Speaker 1: Hi, this is Kyles forber and welcome to the Philly Show.
Speaker 2: A rubin tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's a lucky It's
Speaker 2: the Philly Show. It's Monday, January fifth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Have you guys recover? I know you guys hit it
Speaker 2: hard on New Year's Eve, hard hard, so hard.
Speaker 3: I hit the mattress hard at nine p fifteen, two
Speaker 3: o'clock fireworks.
Speaker 4: You did.
Speaker 2: Good for you, Good for you, six.
Speaker 4: Pm, just like the kids do.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I hope everybody's doing well. It is Monday, Like I
Speaker 2: said January fifth, everybody's you know, winter break is over,
Speaker 2: the holiday break is over. We're getting back into Phillies baseball.
Speaker 2: We did do a few shows before the break or
Speaker 2: during the break. We had back to back episodes with
Speaker 2: Jimmy Rollins uh and then the other day on New
Speaker 2: Year's Day, we answer a lot of your questions about
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six season. Well, today we're going to
Speaker 2: look ahead and do some predictions, some thoughts, and let's
Speaker 2: get going right away. Let's go with the top. What
Speaker 2: is your top storyline?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 2: On January fifth, twenty twenty six, on the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody wants to jump, I could start.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do? I'll start.
Speaker 5: Jo does not resign with the Phillies, and the Phillies
Speaker 5: go with Marshawn, Krantini and Stubbs.
Speaker 4: Wow. Wow, what's your top storyline? That is?
Speaker 2: That is a big storyline. That is a big story
Speaker 2: There's only.
Speaker 3: One storyline, guys, there's only one storyline. What's this with
Speaker 3: this roster and the pedigrees on this roster, the age
Speaker 3: of the roster, the mammoth payroll, the expectation, the disappointment
Speaker 3: in the last three October. There's only one storyline. Can
Speaker 3: they win the World Series? Do they win the World Series?
Speaker 3: How will October shakeout? That's the only storyline?
Speaker 1: Like it? I like it, Jim, you know what you know?
Speaker 4: It's funny. I went back.
Speaker 2: I went back and I watched last year's twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five predictions, and Jim, you went macro you said the
Speaker 2: same thing last year. You said, there's only one storyline.
Speaker 2: Will the Phillies win the World Series? That's all this
Speaker 2: is about.
Speaker 1: Rubin is not consistent.
Speaker 3: But I also I also love I love storylines and
Speaker 3: story there are a million storylines under that, but that's
Speaker 3: the one that matters my friends.
Speaker 2: Right right. So my storyline is is actually should be
Speaker 2: resolved probably the next six seven weeks or so before
Speaker 2: as camp opens, and that is is this it? Are
Speaker 2: they done?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Where does it go? For me? That kind of dovetails
Speaker 2: off of what Rubin said, which is, is j T
Speaker 2: riam Muto back or not? We said a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago they were at a stalemate, Jim, you said
Speaker 2: it was a game of as JT is. JT is
Speaker 2: looking for something. I don't want to say at what
Speaker 2: he was getting aa V the last five years, but
Speaker 2: I think he doesn't want to take too massive of
Speaker 2: a pay cut obviously, which is take the haircut, yeah cut,
Speaker 2: but the old buzz cut, which is why he still
Speaker 2: remains unsigned. So if JT re signs, what does that
Speaker 2: mean for the rest of the roster in the offseason?
Speaker 2: If JT does not re sign, what does that mean
Speaker 2: for the roster and the rest of the off season. Now,
Speaker 2: Our buddy John Hayman on Saturday sent out a tweet
Speaker 2: saying the Phillies are one of the big market teams
Speaker 2: interested in Boba Schett. What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 3: Though, haven't we been Haven't we been talking about boba
Speaker 3: Chev for two and a half months.
Speaker 1: It's not new news.
Speaker 5: People are throwing it out there on x and Twitter
Speaker 5: and all these other things. Yeah, we've been chatting about
Speaker 5: this for about fourteen months.
Speaker 4: I would love it. I would love it. What a fit.
Speaker 3: But you'd have to subtract something in the infield, and
Speaker 3: you'd have to clear money in the infield, and you
Speaker 3: have to clear money. It means JT probably wouldn't come
Speaker 3: back because you'd have to clear some salary.
Speaker 4: But I would love it if it would happen. And
Speaker 4: I think they're.
Speaker 3: Serious interested bystanders in that drama that market, and have
Speaker 3: been for a while. But there has to be other
Speaker 3: companion moves to free spot and salary.
Speaker 5: And there's some people opining about the fact that they
Speaker 5: might consider Bobbashett to play second and move Stot the third.
Speaker 1: I've seen some of that out there on social work.
Speaker 4: I don't know that that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's the move.
Speaker 5: I think that that, I mean, it could be, but
Speaker 5: I feel much more comfortable with Stott at second base
Speaker 5: because he's such a good defender, and Bobashett is a
Speaker 5: very good offensive player, He's not a great defensive short stop.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna play short. Turner's playing short.
Speaker 5: I mean, I feel a little bit more comfortable with
Speaker 5: him on third base than second base.
Speaker 4: But who knows what might happen.
Speaker 5: Bobby Dickerson is one of the best in field of
Speaker 5: coaches in the game. If they do make that move,
Speaker 5: I think that they'd be comfortable with moving guys around.
Speaker 5: But my personal feeling is that I think Bobashett would
Speaker 5: stay on the left side of the field, but that
Speaker 5: might be.
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's ever played third I don't
Speaker 3: know if he has His arm is not, you know,
Speaker 3: a standout arm, and I saw Stop play third base
Speaker 3: early in twenty twenty two. Yeah, I mean, Dickerson loves
Speaker 3: stopt in the infield.
Speaker 6: Remember we had him on in the summertime. He called
Speaker 6: him like a Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, because he's he's really instinctive.
Speaker 1: He can probably play any of those positions.
Speaker 3: And I think he could go over there and you'd
Speaker 3: get a lot out of Bushett at But I mean
Speaker 3: to do a Brishette, there are other moves. You know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to clear a spot in the endfield
Speaker 3: moving balm, and that third base market hasn't shaken out yet.
Speaker 6: And you're probably you're probably saying goodbye to JT.
Speaker 4: Because they're you know.
Speaker 3: This week they have a fifty six fifty seven million
Speaker 3: dollar tax bill due, I mean, and they're gonna be.
Speaker 4: Over the fourth spot again. They're pinched so.
Speaker 2: And and you know, obviously things can change. Maybe John
Speaker 2: Milton had to change her heart over the holidays. He said,
Speaker 2: you know what, Dave, go get JT and get me
Speaker 2: Bobaschett and we'll figure it out. Maybe maybe that's happened.
Speaker 2: But again, going back to last month when the Phillies
Speaker 2: re signed Kyle Schwarber, my understanding was they were out
Speaker 2: out on Bellinger, Bashett Redman, especially if they got JT.
Speaker 2: So to Jim's point, the only path that I see again,
Speaker 2: unless John Middleton has changed his mind and he said,
Speaker 2: go for it, Dave, the hell with it. I'll pay
Speaker 2: a ninety million dollar penalty tax next year, is you
Speaker 2: let JT go, You go cheap on the catching spot
Speaker 2: and then you trade Bam who's gonna make around ten
Speaker 2: million plus in salary. A lot of moving parts.
Speaker 5: There though a lot of movie why not just get
Speaker 5: Ranger Swarms as well?
Speaker 1: For that one year pillow contract.
Speaker 4: Let's go out. I mean, if we're gonna go, let's go.
Speaker 1: It's not my money, my.
Speaker 2: Glue, exact, you're gonna go go, exactly right. So I
Speaker 2: would I understand the excitement that that popped up in
Speaker 2: Philly on Saturday when I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: the Phillies are interested in Boba Shet. But guess what,
Speaker 2: they're all so interested in Alex Pragman. They would love
Speaker 2: Alex Pragman. Oh, Rubin, You're right, they would love to
Speaker 2: have Ranger Suarez back. They're still interested.
Speaker 5: There is things we all want, a lot of things.
Speaker 4: I want eight billion dollars exactly right.
Speaker 2: But I would lower expect I would. I would personally
Speaker 2: lower expectations. That would be I would be very surprised
Speaker 2: if we saw Bobachett in the Phillies lineup on opening day.
Speaker 5: I'd be surprised and shocked, and I would probably pretty
Speaker 5: be pretty pleased.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be a lot of fun to have
Speaker 2: Bobachett in the lineup. We all love him for a
Speaker 2: lot of different reasons. Just an absolutely super talented player.
Speaker 2: All right, So those are our top storylines going into
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 6: is dot dom Well.
Speaker 2: Ruben already said he is not is Uh you said
Speaker 2: your your bold prediction. Yeah, yeah, you did say. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think he's coming I think he just go giant.
Speaker 3: I think he's coming back a three year deal. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4: That, Jimmy, Jim.
Speaker 3: You said that last week, So you, Jim, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's not gonna get resigned.
Speaker 2: Okay, Toddy, I think he's coming back. I think Jat's
Speaker 2: gonna come back. I think the Phillies won and back.
Speaker 2: I don't think he wants to go anywhere else, and
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna get the money that he
Speaker 2: wants from anybody else unless somebody just goes again. Screw it.
Speaker 2: We need a catcher. We haven't done much this offseason.
Speaker 2: Let's just overpay it for him, and you know we'll
Speaker 2: have a stud in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1: And you know, a.
Speaker 2: Guy that the pitching staff loves so hear me wrong.
Speaker 1: I want him back, right right right?
Speaker 2: No, we know, we know I want.
Speaker 1: The man back.
Speaker 5: I just don't know that he's going to sign back.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna gold bold and say no.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, so here we go.
Speaker 4: Let's real quick.
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Speaker 2: what are you guys most curious to see in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six? I want to go back it is. It
Speaker 2: was kind of fun to go back and watch. I
Speaker 2: watched last year's episode. Rubin, you said you were most
Speaker 2: curious to see if Alec Bom can bounce back from
Speaker 2: the NLDS benching all the trade talks. Jim, you said
Speaker 2: you were most curious to see Aiden Miller's development in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And I was most curious to see
Speaker 2: if Max Kepler could bounce back from a bunch of
Speaker 2: injury plague seasons and and you know, down production from
Speaker 2: Minnesota Twins. So that's what we said last year.
Speaker 1: And basically nothing, none of those happened.
Speaker 4: None he bom did Okay? Aiden Miller finished well?
Speaker 1: And what was yours?
Speaker 2: Todd again that Max Kepler didn't really do a whole
Speaker 2: lot that that I was curious though, I was curious
Speaker 2: to see you.
Speaker 4: We're curious, we were curious to see it.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, guys, who's who wants to jump in here
Speaker 2: with most curious? What are you most curious to see?
Speaker 1: James?
Speaker 3: Well, I actually have several of them, and one of
Speaker 3: them is how close is Aidan Miller at the end
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 4: I'm consistent on that. I love it. Hey, we're all them? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 4: then you know what?
Speaker 3: Then I'm most curious to see how Bryce Harper bounces
Speaker 3: back and what he's wearing under his UNI Is he
Speaker 3: wearing an elite shirt and not elite shirt?
Speaker 4: Nice? What about you? Todd?
Speaker 2: I actually I did write this down. I wrote down
Speaker 2: what's Bryce Harper's mindset, what's his attitude, what's his what
Speaker 2: does he look like coming into spring training? And of
Speaker 2: course how he performs this season. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: eyeballs on him. He put even more eyeballs on him
Speaker 2: by acknowledging the elite comment not elite comment from Dave
Speaker 2: Debrowski and tell you what, if Bryce Harper's motivated and
Speaker 2: he's healthy, Oh, it could be a fun, fun year
Speaker 2: for that Phillies lineup.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I got great points about about Bryce, no question about it.
Speaker 1: I'm curious about that as well.
Speaker 5: I have to say that I'm super curious about pitching,
Speaker 5: and I'm curious about Andrew Andrew Painter.
Speaker 1: What kind of.
Speaker 5: Production does he have when he pitches in the big
Speaker 5: leagues at some point this year?
Speaker 1: What kind of major league pitcher.
Speaker 5: Is he going to be in twenty twenty six, and
Speaker 5: how productive can he be?
Speaker 6: Great?
Speaker 4: Good, one's great one, A lot of honorable men.
Speaker 3: To Orion, I want to see what they get out
Speaker 3: of a dollars Carcie. I want to see kind of
Speaker 3: like how he can figures that lineup, because if he
Speaker 3: puts Schwarber behind Harper because they need some protection beyond Harper,
Speaker 3: who's going to protect Schwarber a little bit?
Speaker 4: So there's so much that I'm very, very eager to see.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 6: Then the big one I'm going to see is can
Speaker 6: they win in October?
Speaker 1: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 2: It all comes back to that Fellas. Absolutely, you gotta
Speaker 2: win the world. You gotta win the big one, gotta
Speaker 2: win the big Okay, biggest fear last year, last January.
Speaker 2: My biggest fear, it's kind of an easy one. Zach
Speaker 2: Wheeler gets hurt, Aaron Nola gets hurt, stumbles, and actually
Speaker 2: both of those things ended up coming true, and Noah
Speaker 2: had the worst year of his career. Zach Wheeler got hurt.
Speaker 2: Jim said, big picture, even bigger picture, health. Biggest fear
Speaker 2: is health. His biggest fear was health. And then Ruben,
Speaker 2: you had a kind of touch done it in your
Speaker 2: last answer used to your biggest fear was do the
Speaker 2: Phillies panic at some point and speed up Andrew Painter's
Speaker 2: timeline and rush them to the big leagues earlier? And
Speaker 2: it is ready. It turns out they were like, they
Speaker 2: didn't rush him at all.
Speaker 1: They didn't they didn't rush him at all.
Speaker 2: They didn't they did not rush him at all. So
Speaker 2: he was not ready. He didn't really let.
Speaker 1: Him earn and he did not earn his promotion.
Speaker 2: Correct. Correct, So biggest fear for you guys, does anybody
Speaker 2: want to get rolling on that one?
Speaker 4: I'll start it and I'll start with the pitching again.
Speaker 5: My biggest fear is Zach Wheeler not being able to
Speaker 5: bounce back. And even if he's I'd be happy if
Speaker 5: he's eighty five.
Speaker 1: Percent of what Zach Wheeler is. I'll take that.
Speaker 5: But my biggest fear is he's only fifty percent of
Speaker 5: what Zach Wheeler is and or less, and I do
Speaker 5: fear that greatly.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's necessarily the case. I'm hopeful
Speaker 1: that he bounces back.
Speaker 5: I love everything about the pictures, one of the best,
Speaker 5: I think, one of the best pictures starting pitchers they've
Speaker 5: ever had.
Speaker 1: And I really believe that, you know that he can.
Speaker 5: I'm hopeful that he can, but I'm really scared if
Speaker 5: he can't.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, I mean I put that down
Speaker 2: as well. My biggest fear is that Wheeler does not
Speaker 2: bounce back as expected, and Aaron Nola kind of continues
Speaker 2: that slide of you know he had any array of
Speaker 2: what was at over six last season. I mean, God,
Speaker 2: can you imagine if that's he can't bounce back, that
Speaker 2: that would just be terrible. Now, the one reason I'm
Speaker 2: optimistic about Wheeler is that he had a similar surgery
Speaker 2: to Merrill Kelly, who bounced back and had some pretty
Speaker 2: nice years with the Diamondbacks and Brad Keller, who they
Speaker 2: just signed from the Royals. He had thoracic outlets in
Speaker 2: him surgery, the vascular kind, and he said when he
Speaker 2: talked to us a couple of weeks ago on Zoom,
Speaker 2: he said he started he felt like about one hundred
Speaker 2: percent by about the All Star break. So you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know when they win, Zach might rejoin the rotation.
Speaker 2: But tell you what, if he kind of feels his
Speaker 2: way around the first half and then by the All
Speaker 2: Star break, he's Zach Wheeler of old, that would be
Speaker 2: that would be huge. I don't think anybody would complain
Speaker 2: about that. If Zach is thrown like Zach mid July
Speaker 2: through the end of the season and hopefully the Phillies
Speaker 2: hope until deep October.
Speaker 3: I'm in lockstep with you, guys. I mean health up
Speaker 3: and down the roster. It's an it's an older team,
Speaker 3: it's an aging team. We've seen it before. Older players
Speaker 3: more susceptible to injury. The older core of this team
Speaker 3: is very, very important. You lose one or two members,
Speaker 3: you're a much different team. And then you know zeroing in,
Speaker 3: you know, within that concern in the middle of the rotation,
Speaker 3: the iron of the rotation wheeler Nola, guys who've carried,
Speaker 3: you know, very very heavy loads for years.
Speaker 6: One coming back off surgery. One showed honestly serious signs
Speaker 6: of decline last year. So where are those guys is
Speaker 6: going to be?
Speaker 3: That's my big fear that we would see a downturn
Speaker 3: in the rotation, serious injuries somewhere that's going to affect the.
Speaker 4: Team as a whole.
Speaker 5: Hey, Todd, I wanted to circle back a little bit
Speaker 5: on one of my curiosities also is how Justin Crawford
Speaker 5: will react to being an everyday player in center field.
Speaker 1: I think that's a.
Speaker 5: Big one too, because I'm not as concerned really about
Speaker 5: the offensive piece.
Speaker 1: I'm sort of concerned that he can really.
Speaker 5: Solidify the defensive side because he has to at least
Speaker 5: do that to contribute to the team. And he can't
Speaker 5: do that, then you might as well just go ahead
Speaker 5: and throw Johann Rojas out there in center field and
Speaker 5: let him roam around. If you're feeling like he can't
Speaker 5: do it defensively, then my concern is then you better
Speaker 5: shore up that defense with somebody who can really play center. Field,
Speaker 5: and Johan Rojas can do that. I know, we haven't
Speaker 5: talked about him much at all over the course of
Speaker 5: the last few months, but it's so important for Justin
Speaker 5: Crawford at the very least to be able to perform
Speaker 5: at the defensive side of the ball, even though we
Speaker 5: all have some concerns about the offensive collective from the outfield.
Speaker 2: Great point, yeah, I mean, you know, pitching defense. Everybody's
Speaker 2: really concerned about the offense of this team. I guess
Speaker 2: because Garcia has been down the past couple of years.
Speaker 2: And I get it. You know, we don't know Crawford.
Speaker 2: You know, guys at ESPN the other day said this
Speaker 2: might be the worst outfield of Major League Baseball. So
Speaker 2: I get all that. But they can hang in there.
Speaker 2: If they can get some good starting pitching and play
Speaker 2: some good defense. They you guys know it. They can
Speaker 2: hang in there and they can win a bunch of
Speaker 2: games with just with a really good starting pitching staff
Speaker 2: and some good defense.
Speaker 4: So okay.
Speaker 2: Bold prediction, bold prediction, bold prediction for me. You guys
Speaker 2: can define it however you want it. For bold prediction.
Speaker 2: May is it's a bold prediction, it's not. Bryce Harper
Speaker 2: is going to win finish top three for n L MVP.
Speaker 2: That to me is not a bold prediction. That's a
Speaker 2: very a that's a safe, not gutsy opinion. And we
Speaker 2: are We're going to be bold. It's Gabe be bold,
Speaker 2: because Gabe Kapler said, be bold, be bold value at
Speaker 2: the margins, be bold value at the margins. Okay, last
Speaker 2: year bold prediction. Rubin and I again we were on
Speaker 2: the same at the same wavelength working uh. Rubin said
Speaker 2: he thinks that Bryson Scott will challenge for a NL
Speaker 2: batting title. I said Bryson Scott would make the NL
Speaker 2: All Star team. We both felish fourth fell short there,
Speaker 2: but he had a real nice second.
Speaker 5: Half, unbelievable second half, and people don't remember.
Speaker 2: That unbelievable second half. So maybe this is maybe we're late,
Speaker 2: a year late, Ruben.
Speaker 1: I hope so, I hope so for him and for
Speaker 1: the Phillies.
Speaker 2: That would be Truman. That would be absolutely tremendous. That
Speaker 2: would go a long way. And Jim, your bold prediction,
Speaker 2: very bold. You said a Ryan Kirkering would get twenty
Speaker 2: to twenty two saves.
Speaker 6: And totally nailed that one.
Speaker 2: But it was.
Speaker 4: Bold, It was bold.
Speaker 2: I remember I mentioned on the show last year that
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen for MLB dot Com we do bold predictions.
Speaker 2: I said Nick Povetta would make the NL All Star Team.
Speaker 2: Didn't happen, but he turned into making a having a
Speaker 2: very nice little career.
Speaker 3: But then we we we we did our predictions around
Speaker 3: Opening Day and I had a better fate on that one.
Speaker 2: Yes, you did. You said Christopher Sanchez would be top
Speaker 2: three and l ciung.
Speaker 6: So that was after I saw him in spring training.
Speaker 6: Looked like he was ready.
Speaker 4: To come to the world.
Speaker 2: It looked like the freaking terminator coming into camp.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so bold predictions, who wants to get to start?
Speaker 2: Do you want me to go? Yeah, I'll go. This
Speaker 2: is a bold, very bold prediction. But Justin Crawford is
Speaker 2: a finalist for NL Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I love it bold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was bold. That is old.
Speaker 2: A lot of people kind of dumping on Justin Crawford
Speaker 2: right now because of the whatever, what is it? A
Speaker 2: sixty one percent ground ball rate and you know, nobody
Speaker 2: in baseball hits the ball on the ground that much.
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna go and questions about we just
Speaker 2: talked about it. Can you play a solid defense in
Speaker 2: center field? You know what kind of contributions can he
Speaker 2: make there? But I'm going to say that this guy
Speaker 2: who has produced at every level, moving up the ladder
Speaker 2: of the minor leagues, has a very nice season and
Speaker 2: he finishes in the top three for nl Rookie of
Speaker 2: the Year. I put myself on a limb there. But
Speaker 2: you know what, no one will remember in October.
Speaker 4: Oh we got we got Jim. I gotta okay, So
Speaker 4: I'm going to say what am I going to say?
Speaker 3: I'm going to say that Boyd buoyed Boyd bye. They've
Speaker 3: always had pretty good team chemistry. It's even going to
Speaker 3: be better in twenty twenty six. They're gonna win the
Speaker 3: World Series.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, O.
Speaker 3: Ryan kirk Wring is going to have the same in
Speaker 3: the NLCS be carried off the field. They're gonna go
Speaker 3: on to win the World Series. Bryce Harper is gonna
Speaker 3: have a great postseason, and Dave Dombroski is gonna lift
Speaker 3: the trophy and hand it to John Middleton and retire
Speaker 3: and say I am not dealing with a lockout.
Speaker 4: I'm not dealing with any more of this I'm.
Speaker 6: Going back to Nashville elite non elite drama.
Speaker 3: I'm going home with my as a three time World
Speaker 3: Series champion, thank you very much.
Speaker 6: So that's my, uh my bold prediction.
Speaker 5: Be a sea of red come November two. There could
Speaker 5: be a sea of red strolling down the broad Street.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: I love it?
Speaker 4: I mean, is that is that too bold? Or is that.
Speaker 5: Why are you really questioning it?
Speaker 1: White question?
Speaker 2: I mean it's bold, it's bold, but I don't think
Speaker 2: it's you know, yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's I don't think it's
Speaker 5: not realistic, and I think it's bold.
Speaker 4: Here's what I got.
Speaker 1: Sus Bozardo is gonna win the Cy Young Award. I
Speaker 1: love cy Jesus.
Speaker 2: Jesus working his magic absolutely.
Speaker 1: Oh man, what do you love the way he finished
Speaker 1: the season?
Speaker 5: He got all the bs straightened out, His stuff's electric,
Speaker 5: he's confident, he's pitching for a contract.
Speaker 4: He going to go.
Speaker 6: Nuts salary drive. I could see that. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: That is a great one.
Speaker 3: And on top of my prediction about you know, my
Speaker 3: bold prediction about winning the World Series and Ryan Kirkland
Speaker 3: getting to save in the NLCS Don Mattingly is going
Speaker 3: to get his first World Series.
Speaker 4: As the bench coach.
Speaker 6: As the bench coach.
Speaker 2: That's right. I would think that that announcement again, very
Speaker 2: very soon, I would think, I think that's got to
Speaker 2: be coming real soon.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: I think Lozardo he I think that's a great storyline.
Speaker 3: I think he could kick ass and take names.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope he does.
Speaker 5: Great kid, wonderful kid, really underrated trade that.
Speaker 1: Dobrawski made last year.
Speaker 5: Nebraska doesn't get a lot of praise for some of
Speaker 5: the moves he's made, but that was a really good one.
Speaker 1: Uh. Clearly they go nowhere without.
Speaker 5: Him, especially with the way, and they'd be in trouble
Speaker 5: right now without him, especially with the way, what's happened.
Speaker 1: With Wheeler and what's happened, what happened with Nola last year.
Speaker 1: Boy did they need his ass.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: So if you take out those two starts he had
Speaker 3: where he gave up twenty ernies, twenty ernies five and
Speaker 3: two thirds innings, if you take those and he's still
Speaker 3: finished sub four era. If you take out those two starts,
Speaker 3: he finishes with a three point oh three ERA and
Speaker 3: like thirty starts pretty good season?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Pretty good? Really? How about I stop five side young?
Speaker 3: For me, it was just this aberration, you know where
Speaker 3: he was tipping, he was he was just and he
Speaker 3: should have been out of that one game a lot earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they left him in there too long.
Speaker 2: So the Phillies as of recently have not talked to
Speaker 2: Jesus WIZARDA about a contract extension. But if you are
Speaker 2: Dave Dombrowski, do you start those conversations in spring training?
Speaker 2: You know? Is that a is that a like a
Speaker 2: A no doubt or you one hundred percent start those
Speaker 2: conversations in spring training. Again, they have not as of
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, had any conversation. They have
Speaker 2: a lot of other stuff going on. It's not like
Speaker 2: they're not interested.
Speaker 5: But the question was I would say yes, unless they
Speaker 5: feel that at some.
Speaker 1: Point they're going to have to break this team down.
Speaker 5: Unless they feel like they're breaking it down after twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six and they're concerned about the age and what's
Speaker 5: going to happen, I would say yes, they would start
Speaker 5: the conversations, but I would say no if they feel
Speaker 5: like they may be breaking it down and retooling or rebuilding.
Speaker 2: Good point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they definitely have at least an icebreaking
Speaker 3: conversation of some sort.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Hey, I think you got at
Speaker 2: least at least bring it up. Let him know that, Hey,
Speaker 2: we love you, we love you, Jesus.
Speaker 4: Athlete. It's going to start with a three.
Speaker 5: The thirty million dollar mark is going to be uh,
Speaker 5: you know, the AAV is going to be a thirty,
Speaker 5: and you're gonna have to figure out whether you feel
Speaker 5: comfortable enough going you know, four or five six years.
Speaker 1: He's not a young he's not an old.
Speaker 2: Man, right right. He's gonna get paid.
Speaker 5: He's going to command, you know, a five six, seven
Speaker 5: year deal in this day, in this marketplace, I think,
Speaker 5: especially especially if he pitches makes thirty to thirty two starts.
Speaker 2: He really showed me something. I mean just in the postseason.
Speaker 2: He pitched great coming out of the Bullpenny pitched great
Speaker 2: in Game four, right, I mean, he was just super competitive,
Speaker 2: super competitive.
Speaker 1: I love them.
Speaker 4: I love everything about the man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun to watch pitch. So all right, guys,
Speaker 2: there we go a few storylines, fears, curiosities, and bold
Speaker 2: predictions for twenty twenty six. We'll be back with another
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