David Lorela

And so Hicks, you know, I know local people, you know, go nuts for, you know, whenever someone comes home.

I know, you know, your audience will probably be aware that I'm furious that Davis Schneider's been sent down to the minor leagues.

Same high school, right?

Local chauvinism goes a long way, but yeah, the same high school.

And so, you know, Hicks, I imagine, will be a fan favorite out there, but also, you know, watch out for Xavier Edwards.

They've got a ton of good young pitching, too, whether that's the Major League level or that sort of AAA level.

I think we're going to start to see every 15 years a great all-25-and-under Marlins rotation appears out of the mist.

I think we could be on the verge of that happening again with guys like Robbie Snelling and Max Meyer.

And so I like that...

I don't know if I could zoom out a little bit.

You know, you mentioned Bendix targeting these kind of guys.

I think the biggest advancement in the way front offices work or the way that, you know, Sabermetrics, if you want to call it that.

works is the difference in between good teams and bad teams over the past, you know, 10 to 15 years, it's not who knows the most it's who knows what they're good at and who doesn't.

And that ability to self scout and have that self-awareness and target.

Okay.

Like we have, we know we have a good approach for pitchers with these physical attributes in this pitch mix.

You know, we can, we know we can take a, you know, a sinker slider guy, TJ McCotter and turn him into a monster.

And, you know, we're going to get, uh,

We're going to keep trading for other teams, guys like that in low A, and turn Chris Sanchez from a non-prospect into probably the Cy Young favorite right now.

And so the Marlins are doing that with guys, these low bat speed, high approach, high contact guys.