missing. It wasn't until the second

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Speaker 1: time through the order but the Marlins got on the

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Speaker 1: board with a Leywin Diaz solo home run. He seemed

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Speaker 1: to get like a good read on a pitch, a

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Speaker 1: it's tough to like look at this Marlins team as

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Speaker 1: like one consolidated team at this point. To me, when

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Speaker 1: I'm like watching I you're looking at like Hayesus Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: Leywan Diaz two like players who entered twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: in TRIPAA. They started out in the mind leagues. Their

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Speaker 1: season wasn't built around trying to make it to the

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Speaker 1: playoffs that year. They had this other goal first, they

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Speaker 1: had to break into the major leagues. So they were

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Speaker 1: on like a distinctly different path from like Miguel Rojas.

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Speaker 1: Despite the fact that they did debut in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: they still had to break out of that like shell

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Speaker 1: of the like the egg that is the minor leagues,

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Speaker 1: you know, like pecking like their their Marlin's bill through

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Speaker 1: the egg. I'm realizing that fish dew actually like lay

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Speaker 1: eggs and marlins are no exceptions. But the last week

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Speaker 1: Jesus Sanchez and Layman Diaz, who have broken through that shell,

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Speaker 1: have really cemented themselves with some just impact swings that

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Speaker 1: they are just like still like above that line out

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Speaker 1: of the egg. In this one lay when Diaz had

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Speaker 1: a second home run totally at that point though it

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Speaker 1: was a game not quite within reach, and he did

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Speaker 1: provide basically the entire offense for the team. Well. The

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Speaker 1: second time through, the Nationals started to like get to Lozardo.

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Speaker 1: Juan Soto had an RBI, making the game two to

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Speaker 1: one at the time, I think, like around the fifth inning,

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Speaker 1: the Nationals had scored a run because of Ryan Zimmerman,

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Speaker 1: this like uber veteran, this like organizational, like identity guy,

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Speaker 1: going back to like two thousand and five. He caused

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Speaker 1: that was it until the third time through the order,

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Speaker 1: four to one in favor of the Nationals, and the

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Speaker 1: Marlins weren't able to come back again. The offense was

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Speaker 1: limited just to those Lewin Diaz home runs, and Eric

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Speaker 1: Fetti kept the Marlins off balance. To me, what I

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Speaker 1: saw with him why, I saw him as like a

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Speaker 1: like a Cardinals type pitcher. He showed like a developed arsenally.

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Speaker 1: He pitched with like five pitches, a couple of different

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Speaker 1: He was regularly sitting like low nineties, high eighties around

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Speaker 1: approach him like that, also approach them with like literally

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Speaker 1: what has worked in the past. Some players just don't

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Speaker 1: what's worked in the past because they just haven't had

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Speaker 1: a chance to succeed at all. But Eric Fetti mixed

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Speaker 1: some pitches against a Marlins lineup that is like it

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Speaker 1: was lacking a vet like a Ryan Zimmerman, someone that

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Speaker 1: team what they saw, and they're lacking that like Superstar

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Speaker 1: one Soto hitter, So Miguel Rojas having the night off

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Speaker 1: for instance. As far as like veterancy on the Marlins

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Speaker 1: goes is significant, as far as like winning games. In

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Speaker 1: the game last night, there were plenty of swings that

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Speaker 1: showed promise from plenty of players in the Marlins lineup.

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Speaker 1: There's like absolutely reason to believe that these are guys

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Speaker 1: that could put it together, especially over an offseason going

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Speaker 1: doing what worked before. There's no adjustment to be made yet.

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Speaker 1: It's like approve it time. Pair that with a talented

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Speaker 1: pitching staff like hayesus Lozardo is still like that guy.

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Speaker 1: He was able to go through two times through the lineup,

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Speaker 1: only got hurt really by like the guys that you

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Speaker 1: think are exceptional on that Nationals roster. The Washington Nationals

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Speaker 1: offense clearly is thinner after the trade deadline. They don't

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Speaker 1: knowledge is there, that exemplary hitter is there, they have

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Speaker 1: some key positions in place at the plate to rebuild around,

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Speaker 1: to rebuild with. Despite their position in fifth place in

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Speaker 1: the National League East behind Miami, it definitely feels like

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Speaker 1: their offenses in the strike zone, not that hayesus Lozardo

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Speaker 1: seemed to be at his absolute best. No swings and

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Speaker 1: misses on the kerb ball definitely sets off an alarm,

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Speaker 1: not like an alarm so much as be scared going forward,

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Speaker 1: be a little inconsistent. It is like the end of

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Speaker 1: the year, so fatigue and exhaustion, both of those like

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Speaker 1: bad days and some needed adjustments, and it's September and

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Speaker 1: the baseball hasn't necessarily been going well exactly, so there's

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Speaker 1: a lot on the plate and a whole off season

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Speaker 1: to really chew it and grow ahead of a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two where again it looks like not a single

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Speaker 1: National League East team will be anything close to a

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Speaker 1: laughing stock anyways, Checking quickly in on the miners, Monte

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Speaker 1: Harrison had a pretty good game for Jacksonville, got a hit,

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Speaker 1: two bases. Really, looking at that box score, it's totally

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Speaker 1: like warped from earlier in the year. With so many promotions,

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Speaker 1: Monte Harrison and some catchers Nick Fortes, Peyton Henry seem

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Speaker 1: like perhaps the most inclined to push to the majors

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Speaker 1: soon from an actual mile high vantage point, but no

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Speaker 1: one in the starting lineup for Jacksonville has an OPS

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Speaker 1: over eight hundred. Nick Knighter got the start for Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: did not record an out, allowing, however, for runs the

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Speaker 1: Norfolk Tide to beat the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. That Pensacola

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Speaker 1: score is similarly looking warped, with cam Meisener's name at

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Speaker 1: the top and leading the leading the team in OPS.

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Speaker 1: Ad a good night last night. While looking down the lineup,

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Speaker 1: I just can't help but imagine an off season for

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Speaker 1: JJ Bleday, that's not focused on conditioning and more focused

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Speaker 1: five strikeouts in his five innings of two run ball.

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Speaker 1: to two, Troy Johnston's name stuck out as a poor

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Speaker 1: hit night for him. Turbuloit and Jordan Hollowag had a

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Speaker 1: rehab inning in Jupiter, followed by Luis Felasius start that

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Speaker 1: was solid but not quite enough as the Jupiter Hammerheads

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Speaker 1: fell two to one against the Port of Saint Lucy Metz. Today,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins will face the Nationals again. One oh five

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Speaker 1: is the start Trevor Rodgers against Josh Rogers. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: Josh Rogers some kind of fun numbers drafting the eleventh round,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty third overall, about thirty six major

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Speaker 1: league innings like an eight era overall so far in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, about twelve innings, a three earned run average.

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Speaker 1: A twenty seven year old lefty Josh Rogers versus Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year candidate Trevor Rogers again at the start

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Speaker 1: soon for the deciding game of this Marlins Nationals series.

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Speaker 1: For the podcast, I Have Been Where Dal, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening. We'll be back with you tomorrow with another

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Speaker 1: episode of The Big Fish Small pud Uh. Daniel Rodriguez

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Speaker 1: on Fish Drives, we will get you covered with all

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Speaker 1: things Miami Marlins headed in to an exciting offseason as

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Speaker 1: we look forward two. The season is still going on

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Speaker 1: and truly I want every win the Marlins can get