Matt Strahm is down, but for how long?

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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Rob Thompson and welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: It is Monday, March tenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Hope everybody is doing well, Rubin, Jim, are you guys doing doing great?

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Speaker 2: I love we got a little we got a little virtual fist bump from Jim and Rubin.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Back, I'm back in Clearwater. Went home for the weekend. Flew back late last night. It's a little dreary in Clearwater today, a little rain on the field. But Zach Wheeler and Hayesus Lazaro we're supposed to throw a little intersquad game here at Bake hair ballparking a little bit, so that would be kind of fun to watch some of the guys go up against Wheeler and Lozardo. But we do have some news today, got some news yesterday.

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Speaker 3: And figure wet. Let's start there.

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Speaker 2: Matt Strom has a shoulder issue. He has been shut down from throwing until at least Thursday, when doctor Cohen will examine him, but he's I talked with Matt Strom Monday morning in the clubhouse here at Bay Care and basically said he's got an impingement in his left shoulder and it's caused some inflammation.

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Speaker 3: He says he doesn't feel any pain when he's.

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Speaker 2: Throwing, he does feel some discomfort or it's tougher for him to recover.

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Speaker 3: So he said that right now he could not do it back to back.

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Speaker 2: No structural damage according to the MRI, but he's being shut down, and I think it's safe to say that it's unclear if he'll be ready by opening day. But team has kind of avoided the injury bugs so far this CAM, so this is really the first hiccup that they've had.

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Speaker 3: What's your I guess.

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Speaker 2: Early impressions or thoughts on Matt Strom and his shoulder injury, how to play it and how it can kind of create a ripple effect in the Phillies bullpen.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's good one one that ha's happened now because it's fairly early, and if I was sitting in the GM seat or the assistant GM seed, I'd be Okay, let's back off, let's make sure that we get this totally corrected. Don't rush into it, don't worry about making opening day. Make sure you get this right because it's something that could linger for a while, impingements who knows. Hopefully it's something that's fairly mild and that he can, you know, bounce back from it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's an important piece of this bullpen. I mean, there was not.

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Speaker 4: A lot done in the bullpen other than you know, picking up Jordan Romano. They it is a little bit of a concern. I love the fact that Alvarado's throwing the ball extremely well with a lot of confidence right now. That's big for this pen. But there are some questions about the pen, so it's a little bit of a concern. So you have to be concerned about it a little bit. But I'm glad they're sort of nipping it in the butt, and I'm sure that they'll be super conservative.

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Speaker 1: Especially early. They have him on a long term contract.

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Speaker 4: He's a very effective pitcher, pitched to a one era last year, had an extraordinary season, and he's a really important piece of the puzzle. So they'll be really conservative about it. But it might also open up opportunities for other guys. I mean you start thinking about, you know, other pieces in the bullpen. Hopefully it's a problem having you know too much pitching.

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Speaker 1: You know, you see that Taiwan Walker's throwing the ball.

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Speaker 4: Pretty well, he's improved. Is he going to be lights out? No? Is He could be be helpful as a fourth or fifth starter or a long guy. Ross has thrown okay, other guys have thrown. Well, it's good to see Ranger throw the well, so hey, who knows what's gonna happen in a bullpen.

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Speaker 1: But again, you can never have enough pitching.

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Speaker 4: And I hope this is the If this is the worst thing that happens out of spring training, that would be a great thing. That's sort of why you hold your breath every single time when you're the manager.

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Speaker 1: You're the GM during the course of the spring.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'd be concerned anytime a picture as his sore arm. I mean, that's the tool of his trade. Any Time a guy comes down sore minor major, you're concerned. And you know, I agree with Ruben, you're gonna go. You've gotta be aggressive in knocking it out of there. My guess is because where we are in the month opening day and coming on the twenty seventh, I would think they're going to be super slow and he may not make it for opening day because you want to knock it out of there. That but probably answers the Taiwan Walker question, right. But you needed this to be nothing because he's an important guy. You know, you lost the Steves, you lost Hoffmann, you added Romano, but you know, essentially your one leverage arm down and relying on, you know, other guys to take steps forward. And he he was a dynamo for this team last year subtwo era sixty sixty five appearances, I think sixty four sixty five appearances. You need this guy. Yeah, So you know, I hear impingement. It's sort of a vague word to me. Sometimes you never know what causes it. Romano was treated for an impingement last year. He ended up having a cleanup, surgical cleanup. You don't even want to think like that with Matt Strong. Is that important? So you know, hopefully, hopefully two three four weeks he's back dealing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he said. I asked him, I said, did you need a shot?

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Speaker 2: Did you need to get a shot at because he talked about the inflammation said, no shots, just oral anti inflammatories worked. Obviously, some treatment in the trainer's room shut down from throwing again until at least Thursday, you know. Selfishly, he said, you know, I want to come back as soon as possibly.

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Speaker 3: He said. The words he.

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Speaker 2: Used were something along the lines they had to leash the dog because I wanted to come out and I want to keep going. But he's like, listen, Selfishly, I want to come back as soon as possible, because he has a seven and a half million dollar club option that automatically vests if he throws sixty innings this season and finishes with a clean physical at the end of the season.

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Speaker 3: So he's like, selfishly, I want.

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Speaker 2: To be back as soon as possible because I want to be in Philly next year, Like I want to be a Philly He's like, I also think that this team is destined for great things, so I want to really be careful with this.

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Speaker 3: And I know this is it's a totally different injury.

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Speaker 2: But it kind of reminds me of a little bit of Brad Lidge in O eight he had the knee cleanup. Again, we're talking shoulder different than a knee cleanup, but I remember you guys Rubin slow playing it, and I think he made a miss. Like the first week or ten days of the season. It was like, why are we going to rush this guy back to you know, maybe tweak something when he's not one hundred percent shut just slow play it. Have him come back a week ten days in the season in having a great season as we all know. So maybe the same thing happens for some and he seems to understand that he's not. He seems like he's gonna begrudgingly follow what the trainers want, where Rob Thompson wants, what Kaled Cotham wants. So it's it's definitely something, uh, you know, to keep an eye on. Of course, over the next few weeks to go ahead, you.

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Speaker 1: Think that there's you know this is there's precedence. Everybody gets hurt.

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Speaker 4: There's no team that doesn't have injury issues and people have to step up.

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Speaker 1: Tanner Banks has to step up, Alvarado has to step up.

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Speaker 4: I mean you just kind of kind of move the responsibility a little higher.

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Speaker 1: And Tanner Banks is pretty effective pitcher. I mean, he's pretty darn good.

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Speaker 4: We seem to forget about him a little bit because he's been he's pitched in mostly lower leverage situations. But the guy can pitch a little bit and he's gonna have to step up Alvarado as well.

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Speaker 3: We're back Ruby.

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Speaker 2: You talk about, you know, just a lot of teams dealing with the injury bug. So if Strom does open the season on the injured list, I think, naturally, right, there's some non roster guys in camp that have some big league experienced.

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Speaker 3: Nick Vesty comes to mind. He's pitched with the Orioles.

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Speaker 2: But guys on the forty man that could potentially be that eighth man in the bullpen, now I would think. I mean Taiwan Walker was already trending, I think to make the team. But you have Devin Sweets on the forty men roster, Michael Mercado is on the forty men roster.

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Speaker 3: They're kind of turning.

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Speaker 2: Him into a reliever, and Alain ron Hell is also in camp as a reliever.

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Speaker 3: They kind of like as a swingman type of guy.

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Speaker 2: So maybe a situation presents itself from one of those guys to step up to open the season at least, Devin Sweet, he's pitched pretty well this Spring's got a real nice change up, so something to keep an eye and again and when you talk about options and what they can do in the short term, if Strom does missiles first seven to ten days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Devin Sweet, that's a really interesting name for me, because you know, you want to if you lose a left hander in Strom, do you want a guy who's a little bit more effective against lefties. That change up that he has the Bugs Bundy type change up could be a pitch that would be effective against left handers. It really it's a matter of him throwing consistent strikes. He's had trouble doing that at the.

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Speaker 1: Major league level.

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Speaker 4: He's I guess he's had some experience there, but one of his issues has been about consistent strikes. His strikeout ratio to innings has been amazing in the minor leagues, and you know, really really like you know what he has done, but when it gets to the major leagues, different animal. He's got to be able to throw consistent strikes. That change up's a great one. It's one of the best in baseball.

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Speaker 5: Rob Thompson talks all the time, about coming out of camp healthy, about avoiding injuries, and Strom, Like I said, he's an important, important character on this team. I look around a little bit, and the Phillies have done a good job avoiding problems. When you compare to the two New York teams. They've suffered some some blows. I mean, Garret Cole might need Tommy John surgery. That's just hoof the braise, you know, the catchers down. So if this is the pro far as well possible far, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Got some stuff going on there.

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Speaker 5: If this is the only one the Phillies have to kind of suck up and they can get over it, I would think that's a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw Chuck Bangle was here from Manco last Thursday here at the ballpark.

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Speaker 3: So chatted with him for a while. Yeah, it's it's great to see him.

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Speaker 3: Play whatever you want to do. Uh, does anybody want to give it a start?

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Speaker 2: Did Jim you want to fire off your your choice for for Best Week?

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Speaker 5: Sure? You know I might go with Alec Bohm. You know, he came into camp all those the aftermath of all those rumors swirling all winter, and he just looks really focused and really good, like none of it bothered him. I mean last weekend he had a two homer game against the Orioles and you know, hit the ball to the right side, you know, hit him the other way, opposite field, home runs.

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Speaker 1: One of them.

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Speaker 5: He drove one of them, he kind of inside out. And then on Saturday against the Blue Jays, he gets like a middle end fastball and it's just right there and he turns on it, and I thought it showed a lot of his gifts as a hitter. He can use the whole field. He gets a meatball, he can turn on it and and and lift it out of the ballpark and drive it to the pull side. So it's really looked good here in the early part of camp. Like he's uh, like we talked about all winter, come in with a healthy chip on your shoulder and use all that as fuel to have a great season. It's just I know it's practice. I know it's practice, but I like the swing, and I like what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: He says, stole a little bit my thumder thunder there, Jim.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but there are candidates. Ruby.

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Speaker 1: There are advantages of going first. I love it. I'm gonna go ahead and drop the old Ranger Suarez on you. Rangers throwing the ball pretty well. A little concern about the velocities first time.

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Speaker 4: He comes back out the next time and he's dealing dealt yesterday it was yesterday three innings. Picked up the velocity a little bit like the stuff. Obviously, he's the command pitcher that it's not necessarily the velocity that gets him going, but he does have to have some velocity to create separation with his other off speed pitches through the ball very well.

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Speaker 1: Like the way he's throwing, that's great stuff.

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Speaker 4: They still have one of the deepest, if not the deepest rotations in baseball, and he is a key to it and we've talked about it a lot. If he can stay healthy, he's going to get a big payday, but he's going to have to earn it because he has not been healthy for a full one sixty two pretty much in his entire career, so that's important for him.

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Speaker 1: He is my best of the week.

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Speaker 5: Through a lot of strikes. A lot of strikes too, fire and strikes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you talk about the velocity.

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Speaker 2: It did creep back up yesterday and which is great to see because we're just talking about strom right like those is he made two appearances, Villa was almost two miles.

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Speaker 3: Hour down from last spring's average.

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Speaker 2: So just to see I saw that in the first start, I was like, Okay, keep an eye on this. But so that was obviously super encouraging to see him creep back up towards more of what you usually expect out of Ranger Suarez.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that was a great sign.

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Speaker 2: My best week performer is Taiwan Walker. Tail Walker keeps doing it. I mean it's only again, like the Jim said, it's practice, Man, it's practice, but practice three and a.

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Speaker 3: Third innings the other day, one run.

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Speaker 2: Three strikeouts, zero walks. The de Vello again average does four seemer ninety two point four miles an hour touch ninety three point four. Again, let's just compare that the last spring it was eighty nine point three, topped out at ninety point two. So he's about throwing the ball about three miles an hour harder than it was last spring. Splitters going, well, everything's to be trending in the right direction. Philly's got to feel really good about what they're seeing from him. You know, I think there's so much skepticism, right we talked about it in the off season. Soon as the season is like, do you even bring him back into camp? Is there any way he could possibly get this thing turned around? Won't he just be a distraction when he comes out?

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Speaker 3: But man, it through two starts, it's been.

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Speaker 1: Pretty pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where it's going. I don't know what's going to happen. You know, I assume he's going to start the season in the bullpen. Does does the team start calling for him that that that needs starting pitching help. If so, what does that deal look like. But it's a great problem to have that he is throwing the ball well the first two times through.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about the great problem.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you can never have enough pitching, and I wouldn't be surprised if somebody comes calling. Then there may be a team that comes calling. If he continues to throw well and he continues to advance.

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Speaker 1: The beauty of what the velocity does for him.

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Speaker 4: It's not necessarily about missing the bats, but it's also about him being able to separate that split.

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Speaker 1: That split last year had nothing on it. It was a floating pitch. It was very discernible, it was easy to pick up. Hitters were not being fooled by it. Right now, I see the hitters having to make.

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Speaker 4: Mental adjustments on that split, and it's doing some dancing. It's starting to dive like it has in the past. And that's his bread and butter.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just face it.

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Speaker 4: If he can't have separation from that fastball to that split, then it makes him a much much less effective pitcher. And he's creating more arm speed and creating more deception in that way, then that's a plus. I do believe that if he is really healthy and he is throwing the ball extremely well, if someone comes calling to get him, they will move him. That's the feeling that I get because one it's a big number, and two it may give them some flexibility to do some other things later on. He's not really a pen guy. That's not what he's set up to do. Hopefully they have that problem and all five of the guys, including Lezardo, are healthy enough so that he has to be in the pen. But we'll see what happens as we get closer and closer to opening day.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned he's not really a pen guy, and that's something I've been thinking about. I mean, hats off to him. He worked really hard this winter. He could have said I'm not doing all that work, but he you know, it was in Arizona. He got after it. He's seen some results. Very very happy for him. I just wonder if he's the last guy in the bullpen, conceivably as a mop up guy getting you know, sporadic work that the split can be a touch and field pit pitch. Is he gonna be able to have that command of it or whatever you want to call it. Is it gonna be a good pitch for him if he's not throwing regularly, is he going to be able to maintain his little velocity tick up if he's not throwing regularly. So I think their ears are wide open on a trade. I don't. I think they would move him in a heartbeat. It's a question of you're gonna have to eat some right, enough to eat some too. There's no way somebody's taking on thirty six million. But even if if you can get somebody to take some of it, that's a little bit of flexibility payroll wise at the deadline.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel like if you're so if you're the Phillies front office and he's throwing the ball real well and say and let's let's just say this continues where the Villo's up there, the splitter looks great, He kind of looks like he's back. Do you feel if if you're the Phillies' front office, do you feel like you're in a position of strength in these negotiations or do you feel like you're still at a huge you're really handicapped because of the of the contract, Like, how how do you kind of play it?

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Speaker 3: You think?

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Speaker 2: Or how do you think you know they should play it in these trade talks.

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Speaker 4: I think they have to be realistic. Listen, he hasn't pitched all that well in a year and a half. He hasn't been as effective a picture as as the contract lend it you know, would lend itself to. So I think they have to be realistic about what they're ask is and and how much money they'll have to take back.

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Speaker 1: That said, starting pitching is at a premium. There's a lot of teams that need.

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Speaker 4: It, and I mean, I don't give them the guy away, but if it gives you some the flexibility that's necessary. Sometimes the money creates some flexibility for you. It is of value, so you don't necessarily.

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Speaker 1: Have to get a great prospect for him.

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Speaker 4: But if you if you relieve yourself of that financial burden, now, it does put you in a little bit of a box because you know, then Joe Ross becomes the sixth starter, right, But they do have the flexibility of having that guy such that they can make that move.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: You don't know what's going to happen as we creep closer and closer to opening day. Hopefully everybody's healthy and don't have to worry about it. And they have that issue, so I think they have to be realistic. But at the same time, it's not a giveaway necessarily, especially if he's pitching effectively, because starting pitching as a premium.

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Speaker 1: It should have been a premium for years and years and years.

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Speaker 4: But people are finally realizing, guess what, Yeah, we have to have starters to win.

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Speaker 1: Amazing they are.

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Speaker 5: Not, you know, in a position of strength with Taiwan Walker. I mean, the other twenty nine teams witnessed, you know, his season last year. They are well aware of the narrative that whether or not the Philly is considered releasing him or whatever last year. They're just well aware of his tenuous position on the roster. They're well aware of the financial commitment and how that shackles a little bit, even a team with a three hundred plus million dollar payroll. I mean, you know, if they didn't have that eighteen million dollar commitment this winter, what would this winter have looked like? Would they have been in on some of those other free agents? I have to think so, right, So it was, you know, it was an million dollar handcuff this winter, and other teams are aware of that. I just don't think they're in a position of strength. I think you kind of take what you can get and and you wish him well if that opportunity comes, and if it doesn't, he becomes the last guy in your bullpen. And you know, you as a mop up guy, you hope he's in there when you're leading ten to one a lot instead of behind ten to one, because you just don't want to behind be behind ten to one.

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Speaker 1: I did want to.

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Speaker 4: Say something about the effort that the Phillies put in, and obviously it's a big investment because it's a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: But for them to and for Taiwan Walker to put the work in this offseason to get him to this point, it'd be you know easy to say, hey, just you know, go about your business and get yourself ready and we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Really important that you know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know who it was, whether cess or Ramos, or was Caleb Cotham or you know, accommodation of those guys who went out there to work with him to get it done, to get him to the place. You know, maybe it was a more of a physical thing. Some people in the strengthen, uh, you know conditioning program, all those people that were involved.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a great thing.

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Speaker 4: It was very thoughtful and hopefully it'll come to fruition for them and it seems to be making an impact, which is big.

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Speaker 2: So we were going to today we're going to do questions from you guys, viewers and listeners to the show, but because of the Strom stuff, we decided to kind of switch things up, so we are going to still do answer your questions. So keep them coming Twitter, Blue Sky, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, keep.

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Speaker 3: Firing off questions. We'll answer them later this week.

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Speaker 2: So we want to do that, and then real quick before we go, I just want to mention what's going on this week.

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Speaker 3: The Phillies are in Fort Myers Monday and Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Today Monday against the Twins, Tomorrow against the Red Sox.

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Speaker 3: Seth Johnson Phillies prospects.

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Speaker 2: Seth Johnson is pitching today and Mick Ables is scheduled to make his Greaper League debut tomorrow Tuesday against the Red Sox.

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Speaker 3: He has not pitched at all this spring.

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Speaker 2: He was had an illness earlier in camp to kind of knocked down a little bit. So in case you've been wondering why mckabel has not pitched, that is why. So he's going to pitch tomorrow and later this week. Friday is the spring breakout game where the top Phillies prospects are going to play the top Pirates prospects. And I got to do I got to go to that game last year over in Lakeland against the Tigers. It was actually kind of cool.

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Speaker 3: It was a cool event.

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Speaker 2: He had Mickabel pitching, you had Aid Millard short justin crawford and center field. You had Eduardo Taji behind the plate, and so that was a lot of fun. So just a couple of things to kind of keep eye on this week and then again Thursday, Matt stroupshoud maybe have a little bit more clarity on where he actually is with his with his injured shoulders.

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Speaker 5: So you you mentioned Abel and Johnson pitching these next two days. Two important guys organizationally, two very important guys. Just based on the theme that we talk about all the time, that Ruben talks all about it all the time, the importance of starting pitching, importance of pitching depth. I mean, two guys with good arms that have not put it together yet, but you never know. So two important guys, big seasons for them in the minor leagues. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw both of them at some point this season in the majors. But you know, this is we talk about spring training being practice, but certain guys, you know, it's a springboard into the regular season for them. And these are two guys facing an important regular season, important depth pieces, and if they pitch well this season, take that next step, maybe they're more than depth pieces someday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he can't always be about one player. It can't be about Andrew Painter. It can't be about him solely. It has to be you know, you have to have multiple guys, and they're getting closer and closer. They were hoping maybe Mercado could be that guy. He kind of fell off, fell off a little bit. Now he's probably gonna end up being, you know, a bullpen guy. But hey, the more arms the better, and it gives you the percentages of the chances of getting a usable, viable major league arm that can help you at the major league level. You can't have enough of them, and hopefully those guys can step forward.

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Speaker 2: And if they obviously if they trade Taiwan Walker at some point, now they've become even more important.

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Speaker 3: So you know that's great point. Great point, guys. We'll be back later this week. Keep those fire off those questions, like I said, and we will tackle some of them in our next episode.

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Speaker 1: Andy coming from clear Water next time. Boys, I'm coming down.

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Speaker 3: You're coming down? What day are you down here?

00:26:32
Speaker 1: Down on Wednesday? Down on Wednesday?

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Speaker 5: The authorities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I alert the folks there in Pellas County.

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Speaker 3: That's right, all right, guys, We'll take take it easy. I'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 5: Stle boys.

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Speaker 1: You Jim.

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