Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to the Philly Show.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Junior Jim Salisbury. I'm todd so lucky. It is Monday,
Speaker 2: July one, twenty twenty four. First three days of life
Speaker 2: with the Phillies without Bryce Harper and kyleesh Warber.
Speaker 3: They went on the IL on Thursday.
Speaker 2: They are two and one and it's been kind of,
Speaker 2: I guess, maybe kind of what you would expect, guys,
Speaker 2: after losing those two and then you have JT already
Speaker 2: JT Realmuto on the IL.
Speaker 3: They get an incredible.
Speaker 2: Pitching performance sign from Christopher Sanchez on Friday shutout, they
Speaker 2: lose Saturday, did not a very great game, and then
Speaker 2: Sunday they just win a totally ugly affair. They commit
Speaker 2: five errors, but they come back as their biggest comeback
Speaker 2: winned the season Trey Turner with a big hit late
Speaker 2: on his birthday, and it just seems like this is
Speaker 2: the way it's gonna kind of have to be until
Speaker 2: Harper and Schwarber come back and Ria Muto come back.
Speaker 2: They've got their lean on that starting pitching and they're
Speaker 2: just gonna have to try. However, they can to eke
Speaker 2: out some wins even if they are ugly like they
Speaker 2: were yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, I thought it was huge that they
Speaker 4: came up with that win yesterday Sunday, even though, as
Speaker 4: you said, it was ugly, thirteen men left on base,
Speaker 4: the errors were, you know, just ugly. Fortunately, the Marlins
Speaker 4: were pretty much just as ugly. But you know, there
Speaker 4: was a couple of little silver linings in there. I mean,
Speaker 4: Ranger didn't pitch well the two nights before they got
Speaker 4: excellent starts. They only won one of those games behind
Speaker 4: Christopher Sanchez. So not a lot of runs on Friday
Speaker 4: and Saturday, but they did score a bunch of runs
Speaker 4: on Sunday. They did overcome a deficit. Again, there was
Speaker 4: a you know, an element of a gift in it.
Speaker 4: I mean, Tim Anderson makes that error on a uh
Speaker 4: surefire double play ball and opens the uh gate for
Speaker 4: the Phillies to begin their comeback. But nonetheless, the middle
Speaker 4: of the order, the middle of the Phillies order did
Speaker 4: barrel some balls up. You know. Castiano swung it good.
Speaker 4: He had he had four hits, right, I mean, he
Speaker 4: had a couple of really big ones. Uh Bohm had
Speaker 4: a big home run. So the middle of the order,
Speaker 4: you know, Marsh and those guys did come through. They
Speaker 4: they did, you know, bail out Rangers, Suarez so and
Speaker 4: even you know with with you know out without real
Speaker 4: Mudo and Harper, uh and Schwarber, you know, you you're
Speaker 4: losing a lot of slug. You're gonna have to manufacture runs.
Speaker 4: And I thought, you know that seventh inning, Marshawn, you know,
Speaker 4: you parlay two walks. Marshawn lays down a bun. I
Speaker 4: mean that was old school textbook baseball. Good job. And
Speaker 4: then Trey Turner comes up and drives a base hit
Speaker 4: to you know, really the biggest hit of the game.
Speaker 4: So though it was ugly, I think you take it
Speaker 4: because without Harper, without Schwarber, and with the real Mudo
Speaker 4: being up, with real Mudo being out as well. Man,
Speaker 4: if you could play five hundred a little over five
Speaker 4: hundred to oft these big guns, I think you're doing
Speaker 4: pretty good given where you already are, with the where
Speaker 4: you have banked so many wins. And then you're gonna
Speaker 4: get those guys back mid July, and we talked so
Speaker 4: much about the trade deadline, but those are three big
Speaker 4: July acquisitions. So I'm okay even though it was ugly
Speaker 4: and they didn't score a lot of runs early in
Speaker 4: that series, I'm okay with the way they got through it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pretty good effort overall, just being
Speaker 3: able to stay resilient enough to stay in that game
Speaker 3: and win it. There were so many ways that they
Speaker 3: could have just folded because Ranger didn't you know, didn't
Speaker 3: throw the ball very well. He struggled with he couldn't
Speaker 3: make the pitch with two outs. Marlins came up as
Speaker 3: a lot of big two out base hits, which are
Speaker 3: sort of demoralizing for a team. But this is a
Speaker 3: super resilient team. It's We've shown that time and time
Speaker 3: again from the from the twenty twenty two season on.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of the most resilient teams I've
Speaker 3: ever seen. They've lost some tough games, they bounce back,
Speaker 3: they have a tough inning, they bounce back, they make
Speaker 3: a bad play, they somehow bounce back and win a ballgame.
Speaker 3: And yesterday was not pretty. It was the ugliest win
Speaker 3: I think I've ever seen, but they figured out a
Speaker 3: way to put a w on the board under a
Speaker 3: tough circumstance. Lest we forget, I mean, they've also lost
Speaker 3: two starting pitchers. You know, they lost Taiwan Walker and
Speaker 3: they've lost Turnbull. So not only have they lost their
Speaker 3: big guns. And I know those guys are down in
Speaker 3: the rotation, you know, the four and five guys or
Speaker 3: the five hole guys as far as the starting pitching
Speaker 3: rotation is concerned. I mean, still that's you're still losing
Speaker 3: some depth there. And now I'm gonna have to hope
Speaker 3: that Michael mccardo steps up on Tuesday and figures out away.
Speaker 3: And you know, they have that. You know, it sounds
Speaker 3: really cliche, they have that next man up mentality, but
Speaker 3: that's the reality of it. I mean, guys are stepping
Speaker 3: up and figuring it out. They did not have very
Speaker 3: good situational hitting at times during the course of the weekend.
Speaker 3: It was a little frustrating to watch them do what
Speaker 3: they did. But then they'll come up with like a
Speaker 3: two out base hit and figure it out. So it
Speaker 3: was good to see, in particular for me in particular,
Speaker 3: to see Marshy bounce back this over the next last
Speaker 3: few days. To see Castillanos swing the bat pretty darn
Speaker 3: well over the last couple of days and a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. Actually it's been maybe a month or so.
Speaker 3: He's been much much better. So he hasn't been like
Speaker 3: a stall worker or anything like that. But he has
Speaker 3: come up with some big bass hits and some big
Speaker 3: RBIs and that's pretty important. He's won some games, he's
Speaker 3: done some things that have that have helped the ball club,
Speaker 3: and so that's huge. But you're right, guys, you know,
Speaker 3: I've got to figure out how to win baseball games
Speaker 3: over the next two weeks three weeks and be able
Speaker 3: to sustain things until the All Star break rolls are ound.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, Reuben, you brought up
Speaker 2: Nick Castianos, and I just while you were talking, I
Speaker 2: just looked up some of his stats recently, because I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want to base everything off my Twitter feed,
Speaker 2: but man, oh man, he has one bad game. He
Speaker 2: just gets crushed on social media because he had such
Speaker 2: a terrible start because of the way he finished the NLCS,
Speaker 2: And I just found out like a three hit game
Speaker 2: he had in May. So from May nineteenth three yesterday,
Speaker 2: he's hitting two seventy five seven home runs, twenty five RBIs,
Speaker 2: and eight fifteen ops, and I feel like with Nick
Speaker 2: you almost have to just accept the fact that he's
Speaker 2: going to have some really nice games and then the
Speaker 2: bad ones are just going to be really ugly.
Speaker 3: Is that kind of what it is with him now?
Speaker 2: I mean you just have to, like, as a Phillies fan,
Speaker 2: just to calm your nerves so you don't lose your mind.
Speaker 2: Every time he's going to have a couple games in
Speaker 2: a row, maybe three games in a row, where he
Speaker 2: goes one for twelve with six strikeouts, he chases, he
Speaker 2: just looks totally clueless. And then the next three or
Speaker 2: four games he's going to have a couple of multi
Speaker 2: hit games, two or three doubles, maybe a home run,
Speaker 2: and he's going to look really good. And it's like,
Speaker 2: this is what Nick Castianus is, So you know, maybe
Speaker 2: this will help you relax.
Speaker 3: This is what he is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think what's happened with Nick is that there's such
Speaker 3: a high expectation. He signed such a big contract, right,
Speaker 3: He signed for big money, So the expectation was that
Speaker 3: he was going to be a middle of the lineup,
Speaker 3: protect Bryce Harper in the four hole. You know, have
Speaker 3: twenty five home runs and one hundred and five RBIs
Speaker 3: and that's really not who he has been for the Phillies.
Speaker 3: He's had stretches where he's been okay, but he's been
Speaker 3: super streaky as he's gotten older, and I think that
Speaker 3: that's sort of part of it. You know, he had
Speaker 3: a great, you know, certain part of the season last year,
Speaker 3: makes the All Star team in the early part of
Speaker 3: the season, and he sort of fades off at the
Speaker 3: end and then really struggles in the playoffs. But you're right,
Speaker 3: I mean, you just the expectation for him is much
Speaker 3: much higher than the actual production. But we we talked
Speaker 3: about this in the early part of the season. It's
Speaker 3: not really how it starts, it's how he ends. And
Speaker 3: the fact that they're winning baseball games. I mean that
Speaker 3: just becomes a plus later on. Like if he starts
Speaker 3: becoming a seven fifty to eight fifty ops type player
Speaker 3: over the last you know, half of the season, then
Speaker 3: that's pretty damn good under the circumstances with the type
Speaker 3: of lineup of the guys like Alec Boem stepping forward
Speaker 3: and really becoming a guy and the talent, the super
Speaker 3: talent that they have at the top part of the lineup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a streaky guy, and I do think he
Speaker 4: thrives on confidence when he's feeling good about himself. And
Speaker 4: we saw him a little bit in the two hole
Speaker 4: and didn't go well. I just think down in the
Speaker 4: order helps him a little bit. Maybe he doesn't put
Speaker 4: so much pressure on himself. You know, he was really
Speaker 4: hit a big hit yesterday. He drove it hard one
Speaker 4: Harper by Tim Anderson at short and it was really surprised.
Speaker 4: Anderson doesn't have a lot of range, doesn't.
Speaker 3: He can't move, He really can't move. He's been he's
Speaker 3: been a sort of a detriment to them. They try to,
Speaker 3: you know, add a little veteran presence and a short
Speaker 3: stop in there, and he just hasn't been very good
Speaker 3: all around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he like, you know, the red light was going
Speaker 4: on behind him like a hockey goalie all day. They
Speaker 4: were driving stuff by him, but you know, I mean
Speaker 4: they were squaring it up and I'm not saying these
Speaker 4: were balls he should have gotten, but they weren't even close.
Speaker 4: But I mean Nick drives that ball for a really
Speaker 4: big hit. I think first pitch. I think there are
Speaker 4: times when his aggressiveness early in the account really benefits him.
Speaker 4: Men on base. If he gets a pitch over the middle,
Speaker 4: he's going to do some damage. It's it's when the pitcher,
Speaker 4: you know, pulls the string on him early in account,
Speaker 4: and that's not and he's aggressative. That's where the chase
Speaker 4: comes in, and all of a sudden, you're leaving runners
Speaker 4: on base. And those have been you know, really team
Speaker 4: wide issues the chase and leaving runners on base really
Speaker 4: for a few years. I think when when it happens
Speaker 4: to him, the glare is just a little more intense,
Speaker 4: maybe because of the way last season ended. I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe it's the contract, but if he could build some
Speaker 4: continue to build some confidence because he has the last
Speaker 4: two weeks he's been terrific, and even before that, as
Speaker 4: you mentioned Todd, he's been a valuable, you know, productive bat.
Speaker 4: I just think, you know, sometimes we remember how the
Speaker 4: season starts. Well, he's been pretty good. Lately, he's been contributing.
Speaker 4: He's a really really important piece because I still don't
Speaker 4: think they've made up their mind how they're going to
Speaker 4: act at the deadline. I still think a bat would
Speaker 4: be nice to get out there. But I also believe
Speaker 4: that if he's going to produce and have one of
Speaker 4: his good streaks in the second half, you know, maybe
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, the plan that they had on
Speaker 4: day one, which was this lineup's going to be deep
Speaker 4: enough to carry a Johann Rojas and get the defensive
Speaker 4: contributions from him while sacrificing offense. If Johann wrote up
Speaker 4: Rojas is indeed going to pick up his defense, uh,
Speaker 4: then you can maybe do that with a marginal bat
Speaker 4: improvement in left field, somebody you can platoon. But Nick
Speaker 4: remains a vital, vital piece on this team, and it's
Speaker 4: swinging a better Yeah.
Speaker 3: The other guy that's really vital, I think is Bryson
Speaker 3: Scott because he hasn't swung it that well at all,
Speaker 3: and so or likey like he can and like I
Speaker 3: think people know he can. And what I noticed remember
Speaker 3: last year when they talked about him getting his top
Speaker 3: hand involved and then kind of going to that no stride,
Speaker 3: Well I see that sort of happening with him being
Speaker 3: a little bit lazy with that top hand and sort
Speaker 3: of collapsing. And I feel like, because he hasn't driven
Speaker 3: the ball out of the ballpark and has not been
Speaker 3: really high, that he's almost starting to try to create
Speaker 3: that when he gets certain pitches to hit, and I
Speaker 3: think instead of just using his hands the way he
Speaker 3: was using him before, I think he goes back to
Speaker 3: that mentality. I think he'll be I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I just feel like he's trying to create air with
Speaker 3: his swing, meaning you know, launch angle, and I think
Speaker 3: that that's he's missing some pitches that he really should
Speaker 3: be getting to and he's not doing them as consistently
Speaker 3: as he was last year. When he's using that top
Speaker 3: hand to drive the ball, don't keep the barrel above
Speaker 3: the baseball a little bit better. So hopefully he can
Speaker 3: make that adjustment because he's a good player man, and
Speaker 3: they and they need him for that depth in that
Speaker 3: part of the lineup where they where he needs to
Speaker 3: contribute more.
Speaker 4: It definitely looks like he I haven't really looked at
Speaker 4: any numbers, but it looks like he has not handled
Speaker 4: the fastball with the authority he did last year. And
Speaker 4: you know, his hard hit rate is not what it was.
Speaker 4: But you know, I've I'm a fan of hitters who
Speaker 4: use the top hand, you know, line drive maker. You know,
Speaker 4: it would be great to see remember Doug Glanville's top
Speaker 4: hand that was, and Hank Aaron had a top hand,
Speaker 4: and rockab Old Delhi had a top had Joe DiMaggio,
Speaker 4: I don't know why you would take it out of
Speaker 4: your swing.
Speaker 3: Guys like Goutva, Chase Uttley out to Bay, Chase Utley,
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts was one of the best when he first
Speaker 3: gave me to the big leagues. Man, I mean he
Speaker 3: had the ability to you know, Chase that Chase was
Speaker 3: great top hand. So I just feel like those guys.
Speaker 3: I just feel like he's the type of hitter that
Speaker 3: should should be working to stay on top of the
Speaker 3: ball better and throw the ball better. And when he
Speaker 3: does that, he has a lot of success.
Speaker 4: What an acquisition he would be if you could get
Speaker 4: you know, what you're seeing on a nick now, there's
Speaker 4: just more of it. And if if Bryson Stott has
Speaker 4: you know, a couple of really good months a lot
Speaker 4: of this team's issues that we think they have issues
Speaker 4: and they don't have a lot of issues. Are a
Speaker 4: really good team? Yeah, boy, they might be considering upstairs
Speaker 4: get fixed in house and you can maybe focus on
Speaker 4: a bullpen arm.
Speaker 3: We're a starter, a starter.
Speaker 4: Other areas whatever, you know, pitching, whatever, whatever you think
Speaker 4: you need to get to be to become invincible in
Speaker 4: the October tournament.
Speaker 2: Jim Stott against fastballs this season betting two thirty five,
Speaker 2: hit three or four against fastballs last year, you know,
Speaker 2: three eighty two slug against fastballs this year four thirty
Speaker 2: nine against scout good scouts.
Speaker 4: And he knows this. I'm sure Kevin Long knows this.
Speaker 4: How do they remedy remedy? Is it simply just going
Speaker 4: in and working on the top hand in the cage,
Speaker 4: or is it being we used to always hear Charlie say,
Speaker 4: be ready to hit the fastball.
Speaker 3: I think that there's two parts of it. I mean, mentally,
Speaker 3: you have to be ready to hit the fastball number one.
Speaker 3: But also, you know, there are drills. Charlie used to
Speaker 3: work with me when I you know, when I when
Speaker 3: I was playing in Cleveland and play very much, so
Speaker 3: I so I had to be ready for the fastball.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was the only pitch I was gonna
Speaker 3: be able to hit anybody. A really good breaking ball, man,
Speaker 3: I was sort of screwed. So so I if I
Speaker 3: was going to get one, I better get it, you know,
Speaker 3: I think it better get to it. So I he
Speaker 3: used to put the tee up on for me and
Speaker 3: he used to flip the balls. He used to do
Speaker 3: a lot of flip with me. But he used to
Speaker 3: put the tee it up so that I could attack
Speaker 3: the ball from up top, so that I can drive
Speaker 3: my barrel down or at least be flat. You know,
Speaker 3: there's a real push to work underneath the baseball now
Speaker 3: to try to create you know, air. But if you
Speaker 3: see all the like the great hitters in the game
Speaker 3: doing their instagrams and on X and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: you see him talking about going down to the ball
Speaker 3: right so and up through the ball, and so I
Speaker 3: think that's really in this day and age, with the
Speaker 3: velocity the way it is, that's the most important part
Speaker 3: of your swing, I think is working down to the
Speaker 3: ball and making sure that your barrel still is stays
Speaker 3: flat when you get to the hitting plane. So I
Speaker 3: think teeing the ball up and just and just working
Speaker 3: your hands to sort of not chopped wood necessarily, but
Speaker 3: to certainly to certainly utilize that top hands so it
Speaker 3: works works down to the ball. Yeah. You know, Ruben's
Speaker 3: funny you mentioned something on social media. There's one that's
Speaker 3: out there. I've seen it.
Speaker 2: It comes into my feet a lot because I guess
Speaker 2: I watched a lot of hitting videos. There's it was
Speaker 2: Juan Soto, Albert Pouholz and somebody else. They're all on
Speaker 2: MLB Network talking about hitting and they all said, I
Speaker 2: just try to hit down on the ball. Hit down
Speaker 2: on the ball. And they were showing it. They're all
Speaker 2: showing their swings out. They're trying to hit down.
Speaker 3: On the ball. So George Brett, just George Brett just
Speaker 3: had a great one. Man, it's really good. It's a
Speaker 3: good one. And George Bratt he had a few hits,
Speaker 3: just a couple. Yeah, he had just a few kits.
Speaker 5: He talked about the same the same, the same hitting.
Speaker 4: It would go.
Speaker 5: Jim, you said earlier.
Speaker 2: If the Phillies can just kind of keep their head
Speaker 2: above water, maybe play five hundred till these guys come back,
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of what I mean. Obviously, if they
Speaker 2: can play a little bit better, that's that's even better.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The last I think last nineteen games since they came back.
Speaker 2: From London, they're ten and nine, and there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of hand ringing about that, but they've only lost
Speaker 2: a game in the standings to the Braves in that time.
Speaker 2: They've only lost a game and a half to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in that time. You know this, they haven't been
Speaker 2: playing great baseball, but they get those guys back. And
Speaker 2: we talked a lot about the hitting, but really the
Speaker 2: four starting pitchers should they should be able to do
Speaker 2: that with these first four starting pitchers, don't you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we saw it. You know they they limit
Speaker 4: runs and with these guys out, you're not gonna score
Speaker 4: as many runs. So this team is still the bedrock
Speaker 4: of this team is still starting pitching. You know, Wheeler, Nola,
Speaker 4: Suarez Sanchez, two lefties and I mean three of them
Speaker 4: could could end up in the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: Seriously, and the innings.
Speaker 4: They're getting from from their starting rotation is is refreshingly
Speaker 4: all school. I mean, it's just really great. Great to
Speaker 4: see these guys pitching, pitching deep into games and uh,
Speaker 4: we just know the the effect that has on a
Speaker 4: bullpen on the entire team. So starting pitching is still
Speaker 4: the thing on this team that that that keeps the
Speaker 4: motor running.
Speaker 3: Qualifying, yeah, no question about it. Good good, No, I
Speaker 3: was gonna say, just qualified.
Speaker 2: Start wake up this morning, National League qualified pitchers uh
Speaker 2: Ranger Suarez leads the National League two point two seven ERA.
Speaker 2: Christopher Sanchez is second in the National League with a
Speaker 2: two four to one ERA. Zach Wheeler is third in
Speaker 2: the National League with the two seven three are that's.
Speaker 3: Pretty crazy, No, it's crazy, yeah, no, no doubt. And
Speaker 3: the overall development of Christopher Sanchez has just been insane.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've talked about it a little bit, but
Speaker 3: it's just an amazing transformation of a pitcher. But I
Speaker 3: think you know, as as someone who is an ex
Speaker 3: executive and someone who like believed in pitching, and you know,
Speaker 3: watch the Atlanta Braves win fourteen straight you know, National
Speaker 3: League East titles because of their starting pitching. It is
Speaker 3: it is the one thing that can keep you in
Speaker 3: every single baseball game. You can talk about hitting all
Speaker 3: you want, and you can talk about a whole lot
Speaker 3: of other things, but if you can pitch it, and
Speaker 3: you can play enough defense to support it, you have
Speaker 3: a chance to win every single game every single night.
Speaker 3: Because if you are preventing runs, then you don't have
Speaker 3: to get a whole lot to win baseball games. Now,
Speaker 3: I do believe you know, I talked to you should
Speaker 3: talk to Jeff Cooper about this, a lot long time
Speaker 3: trainer about these pitchers. Because they're logging a lot of
Speaker 3: innings there there's gonna be a time, and I feel
Speaker 3: like it's sort of happening with a couple of different
Speaker 3: guys where they get that sort of dead arm period
Speaker 3: where they're not as sharp. I saw that with Ranger
Speaker 3: a little bit. It was a little hot. I didn't
Speaker 3: see him be as crisp with his stuff. Wheelers a
Speaker 3: couple of starts where he's not been quite as crisp.
Speaker 3: Aaron Nola the same way, and he sort of goes
Speaker 3: in and out sometimes. But each one of these guys,
Speaker 3: at some point, because they're logging so many innings, they're
Speaker 3: gonna go through a little bit of a dead arm period.
Speaker 3: It's may be that time, and that's why the All
Speaker 3: Star break becomes so important. But you know, those guys
Speaker 3: are not going to be able to sustain. It's not
Speaker 3: like they're gonna be able to go out there every
Speaker 3: single time and throw seven innings, even though it seems
Speaker 3: like they can. Because you know, at some point your
Speaker 3: arm just needs to refresh, and uh, you know, there
Speaker 3: are a couple of you know, starts maybe a ten
Speaker 3: or fifteen day, you know, maybe two or two or
Speaker 3: three starts where they're just not feeling the zip on
Speaker 3: their fastball, the tightness on their sliders, to you know,
Speaker 3: the arm speed on their changeups, and so you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to fight through that little area. You just hope
Speaker 3: that they don't all do it at the same time
Speaker 3: and that it happens to each one like sort of individually,
Speaker 3: so that they can sustain some of the success like that.
Speaker 4: I was going to ask you about that, Reuben and Todd,
Speaker 4: like based on watching Ranger yesterday and looking at, you know,
Speaker 4: some of his metrics. I mean, his spin was down
Speaker 4: across the board and his velo was down across the board.
Speaker 4: And I'm not alarmed because I understand they have some
Speaker 4: flows of starting pitching. But I was gonna say, do
Speaker 4: you think that's simply mid season dead arm?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's what it is. I really do.
Speaker 3: I mean, and like every single guy, like think about it.
Speaker 3: The starting pitcher's gonna have about thirty times to do
Speaker 3: his thing. It's not gonna be perfect every time. Even
Speaker 3: Doc Halliday was not perfect every time. Even Steve Carlton
Speaker 3: was not perfect. Every time. It just doesn't happen that way.
Speaker 3: Even as good as these guys are, you can't expect
Speaker 3: them that every single start they're gonna throw seven innings
Speaker 3: of shutout baseball or one run baseball. But you know,
Speaker 3: I just as a fan or as somebody deserving the team,
Speaker 3: you just can't get too alarmed by the fact that
Speaker 3: you know they might have a bad adding or two,
Speaker 3: because I'm sure that their arms will bounce back be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean his blow was down a little bit yesterday,
Speaker 2: so that could definitely be be uh be in play
Speaker 2: a little bit. But I think Ranger even said, yes,
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, sometimes you just have a really bad day,
Speaker 2: so you have to expect that he'll bounce back.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Schwarber said yesterday that he expects to be back after
Speaker 2: the ten day IL stint, which would be July ninth.
Speaker 2: Rob Thompson said at some point over the weekend that
Speaker 2: he thinks there's a good chance Bryce will be back
Speaker 2: before the All Star break, so they really only have
Speaker 2: to manage this for another eight nine ten days or so,
Speaker 2: And with this pitching.
Speaker 4: Brice might be hungry to play in that All Star Game.
Speaker 4: You know, well, he hasn't played in one as a
Speaker 4: Philly and he you know, got all those fan vones.
Speaker 4: He he might be hungry to play in this one.
Speaker 2: I think that means a lot to him. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much she would come out and
Speaker 2: say it, but it that is. It is crazy or
Speaker 2: funny to think that he's never made the All Star
Speaker 2: Game as a member of the Phillies as well as
Speaker 2: he is, well he has played because the injuries.
Speaker 3: You know, he didn't start the season last year.
Speaker 4: Was that one in Cleveland when they had all the
Speaker 4: banners around town, he was on one of the banners.
Speaker 4: He wasn't even there. It was interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he yeah, I listen. It would not be surprised me.
Speaker 3: The man doesn't bruise and the man doesn't swell, and
Speaker 3: I gotta believe he's like bionic, and so I just
Speaker 3: feel like, I just feel like he's These guys are
Speaker 3: going to be back. They are on the trip. I
Speaker 3: flew with the team yesterday. They are all of those guys,
Speaker 3: J T. Schwarber, Harper, They're all here on the trip.
Speaker 3: They're staying with the team. So I got to believe
Speaker 3: they're a lot closer to you know, to being healthy
Speaker 3: than not being healthy. So I think they're on the
Speaker 3: other side of it, which is good. And uh, and
Speaker 3: I fully expect these guys. I know that Sharber didn't
Speaker 3: even want to go in the aisle. It was like
Speaker 3: one of those guys that But you know, they're being
Speaker 3: cautious with them, and they should, and they have to
Speaker 3: make sure that the guys one hundred percent so that
Speaker 3: they may make a run from September through November that
Speaker 3: they're you know, going full full bore.
Speaker 2: What do you think do you do you think if
Speaker 2: the Phillies and the Braves right now were tied in
Speaker 2: the standings, for instance, do you think they would have
Speaker 2: let him play it out or do you think because
Speaker 2: they have this eight, nine to ten game cushion, they go,
Speaker 2: let's listen, we they have some room for they have
Speaker 2: a margin for error.
Speaker 3: So I wonder if yeah, right, yeah, I think that
Speaker 3: helps a lot. And the fact that they have such
Speaker 3: good pitch starting pitching helps a lot. If they were
Speaker 3: sort of muddling along and uh and and battling much
Speaker 3: more with the Atlanta Braves and the Braves were playing better,
Speaker 3: baseball might be a little different. I still think that
Speaker 3: they Typically in this day and age, you sort of
Speaker 3: err on the side of caution with some of these guys,
Speaker 3: especially with the timing of it, because you really do
Speaker 3: need to have these guys ready from September through November.
Speaker 3: It's just too vitally important. So there's a there's sort
Speaker 3: of a conservative l to to injury in this day
Speaker 3: and age, a lot more than it used to be.
Speaker 3: You know, back back in the day, man, you didn't
Speaker 3: tell anybody who were hurt. Nowadays, you know, and it
Speaker 3: was good that you know that. Turnbull went to Rob
Speaker 3: Thompson said, hey, man, that that pitched before my last one. Man,
Speaker 3: I tweaked my shoulder. I just want to let you know.
Speaker 3: And they bounced him out of the game immediately, and
Speaker 3: it turned out there was something, you know, fairly serious.
Speaker 3: But at least he has time to come back, they
Speaker 3: think after doing some extensive rehab. I think that maybe
Speaker 3: he has still has a chance to be a viable
Speaker 3: piece of this puzzle for the last month or so.
Speaker 2: Who makes the So you talking about Harper wanting to
Speaker 2: play in the All Star Game. We talked earlier about
Speaker 2: three guys in the rotation possibly making the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: Boone is probably going to make the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: You think there's anybody else that's going to make the
Speaker 2: All Star Game.
Speaker 3: Well, I think Matt Strom had a chance chance to
Speaker 3: make it. I think Alvarado had a shot, and I
Speaker 3: thought Hoffman had a shot. But I don't know. I
Speaker 3: think I think Strong. I think Strong. God, he put
Speaker 3: together some stupid numbers. I mean, before the last day,
Speaker 3: I had a couple of values. He hasn't been quite
Speaker 3: as effective. He had two little clunkers. But or let
Speaker 3: in a couple of rounds. But which is so rare
Speaker 3: for him to do that. You're like, he hadn't done it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't done it. I think Strong's got a chance.
Speaker 3: I do think the three starters have a chance, and
Speaker 3: you know, maybe even four. I don't think Nola's gonna
Speaker 3: slide him necessarily because he's down on the list. But
Speaker 3: I gotta believe the top three starters are gonna make it.
Speaker 3: I have to believe that's going to happen. I can't
Speaker 3: imagine keeping them off, like what would keep them off?
Speaker 3: And so I think you got Harper, you got Bone,
Speaker 3: you got the three starters, and then beyond that, I
Speaker 3: mean Turner might make the damn thing because Turner's numbers
Speaker 3: are so much better than everybody else is in the
Speaker 3: shortstop position, even though he's had a really really short
Speaker 3: you know, he's missed them up. Yeah, so so I
Speaker 3: mean Turner's a possibility too. I mean, people want to
Speaker 3: see him. Yeah, he's the best shortstop, you know, offensive
Speaker 3: shortstop in the National League. Who's better?
Speaker 2: And Mookie's down, Mookie's not playing, So yeah, Mookie, Mookie
Speaker 2: was winning the fan.
Speaker 3: Had had had Mookie been in there, Mookie, I think
Speaker 3: I think they got to take one player from every team. So,
Speaker 3: like God, like Ezekiel Tobar is gonna make it, probably
Speaker 3: for for Colorado. He's like the only guy who'd probably
Speaker 3: make it. So that's a shortstop. But then who else
Speaker 3: is there? I mean, I think is a Turner number
Speaker 3: two in the voting he was voting. Yeah, so I
Speaker 3: think Turner's gonna end up being there too.
Speaker 4: It could be impacted as well if if one of
Speaker 4: the Phillies guys pitches on the final Sunday, that's the kind.
Speaker 3: Of sure, yeah, no doubt you've chosen, but not not
Speaker 3: pitch and not be there on was uh, you.
Speaker 4: Know my starting pitchers, pitchers being chosen, tipping their hat
Speaker 4: and sitting down all night.
Speaker 3: Boom. Yeah you wouldn't. David Montgomery wouldn't be very happy
Speaker 3: with you. But I totally agree.
Speaker 2: Hey, Doc started in twenty did Doc start in Well
Speaker 2: he started the twenty eleven All Star Game?
Speaker 3: I think so, right, Yeah, he was all right afterwards.
Speaker 4: Come on, that's time. That's Doc going tipping their hat,
Speaker 4: hitting the spread and jumping on their.
Speaker 5: So we got some fans, So we got some listener
Speaker 5: questions last night.
Speaker 3: You want me to run through a few of these
Speaker 3: before we sign off?
Speaker 4: Yeah, only pithy ones only only.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all right, we get I'll start with the
Speaker 5: pithy is.
Speaker 3: It's kind of you.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's some trade stuff on there, right.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, so, and this is kind of hard to say.
Speaker 2: Who do you this is? This is a good one.
Speaker 2: This is from Dan. Who do you think is the
Speaker 2: highest rated prospect in play for the Phillies to trade
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline? I mean, you guys don't have
Speaker 2: the prospect list right in front of you, but I mean,
Speaker 2: off the top of my head, I would say that
Speaker 2: Aiden Miller and Andrew Painter. Yeah, yeah, Well, and your
Speaker 2: painter are probably absolute no goes no right, yeah, I
Speaker 2: unless you're gonna get somebody like Juan Sot at the deadline.
Speaker 4: I'm putting into Painter, Aiden Miller and Crawford.
Speaker 5: I'm not on your no going on your no trade.
Speaker 4: Because centerfield has been such an issue around here for years.
Speaker 4: You might have a guy who could you know in time,
Speaker 4: He's going to need time to get here, but the
Speaker 4: guy might be able to hold that position down seven eight,
Speaker 4: nine years. I'm very reluctant to move Crawford. I am
Speaker 4: not moving Aiden Miller, I'm not moving Antwer Painter. I
Speaker 4: know Dave Dobrowski's aggressive, but he ain't moving those guys.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I think he would move able, and
Speaker 3: I think he moved Crawford. I don't know that, but
Speaker 3: I mean they're they're outfielders.
Speaker 4: I believe they would move able. Just because his develop
Speaker 4: line has been slow, his development curve has been slow,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure there's some frustration he's not throwing strikes.
Speaker 4: But every time I look at Christopher Sanchez, I am
Speaker 4: reminded that it takes time to starting pitching. And I'm
Speaker 4: also I also know how important it is starting pitching,
Speaker 4: and it's it's awesome when you can build your own
Speaker 4: starting pitching, get him, get them there on the low
Speaker 4: end of the salary cycle, and get contributions from them.
Speaker 4: I understand they might move able. I am in no
Speaker 4: rush to move him though, No.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily. Plus his overall value is probably a lot
Speaker 3: lighter than it was. You know, is he going to
Speaker 3: get you? Is he going to get you like a
Speaker 3: blue chip player, like a bona fide player, And I
Speaker 3: don't know that he will necessarily just based on his
Speaker 3: performance this year.
Speaker 2: Well, especially if you if we're talking about when people
Speaker 2: talk about the Phillies need the trade down, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of talk about an outfielder that can from the
Speaker 2: right hand side, that can maybe give you a little
Speaker 2: bit more pop the proverbial like third slash fourth outfielder
Speaker 2: that's Nickabel. Seems like maybe a steep price for that
Speaker 2: type of player, right for.
Speaker 3: Me, Right, unless it's gonna be a middle of the
Speaker 3: lineup type of a guy down road or something like
Speaker 3: that that you can like lock in for a for
Speaker 3: a while. You know, I don't know if there's a
Speaker 3: guy out there like that that would be you know,
Speaker 3: all that's exciting. Most of the guys aren't having great years.
Speaker 4: I mean, you think Dave Nebraski is going big game
Speaker 4: hunting or around the edge hunting.
Speaker 3: Well, I think he's going to start with the big game.
Speaker 3: I think he might end up having to settle for
Speaker 3: small game. Yeah, if you're not the squirrels in the rapids,
Speaker 3: no disrespect, try to juggle both of those balls, not
Speaker 3: the elks, not the elks.
Speaker 2: I guess it depends what happens come July, you know,
Speaker 2: July twenty ninth, July thirtieth, right, I mean some team
Speaker 2: comes at you and says, this guy's available, and.
Speaker 5: Is that I guess that don't you have to resist that?
Speaker 3: Urge Ruben. I mean, it's fascinating under the circumstances. Listen,
Speaker 3: this is a team that's built to win. If if
Speaker 3: there's a piece out there that I know is going
Speaker 3: to take us to the next level and put us
Speaker 3: in a position to like, put us in a no
Speaker 3: doubt position. I thought, like I thought that way in
Speaker 3: twenty eleven. But that said, and then we got beat
Speaker 3: up in the in the playoffs. But if you have
Speaker 3: a if you have an opportunity to go get somebody
Speaker 3: that's really special to take it to the next level. Man,
Speaker 3: It's it's tough to make that. It's tough not to
Speaker 3: make a deal like that, because it's win time, man,
Speaker 3: it's win time period. That's the goal.
Speaker 2: A lot of questions about wit Mayfield. Will they consider
Speaker 2: moving on from what Mayorfield? Any chance they keep Clemmings
Speaker 2: up and send Mirrorfield, you know, or release Marorfield, whatever.
Speaker 2: When Harper Schwarber, Ria Muto, I mean Meorfield continues continues
Speaker 2: to struggle.
Speaker 3: I look this up this morning.
Speaker 2: Out of two hundred ninety eight hitters in Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball that have put one hundred balls in play, he
Speaker 2: has last an average exit velocity. Not that you necessarily
Speaker 2: need that number to see that he's not hitting the
Speaker 2: ball hard, but he is not hitting the ball hard
Speaker 2: eighty three point four miles an hour. He's betting one
Speaker 2: eighty eight five sixty ops. And we've talked about this before.
Speaker 2: I've raised this before. It's not like he's on pace
Speaker 2: for one hundred and seventy five played appearances, and come on,
Speaker 2: you can't expect Whittmer. He's on pace for a little
Speaker 2: bit more than three hundred played appearances for the season,
Speaker 2: seems like he should be hitting the ball a little
Speaker 2: bit better.
Speaker 3: Considering that, yeah.
Speaker 4: He might, he might be in trouble here in a
Speaker 4: few weeks because he just hasn't shown enough. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're over the halfway point of the season, and as
Speaker 4: Ruben was saying, if you think there's one piece that
Speaker 4: you bring in, it's going to put you over the
Speaker 4: top ball on the same token, if that piece is
Speaker 4: in house and you need to keep him in the
Speaker 4: major leagues and across the other guy who's roster spot,
Speaker 4: I think you have to consider it.
Speaker 3: So I think all I think about is if he's
Speaker 3: not the guy and he's not producing, then there's a
Speaker 3: guy like West and Wilson that's out there that's starting
Speaker 3: to really swing the bat well, who can do some
Speaker 3: more things. He now, WIT's not running as well, he's
Speaker 3: obviously not impacting the baseball as well. I love with Merrifield.
Speaker 3: I love the signing and the whole process of thought
Speaker 3: about getting him and what he means to the team.
Speaker 3: But as we talked about before, now he's going to
Speaker 3: get a chance to play all the way up through
Speaker 3: the All Star break a lot and I think this
Speaker 3: is the time to find out whether he can really
Speaker 3: contribute it. If he can't, then they may release him.
Speaker 3: He may not be a part of the team's come
Speaker 3: you know, late July. I don't like to say that,
Speaker 3: because there's people's lives you're dealing with and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and he's probably still a viable major League baseball player,
Speaker 3: but at some point you may have to place him
Speaker 3: with somebody who's gonna be contributing a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris wants to know. This is more of a
Speaker 2: off the beaten path. One favorite Harry Callous story, says
Speaker 2: you've all interacted with him.
Speaker 3: A favorite Harry Callis story. A lot of we can
Speaker 3: we can see on the air.
Speaker 4: Some of them are you can't tell, but there's a
Speaker 4: lot of good ones.
Speaker 3: Let me let me just say this. I had the
Speaker 3: great privilege of being able to sit in the back
Speaker 3: of the plane with Harry Callous on the road trips.
Speaker 3: And there was only one guy that got to sit
Speaker 3: back there and Harry spot and it was Harry. He
Speaker 3: would sit back there and have a beer and you know,
Speaker 3: smoke his new ports. Uh. And you know I would
Speaker 3: have I would have a I would have a heater
Speaker 3: or two with him and just talk and just be
Speaker 3: with him, and to me, those are the memories and
Speaker 3: those are the things that that really meant our special
Speaker 3: to me. The other quick story, I will say that
Speaker 3: he made my very first home run call. I hit
Speaker 3: it at the Vet. It was my first start of
Speaker 3: my career with the Phillies when Lenny Deischer went down.
Speaker 3: I went three for four something with a couple of
Speaker 3: doubles and a homer. And after I hit the home run,
Speaker 3: after the game, he had his call spliced and taped
Speaker 3: and he gave it to me in a cassette tape
Speaker 3: and I still have it, and you know, for years
Speaker 3: I would play it every once in a while, just
Speaker 3: et cetera, pump myself up. But it's just the coolest.
Speaker 3: It is one of the coolest things of those things
Speaker 3: of Memorabilian memories that I have, and nothing I will
Speaker 3: ever forget. The one thing I.
Speaker 4: Will go ahead, Tom, Sorry, no, I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: The one thing I'll say about Harry is, you know,
Speaker 2: you guys get this a lot too, is what's this
Speaker 2: guy like?
Speaker 3: What's this guy like?
Speaker 2: I can say that I every single time I saw
Speaker 2: Harry interact with a fan. He treated them like they
Speaker 2: were the great, like long lost friends, super you know,
Speaker 2: interested in what they had to say. He would sign autographs,
Speaker 2: he would you know, take photos with them every single time.
Speaker 2: I never saw him walk away and go, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you know, or you know, I don't have time right now,
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, I apologize. He made time for everybody
Speaker 2: all the time. He really enjoyed the relationship that he
Speaker 2: had with the Phillies fan base.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was great to be like. Larry Anderson's great
Speaker 4: to people too. People come up want to meet with
Speaker 4: Larry Anderson. He's great to everybody, treats everybody very kindly,
Speaker 4: and Harry was the same way. I have a couple
Speaker 4: of personal thrills with Harry. One he announced two of
Speaker 4: my daughters were born in the summer, and he announced
Speaker 4: them on the radio when they were born. That was
Speaker 4: a that was really neat. I wish I had a
Speaker 4: tape of that. And another time, one of my buddies
Speaker 4: was turning forty and I called up and he was big.
Speaker 4: He is a big Harry fan, and I called him
Speaker 4: up and said, hey, I'd love to get an autographed
Speaker 4: ball for my buddy's birthday, He's having a party and
Speaker 4: he said, come on over the house. So I drove
Speaker 4: over to his house in Media and uh, he took
Speaker 4: me a little office and took took me in the
Speaker 4: little office and he signed the baseball. But the office
Speaker 4: was just loaded beautiful memorabilia, and I was I felt
Speaker 4: like I was in a museum looking around, and he
Speaker 4: had one of my stories on the wall. The night, Uh,
Speaker 4: Richie Ashburn passed away in New York City up up
Speaker 4: at at the Grand Hyatt, and then the Phillies were
Speaker 4: playing the Mets that night we were having they were
Speaker 4: having a series against the Mets and they won that game,
Speaker 4: won nothing, which was really fitting because he was, you know,
Speaker 4: Richie Ashburn, War number one. Kevin Jordan had the big hit,
Speaker 4: Reuben's buddy, and that story was and I was really
Speaker 4: touched by that. But and I was there the day
Speaker 4: we lost him in Washing and I can still remember
Speaker 4: the pain in Dave Montgomery's voice as he announced it.
Speaker 4: And I remember driving home from Washington that night with
Speaker 4: Paul Hagen and really we just reminisced the whole way
Speaker 4: and it was really, uh, you know, you had to
Speaker 4: pit in your stomach It's just like an honor to
Speaker 4: know him.
Speaker 3: No doubt that that was actually like what the first
Speaker 3: game of the season on the road for me as
Speaker 3: my my GMD one of my gm D a bus.
Speaker 3: So that was a pretty poignant moment for me and
Speaker 3: really so sad. And I was there when when Richie
Speaker 3: passed away. I was on the team at the hotel
Speaker 3: when I got the call for John Bukovic to let
Speaker 3: me know, it's like, yeah, holy smokes, it was. That
Speaker 3: was rough stuff, man, rough stuff iconic people and iconic
Speaker 3: members of our for our fan base.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still cool to hear, you know, I to
Speaker 2: here uh at Citizens Bank Park every time the Philly
Speaker 2: is at a home run.
Speaker 3: That's that's That's all he say.
Speaker 4: Uh, ball on right down the middle.
Speaker 3: He was so great. All so let's end with this.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is Pat Kritz and our buddy six though,
Speaker 2: UH wanted to know another holiday weekend approaches what he
Speaker 2: grill and fillows or is six to wants to be
Speaker 2: more specific?
Speaker 5: He says, are hot wieners on Jim's menu for the fourth.
Speaker 2: Because if you were calling, if you recall a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, Jim, you were talking about how you
Speaker 2: had many hot wieners up in Rhode Island that you
Speaker 2: would cook, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, nothing like a Jim the hot waiter stand
Speaker 4: to get those. But there there's something these little stubby
Speaker 4: dogs with mustard onion sell steam pump. But on my
Speaker 4: menu for July, I might get the smoker out and
Speaker 4: then oh nice, have a potpourri of smoked meats.
Speaker 3: Oh fantastic. So was that like? Is that like Canadian
Speaker 3: smoked meats? Is that the kind of.
Speaker 4: I love Montre Todd and I used to love Montreal
Speaker 4: smoked meat. We used to stake it out late at night,
Speaker 4: remember that, Yeah, we did.
Speaker 5: We would go to this not even a T shirt,
Speaker 5: SA shirt, Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 4: Wish that's only.
Speaker 2: It was a place called Bens and it has since
Speaker 2: closed down. But they had these great smoke meat sandwiches
Speaker 2: in Montreal. We would go there late night and smoked meat. Fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I do not have that T shirt. I think it
Speaker 2: got a little U stand like wor too much.
Speaker 4: The famous one is Schwartz.
Speaker 3: Schwartz got Street Laurent centerron or Saint Catherine's Si Laurent.
Speaker 4: Swartz and that's that's that's a great smoked meat or
Speaker 4: as they call it in French, beyond beyond me.
Speaker 5: Only would they smoked in in uh shop.
Speaker 4: And I know how to order in French.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: I will not Well, I'll be still in Chicago on
Speaker 2: July fourth, so I won't be I won't be grilling
Speaker 2: on anything, but I will try to get a Chicago
Speaker 2: style dog somewhere while i'm there.
Speaker 3: Those are great.
Speaker 2: In fact, Jim, a couple of weeks ago, when we
Speaker 2: were talking about your mini wieners that you like, you
Speaker 2: talk about putting celery salt on him. So that that
Speaker 2: day or that weekend, I actually went out and tried
Speaker 2: to recreate a Chicago style dog with a cellary salt.
Speaker 3: And it was, Oh, it's fantasticelery salt on the dog.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it's you know, it's just a nice little sprinkle,
Speaker 4: a little sprinkle, little little taste.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. So what about the pizzas in Chicago to
Speaker 3: you to go? Might I might try to do lou
Speaker 3: mal Nadies.
Speaker 2: I feel like is a solid, solid choice, So I
Speaker 2: might try to go to the lou mal Natis. That's
Speaker 2: the problem when you go on the road, you feel
Speaker 2: like you have to get a deep dish piece and Chicago,
Speaker 2: and then you gotta get a Chicago style dog. And
Speaker 2: then you come back and you're like, why do I
Speaker 2: feel so gross out of shape?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: The road the time, I'm gonna have to get in
Speaker 3: some treadmill time.
Speaker 5: So Phillies open up a three game series Tuesday night.
Speaker 3: Against the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Michael Mercado makes his first major league start on Tuesday
Speaker 2: night against Hayden wes Newsky. Sounds like a real good
Speaker 2: Chicago guy, you know, two and four, three six, So
Speaker 2: we are a Hayden west Nesky.
Speaker 3: So then you have.
Speaker 2: Wheeler and Sanchez on Wednesday and Thursday, and then they
Speaker 2: go to Atlanta.
Speaker 5: So big week for the Phillies, big road trip for
Speaker 5: the Phillies.
Speaker 2: We'll be back later this week to talk about Chicago
Speaker 2: and talk about the upcoming Atlanta series.
Speaker 3: So we I'll talk to you guys later.
Speaker 4: Smell your later. Boys.
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