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Speaker 1: All right, this is Chase that Lee. This is a

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Speaker 1: Philly show.

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Speaker 2: Rubenamar Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's the Lucky. It's a Philly show.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, December eighteenth, twenty twenty five. How's everybody doing? Jim,

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Speaker 2: how are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Ruben?

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Speaker 2: Are you doing.

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Speaker 3: Going?

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Speaker 2: We're going?

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Speaker 4: Seriously, look at all the red we are.

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Speaker 2: It's the holiday. We're very festive. We need a little

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Speaker 2: eggnog in our hands. Maybe a little hot chocolate with

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Speaker 2: some Bailey's in it. That's my hot chocolate. Well, the

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Speaker 2: Phillies introduced a Doulas Garcia on Tuesday. I wanted to

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Speaker 2: ask you guys about that. I wanted to talk about that.

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Speaker 2: And also on Wednesday, like less than twenty four hours after,

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Speaker 2: Dave Debrowski said, hey, you know, we don't really have

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Speaker 2: any big needs. We will get a reliever who knows.

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Speaker 2: We want to get JT back two years, twenty two

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Speaker 2: million dollars for Brad Keller, so they kind of bolstered

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Speaker 5: Interesting move had a great year with the Cubs, really

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Speaker 5: has found himself as a reliever. He's a former starter,

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Speaker 5: tough on Righty's I mean, Dombrowski hinted that they wanted

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Speaker 5: to get a picture in here who could handle right

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Speaker 5: handed batters a little bit. My immediate takeaway was, Okay,

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Speaker 5: you know, they just spent ten million on Adulas Garcia.

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Speaker 5: They're budgeting for JT Realmudo, They've already signed Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 5: to a five year deal worth thirty per They're up

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Speaker 5: against the tacks. They're going to be over three hundred million. Again,

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Speaker 5: where are they coming up with this money? I'm wondering

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Speaker 5: if they're going to end up moving another reliever, or

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Speaker 5: they have a plan to move an infielder to free

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Speaker 5: up some money, or if this is a sign that

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Speaker 5: maybe things aren't going well with JT. I don't want

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Speaker 5: more lean toward maybe they would subtract some salary. I

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Speaker 5: wonder if if they were to move Strom, if Keller

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Speaker 5: a lot of things that you know will become clear

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've always thought that this was a priority for them,

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Speaker 4: regardless of what else was going to happen with regard

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Speaker 4: the guy that would hand the baseball to Juan Duran,

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Speaker 4: I thought in his role not necessarily an eighth inning,

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Speaker 4: lockdown guy. But those guys all in their roles did

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Speaker 4: a nice job. But you really didn't really get what

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Speaker 4: and he had to struggle at the very end. You're

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Speaker 4: not sure how he's going to bounce back from that.

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Speaker 4: But my feeling was that they really did need somebody

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Speaker 4: who was closer to a lockdown eighth inning guy that

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Speaker 4: they felt comfortable enough to get the ball to Joan

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Speaker 4: Duran to close out the games. I think this is

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Speaker 4: one of those moves that I believe will help them

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Speaker 4: do that. Since Keller has been as good as he

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Speaker 2: He was really good last season, really tough on righty's.

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Speaker 2: He had one of the best eras of any reliever

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Speaker 2: just really great repertoire that really generates a lot of

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Speaker 2: We talked about this on Tuesday Show. You know, you

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you know, they don't need to worry so

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Speaker 2: don't know what's gonna happen. You know, this is like

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Speaker 2: you know, shortly after Brad Keller signed. I mean, they

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Speaker 2: can still go out and make a trade. Maybe JT

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Speaker 2: So now they basically have six guys in the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: we had a conversation with the Phillies Rule five draft

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Speaker 2: shouldn't sit there and go they're done. Well, they're definitely

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Speaker 4: The roster will not be cleaned up until shoot, March

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Speaker 2: One way, shape or another.

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Speaker 4: And you don't stop until you're in April, and you

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Speaker 4: mean it's a never ending process. I know that the

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Speaker 4: Three you have a veteran Hall of Fame type GM

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Speaker 4: And four you've got a roster that has been a

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Speaker 4: So you're getting an improved team. They're not they haven't

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Speaker 4: a better team every year. And that's what they're trying

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Speaker 5: So the Philly fans should.

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Speaker 4: Be excited about the effort that they're putting forward and

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Speaker 5: Nothing really jumped out. I mean, we know his what

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Speaker 5: he's done when he's good. I mean twenty twenty three

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I talked to Dave Dombrowski. I was supposed

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Speaker 4: The man punches out a ton and they don't need

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Speaker 2: And I'm talking about defensive quality in Marsh and adlas.

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Speaker 4: Garcia, which is an outstanding two thirds of an outfield.

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Speaker 4: Now you're hoping that Crawford you can play well enough

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Speaker 5: think Jim made a.

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Speaker 4: Really good point about the possibility since they have the

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Speaker 3: So, uh, I finally get a chance to you know,

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Speaker 2: It, Zach.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Zach, congratulations Ruben tomorrow here, And I just was

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Speaker 1: Man, that's awesome, Zach.

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Speaker 5: And I wanted to point out Ruben was general manager

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Speaker 1: One year, kettle Hoe, we wanted to That's awesome. That's right, money,

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Speaker 1: You know, you can go, you can go on.

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Speaker 3: Being able to you know, just being from Pennsylvania is surreal.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think the team's in a good spot.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: I think I know they want to win. I know

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Speaker 3: the Philly fans are super you know, super passionate, and yeah, man,

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Speaker 3: I'm super excited. I can't wait to get to work

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Speaker 1: Introduce myself.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go over there, actually, because I'm in Tampa

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Speaker 3: right now. I'm gonna go over to the facility at

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Speaker 3: the end of January and I'm gonna start getting in

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Speaker 3: there and getting acclimated and getting used to delay the land.

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Speaker 1: A little bit. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Well, Zach, Zach, Yeah, Zach, good luck man.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you spending some time with this. Look forward

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Speaker 2: to seeing you in spring training, and good luck with everything.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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