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Speaker 1: How's it going. This is Jason Kelcey and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Ruber Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's a lucky It's a

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Speaker 2: Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: We are coming to you live following Wednesday's game in Clearwater, Florida.

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Speaker 2: So good to see you guys in person. We're so

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Speaker 2: close together, it's like abnormally close together. We're brethren, Yes,

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Speaker 2: we're brethren. We have a lot to talk about, and

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Speaker 2: I want to jump right into it. Not too many

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Speaker 2: battles guys this spring, but Brad Keller started today's game.

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Speaker 2: He's the setup guy, and a lot of guys that

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Speaker 2: could be competing for one of these final two bullpen

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Speaker 2: jobs followed today, and I want to ask you guys,

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Speaker 2: right off the bat, Brad Keller look pretty good.

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Speaker 1: He certainly did.

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Speaker 4: He had one two three first inning he started the game,

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Speaker 4: which interestingly enough, he won't be starting this year right

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Speaker 4: handed setup man, but he had been a starter. And

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Speaker 4: afterward talking, he told about how he went to camp

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Speaker 4: with the Chicago Cubs last year on a minor league

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Speaker 4: deal as a starting pitcher, thinking he was going to

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Speaker 4: and shortly before opening day they said to him, what

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Speaker 4: do you think about going to the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: He said, let's give it a shot.

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Speaker 4: And sixty eight appearance is in a two point oho

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Speaker 4: seventy ra later, he has a two year, twenty two

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Speaker 4: million dollar contract with the Phillies and he's going to

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Speaker 4: be setting up for Johandoran. I thought he looked good

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Speaker 4: today first time out in ninety seven on the gun.

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Speaker 4: He'll go to the World Baseball Class. He just wanted

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Speaker 4: to be healthy because they didn't do a lot this winter.

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Speaker 4: But I think that's a significant acquisition.

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Speaker 3: Really big one.

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Speaker 5: And we had a chance to talk to him during

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Speaker 5: the broadcast today and it was it was cool. He's

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Speaker 5: he seems like a real He's got very very level headed.

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Speaker 5: I know he's gotten come. He's had to come a

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Speaker 5: long way to get to this point. I mean he's

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Speaker 5: played on a variety of different teams, he's had different roles.

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Speaker 5: He started. He's relieved, and he did tell that story

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Speaker 5: on the air today about how he they got to Japan.

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Speaker 5: They said, well, listen, we got too many starters, but

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Speaker 5: we do need some bullpen help. Would you consider going

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Speaker 5: to the bullpen. He was like, hey, let's do it.

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Speaker 5: And he put himself in a position to make a

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Speaker 5: boatload of money because he pitched his rear end off

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Speaker 5: and put himself in a position to have the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: Come knocking on his door.

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Speaker 5: And they knocked it down and it was a big

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Speaker 5: one for him to sign him for a two year

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Speaker 5: deal eleven million dollars a year, and hopefully he can

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Speaker 5: help lock things down for Rob Thompson in the eighth

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Speaker 5: a couple of.

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Speaker 2: You know, Keller is a very likable guy. Yeah, just

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Speaker 2: talking to him, He's got like a Chad Durban vibe

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Speaker 2: to him, you know, yeah, a super approachable, super.

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Speaker 3: Down to earth.

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Speaker 2: So remember earlier in camp, Zach Wheeler made all these

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Speaker 2: headlines because he kept his rib as a souvenir. Well,

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Speaker 2: Keller had the same surgery a few years ago. He

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Speaker 2: was sounded disappointed though. I asked him, I said, do

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Speaker 2: you have your rib? He's like, no, actually I still

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Speaker 2: have my rib.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't. I didn't take it out.

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Speaker 2: They they did like something with his nerves and and

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Speaker 2: But then he told me a couple of great stories

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Speaker 2: remember his name now, and he actually in a game

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Speaker 2: pitched with his rib in his back pocket. He said

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Speaker 2: In fact, you know what I'm gonna say, if I

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Speaker 3: Gosh, I gotta remember that.

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Speaker 2: I gotta remember his name. But yeah, that's hilarious. But

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Speaker 3: I hate to do this.

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Speaker 2: It's very hackey, but I gotta find this guy's name.

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Speaker 2: Entertain that entertain entertained the folks here, well anyway, I

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Speaker 2: Nate Carns, big league pitcher, Nate Carnes.

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Speaker 3: There we go.

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Speaker 5: I think it's you know, just the fact that this

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Speaker 5: Is actually like a really great endorsement for the possibility

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Speaker 5: you know, Merrill Kelly came back and pitched very well

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Speaker 3: Not a ton of guys do.

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Speaker 5: And you just hope that, you know, it's sort of

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Speaker 5: a precursor to what we'll we'll see at a Wheeler

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Speaker 5: Doesn't look like there's you know, any ill effects from him,

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Speaker 5: you know, coming back from that from that surgery years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he throws a sinker in a four steamer.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, he's got the mentality that when he

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Speaker 1: And he also throws this a sweeper.

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Speaker 4: But your point about Wheeler, I mean their lockers are

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Speaker 4: better has to be a confidence builder for Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 4: Not that I think he needs a needs confidence. I

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Speaker 4: the reports are really good. Having that, you know, guy,

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Speaker 2: It is probably a good thing you got two bullpen

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Speaker 2: He's the only one of those relievers on the forty

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Speaker 2: if you have options, you're out options.

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Speaker 3: That kind of that could have hurt you. I could

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Speaker 5: Sometimes it's a curse if you have options as the player.

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Speaker 5: But you know, it's great to see some of these guys.

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Speaker 5: The thing that I liked the most about what I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so trivor Richards, I was asking him because he's

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Speaker 2: Like you know, a lot of guys will look at

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Speaker 3: Let's go to this at a week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can make I can make this team at

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Speaker 2: the exact opposite. He said, he did that last year

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, he said he chose the Phillies because

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Speaker 2: You know, as a non roster guy, the roads are

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Speaker 2: he sees an opportunity in that sense, maybe the Phillies

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Speaker 5: about this, Go young in your rotation and veteran in

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Speaker 5: your in your bullpen, because that's when you have to

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Speaker 5: make pitches, and that's when you have to have a

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Speaker 1: That's a great point.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're if you're a veteran guy, non roster,

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Speaker 4: do you go for a team that's gonna finish in

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Speaker 4: A when they have a need, they would opt for

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Speaker 4: a veteran and you can help them. Phillies have a

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Speaker 4: number of those guys make Tim Maz's ear, Louke Trevino

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Speaker 4: is here, and there's you know, I think this is

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Speaker 1: There's two spots left.

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Speaker 3: Two spots left.

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Speaker 1: I counted like twelve guys.

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Speaker 4: You have a legitimate shot at those twelve jobs, at

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Speaker 4: those two jobs. Twelve guys legitimate shot at two jobs.

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Speaker 1: Hey, if there's a year you want to come in

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Speaker 2: He said, like, you know, I could hit maybe thirty

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Speaker 5: He doesn't look like he gets rattled. Maybe he gets

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Speaker 1: Why not.

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Speaker 5: great direct line to the ball, secured the baseball in

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Speaker 5: the gap as he was crashing into the fence, I think.

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Speaker 5: And so it's nice to see him have early solid

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Speaker 5: returns in center field because he's gonna have to play

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Speaker 5: a good solid center field, especially if he's not swinging

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Speaker 5: the bat well in the early part of the season.

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Speaker 5: You've got to make sure that he's securing the baseballs

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Speaker 5: that he's supposed to secure in center field.

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Speaker 3: All right, guys, that was fun Philly Show. We'll be back.

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