Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to the Billy Show.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, August fourth, twenty twenty six. Let's look back
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline with my friends Ruben Tomorrow, Junior,
Speaker 1: Jim Salisbury, and I'm Todd's Lucky. It's time for first Pitch.
Speaker 1: First Pitch is powered by Monster Energy. Trade Deadline's over, guys.
Speaker 1: We talked about we had a little emergency pod yesterday,
Speaker 1: but now we're we've let it breathe a little bit.
Speaker 1: We've let it breathe. We've talked to Don Maddingley and
Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski and Bryce Harper and Bryce and Stott and Jim.
Speaker 1: I saw you talked to with Alec Bohm briefly yesterday.
Speaker 2: Correct, he's got to clean little there you go.
Speaker 3: I spoke to Ball and he's fine with it. He's
Speaker 3: like anything to win, and he went out and got
Speaker 3: ready to play. Starts fine with it. Harper's fine with it.
Speaker 3: A lot of unselfishness in the moving part aspect of
Speaker 3: the defense, the defensive alignment to accommodate Arise. I like
Speaker 3: what it's done to the lineup, but what it's going
Speaker 3: to do to the lineup potentially I'm willing to take
Speaker 3: the defensive risk, but I'm very concerned they did not
Speaker 3: add starting pitching depth.
Speaker 4: You're rolling the.
Speaker 3: Dice that these five guys are going to stay healthy
Speaker 3: and effective the rest of the way and then into
Speaker 3: October when you can tighten it up a little bit,
Speaker 3: shorten your bench, as they say in hockey. But worried
Speaker 3: about not having that extra arm. I know they tried.
Speaker 3: In some cases the price, they thought the price was
Speaker 3: too high. In some other cases that the other team
Speaker 3: they just didn't match up on what the give was.
Speaker 3: But you hope that doesn't come back to bite them.
Speaker 3: Showed a lot of faith and Andrew Painter that he's
Speaker 3: made these adjustments and gonna be giving him innings and
Speaker 3: being efficient. So with every team, with every game, with
Speaker 3: every season, with every month, there's always a reel see element.
Speaker 3: There's never a sure thing, never a sure thing, and
Speaker 3: so this is a big wheel see on the pitching side.
Speaker 3: But I'm eager to see your eyes play and get
Speaker 3: him here because he's kind of a throwback old school
Speaker 3: baseball player and I'm looking forward to seeing a little
Speaker 3: bit of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I like the move. There's no question
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 5: It improves the lineup, I think pretty dramatically actually in
Speaker 5: a number of different ways. I think that there's a
Speaker 5: residual effect, not just the fact that he's gonna be
Speaker 5: hitting one and two and making contact and putting balls
Speaker 5: in play and getting hits, but I think his overall
Speaker 5: approach may help rub off on some of the guys.
Speaker 5: May they may view things a little bit differently. They
Speaker 5: may approach and it's they're not going to change them.
Speaker 5: But I did talk to John Cruck during the pre
Speaker 5: pre game yesterday and one of the things that we
Speaker 5: talked about was that, you know, I really feel like
Speaker 5: having a guy like this he had a Tony Gwynn.
Speaker 2: With him and watched him. Now was over a longer
Speaker 2: period of time.
Speaker 5: But any little incremental piece that or something that somebody,
Speaker 5: you know, Turner can pick up or even Schober or
Speaker 5: one of the younger guys can pick up from him
Speaker 5: as far as the overall approach, and it helps them improve.
Speaker 5: A guy like maybe Brandon Marsh who maybe been struggling
Speaker 5: a little bit lately, that can help get him going again.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 5: I think that there's a residual and compounding effect on
Speaker 5: by having this guy in the lineup, and I think
Speaker 5: that's an important element. I do agree with Jim that
Speaker 5: starting pitching depth is something we've been talking about since
Speaker 5: two spring trainings ago, I think, and particularly in this
Speaker 5: spring training where we.
Speaker 2: Just weren't sure who is going to pitch when guys
Speaker 2: go down.
Speaker 5: They had Taiwan Walker, they had Painter locked in all
Speaker 5: those things, but Taiwan Walker did not pitch all that well.
Speaker 5: Obviously in the previous year. You're trying to hope against
Speaker 5: hope that he can hang in there, Painter, You're hoping
Speaker 5: that he can make the adjustment to the big leagues.
Speaker 5: He did not, and now they had to wait till
Speaker 5: like halfway more than halfway through the season to get
Speaker 5: him back too closer to where he was prior to
Speaker 5: that injury. So yeah, I would love to have gotten
Speaker 5: a little bit more starting pitching depth and put certain
Speaker 5: guys in a certain position. I do believe that how
Speaker 5: Painter reacted to his last start coming back to the
Speaker 5: big leagues may have had something to do with them
Speaker 5: not really going that extra mile or giving that extra
Speaker 5: prospect to get that to get that rental arm. But listen,
Speaker 5: all in all, the fact that they got a solid,
Speaker 5: a couple of good relievers. I think at least incrementally better.
Speaker 5: I think that that's a positive. Listen, you would love
Speaker 5: to have a lockdown eighth inning guy. You would love
Speaker 5: to have all those a lockdown you know, left, You
Speaker 5: would love to have the starting pitcher and the bat
Speaker 5: But the reality of it is, you just can't do
Speaker 5: all those things.
Speaker 2: They just didn't have the ability to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they Dave did, Dave Dave Dombrowska did say yesterday
Speaker 1: on Monday that yes, they did not have the pieces
Speaker 1: to match up with certain teams to make deals. And
Speaker 1: then some examples some trades that they were talking, they
Speaker 1: just didn't want to meet the asking price. They did
Speaker 1: have the talent, but they didn't want to give it up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the starting pitching thing for me.
Speaker 2: Guys is.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the concern. Now, there were fifteen starting
Speaker 1: pitchers traded right before the deadline. You can make the
Speaker 1: argument a little bit more if you want to throw
Speaker 1: Lance mccollors junior in there and and some of those guys,
Speaker 1: which I don't, but as Robbie Ray, Jose Soriano, CAZy,
Speaker 1: mis Clay Holmes, Foster, Griffin, dust and May, Spencer Aarraghetti
Speaker 1: Braxton Garrett, Chris Bubick, Kevin Gousman, Freddie prawl To Tyler Maylee,
Speaker 1: Trek's Scouball, Luis Castillo and Dean Kremer were all traded
Speaker 1: at the deadline, so there was no shortage of starting
Speaker 1: pitchers on.
Speaker 5: The move, no, no doubt. I mean there are out
Speaker 5: there guys out there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I look at the Dodgers and you talk about the
Speaker 5: Trek scouble and this, that and the other, but the
Speaker 5: other moves that they made, man, I mean, these guys
Speaker 5: are no joke.
Speaker 2: Getting Chris Buberk basically for nothing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is can can end up being really I mean,
Speaker 5: I know the guy is not pitching right now and
Speaker 5: he's coming back from from from an injury, but at
Speaker 5: some point he's going to be back and he's going
Speaker 5: to be an effective player, whether it's a starter.
Speaker 2: Or a reliever or whatever role he's in.
Speaker 5: I mean, for them to acquire that guy, I mean,
Speaker 5: those are the things that really impressed me about Andrew
Speaker 5: Friedman and the things that they do. I know this
Speaker 5: is not a La Dodgers podcast, but those little things
Speaker 5: outside the lines could end up being huge things. That
Speaker 5: guy's gonna get a huge out against a left tough
Speaker 5: left hander in the playoffs at some point, and and
Speaker 5: you know that's that's that's where the rubber hits the
Speaker 5: road as far as them separating themselves from other teams.
Speaker 3: But they're so good in scouting and player development that
Speaker 3: they add to the prospect stock inventory. And it's no
Speaker 3: big deal when I boob it comes down the uh
Speaker 3: pike and you say, Okay, we're gonna throw one more in,
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna part with another prospect because we
Speaker 3: still get eight top one hundred prospects. And Phillies do
Speaker 3: not have that inventory, not even close. They have not
Speaker 3: injected enough talent through the draft, and then they have
Speaker 3: not developed them to the point where Dobrowski in the
Speaker 3: Phillies they can't even fill their own holes from within
Speaker 3: because of this system.
Speaker 1: That's a great point, you know, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: at the point it's.
Speaker 4: A good rip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true, it's true. Yeah, that's why the Dodgers
Speaker 3: can look so smart, no doubt. But have they have
Speaker 3: that prospect currency?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the the Phillies system, I mean, you know, Dave
Speaker 1: was saying yesterday, well, we're still getting calls on Alan
Speaker 1: Ron Hell, but I don't know what does that even mean?
Speaker 2: You know, the Phillies have guys.
Speaker 3: They have guys, they just don't have enough of them.
Speaker 1: Right, they have Gauge. You know a lot of teams
Speaker 1: would have loved to have Gauge, would But.
Speaker 5: I mean the guy that they moved, Marquez, He's going
Speaker 5: to be a pretty damn good picture.
Speaker 2: But he's the prospect. He's a prospect, and you don't
Speaker 2: know how great continue to develop.
Speaker 4: Thinks about him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we got more on the trade deadline
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Speaker 1: Right, we're back with Monster Energy's first pitch, still talking
Speaker 1: trade deadline. How do we feel about the bullpen? Guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. I want to get into the position
Speaker 1: change and the lineup in a little bit, but uh,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about where the bullpen stands right now?
Speaker 4: Do you think I think.
Speaker 3: The key person in the bullpen well, obviously is Duran,
Speaker 3: but and right with him as Jose Alvarado, even with
Speaker 3: the acquisitions you've made, they need him to really get
Speaker 3: going here. But Raley's got experience. The other guy's pitched
Speaker 3: at the back of the games a little bit some
Speaker 3: something by necessity in San Francisco, but with relief. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm unless it's you know, Eckersley or Mariano Rivera, I
Speaker 3: think there is some merit to bring it in inventory
Speaker 3: because it can be so mercurial up one month, down
Speaker 3: one month. And I think both these guys are worth
Speaker 3: a look and a chance, and I think they're both
Speaker 3: going to have the opportunity to help make a difference.
Speaker 4: So I'm fine with those additions.
Speaker 5: Yeah, solid editions, There's no question about it. Not nobody's
Speaker 5: a lockdown eighth inning guy that I wanted. That's that's
Speaker 5: what I wanted. I wanted somebody to uh, whether it's
Speaker 5: Mora Hone or someone like that who's been just phenomenal.
Speaker 5: He didn't get moved by the Padres ended up getting
Speaker 5: a couple of starters instead. But the reality of it is, uh,
Speaker 5: you Jim, you hit hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 5: You just don't know. From from outing to outing, these
Speaker 5: guys can can change. Unless you have a guy that's,
Speaker 5: you know, a Hall of Fame guy, It's it's hard
Speaker 5: to get real consistent players in that bullpen, and even
Speaker 5: from year to year, you never.
Speaker 2: Know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 5: But Brooks Railey was solid. Killian's got a really good arm.
Speaker 5: I like the strikeout to to two innings pitch ratio
Speaker 5: on Killian. I've looked at some of his stuff's. These
Speaker 5: guys can pitch, and they've got good stuff. Can they
Speaker 5: pitch in the tight? Can they pitch in situations where
Speaker 5: they have to get an out against you know it?
Speaker 5: Just Brooks rarely get Freddie Freeman out on a huge
Speaker 5: pitch in the playoffs At some point, I Kenny do that.
Speaker 2: Those are the questions, and hopefully he can. He's got
Speaker 2: the stuff to do it.
Speaker 5: But again, anytime you can improve your team incrementally, marginally,
Speaker 5: whatever the case may be, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 5: And Brooks, Raley and Killian are definitely going.
Speaker 7: To be adding to to a somewhat weak bullpen and
Speaker 7: a bullpen that has concerned us, and hopefully they can
Speaker 7: they can do the job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those two guys bump out Seth Johnson, who got
Speaker 1: traded to the A's for a minor leaguer minor league
Speaker 1: outfielder Colby Thomas, and then I'm just speculating here, but
Speaker 1: I would think Kyle Bachis gets optioned back. So you
Speaker 1: add those out guys, you bump out Seth Johnson, you
Speaker 1: bump out Kyle Backets. It's better, but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave Dave Dobrowski compared Killian to Jonathan Bolan, which is great.
Speaker 1: I like the the idea of that, because Bowlan's really emerged.
Speaker 1: But also Bolan has not pitched in really, as Ruben
Speaker 1: you said, the tight, tight situations yet consistently. And he's
Speaker 1: pitched in high leverage situations, but he hasn't pitched in
Speaker 1: late September October situations where really find out. So what
Speaker 1: does that mean? You like, he's he's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, Dobrowski said, it kind of reminds him
Speaker 1: of Bowlin.
Speaker 2: Great, but we don't know what the Scots can do yet.
Speaker 1: When it's as Charlie likes to say, nut cut in
Speaker 1: time might allowed.
Speaker 2: To say that it is exactly what it is.
Speaker 5: Man when when when the ball starts to get heavy,
Speaker 5: I mean we saw it from Jeff Hoffman.
Speaker 4: A couple of years back.
Speaker 2: I mean this, this is.
Speaker 5: A guy that had an unbelievable back back, gets a
Speaker 5: chance to throw BP, impresses pitches his ass off, gets
Speaker 5: a huge contract. But prior to that, the man, you know,
Speaker 5: really pitched well in the like the eighth inning and
Speaker 5: sometimes the ninth of the Phillies, and then the playoffs
Speaker 5: hit and he couldn't. He really struggled to hit the
Speaker 5: broadside of a barn with that slider.
Speaker 2: It got really heavy on him.
Speaker 5: When I say heavy, that means you start squeezing that
Speaker 5: baseball and it gets really heavy instead of you know,
Speaker 5: being able to handle the moment. I love the guy,
Speaker 5: but you know, he did have some problems pitching in
Speaker 5: the tight.
Speaker 2: That's the tight. The tight took us.
Speaker 4: Where did he go? People went to the Twins?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went to the Twins. So all right, well
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Speaker 4: Is that why you were you were floating.
Speaker 2: In he's a little he was a little fired up.
Speaker 2: Looked like.
Speaker 4: Sweat.
Speaker 1: Well that was on that I was in the It
Speaker 1: was hot yesterday on that reason.
Speaker 4: There's another It was stifling.
Speaker 3: It was only like eighty eight degrees, but where the
Speaker 3: airs you could chew it.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of Wrigley Field many years ago, Jim,
Speaker 1: when Cole Hamils threw that no hitter and and you
Speaker 1: were standing in the visitors dugout with tons of back sweat.
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Speaker 2: On that team.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I was. They had a big fan,
Speaker 4: they had a big before the game, and.
Speaker 2: Down your back sweat. That was what it was like yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's in the Bank Park.
Speaker 8: It reminded me of Saint Louis in the middle of August, baby,
Speaker 8: and and coming off that freakin coming off that back
Speaker 8: when they had turf coming off that turf coming.
Speaker 1: In hot, you know, one hundred and thirty degrees.
Speaker 3: I remember being in when that place was like a
Speaker 3: pizza oven because the brick was so hot radiating heat
Speaker 3: in that ballpark.
Speaker 2: Dude, we we we clinched the playoffs.
Speaker 5: I think in Pittsburgh, I think when we went from
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh to Saint Louis, I think and that, And obviously
Speaker 5: I had to play that day because Dykester wasn't playing
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Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: So wait, let's let's talk about uh. A big part
Speaker 1: of this trade, and that was Bryce Harper getting this
Speaker 1: Louise getting Louise a rise here, you know, Don Mattingly,
Speaker 1: So flashback last week early last week in Miami, Bryce
Speaker 1: says that hey talked about a lot of things. Of course,
Speaker 1: one of the things he said is Hey, I got
Speaker 1: my upfielders love here in the back of my locker,
Speaker 1: just in case the Phillies made a trade. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people had a lot of different thoughts about
Speaker 1: Bryce talking about the trade deadline. But guess who read
Speaker 1: those comments. Dave Dombrowski said, he read those comments, and
Speaker 1: then he went up to Don Mattingley. He said, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: wyant you check with Bryce, just make sure he was
Speaker 1: actually being on the level there and actually would move
Speaker 1: out to right field. So Don Manningley approached Bryce last
Speaker 1: week sometime on the road trip and said, are you serious.
Speaker 2: About this moving to right field stuff?
Speaker 1: He said, yes, I am serious about moving to right field.
Speaker 1: Bryce then sent a text to Dave Dombrowski on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: a couple nights after they were having a nice little
Speaker 1: honest chat postgame post came on Friday night in Baltimore.
Speaker 3: Have a little odds chat inside joke.
Speaker 2: Inside joke. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Then they make the trade for Luisa Rise and Dave
Speaker 1: Dombrowski said, Yeah, the fact that Bryce said he was
Speaker 1: willing to move out there open up some eyes and
Speaker 1: open up the ideas of maybe trying something a little
Speaker 1: bit different, open up their capabilities, I guess, or willingness
Speaker 1: to go out and get an infielder.
Speaker 4: So I thought that was.
Speaker 3: Interesting, and it widened deep into the pool of candidates
Speaker 3: because now you weren't just talking about outfielders, but he's
Speaker 3: been saying that for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Credit jew his credit. He you know, he put his
Speaker 2: money where his mouth was. I mean it allowed David
Speaker 2: to have a little bit of ingenuity.
Speaker 5: You know, he put himself in a position to, you know,
Speaker 5: then think about doing some different things. And that's exactly
Speaker 5: what they did. They added an infielder to a team
Speaker 5: that had four infielders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you play, when you're moving around this many
Speaker 3: pieces on defense, there is a feeling of desperation to
Speaker 3: it all. But this team is desperate to win one.
Speaker 3: You're right, And I think they're good enough base Stot's
Speaker 3: a good enough baseball player to play third base. I
Speaker 3: think Bryce is a good enough and you know what
Speaker 3: he's gonna He's gonna screw up a ball out there.
Speaker 3: It's gonna happen. But I think he's a good enough
Speaker 3: baseball player to play over at and give him two
Speaker 3: three months out there and make it happen and Boom
Speaker 3: can play enough, good enough first base, it's worth a shot.
Speaker 5: I think there's guys are all three of those guys
Speaker 5: are gonna screw something up.
Speaker 2: There's no question they're not perfect. The question is do
Speaker 2: they screw it up at the wrong time.
Speaker 5: There's a cost in baseball games, and that's the concern
Speaker 5: that I have. I hope it doesn't. I do believe
Speaker 5: in Stop. We've talked about this a lot. His instinct
Speaker 5: and his ability to move and his reaction time, it's
Speaker 5: totally different.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I don't particularly like it.
Speaker 5: I would have loved to Rise and go to first
Speaker 5: and then Harper go to write Boom done deal. And
Speaker 5: if you really wanted to like changed things up and
Speaker 5: make yourself a lot better, I.
Speaker 2: Think defensively in the infield.
Speaker 5: Then Rise goes a second, Stott goes a short turner
Speaker 5: goes to the outfield, and that's that's what you go with.
Speaker 2: But that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: None of that, None of that was considered, None of
Speaker 3: that was talked about are considered. They no, they knew
Speaker 3: Arise wanted to play second. They didn't even broach the
Speaker 3: subject of first base with them. They got him as
Speaker 3: a second baseman. They know they've got a problem in shortstop.
Speaker 3: It was not even broached about moving, uh Turner, But
Speaker 3: we all know the elephant in the room. That's got
Speaker 3: to be a topic of discussion internally and with the
Speaker 3: player in the off season, and I expect it will be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I absolutely expect it will be addressed in
Speaker 1: the off season or discussed in the offseason in some way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. But uh yeah, I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: stop moving a third to me, he made his major
Speaker 1: league debut at third base.
Speaker 3: Wasn't he the opening day?
Speaker 1: I think he was the opening day third basement in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Bom had a shaky spring and they actually played him
Speaker 3: a few days over there. I remember him playing one
Speaker 3: day in twenty two in Dunedin at third base and
Speaker 3: looking good, and Joe Girardi basically opened the competition for
Speaker 3: the third base job if you remember, Yeah, and stot
Speaker 3: had Like you said, he debuted over there in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. He played three did he played three positions
Speaker 3: that year and he and mostly shortstop and was a
Speaker 3: rookie on the World Series team at shortstop.
Speaker 4: Pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bryce isn't the type of guy too that's going
Speaker 1: to go out there and thinking he can embarrass himself,
Speaker 1: you know, or wondering if he's going to embarrass himself.
Speaker 1: So I feel like he feels that he's pretty confident
Speaker 1: he can go out there and.
Speaker 2: At least be.
Speaker 1: A net zero as a poor as of a negative
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 3: You know, I think that he went he went right
Speaker 3: out there, and yesterday.
Speaker 4: He did and and started airing.
Speaker 3: It out because he hasn't been thrown that long for
Speaker 3: a few years, and he started conditioning his arm for
Speaker 3: a long throw right right out of the gate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and do One thing that.
Speaker 5: Does concern me as an ex outfield coach in the
Speaker 5: major leagues and an outfielder in the big leagues is
Speaker 5: the routes.
Speaker 2: And the angles and the reactions.
Speaker 5: It's been five years since he's done that, I would assume,
Speaker 5: and in this day and age, I mean, this is
Speaker 5: the reality.
Speaker 2: Guys don't shag anymore.
Speaker 5: They don't stand in the outfield, they don't see the
Speaker 5: ball off the bat, they don't watch. And since he's
Speaker 5: been in the infield, he's been locked in first base
Speaker 5: taking ground balls, So you know, the reactions watching the
Speaker 5: ball off the bat, your first step quickness, your stir
Speaker 5: first step, accuracy, your angles.
Speaker 2: It's a concern.
Speaker 5: I know the Paco figure out will be working his
Speaker 5: ass off to get him to the point where he's
Speaker 5: you know, back in adequate and getting used to those
Speaker 5: things again.
Speaker 2: But and he's an instinctive guy, good athlete, all that stuff.
Speaker 5: But it's different and uh, and there's gonna be some
Speaker 5: ball is right over his head and some angles to
Speaker 5: his right and left that he's going to have to
Speaker 5: make adjustments to and it's.
Speaker 2: Not going to be seamless. It will not be seamless.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm as excited for tonight's game as I've been
Speaker 3: for a Phillies game in a long time. I'm excited
Speaker 3: to see all these moving parts. I'm excited to see
Speaker 3: how the fans greet him when he runs out to
Speaker 3: right field. I'm excited to see Luis Urayes in this lineup.
Speaker 3: He never strikes up my prediction, he's going to strike
Speaker 3: out in his first at pat, get mocked, get booed,
Speaker 3: and then go three for three the rest of the night.
Speaker 2: It is likely that that will definitely happen.
Speaker 5: Ball though they're throwing a right hander against him, I
Speaker 5: can't imagine they'll strike out against this dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kidding, but I'm looking forward to the tonight's game.
Speaker 3: And Hey, so Solizardo, who pitches really well on the
Speaker 3: road and not as good at home, needed.
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Speaker 1: All right, We're back Phillies. Derek Hill had a big,
Speaker 1: aggressive greed.
Speaker 2: That was an aggressive greed.
Speaker 1: Aggressive.
Speaker 4: You got to talk about Derek Hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to talk about Derek Hill. Well, the
Speaker 1: reason why I want to talk about Derek Hill is
Speaker 1: because I also he kind of relates to Brian Daylor crew.
Speaker 1: But that was a trade. Yeah, But I mean, like
Speaker 1: the Phillies did not get that right handed bat at
Speaker 1: the deadline, and Dave acknowledged that. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we were looking at a right handed bat and there
Speaker 1: were some right handed outfield bats moved at the deadline.
Speaker 1: Any of these guys, Elliott Ramos was traded, he would.
Speaker 4: Have been.
Speaker 2: Doing the junkies.
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward was moved high on base percentage guy, and
Speaker 1: he would have he would have helped out this lineup.
Speaker 1: Jo for you didn't like him, Joe him, yeah, Joe,
Speaker 1: Adell Tyrone, Taylor, Brenton Doyle, who's like, can't hit?
Speaker 4: Where'd he go? Brenan Doyle?
Speaker 1: Boy, I have to remember, I know he got to
Speaker 1: move somewhere. Though I wrote him down as a guy
Speaker 1: that got he did move.
Speaker 2: He did move. He can play defense, can't hit, can't hit,
Speaker 2: can't hit, can't hit. So Day basically said.
Speaker 1: The emergence of Brian de la Cruz made us feel
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable. And I and I understand,
Speaker 1: and I understand that is that How much of a
Speaker 1: risk is that though? I mean, you're basing it off
Speaker 1: what eight games in the big leagues, And I know
Speaker 1: he had a nice little season in Triple A, but
Speaker 1: something held him back down there for for longer than expected.
Speaker 3: I think that time held him back. They wanted to
Speaker 3: take a look at Otto camp. It didn't work. They
Speaker 3: wanted to. They end up taking a look at Right,
Speaker 3: it didn't work. They they've taken a look at rinconas
Speaker 3: you know, met some mess uh. So they had time
Speaker 3: because of his contract. Mind lea track with didn't have
Speaker 3: an out until July.
Speaker 9: So they're gonna go with two tunes out there, Marsh
Speaker 9: and Bailey, Cruz in the Cruse and Crawford and Hill.
Speaker 4: I think it has a chance to work.
Speaker 3: What we've seen of Hill, it's been pretty good and
Speaker 3: he's hitting for some popp He's made some great plays
Speaker 3: in the outfield. He is a totally team first guy.
Speaker 3: He's been impressive.
Speaker 1: It was funny we were walking down to the clubhouse yession.
Speaker 1: I think it was Ti Daubert from Phillies Nation. He goes,
Speaker 1: when you think about this season, like Derek Hill has
Speaker 1: like four to five of the top ten months of
Speaker 1: this season, go ahead Grand Slam on Monday Night, the catch.
Speaker 1: You know, it's these insane catches, like three or four
Speaker 1: of them. It seems like he had a couple go
Speaker 1: ahead home runs, big home runs in d C a
Speaker 1: few weeks, you know whatever, it was a month ago.
Speaker 1: It's like the Derek Hill Show. If you're the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six Phillies yearbook, is gonna have Derek Hill all
Speaker 1: over it.
Speaker 2: Well, they were dead, it was.
Speaker 5: It was another lackluster effort by the offense. They had
Speaker 5: two hits through five innings with maybe a couple of walk,
Speaker 5: didn't have very many base runners.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a great pitcher. Alvarez is not great.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, he's not Sandy Kofax, and they were having
Speaker 5: horse crap at bats against him, and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, you know, a couple of walks. It hit battery.
Speaker 5: The Gnats let them in the game. And that's sort
Speaker 5: of how the Nats have been losing games. They've been
Speaker 5: sort of unlucky figuring out ways to lose. In the
Speaker 5: last five or six they've lost six straight now, like
Speaker 5: what seven or eight out of nine, and so you know,
Speaker 5: they kind of let the Phillies back in and then
Speaker 5: you know, they hang a little breaking ball out over
Speaker 5: the plate and Derek Hill becomes a hero.
Speaker 2: But I think Derek Hill's done a really good job
Speaker 2: in his role.
Speaker 5: I know he's won for twenty prior to that was
Speaker 5: struggling some, but he's a role player. It's hard to
Speaker 5: you know, it's hard to have rhythm, it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's a difficult thing. But he's done a very good
Speaker 5: job and his effort and he's sort of become a
Speaker 5: little bit of the Harrison Baier of twenty twenty five
Speaker 5: for them in some ways.
Speaker 2: And you sort of hope Dela Cruz adds to that
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways.
Speaker 5: He's been around the game, He's got some big base
Speaker 5: hits himself at a home run.
Speaker 2: He may fade into the mist after this, but who knows.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's been there and done it, has
Speaker 5: had some success at the major league level. Hopefully this
Speaker 5: he can carry it for another couple of months, maybe three.
Speaker 3: Well, That was an interesting game Monday night because Nola
Speaker 3: gives up two early home runs. He now leads the
Speaker 3: majors with twenty eight.
Speaker 4: Home runs allowed. It's a lot.
Speaker 3: The offense is dead through six innings and the Nationals
Speaker 3: hit a batter and walk to When you make when
Speaker 3: you make mistakes like that and give another team an
Speaker 3: opportunity like that, you have to jump on it, like
Speaker 3: like you know, sharks in the water, blood in the water.
Speaker 3: And that's what Derek Hill did. He made them pay
Speaker 3: in a big way and that's why the Phillies won that.
Speaker 3: I came and then Kirkering with a good inning and
Speaker 3: after that Hill with a big defensive play. Harper extendsive lead.
Speaker 3: I'm really I feel like Bryce is got's gonna have
Speaker 3: some juice here and maybe finish really strong. He's starting
Speaker 3: to starting to look that way.
Speaker 1: He's got three homers in his last seven games, so
Speaker 1: he's been he's been picking it up and yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: No I was gonna say, yeah, I Ruben, you made
Speaker 1: the point of Like. Hill's kind of got that Harrison
Speaker 1: Bader energy and he does seem to bring anything. Talking
Speaker 1: to me after the game last night, He's like, if
Speaker 1: somebody asked him about you seem like you're having funs
Speaker 1: like I'm in the big leagues, Like I don't take
Speaker 1: this for granted, like I'm I'm happy to be out
Speaker 1: here every day. I don't take it for granted. I
Speaker 1: just enjoy being in on the field. If I could
Speaker 1: pick any place in the world to be, it would
Speaker 1: be on a baseball field. So he's he definitely has
Speaker 1: the energy sans scooter.
Speaker 2: Scooter.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna make a comment a value you're
Speaker 5: talking about. Harper's really starting to starting to pick it up,
Speaker 5: start to juicing up a little bit, which is huge.
Speaker 5: They need him, But the other guy that they need
Speaker 5: is Kyle Schwarber. They have been struggling mightily offensively, and
Speaker 5: a lot of it has to do the fact that,
Speaker 5: for whatever reason, whether it's timing, whether it's health, Kyle
Speaker 5: Schwarber's lack of production over the last month, really over
Speaker 5: the last month has been has been difficult on the Phillies.
Speaker 5: He's a really important part of this ball club. He's
Speaker 5: punching out at an alarming rate right now, and I
Speaker 5: think it's you know, it's gotten to the point where
Speaker 5: it's time for him to come out of it, and
Speaker 5: when he does, somebody's going to pay. Somebody will pay
Speaker 5: for his struggles right now, because once he gets his
Speaker 5: timing and once he gets his help back to one
Speaker 5: hundred percent, I think he's gonna do some serious damage.
Speaker 5: But they need him and they need to get there soon,
Speaker 5: sooner rather than later, so they can kick it back
Speaker 5: into gear.
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