Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to the Philly Show. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Philly Show. Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury,
Speaker 1: Todd Solecki. It is Wednesday, July tenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: We thought we would get together, fellows, because Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: came back last night, Kyle Schwarber came back last night.
Speaker 1: Seemed like a good time to get together and hash
Speaker 1: things out. Kyle Schwarber said before the game, hopefully it's
Speaker 1: the last little speed bump that we hit. And then
Speaker 1: in the fifth inning, Zach Wheeler leaves with a back issue,
Speaker 1: and then Johann Rojas gets plunked on the right forearm
Speaker 1: in the seventh inning. Both of those guys leave the game.
Speaker 1: Both of them talked after the game. Both of them
Speaker 1: seem to think that they will be okay. But let's
Speaker 1: start with the I don't know if he can say
Speaker 1: bad news, but Zach Wheeler leaves the game in the
Speaker 1: fifth inning with what the Phillies have called left lower
Speaker 1: back tightness. Concerned.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things that made last night great.
Speaker 2: I know there were the two injuries that caused a
Speaker 2: little bit of concern. I think very minor concern. I
Speaker 2: don't think either were a big concern anyway. The atmosphere
Speaker 2: was great. Forty three thousand, another sellout and Wheeler comes
Speaker 2: right out ninety seven, ninety seven, ninety eight, strikes out
Speaker 2: maybe the best player in baseball in Otani, and the
Speaker 2: place grows crazy. I just thought Wheeler came out with
Speaker 2: a chip on his shoulder, and I thought he came
Speaker 2: out looking to make a statement against the shoe hey
Speaker 2: O'tani and certainly did it. And he kind of like
Speaker 2: the lit the wick on the M eighty that brought
Speaker 2: that ballpark alive. But to your point, you could kind
Speaker 2: of see him lose his release point in that in
Speaker 2: that was it the fifth inning, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: he was up and into righties, was up and a
Speaker 2: way to lefties, and you know, kind of something that
Speaker 2: was up. Then you see sar AAnthony get up in
Speaker 2: the bullpen and he's out of there. You don't know
Speaker 2: if they're just conserving pitches with a big lead, and
Speaker 2: he uh, you know, he lets on a little lower
Speaker 2: back tightness and it's been bothered him a couple of starts,
Speaker 2: but he said he intends to make his next But
Speaker 2: I'm not real concerned. But if they opted to keep
Speaker 2: him on a tight LEAs Sunday, a short lease Sunday,
Speaker 2: or even opted to skip him, he doesn't think that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. I would be fine with it because it
Speaker 2: has bothered him just a little bit these last couple starts.
Speaker 2: But it's Sack Wheeler. He's hugely important to what you're
Speaker 2: gonna do the rest of the way, hugely important to
Speaker 2: you know, he's gonna get the ball game one, uh
Speaker 2: in October. He's gonna probably get to you know, get
Speaker 2: the ball maybe game one of every series if they
Speaker 2: can line it up the right way. Such an important piece.
Speaker 2: You want him one hundred percent healthy, not ninety nine
Speaker 2: point nine nine nine. You want them one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: So whatever it takes to get him there, I think
Speaker 2: they need to look at it. But I'm sure a
Speaker 2: little bit of concern, but not not any worry, right,
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not uh, I'm not like the panic boy,
Speaker 3: but but I do what concerns me a little bit.
Speaker 3: I've learned from Pat Gillick. There are two things that
Speaker 3: sort of bothered me a little bit with with pictures.
Speaker 3: It's their back obviously, their shoulders. But beyond that, with athletes,
Speaker 3: it's backs because they can be really tricky, you know,
Speaker 3: becomes a little bit of concern. A guy like Bryce Harper,
Speaker 3: he has to manage his back, you know. Cole Hamil's
Speaker 3: had to manage his back, you know, for for for
Speaker 3: years and years and years, did a really good job
Speaker 3: of that. So they can be tricky and they can
Speaker 3: sort of pop up any time, and so that's a
Speaker 3: little bit of a concern for me, and I think
Speaker 3: that I think it was really, uh, cautionary. It was
Speaker 3: a cautionary move for them to get him out of
Speaker 3: the game. They I mean, if it was a game
Speaker 3: on the line that was super important, he probably would
Speaker 3: have stayed in there and gutted it out, I would think.
Speaker 3: But the fact that he did mention it to them
Speaker 3: and he did feel like he got tweaked, that concerns
Speaker 3: me a little bit. That said, I don't think it's
Speaker 3: a big deal. It just has to be managed. And
Speaker 3: it will be very curious to see if he actually
Speaker 3: pitches on Sunday said he probably will and hopes he will,
Speaker 3: but who knows. Kind of depends on you know. I
Speaker 3: think the rest of these next maybe five games to
Speaker 3: see kind of where they stand as they move forward.
Speaker 3: If they continue to play decent baseball, they win a
Speaker 3: couple of games, they win this series in LA, then
Speaker 3: they might say, you know what, Skippy will just maybe'll
Speaker 3: skip him and let him have his full rest and
Speaker 3: start him fresh coming back from the All Star break.
Speaker 2: I would offer you talk about backs and being tricky.
Speaker 2: I don't for some wisdom that the philosopher Lenny Dykster
Speaker 2: wants shared.
Speaker 3: And he is a philosopher and he.
Speaker 2: Had a bad back. He said, back's a tricky dude
Speaker 2: because they're connected to everything.
Speaker 3: And he's right, it's so right.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he is indeed genius. I mean. The
Speaker 1: other thing they can do, guys, is coming out of
Speaker 1: the break is if they feel like they need an
Speaker 1: extra day with him or two, you could you could
Speaker 1: push him back. You know, you have him start on
Speaker 1: Sunday coming out of the break. You gave him start
Speaker 1: Monday coming out of the break in Minnesota if you
Speaker 1: felt like you needed more time. So they have some
Speaker 1: wiggle room there to keep him safe. But but Jim,
Speaker 1: you were right. That Otani at bat in the first inning,
Speaker 1: that was really cool. That was the sixth hardest pitch
Speaker 1: that strikeout pitch to Otani, So he definitely reared back
Speaker 1: and gave him a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question in my mind that that I
Speaker 3: do believe that that Zach Wheeler has a little bit
Speaker 3: of a chip on his shoulder because he didn't get
Speaker 3: the cy Young. He should have won one and he
Speaker 3: got screwed. There there's no question in my mind that
Speaker 3: he got screwed. He should have been the cy Young
Speaker 3: Award winner hands down. I think that, you know, he's
Speaker 3: one of those guys that sort of feel semi disrespected.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I think people now understand who he
Speaker 3: is and how he can what kind of impact he
Speaker 3: has as a pitcher. I think that if I was
Speaker 3: going to take one picture to pitch a baseball game
Speaker 3: right now, it's a little bit like Kurt Schilling back
Speaker 3: in his when he was one of the best pitchers
Speaker 3: in baseball. I would take that man and put him
Speaker 3: on them out. And just because I've seen what he's
Speaker 3: done under those circumstances, I know what his demeanors like.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just love the way he goes about it,
Speaker 3: and I have a great deal of respect for him
Speaker 3: as he's built his as he's matured as a pitcher
Speaker 3: now over the years instead of being a thrower. And
Speaker 3: I think it started at the end of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: I've said it a million times. That second half of
Speaker 3: that season he was remarkable, and I think it put
Speaker 3: him on this path. And I do think that he
Speaker 3: wanted to show the world and set the tone like,
Speaker 3: hey man, here I am, here, I am, and here
Speaker 3: are the Phillies, and I'm setting the tone, and you know,
Speaker 3: the Phillies just took it from there.
Speaker 2: I also think, you know, he loves being healthy. Early
Speaker 2: in his career, he was a number six pick in
Speaker 2: the country, he was a huge draft pick, first rounder
Speaker 2: by the Giants. Ends up with the Mets, loaded with potential.
Speaker 2: I remember they were like dubbing it the billion dollar
Speaker 2: rotation up in New York with all those guys Gron Wheeler,
Speaker 2: Matt Harvey and Matts.
Speaker 3: And it should have been it should have been just electric.
Speaker 2: It really just you can't do what you you know
Speaker 2: you need to do when you when you're not healthy.
Speaker 2: I think he loves the fact that he's healthy and
Speaker 2: he can be that that guy. Finally, he pitches with edge.
Speaker 2: He's got a little ornery to him. You know, you
Speaker 2: got you gotta love that edge.
Speaker 1: He's got a little Yeah, he's definitely salted. You know
Speaker 1: what's funny is that Jeff Frankcour when he was on
Speaker 1: last week, said if I have to pick one pitcher
Speaker 1: in all Major League Baseball, I'm picking to start a game.
Speaker 1: I'm picking Zack Wheeler. I know, I was watching MLB
Speaker 1: Network the other day and they had some panel on
Speaker 1: saying we had to pick one guy to start a
Speaker 1: big game, I'm picking Zack Wheeler. So nationally he's getting
Speaker 1: that respect. But it is cool that he's still got
Speaker 1: that little chip on his shoulder of I want to
Speaker 1: win a cy Young I don't maybe you know I'm
Speaker 1: using that as fuel still. And again I'm going to
Speaker 1: pretend to perceive that I'm being disrespected or not acknowledged
Speaker 1: as much as I should be acknowledged. But I just
Speaker 1: want to mention this and then we'll we'll move on.
Speaker 1: So if the Wheeler thing is especially important because Tyler
Speaker 1: Phillips is now going to start on Saturday against the
Speaker 1: A's Michael Mercato, Robert Thompson explained that Brian Kaplan, their
Speaker 1: assistant pitching coach, pitcher director of pitching development in the
Speaker 1: mind leagues, they were already going to move Mercado back
Speaker 1: into the bullpen and Triple A if he had not
Speaker 1: been brought up, so they're going to make so they're
Speaker 1: going to start that transition now. Tyler Phillips is going
Speaker 1: to start on Saturday. So with Taiwan Walker on the
Speaker 1: injured list, with Spencer Turnbull on the injured list, now
Speaker 1: you start really getting into the depths of your your
Speaker 1: minor league pitching depth and in Triple A right now,
Speaker 1: your next man up probably be Kobe Allard who's on
Speaker 1: the forty men, Max Castillo who just came back. He's
Speaker 1: pitched okay since he came back from from clear Water,
Speaker 1: and Davy Buchanan who's now in the forty men. Mickabele,
Speaker 1: as we know we've talked about it, has not had
Speaker 1: a good year. It's not really an option at this point.
Speaker 1: So that's another reason why you want to keep Zach
Speaker 1: Wheeler healthy because you don't want to keep dipping into
Speaker 1: that dipping into that starting pitching depth. So something to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on going forward. If Zach doesn't start
Speaker 1: on Saturday. This back issue keeps flaring up.
Speaker 2: So they're looking to improve the bullpen. It looks like
Speaker 2: I think we all think they will do something in
Speaker 2: the bullpen at the deadline. They're throwing Mercado's name in
Speaker 2: there as a potential option for bullpen help in the
Speaker 2: second half. That's what it appears to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think there's any question about that. And also,
Speaker 3: you know, all you got to do is look at
Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Dodgers to talk about, you know, pitching
Speaker 3: depth and where they stand, because that's really a separator
Speaker 3: I believe between the Phillies and the Dodgers. Now, the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: I think as a whole offensively, at least with the
Speaker 3: other guys, when Harper was out and Schwarber was out,
Speaker 3: JT's out, I think the Los Angeles Dodgers had the
Speaker 3: edge offensively. I do think that those guys back it
Speaker 3: sort of even things out. Maybe the Phillies are even
Speaker 3: a little bit better. I think the rankings sort of
Speaker 3: proved that out right now, that the Dodgers are a
Speaker 3: little bit better offensively at this very moment. But I
Speaker 3: think that will change as those guys get healthier and
Speaker 3: come back and start getting into their legs again. Think
Speaker 3: they're the La Dodgers bullpens just a touch better than
Speaker 3: than than the Phillies right now, not much, but pretty
Speaker 3: pretty much even. But the real separator is the Phillies
Speaker 3: over the Dodgers as far as the rotation is concerned,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers have a real issue there. I mean,
Speaker 3: the kid who's gonna throw tonight in Stone, he's really
Speaker 3: stepped forward and he's pitching very, very well. He's a
Speaker 3: little bit like Christopher Sanchez in that regard. For the Phillies,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a great match up today. But but
Speaker 3: you started looking at the guys. You know, the kid
Speaker 3: that through yesterday had a great year last year, but
Speaker 3: he's bouncing back from injury. Uh, they lost your eyes
Speaker 3: because he did his thing. They don't have Walker Bueller.
Speaker 3: He's really kind of struggling to get back off of
Speaker 3: Tommy John spent a couple of years now, it hasn't
Speaker 3: really become the guy I think he's now. He's got
Speaker 3: some kind of shoulder thing or something. You know, they
Speaker 3: don't they don't have young Moi though he got him down,
Speaker 3: they got her Shaw down. Well, you started.
Speaker 2: Lost yesterday, they lost class now he's not going to
Speaker 2: pitch on Thursday. Strike out leader in the league.
Speaker 3: Right, So you start and Glass now is a guy
Speaker 3: that you know, they put a lot of money into him,
Speaker 3: but the man hadn't pitched more than one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five innings in his whole career before they gave
Speaker 3: him that big number. So listen, they have talent, but
Speaker 3: they also have to stay healthy. And that's why I
Speaker 3: think it's so important to have pitching depth number one,
Speaker 3: and also to really take care of your starters because
Speaker 3: they're the most important part, especially when you get down
Speaker 3: to the playoffs. You need people who can win baseball
Speaker 3: games and keep your ball your ball club in the game.
Speaker 3: And you know, the Phillies have some really really good
Speaker 3: ones in Suarez and Nola and Wheeler, and you don't
Speaker 3: the guys who've done it, you know, and you got
Speaker 3: to keep those guys healthy.
Speaker 1: Before the game, Bryce Harper comes out and talks and Ruben,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught this. So Bryce is
Speaker 1: out there and says, yeah, I feel fine, but I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play it safe. I'm playing I'm playing it safe.
Speaker 1: And then I think it was Matt Gelb said, well,
Speaker 1: what do you mean by play it safe. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, not throwing the cloak on, not throwing the
Speaker 1: cloak on, not going to be like, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be your superhero whoever, your caped Crusader of Choices,
Speaker 1: Superman or Batman or whatever. He's not going to do that.
Speaker 3: I think maybe he was referring to the invisible cloak.
Speaker 3: Did he know, oh that that could be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's what that is.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But then so then in the first inning, he
Speaker 1: hits this line drive shot to Freddy Freeman. Freddy misses it,
Speaker 1: clangs off his glove, and Bryce books it down the line.
Speaker 1: That's the fastest clocked time he has had all season.
Speaker 1: That is the fastest sprint speed he has had since
Speaker 1: July fifteenth of twenty twenty three, twenty nine point one
Speaker 1: feet per second. So I guess he put the cloak
Speaker 1: on there that one time. I bet you just knew
Speaker 1: that that's impossible for him. He's he just can't. If
Speaker 1: the moment arises he thinks he can beat out of play,
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it. It's tough for him to dial
Speaker 1: it back one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I wonder what he doesn't he doesn't do he does
Speaker 3: not dial it back. I mean that that's that's the danger,
Speaker 3: and that's why you have to be careful. Like when
Speaker 3: he gets on the field, he's going to go if
Speaker 3: he needs to stretch a single into or double, or
Speaker 3: he needs to you know, die for a ground ball
Speaker 3: or whatever it is. I mean, he's instinctively going to
Speaker 3: do that. It's tough to have players back off. It's
Speaker 3: like taking your nine iron and saying, okay, listen, I
Speaker 3: can hit this one hundred and forty yards, but it's
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty yards shot, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: back off a little bit, and then you end up
Speaker 3: shanking it, you know, to the other to the other fairway.
Speaker 3: I think it's really I think it's that's why it's
Speaker 3: so important. And Rob Thompson talked about a little bit
Speaker 3: last night. You know that's why that's why you gotta be
Speaker 3: careful because when they get on the field. I think
Speaker 3: a guy like Trey Turner may may not And you
Speaker 3: saw him when he was first came back. He was
Speaker 3: sort of cruising around the base paths. But a guy
Speaker 3: like Bryce Harper is a little bit like Aaron Rowan
Speaker 3: or you know, they're I don't know how any other
Speaker 3: way to say it. They're sort of balls out when
Speaker 3: it's time to be balls out, and so they're going
Speaker 3: to go play. And and so that's why you have
Speaker 3: to be pretty careful about certain guys when they when
Speaker 3: they decide that they're ready to go.
Speaker 2: Well, the explosion of that sprint confirmed he's one hundred
Speaker 2: percent and there was a lot of hand ring. Oh,
Speaker 2: they're bringing him back too early. I if I saw
Speaker 2: him on the field or he was activated, I knew
Speaker 2: he was one hundred percent healthy. Because there is no
Speaker 2: way Bryce Harper, Rob Thompson, Dave Nebraski, Sam Falls, Paul Bokheit,
Speaker 2: Steve Collin, the Phillies Baseball offs people and their medical people.
Speaker 2: We're going to sign off on that, including Bryce if
Speaker 2: he was If he was not, one had time on
Speaker 2: their side and the standings on their side. If he
Speaker 2: needed another day or two, they were going to give
Speaker 2: it to him. But like you said the other day, Todd,
Speaker 2: he slid aggressively into home play in Atlanta during his
Speaker 2: practice session the other day during a workout. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, you know, he the guy is really good
Speaker 2: at messaging. I mean that was kind of his little
Speaker 2: message to everybody that I am healthy, I am ready.
Speaker 3: Death, no debt, no doubt. Hey, can we talk a
Speaker 3: little bit about the bottom of the lineup yesterday? And
Speaker 3: and Raffi Marshaan because I think that he.
Speaker 2: Is seven hits by he's.
Speaker 3: Pushing well, those guys seven for nine with like seven
Speaker 3: runs scored or something like that. But yeah, and I
Speaker 3: love the depth that it's created by having those guys
Speaker 3: back in the lineup. There's no question about that. But
Speaker 3: the thing that really makes me sort of wonder what's
Speaker 3: what the next step is is Rafael Mashan As far
Speaker 3: as the short as far as the catching situation is concerned,
Speaker 3: is JT's coming back. And JT may be coming back
Speaker 3: for the next series. I think he's really close. They
Speaker 3: may push him to the to the end of it.
Speaker 3: I know they're talked. That's what they've talked about and
Speaker 3: waiting for the All Star Game and that this one
Speaker 3: of the reasons they might do that is because Marshawn's
Speaker 3: played so well. But the question is who gets sent out?
Speaker 3: Because I think maybe we talked about this, Stubbs does
Speaker 3: have an option left and I didn't realize that he did.
Speaker 3: And so it's gonna be one of those balancing acts
Speaker 3: I think, you know, do you take the best player,
Speaker 3: because right now I think the best players are off
Speaker 3: al Marshawn. If you look at the totality of what
Speaker 3: he brings to the table, and or do you really
Speaker 3: worry about it changing the clubhouse in some way, shape
Speaker 3: or form, because he's a big part, you know, Stubbs
Speaker 3: is a very big part of that clubhouse. It's going
Speaker 3: to be an interesting It's a great problem to have,
Speaker 3: but it will be interesting to see how it goes well.
Speaker 2: You know, I think the variables are when JT comes back,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, are you going to cut back
Speaker 2: on his time? Would marsh on? Would the backup be
Speaker 2: getting more time? Or is it going to be, you know,
Speaker 2: business as usual for JT's going to catch you know,
Speaker 2: the vast majority, and the backup is going to get
Speaker 2: maybe a day day game after a night game. I
Speaker 2: and we said this, I said this to I lean
Speaker 2: towards sending him to Triple A. Who if JT has
Speaker 2: to go down again for ten days or a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, I'm bringing march On back, and I'm installing
Speaker 2: him as the regular or the bulk of the playing
Speaker 2: time guy, and I want to keep him sharp and
Speaker 2: I want to keep him ready. And I'm telling him
Speaker 2: that that you know, you you're our number one backup catcher,
Speaker 2: but you just happen to be sixty miles up the
Speaker 2: road staying sharp. And I do think Stubbs has a
Speaker 2: real benefit in the clubhouse. So you know, that's the
Speaker 2: way I would go right now. But all bets are off.
Speaker 2: If they're going to really ease jt in and he's
Speaker 2: only going to catch maybe fifty percent of the time
Speaker 2: for two weeks or three weeks, at that point, I'm
Speaker 2: probably going to keep march On. And they haven't revealed
Speaker 2: their plan, nor would they. They keep that stuff really
Speaker 2: close to the vest. But you're right, Marchrono was so impressive,
Speaker 2: Rubert Todd. He I mean, he attacked two balls, He
Speaker 2: pulled two balls down down the right field line where
Speaker 2: he just attacked the ball, and that just shows so
Speaker 2: much confidence. And then there was another time he kind
Speaker 2: of fills one down the left field line. He's on
Speaker 2: base all night, He's using the whole field. You know,
Speaker 2: he's catching a really good game with Zach Wheeler, and
Speaker 2: it appears it's not easy to win Zach Wheeler's trust,
Speaker 2: but it appears he has.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has.
Speaker 1: It was Garrett Stubbs that since the end of May
Speaker 1: he's batt in two seventy six. I know he's really
Speaker 1: struggled earlier this season. So if they do bring JT
Speaker 1: back and he does get the bulk of the playing town,
Speaker 1: I also think they would keep Stubbs, send Marshan down,
Speaker 1: and Rob is great at that messaging. He told Cody
Speaker 1: Clemens the same thing. He had a great message to
Speaker 1: Cody Clemens and why they sent him down as opposed
Speaker 1: to maybe keeping him up and having some easily listen,
Speaker 1: not enough playing time for you. We want you to go
Speaker 1: down there. You're going to play outfield every three or
Speaker 1: four days or every four day or four days a
Speaker 1: week and just really try to pump him up and
Speaker 1: make him feel good and making him feel like he's
Speaker 1: going to come back. I feel like, you know, Rob,
Speaker 1: if they do send Marshan down, he would give him
Speaker 1: a similar message where it's like, listen, you're our guy,
Speaker 1: don't worry, and you'll be back at some point. If
Speaker 1: we need you, and you know, keep playing hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think sometimes when you get sent down as
Speaker 3: a player and you've done well, it doesn't make you
Speaker 3: feel any better necessarily because you're going from heaven to hell.
Speaker 3: I've been there, done it. I did in ninety three
Speaker 3: when we needed a picture. I think Paul Fletcher came
Speaker 3: up and it ended up costing me like ten thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: a lot of money back then. But I got sent
Speaker 3: out just before because we had too like active like
Speaker 3: a rain date and then like back to back, you know,
Speaker 3: thirteen in jobs, and we ended up going to like
Speaker 3: eleven pitchers or something. Imagine that, going to eleven pictures
Speaker 3: and I got sent down and then I didn't feel
Speaker 3: any better. But I went down having played well and
Speaker 3: I won a couple of games. And so I think
Speaker 3: your demeanor seems to be better, and the messaging is important,
Speaker 3: and I think you're right. But you make a great point, Jim.
Speaker 3: If the guy's only playing fifty percent of those games,
Speaker 3: if Jat's playing fifty percent of the games, maybe Marshaan
Speaker 3: states that said, I do believe that they that may
Speaker 3: be the reason why they wait all the way to
Speaker 3: the end of the All Star break to bring him back,
Speaker 3: because I think that they probably want him to catch
Speaker 3: ninety percent of the games and have you know, stuff,
Speaker 3: to go ahead and do what he's doing, and that
Speaker 3: again gives them license and or meaning to sending Marshaan
Speaker 3: back and just letting him get stay ready in case
Speaker 3: he's got to do the bulk something else happens and
Speaker 3: he's got to catch more and more regularly.
Speaker 2: Just wait until the end of the All Star ring.
Speaker 2: He's too important. Let him really get his feeter. It's
Speaker 2: only a month. He's only a month out of the surgery.
Speaker 2: I think. I think he's two days shy of a month.
Speaker 2: So if he goes to the end of the All
Speaker 2: Star bring, it's gonna be just over five weeks, which
Speaker 2: is really a good quick recovery. I mean they said
Speaker 2: about a month. To me, five and a half weeks
Speaker 2: is still about a month. Give him the time. You
Speaker 2: got this lead. He's crucial, and you know on Game
Speaker 2: one sixty two his season is just starting. Give him
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: We didn't really get into Kyle. Kyle Schwarber had a
Speaker 1: great game to last night, getting him back in the
Speaker 1: leadoff spot. He hits the that single single to right
Speaker 1: center field, and the second inning scored a couple of
Speaker 1: runs walks to set up the bases, set up the
Speaker 1: Grand Slam for Trade Turner. It's you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: You get Schwarbe back and Harper back. That lineup looks
Speaker 1: a whole lot different.
Speaker 2: He tried to he tried to take Kiki Hernandez to
Speaker 2: Center City. He popped it up and you can see
Speaker 2: them giving each other a little resin on the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sure, I don't think Schreber was too happy that he
Speaker 1: popped up there. He's telling you he missed he missed one,
Speaker 1: he missed one.
Speaker 3: No, but he got a huge two out, I mean,
Speaker 3: and base it. And and that's the beauty of what
Speaker 3: Kyle Schwarber. It's a perfect example instead of a microcosm
Speaker 3: of this season because he's not necessarily trying to drive
Speaker 3: the ball out of the ballpark. He's utilizing the middle
Speaker 3: of the field, something he wanted to do all off season,
Speaker 3: thought about it. Wanted to have a better at batting average,
Speaker 3: wanted to be a more complete hitter getting his base hits.
Speaker 3: And that was a perfect example. He just drove that
Speaker 3: crap out of that one to the middle of the
Speaker 3: field and right through the infield.
Speaker 1: We'll get into this maybe some other time, but sounds
Speaker 1: like the rehab assignment is dead.
Speaker 3: No doornail, it's.
Speaker 1: Deader than a doornail. If you're a veteran, was some
Speaker 1: big league time, I I ain't gone on. No rehab
Speaker 1: assignment ain't happening.
Speaker 3: They could try to, They could try to simulate as
Speaker 3: much as possible that those boys aren't going down there.
Speaker 3: They're not buying any steak dinners for the boys anymore.
Speaker 1: They almost should just send some. They almost should despuy
Speaker 1: a spread for old times, like just say, I'm not
Speaker 1: down there, guys, but I am thinking of you, thinking of.
Speaker 3: Your wedding and uh, you know in wedding and Lehigh Valley. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll take care of you guys, exactly. Well, a couple
Speaker 3: of big steak dinners.
Speaker 1: Sent with love. Trey Turner, Kyle Schwore, Brett Starber. You know,
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Speaker 1: Let's can't miss, can't miss? All right, guys, Well, thanks
Speaker 1: a lot. That was fun. We will be back again
Speaker 1: later this week to wrap up the Dodger series and
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Speaker 2: Smell you lated, guys, smell Jim.
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