Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to The Philly Show.
Speaker 2: Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky.
Speaker 1: It's the Phillies Show.
Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, July twenty ninth, twenty twenty six, and the
Speaker 2: Phillies need help.
Speaker 3: The help.
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper said, the Phillies need help on Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: and I think, guys, we should start right there.
Speaker 1: It's time for first pitch.
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Speaker 2: Phillies lose on Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1: One nothing. Guys.
Speaker 2: It's the sixth time in eleven games since the All
Speaker 2: Star Break they have lost or have scored only one
Speaker 2: run or less. That's not good. And after the game,
Speaker 2: we're talking to Bryce Harper, Ruben, we're Jim and I
Speaker 2: are in the clubhouse with some others and asked him
Speaker 2: if he's concerned about the way the offense is playing.
Speaker 2: He said, not really.
Speaker 1: We've faced a lot of studs, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Noel McLain, Cam Schlidter, you know, Sandy al Contra,
Speaker 2: and it was Matt Gelp said, well, you know you're
Speaker 2: you're going to face a lot of good pitching in
Speaker 2: the postseason. You know you think you guys can do it,
Speaker 2: and he said, we need some help. I think we
Speaker 2: need some help, you know. I think we've proved pretty
Speaker 2: much all year. We've done a pretty good job. But
Speaker 2: anytime you can get some help in here and reinforcements,
Speaker 2: I think it helps.
Speaker 1: He's not wrong.
Speaker 3: Well that's entered that that makes the front office feel
Speaker 3: very good. Number one, So there's a couple of things.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I mean, you can't blame Bryce Harper
Speaker 3: for being himself. I mean, this is we've seen this
Speaker 3: before from him, and he's being honest and being open
Speaker 3: about things. A couple of things about it. One, it
Speaker 3: sort of throws both the front office under the bus
Speaker 3: and his teammates under the bus. I mean, it's a
Speaker 3: combination of things they're basically saying, and he's probably not wrong,
Speaker 3: but you typically don't say those things out of the clubhouse.
Speaker 3: But I mean, Bryce Harper is Bryce Harper. He says
Speaker 3: what he wants to say, and he's been given the
Speaker 3: platform to be able to do that. It's typically it's
Speaker 3: not something you not hear Kyle Schwarber say those words,
Speaker 3: for instance, at a deference to you know, his teammates
Speaker 3: and that's just not how he operates. But that's what
Speaker 3: you know, I guess that's the beauty of Bryce Harper
Speaker 3: in this day and age. It You know, he will,
Speaker 3: he will speak his mind. The reality of it is
Speaker 3: the guys in the room that are currently in the room,
Speaker 3: they sort of have to play better. And it's very
Speaker 3: obvious when Kyle Schwarber in particular is not in the lineup,
Speaker 3: he's battling him intense simi issues right now. When he's
Speaker 3: not in the lineup, it's a very very different team.
Speaker 3: It's to be like not having Aaron Judge in your lineup,
Speaker 3: which is what the New York Yankees are dealing with.
Speaker 3: And in fact, offensively they be even like, well worse
Speaker 3: than the Yankees with Aaron Judge out of lineup. They
Speaker 3: just have not swung the bats all that well consistently.
Speaker 3: They're runners in scoring position numbers very poor. Their situational
Speaker 3: hitting has not been great. It went through a stretch
Speaker 3: where they were pretty solid, but that stretches over and
Speaker 3: over these last couple of weeks and maybe over closer
Speaker 3: to a month. It's the offensive has been has been lacking,
Speaker 3: There's no question about it. Turners picked it up a
Speaker 3: little bit. Marsh's dropped off pretty significantly. You're not getting
Speaker 3: production out of Schwerber right now because he can tends
Speaker 3: to be a little bit streaky. But you know, this
Speaker 3: is a team that probably has to, you know, look
Speaker 3: in the mirror a little bit again and get whatever
Speaker 3: it was that happened when you know, when Wheelers showed
Speaker 3: up and they made the move on on Topper. They're
Speaker 3: gonna have to get that mojo back because right now
Speaker 3: they're not playing a very good brand of baseball overall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they It's it's interesting that you talk about when
Speaker 4: they made the move on top or how it got
Speaker 4: them going and they need to play like that again.
Speaker 4: I think that's very relevant because this is what it
Speaker 4: feels like. It feels like April again, the way they're playing,
Speaker 4: the funk that they're in, what three and eight since
Speaker 4: since the break, and you know, Todd, you mentioned the runs.
Speaker 4: They've scored six of those games twice, they've been shut
Speaker 4: out four times, they've scored one run. I mean, that
Speaker 4: is just staggering lack of production. And then Harper's in
Speaker 4: the spotlight last night. To me, the biggest reason the
Speaker 4: offense has struggled in these past eleven games as they're
Speaker 4: you know, they go from two back in the National
Speaker 4: League East to six pack. Is the three All Stars
Speaker 4: have have struggled and it happens. But you know, marsh
Speaker 4: has struggled really since the first of July. It's tough
Speaker 4: to see what he's going through. And Schwarber and Harper
Speaker 4: have not done much here coming out of the break,
Speaker 4: and I know they can, you know, both be streaky.
Speaker 4: Harper did hit a seed to the wall last night
Speaker 4: and maybe then had a home run the night before,
Speaker 4: So maybe that's an indication that he's a to get
Speaker 4: going here. They could certainly use him, but they need
Speaker 4: the three All Stars, like we say all the time,
Speaker 4: to be there, the three big boys. So hopefully this
Speaker 4: is Harper warming, because when you make comments like that,
Speaker 4: you really need to back it up. He has a
Speaker 4: history of backing it up. He has a history of
Speaker 4: speak in his mind. I mean, I remember early at
Speaker 4: his time here, he came out and really was very
Speaker 4: very critical of the farm system. If you remember that, Todd,
Speaker 4: And you know last night he comes out and he
Speaker 4: says we need help. I don't disagree with him. Part
Speaker 4: of me thought, okay, well, Dave Dombrowski was public and
Speaker 4: his critique of Bryce Harper in October. Now, Bryce is
Speaker 4: being very public about this and their needs. But but
Speaker 4: like I said, Bryce does have a history of that.
Speaker 4: He's not wrong. But when you speak up, you need
Speaker 4: to back it up. And like I said, he's not wrong.
Speaker 4: The front office needs to deliver as well, because we
Speaker 4: talked about it last week. For a three hundred million
Speaker 4: dollar team, this team is a staggering amount of holes
Speaker 4: and when your big boys go a little bit quiet,
Speaker 4: the holes become more gaping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Royce said on Monday in Miami that mentioned that
Speaker 2: he brought his outfield glove to Miami just in case
Speaker 2: they would get a first base and in the next
Speaker 2: few days and he needed to run back out the
Speaker 2: right field and play. I don't expect that will happen,
Speaker 2: But that also tells me that this is you know,
Speaker 2: he clearly wants something to happen and expects something to happen,
Speaker 2: and he's prepared for everything. I mean, but Rubin, you
Speaker 2: you mentioned like the front office that you know they're
Speaker 2: not that they don't love hearing that, But does it
Speaker 2: put any more pressure on on Dave? I feel like
Speaker 2: there's already just a ton of pressure on Dave to
Speaker 2: make some moves. You know, they need a bat, they
Speaker 2: need a starter, they need a reliever. They could probably
Speaker 2: use multiples of those things. They're not going to get
Speaker 2: multiples of those things. But does it put any more
Speaker 2: pressure on them? I got to imagine that Dave is
Speaker 2: feeling pressure just to you know, he's got to finish
Speaker 2: this job, and and and there are massive holes, and
Speaker 2: so he already knows, like what Bryce said, It's not
Speaker 2: like he doesn't know that already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a definite pressure on the entire organization because
Speaker 3: as we've talked about, I mean, there's the window is
Speaker 3: is starting to you see it starting to close a
Speaker 3: little bit just because of the overall production of some
Speaker 3: of the big boys. The reality of it is, the
Speaker 3: big boys are going to have to produce, and it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter who they get. If they don't produce, then
Speaker 3: they're sort of not going to get where they need
Speaker 3: to go. So that has to happen first. Yes, there's
Speaker 3: no question, and additions would help, But Dave Dombrowski is
Speaker 3: in a really tough position. This is a tough spot
Speaker 3: to be in because they are limited with the amount.
Speaker 3: As much as they talk about having a lot of
Speaker 3: talent or having talent in the system, they don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of talent in the system as far as
Speaker 3: depth is concerned. They have some players, there's no question
Speaker 3: they have prospects there. But you know, the question is
Speaker 3: do you move all those prospects? And I you know,
Speaker 3: I talked about this in an earlier podcast about being bold.
Speaker 3: I mean, if they're going to go all in, then
Speaker 3: they better go all in. If they sort of can't
Speaker 3: go halfway and dip their toe in or put a
Speaker 3: foot in, because that's not really good to get it
Speaker 3: done because they have so many needs. So if they're
Speaker 3: going to make a big splash, then they're a I mean,
Speaker 3: if they want to really do something special or give
Speaker 3: themselves a better chance to win the World Series, they're
Speaker 3: not going to be able to do it with the
Speaker 3: players that they have right now. It does not seem
Speaker 3: particularly with the way they're playing. And so if they
Speaker 3: want to win the World Series, then then the splash
Speaker 3: is going to have to be pretty significant and multiples
Speaker 3: of them because as Jim said pointed out and we've
Speaker 3: talked about, there's multiple holes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is Ruben, What would be if you were
Speaker 4: in the front office and a player was, yeah, made
Speaker 4: that comment. What would it do to you? Piss you off?
Speaker 4: Would it motivate you? Would you speak to the player?
Speaker 4: How would you How would you react?
Speaker 3: Uh, it would piss me off? Yes, And then I
Speaker 3: would probably have a chat with he and or his uh,
Speaker 3: his representative or the two of them. I'd probably have
Speaker 3: a chat with Boris and and and and Harp maybe
Speaker 3: one on one, you know, and just let him know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: obviously we're trying to we're working hard to do and
Speaker 3: what we're doing, but you know, nothing is a guarantee.
Speaker 3: I mean, making trades it's a very difficult thing to do,
Speaker 3: especially when you have so many teams that are in
Speaker 3: the hunt. It is, and you know, you're battling other
Speaker 3: clubs as far as overall talent that they are willing
Speaker 3: to part with or the assets that they may have.
Speaker 3: So mean, it's a difficult it's a difficult time of
Speaker 3: the year. There's already a ton of pressure that you
Speaker 3: apply on upon yourself, especially when you're a buyer, to
Speaker 3: go get quality players and fits and honestly don't really
Speaker 3: need any of that, you know, any more of that,
Speaker 3: particularly in this day and age when everything's so public.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I probably would have a little chat with him,
Speaker 3: but but also realize that this is who he is,
Speaker 3: I mean, and have the expectation that these are sorts
Speaker 3: of the sort of things that you know that's that
Speaker 3: that are going to happen and things that he's going
Speaker 3: to say because he's this is nothing new, He's done
Speaker 3: it before.
Speaker 2: So Dave Dombrowski has been unavailable to reporters this week,
Speaker 2: but he did talk to Greg Murphy on Tuesday night
Speaker 2: on the Phillies Radio pregame show, and I want to
Speaker 2: read you something he said to Murph right after these words.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're back. So Dave Dave hopped on the.
Speaker 2: Phillies Radio show pregame show with Greg Murphy, and he
Speaker 2: was asked, you know, he's asked a few things about
Speaker 2: the trade deadline. Made it sound as though he expects
Speaker 2: most of the stuff to happen within like maybe twenty
Speaker 2: four hours of the deadline, just because everybody's in the
Speaker 2: wildcard race right now, other than like five teams. So
Speaker 2: he said he spoke to one al or one one
Speaker 2: executive maybe on the AL side, and the Ale guy's like, well,
Speaker 2: right now, we're in it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what we're gonna do. Give me
Speaker 1: a few days and I'll get back to you.
Speaker 2: But we've talked a lot about how this farm system
Speaker 2: is not very highly regarded. Baseball America I think has
Speaker 2: them like twenty ninth MLB pipeline has them like bottom ten. Now,
Speaker 2: Dave of course, defends his prospects and he says, I've
Speaker 2: never been in a position where i haven't had players
Speaker 2: to make a trade. Never when I've had the strongest
Speaker 2: minor league system, which was in Montreal, or I've had
Speaker 2: systems that haven't been as regarded as being as strong.
Speaker 2: Never had that issue. It's sometimes just a matter of
Speaker 2: who you will be willing to give.
Speaker 1: Up for what quality player.
Speaker 2: So that's what you always have to weigh in your mind.
Speaker 2: And we have plenty of good players. Now, if you
Speaker 2: start stacking up some versus some other organizations, Let's say
Speaker 2: you're talking about the best player on the mark, on
Speaker 2: the out on the market, and you're offering three players,
Speaker 2: and they're offering three players. Maybe they have three better
Speaker 2: players to offer.
Speaker 1: Than you do.
Speaker 2: But it is but it isn't that you don't have
Speaker 2: players to offer.
Speaker 4: But he Yeah, hit the nail on the head. The
Speaker 4: quality of the give equals the quality.
Speaker 3: Of the retur right, right?
Speaker 4: Do they have enough quality on the gift side to
Speaker 4: get the the type of impact player and players that
Speaker 4: they need without dipping into you know, Painter Wood, Crawford,
Speaker 4: and I think they're gonna listen on all three of them,
Speaker 4: depending on what their return is. I think they'd be
Speaker 4: willing to power with any one of those three. And
Speaker 4: you can say, painters values down, you're selling the lowe.
Speaker 4: What has he done? I'll tell you what. There are
Speaker 4: a lot of teams out there and a lot of
Speaker 4: pitching coaches, a lot of pitching labs that think there's
Speaker 4: a lot of talent there and they can fix them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then there's guys like McFarlane who throws hard.
Speaker 3: There's the guys. There's there's Miller who is still on
Speaker 3: the mend. Does he become an actual part of this piece?
Speaker 3: So there's players there. How does this affect the long
Speaker 3: term situation for the Phillies, and that's what you typically,
Speaker 3: that's what you have to weigh. I mean, that's why
Speaker 3: I just don't know that they have the depth necessary
Speaker 3: for them to continue the window unless if they move,
Speaker 3: and they are bold and move some of the biggest
Speaker 3: pieces that they have, whether that's going to be sustainable
Speaker 3: and they bring back players that they can hold on
Speaker 3: to for multiple years. If they're going to move some
Speaker 3: of the quality that they're going to have to move
Speaker 3: to get what they need, then the players that they
Speaker 3: get back are going to have to be, in my mind,
Speaker 3: can't be rental players. Otherwise you're really putting your organization
Speaker 3: in a terrible spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's ever said to about the Phillies.
Speaker 2: They have nobody to trade. But kind of going back
Speaker 2: to Dave's quote there, it's more of as you guys
Speaker 2: just said, can they put together a package of talent
Speaker 2: that can match or beat another team that has that
Speaker 2: same need? Can they beat that other pas keep town
Speaker 2: from another organization. I think that's the question. We'll find out,
Speaker 2: uh in the you know, in the next in the
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Speaker 3: So let's they could very well get swept. I know, Lozardo,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're in a situation while with Lizardo pitching Todd,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of pressure on him pitching in his
Speaker 3: hometown today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they need ad.
Speaker 4: Let's let's not forget. And I kind of had to
Speaker 4: remind myself of this a couple of times last night
Speaker 4: as I'm watching this. The Miami Marlins came into this
Speaker 4: series as losers of twelve in a row. Twelve in
Speaker 4: a row. The Phillies just were their medicine.
Speaker 2: And then you think back to what happened on Monday.
Speaker 2: They get on Zach Wheeler and that Jim we were
Speaker 2: in the press box and I think you, I think
Speaker 2: you might have said this during the game. He said
Speaker 2: they're going to come back and win this game because.
Speaker 4: The Marlins they had that look and had did a
Speaker 4: really good job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then Juan Duran got got hit nude.
Speaker 1: Who would have bet on that nobody.
Speaker 4: But regardless of what Dave does, they need to fix
Speaker 4: this themselves because they're not going to have wholesale changes.
Speaker 4: They're not going to do a makeover.
Speaker 2: And Dave also did say that to Greg Murphy. He said,
Speaker 2: you know, we're in a position right now where almost
Speaker 2: everything we have is kind of locked into place.
Speaker 1: It's he said, this is not a.
Speaker 2: Shake up type of trade deadline. This is more of
Speaker 2: a ad around the edges or you know, fill in
Speaker 2: your weaknesses trade deadline. So I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: You know, he's not going to do anything. It's super crazy.
Speaker 2: It sounds like but.
Speaker 3: Sounds like he's gonna add a bullpen. It sounds like
Speaker 3: he's gonna add a bullpen piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna add a fifth starter who can
Speaker 4: do a little swinging, you know, fifth started talking about I.
Speaker 3: Mean, we talked about that, We talked about the pitching,
Speaker 3: but it becomes more and more obvious that not only
Speaker 3: do they need pitching, but they need somebody who can
Speaker 3: swing the bat. They're they're very vulnerable, especially against quality pitching.
Speaker 3: They're super vulnerable in that in that lineup, they have
Speaker 3: too many guys who do the same thing. Lots of
Speaker 3: swing and miss, some power, some danger, but as we've
Speaker 3: talked about before, they've got a lot of dangerous hitters,
Speaker 3: but not great hitters. They don't have any three hundred
Speaker 3: hitters right now, and that's a problem.
Speaker 4: Yeah, starting pitcher and an outfielder, and that starting pitcher
Speaker 4: could be like a mid rotation guy, something that would
Speaker 4: slot Nola a five, but something to help that rotation.
Speaker 4: And you know the need for a bat is just
Speaker 4: glaring as well. It's like, you know, it's a double
Speaker 4: edged sport here. What they need.
Speaker 2: Well, well, yesterday Don Manningly started Brian day la Cruz
Speaker 2: in the right field over Gabriela Rinconas Junior, which you know,
Speaker 2: Don had been going with pretty much a straight platoon
Speaker 2: type of situation with all three outfielders start your left
Speaker 2: handed hitting outfielders against the righty. But last night, Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: he started Brian day la Cruz or Gabriel Rinconas because
Speaker 2: Rinconas has got like he's hitting like one fifty against
Speaker 2: righties with like twenty eight strikeouts and seventy two at
Speaker 2: bats seventy seven at bats against against righty's, and and
Speaker 2: Don Manningley basically said, you know, we gave Gabriela Rinconas
Speaker 2: some a pretty good runway to prove himself. He hasn't
Speaker 2: done it. We've got to try something else. And dal
Speaker 2: La Cruz is can't be any worse than what than
Speaker 2: what they've been put in out there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Dela Cruise has had some good at bats,
Speaker 3: s hit some balls hard, a big double yesterday, try
Speaker 3: to get this team back into the thing. And they
Speaker 3: couldn't do it because they just can't hit with runners
Speaker 3: in score position right now. And yeah, I mean listen,
Speaker 3: right now, you're at the point where it's you're not
Speaker 3: trying to develop, you're trying to win games, like Don
Speaker 3: manningly said, I mean he said it from the beginning,
Speaker 3: and they haven't reacted well to it. But it's like
Speaker 3: a sprint now, and the sprint has been a slow start.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna have to figure out, you know, in
Speaker 3: those last one hundred meters, they're gonna have to get
Speaker 3: get it going in those last twenty five or thirty
Speaker 3: meters here, and I'm gonna have to kick it in
Speaker 3: the gear otherwise they might find themselves, you know, outside
Speaker 3: the uh, outside the party, looking.
Speaker 4: In yeah, and I mean that that last outfield spot
Speaker 4: has become this revolving door. You know, Auto Camp had
Speaker 4: his chance, Philip Reis had his chance, Gabriel and Konos
Speaker 4: had his chance, and he'll likely be the odd man
Speaker 4: out when they acquire the outfielder that I think they're
Speaker 4: going to acquire right, you know it Laine Thomas, who
Speaker 4: with the price is apparently extremely high for because there
Speaker 4: are no right handed bats and a lot of people
Speaker 4: want Laine Thomas. And then now they have to possibly
Speaker 4: look at a left handed hitter Jake McCarthy Dalton var Show.
Speaker 4: But there's definite need for something in the outfield.
Speaker 2: Phillys outfielders combine this season have a six entering last
Speaker 2: night Tuesday Night had a combined six point.
Speaker 1: Fifty eight ops.
Speaker 2: That's twenty ninth in baseball. But to put that even
Speaker 2: bigger perspective, it's the sixth lowest ops by Phillies' outfielders
Speaker 2: in franchise history. It's the lowest since nineteen forty two.
Speaker 2: And the team the four outfielders for outfields that were worse,
Speaker 2: we're all in the eighteen eighties. So like this is
Speaker 2: a beyond horrific outfield production from this crew.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting, does it make Does this put the pressure.
Speaker 7: On the Phillies to go do something quote unquote stupid
Speaker 7: and go get you know, empty empty the tank for
Speaker 7: a guy like Buston if they can get them, or
Speaker 7: a guy like Trout and put.
Speaker 3: Themselves in a position financially that's really really tough. Do
Speaker 3: they do that because they know that they have they
Speaker 3: really have a problem with their offense? It is it possible? Yes,
Speaker 3: I don't think that they'll do something like that, but
Speaker 3: the pressure might be great enough that they might have
Speaker 3: to make the kind of splash just to keep the
Speaker 3: fans happy, to try to keep the clubhouse happy. And
Speaker 3: you don't typically one operate like that as a front
Speaker 3: office because you end up making moves that that are
Speaker 3: sort of detrimental long term. But is the pressure that great?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Harper's comments certainly ramped up the pressure, but I wouldn't
Speaker 4: view Buck Buxton as a as a dumb move. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's got a really good contract, he's a really productive player.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it. I'm just saying financially, it's probably
Speaker 3: not the best thing with them tied up with so
Speaker 3: much a Trout move a buston even I don't know
Speaker 3: how many more years Bucks and ads one or.
Speaker 4: Two two Trout his contractor totally different stratospheres.
Speaker 3: But I know Buxton's Buckston's move is like a move
Speaker 3: of like a ton of prospects. The other move is
Speaker 3: a ton of money. So that's what I mean by
Speaker 3: being you know, long term detrimental.
Speaker 4: Is he both gonna hurt if you had to do
Speaker 4: one of them, They're both gonna hurt. And then you know,
Speaker 4: you haven't even fixed your problem at short stuff.
Speaker 3: Which is probably gonna change next year because I can't
Speaker 3: imagine them going into the season off season not having
Speaker 3: a discussion about the possibility of moving them.
Speaker 4: And then you're doing all this stuff. You're trying to
Speaker 4: do all this stuff to fix twenty six and get
Speaker 4: where you want to go in twenty six, and you know,
Speaker 4: every ground ball your heart is in your throat could
Speaker 4: all come undone with one two hopper. It's a tough
Speaker 4: place to be.
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Speaker 2: We talked on Monday about a really good article in
Speaker 2: Baseball America by JJ Cooper talking about how all these
Speaker 2: prospects that are traded, most of them don't even pan out.
Speaker 2: They're just bodies being moved to make somebody happy. So
Speaker 2: Philly's got to keep that in mind too. How many
Speaker 2: of these guys that they trade that they're going give up,
Speaker 2: you know, really a faribus. I don't know, you got
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna pan out? Come on?
Speaker 3: You might.
Speaker 2: Play this clip in twenty years when he's going to
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: I I know John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander panned out
Speaker 4: pretty good.
Speaker 1: There's always examples of that. I pik Row Armstrong got traded.
Speaker 2: You know, he was you know, the Mets didn't really
Speaker 2: think too much of him, and he got moved.
Speaker 3: But you know now, the question I have is not
Speaker 3: just are you willing to do it? Is the death
Speaker 3: and are you worried about the future? That is the question.
Speaker 3: I mean, you sort of have to worry about it,
Speaker 3: but we've talked about it so many times. Are you
Speaker 3: really worried about the future or is it all in
Speaker 3: right now? Right?
Speaker 4: And you've had a little bit of a moon swing
Speaker 4: here right before our eyes. Over the last couple of podcasts,
Speaker 4: I'm sensing a conservative tone where two podcasts ago, you
Speaker 4: will be bold, go all in trade them all.
Speaker 3: I was and I still am. But if you don't
Speaker 3: do that, then you might have to move. You might
Speaker 3: have to go the other way. I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: on the extreme level on both ways, you either go
Speaker 3: all in or you trade out.
Speaker 4: In the next five days.
Speaker 3: Figure not gonna happen. Well, they're not going to bail.
Speaker 3: They're not going to fail. They're not going to bail.
Speaker 3: You know, this team's not going to bail. But I mean,
Speaker 3: if you're not going to be all in, then be
Speaker 3: all out and worry about next year.
Speaker 2: So this is a this is maybe a dumb question
Speaker 2: when I want to ask you guys this. So if
Speaker 2: this farm system is what everybody other than the Phillis
Speaker 2: thinks it is, which is a bottom ten farm system,
Speaker 2: marginal talent, but.
Speaker 1: You're worried about the depth or whatever.
Speaker 2: But if most of the talent in this system is
Speaker 2: going to be a middle reliever type of guy, a
Speaker 2: twenty fourth man, a twenty fifth man, a twenty sixth man,
Speaker 2: how much depth are you really sacrificing?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Like you know, if you're like it's it feels like
Speaker 2: just give everybody away. If all these guys are just
Speaker 2: going to be lower end bench guys, If if the
Speaker 2: odds of any of these guys becoming an everyday player
Speaker 2: is relatively small, then what do you what are you
Speaker 2: really worried about in terms of depth.
Speaker 3: Does that?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: I don't know who does. Yeah, it makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: That's why we move so many players that we did
Speaker 3: right for the quality that we got, it.
Speaker 4: Would be a little more easy to go all in
Speaker 4: probably in their minds if they thought they were like
Speaker 4: one piece away or had a team that, you know,
Speaker 4: you like ninety nine chance of one of the World
Speaker 4: Series or something like that. It's just that you see
Speaker 4: all the holes and you're like, it gives you a
Speaker 4: lot of reservation.
Speaker 3: Sure does a lot of reservations.
Speaker 2: So okay, guys, Philly Show will be back on Friday.
Speaker 2: I want to mention that Foul Territory is having a
Speaker 2: trade deadline show and I want to play this for
Speaker 2: you to kind of pump up the trade deadline show
Speaker 2: on Monday.
Speaker 6: It's always a hope with this guy, It's always a hope.
Speaker 4: Oh we hope he stays healthy.
Speaker 3: Oh we hope he's good.
Speaker 5: Jason Miller to the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3: Trade.
Speaker 5: Let's get to Shane Bieber. He is a Toronto bou jay.
Speaker 5: Let's hit the inside Scoop. It's EPSI senior insider Ken Rosenkopf.
Speaker 5: The Astros got Carlos Correa back to Houston.
Speaker 6: Just like Ajan Frewler said, you ain't in the big leagues,
Speaker 6: you know, a big one.
Speaker 4: Under a minute, under a minute.
Speaker 2: There you go, Foul Territories, Trade Deadline show and we'll
Speaker 2: be doing that. Well, will we do an.
Speaker 1: Emergency pod this weekend in Baltimore? I guess I don't
Speaker 1: know what I.
Speaker 3: Would think I would think we would.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so keep an eye on that. But yeah, The
Speaker 2: Philly Show guys will be back on Friday.
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