Power Up: Phillies bats have been heating up

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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Kyles forber and welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Rubin Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todds, Lucky. It's the Philly Show. It's Wednesday, May seventh, twenty twenty five. Guys, how are we doing this morning?

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Speaker 3: Outstanding?

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Speaker 1: Being great? A little tired, A little tired.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're a little tired. The game was a longer ish game. I mean it was, I don't even know if it was three hours, but seventh though, seven h five starts.

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Speaker 1: When seven four starts, I don't like them.

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Speaker 2: You think you think of o'clock six forty five starts that the Phillies do week nights. They're clutched. So Phillies, if you're listening, keep doing the six forty five starts.

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Speaker 4: Well, they're going to change him here in Tampa here shortly because it's gonna be too damn hot. So they're pushing back to seven thirty later on this summer.

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Speaker 3: What difference is a half hour gonna make?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's gonna be apps absolutely smoking here.

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Speaker 1: Man. It was hot yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna have some they're gonna have some issues with the heat, But no question about it.

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Speaker 1: It's hot.

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Speaker 2: It is gonna be so hot, it's it's gonna be like it's gonna be like playing in Miami Old Pro Player, right.

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Speaker 3: Or the Florida State League.

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 2: I mean you remember that, remember those games at Pro Player where every day batting practice will get rained out because of a thunderstorm rolling through. But then it was just thick and hot the entire so.

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Speaker 5: Tod they were the first team I ever saw take batting practice and T shirts and Jim trunks. Yeah, because you always took batting practice with your game pants and maybe a practice top or it's right, excuse me, but the Marlins. And it was weird because you never saw it in those days. It was like and you'd go in there and you know they'd be taking VP and Jim trunks and and and white T shirts because it would be just incredibly hot. And not a lot of teams do it, and every all that code has been relaxed, but sure, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well most teams don't even take batting practice outdoors anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of guys just do it inside.

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Speaker 3: It's all.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: They don't hit they never hit inside, and they probably should have hit inside when back in the day, but everybody, everybody was outside every single day, and everybody took the outside every day. And if he didn't, people would look at you like what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, now you're like when the Dodgers are get some you know, Bryce and Trey Turner usually hit inside. Occasionally they'll hit outside.

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Speaker 1: Never he doesn't hit it outside.

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Speaker 2: Never hits outside. It was funny a couple of weeks ago when they were in town. I was talking to a couple of our photographers and that were for MLB dot Com and Otani never comes out in the field before the game, and so I was I was leaving, going up the tunnel, and I said, Hey, what are you guys doing And they said, ah, you know, not not much as hell. You know, Otani's out there, and they thought I was joking. They go, yeah, right, no, he's really out there. He had jogged out there to like play some long toss or something. And they're like, are you serious. I go, yeah, he's out there right now.

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Speaker 3: They take off.

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Speaker 2: They took off running.

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Speaker 1: But you know what's interesting about that. John Mukovich used to talk about.

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Speaker 4: That a lot, like you needed to get outside to get your eyes adjusted, especially at day games. He always believed in guys going outside and hitting, even though it's sometimes optional during the day games and not optional for me ever, but optional for the guys.

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Speaker 1: Who actually played a lot.

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Speaker 4: And it made a lot of sense to me that you get your eyes adjusted to seeing the baseball in that bright light that's different, or in the bright light sunlight, because you're you're so used to hitting at night with the lights on in the ballpark. But he always thought it was really important to get your eyes adjusted, especially for day games, to go outside because it's different the sunlight and the light that you would.

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Speaker 1: Get inside the cage is totally different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's just a lot of different things, and get your kind of juices flowing. So Lukie used to talk about a lot that a lot made some sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they used to take. They used to take infield, outfield, used.

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Speaker 1: To hit it. Oh, don't be ridiculous, they used to.

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Speaker 2: The Phillies beat the Rays on Tuesday Night, eight to four, Kyle Schwarber, alc Bahm, Nick Castianos all homeward by Buddy Colleague at MLB dot com. Paul Casella tweeted this out last night Phillies games with three or more homers as a team this season, Phillies first twenty nine games twice. Phillies last six games three times. So it seems like, you know, they're finding the slug, as Rob Thompson likes to say. First inning on Tuesday night, Raised pitcher Drew Rasmussen threw nine pitches and then he threw thirty in the second, and then he threw twenty eight third, and he was out of there shortly after that, and then the Raised win had to go to the Zach Wheeler dominated in seven innings, eight strikeouts, oh nine strikeouts, eight on his seeing fastball, eight on his four seing fastball, so you know he was feeling it. He was feeling his fastball. Last night. He threw fifty four seamers, was the first time he had done that in a game since last September. His fastball average four seamer average ninety five point nine miles an hour, up half a mile from a season average. He touched ninety five and a half in the seventh inning. I mean, another great effort by Zach Wheeler. Rubin, what did you like about that?

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Speaker 4: You were up in the booth, Yeah, super efficient, nice adjustment. I mean, this is what the great ones do, right. He's his curveball and his split have been phenomenal and he's getting a lot of swings and misses on those. For two particular pitches as a play, I think they're over forty percent whipth rate on those, and so they've been phenomenal pitches for him. But he didn't really have a feel for a split and he didn't really have to use it. And they went they saw that he was firing that that four seamer up on especially I mean on both the right he's and lefties. But you know, he said he hasn't faced a lot of I think after the game, he says, he hasn't been facing a ton of right handers, so he hasn't been usualizing that sinker. She hasn't gotten a feel for it. You don't use it, you sort of lose it. And so yeah, and that didn't really have a feel for it. And he left the one sinker out over the plate on Yondi Diaz who hit the.

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Speaker 1: Home run that wouldn't have gone out.

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Speaker 4: Of any other ballpark in baseball probably it's a right center, but I mean it was just you know, classic Wheels making an adjustment and JT making an adjustment and say thing, you know what, they're not hitting my fastball. I'm firing it. And he just kept firing it and they swung over it or under it. And he's got one of those Justin Berlander Kirk Shilling type bastballs that has that high, high finish backspin it. Johnny Potters used to say, back spin that sucker backspin and get it off your fingers.

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Speaker 1: And that's what he's got going. Man. It's it's it's it's lethal.

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Speaker 5: And it was when yesterday you could see him, you know, hunting strikes on strikeouts at the top of the zone when he got strikeout counts with that fast battles right on the line, you know, smidge over right there. So he was locating that thing beautifully. But yeah, I love it when I love that off the fingertips.

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Speaker 3: And I'm wondering if.

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Speaker 5: Probably you know, the warm weather, probably a little humidity, you can get it really off the tip fingertips.

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Speaker 3: Good Night to pitch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah said it was impressive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he said he could definitely let it fly. We will be right back for.

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Speaker 2: Drop that in the comment section and we will do that. We're planning on that Thursday, so please please do that. Last night, Alec Bohm second inning HiT's a three to one I think it was a three to one cutter just off the plate, goes the opposite way and the ball goes over the fence. It was his first home run since I believe, like September twentieth, twentieth, Yeah, September September twentieth of last season. And we've talked a ton about Alec Bohm on this show over the first month plus of the season, and I looked this up last night because I was curious because he's now had two multi hit games in a row, and he's had a game with an extra base hit two games in a row. That's not a lot. Of course, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying I was like, Oh, I wonder what he's been doing the last couple weeks. Alc Bowm in his last fourteen games since April nineteenth, is batting three twenty seven, three doubles, one home run, six RBIs in eight thirty two ops. In the last three games he has raised his ops seventy three points up to five eighty six. It's got a long way to go. I'm not saying he's out of it. I'm not saying, you know, it's gonna be smooth sailing through the end of the season, but showing a little bit of a pulse, and he seemed to be pretty upbeat talking about it postgame on Tuesday night. Do you guys seeing any signs other than those numbers maybe, do you think he's gonna You think he's kind of emerging on the other end of this dark tunnel he was down dark place he was in first few weeks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the contact is there now, it's just about, you know, getting the ball out in front, getting the ball in the air a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying pop ups.

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, need a line drive and above driving the ball, and I'm gonna stick with it what I've been saying. I still think it's going to happen for the guy. I think he'd gotten a rut, but I think the fact that he is starting to hit for some average is a sign that he's coming out of it.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: It's about, you know, angle of the bat, pitch selection confidence, and he'll start driving the ball like like he needs to.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he needs to hit thirty home runs, but glaringly absent is.

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Speaker 5: The doubles or are the doubles. He's a guy, and doubles can be a power number too. They help you slugging percentage, they drive in runs, So we need to see some more of those. But yeah, he does look like to me that he is urging, and I think a lot of it is is is going to end up being confidence, because confidence is just magic when you got it.

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Speaker 4: I mean in the early part of the season he did it in some tough luck and then and then after that then he just sort of struggle, was just striking out and that sort of thing they get sort of a snowball on itself, and they caused it. Ryan Spader had some kind of ridiculous number about his expected ops or expected you know, slug or something like that, and how like he had the most like twenty five balls hit like the hardest in all of baseball and had literally nothing to show for it.

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Speaker 1: Right, that also is part of the game.

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Speaker 4: But here, you're right, Jim, I think he's gonna he needs to try to make a little bit more contact out front there pounded him into the inside part of the plate when he gets extended. He got that cutter away from Rasmussen and it was like, oh, thank goodness, because that's the ball that he can handle, and he hit it out of the ballpark and in place that that you know, where the ball carries.

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Speaker 1: But that's a.

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Speaker 4: Really good sign, the fact that he's picked it up pretty considerably. I mean, I thought we would you would see that happen. At some point, he's going to get closer and closer to the back of his baseball card just because he's been doing for so long. He's a good hit her, but he needs to do it a little bit more consistently, and he needs to have to have a little bit more thump.

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Speaker 1: And like Jim said, I totally agree, it's not about hitting home runs.

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Speaker 4: He should, by accident, because of his power and because of his leverage, should hit twenty home runs. But he doesn't have to try to hit him because I do know that he gets out at a sink when he does that.

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Speaker 1: But it's a good sign. They need him to in the lineup.

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Speaker 4: They need him to stretch out that lineup and the fact that he's hitting in the eight hole or the seven hole or wherever he is on a nightly basis. But they can get to start getting the kind of quality of production out of him that they need, then that makes that lineup even longer.

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Speaker 5: And he said that after the game, you can't try to hit home runs, and he's right, you can't. Home runs happen. Aaron Judge does not try to hit home runs. He's six for seven and he makes other World League contact and it goes and he's got the angle of the swing. But you can't try to hit home runs. They happen when you make a good contact and pitch selection is good and you're driving the ball. So I'm not panicking on Alec Bohm. I think what we're seeing is he's kind of coming out of the woods here and he needs to because he's a crucial guy on this team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, and if Boone can keep this up, it'll you know, you talk about don't pass Jim, but this, you know, some people are talking a lot about and noticing what Atto Kemp is doing in Triple A Lehigh Valley. He was an International Player of the Week. He was the Phillies co Minor League hitter of the Month, and he's had a fantastic season. We've had Luke Merton on this show. We've had Preston Manningley on the show. I think both of those guys in the offseason mentioned auto Camp as a guy kind of an under the radar guy that they that they really really like. But you know, people had been asking me, like, an you think you think of Boem continues to struggle, auto Camp could get called up as I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's in my opinion, that's a long way from happening. I don't think you don't just pull a plug on a guy that had a really bad April with his track record. You know last night in the story that I wrote it at MLB dot com, you know, I found I went back and looked at players that had really bad aprils and kind of looked and see how they turned it around. You remember Nick Castianis's April last year. He had a lower ops last April than Alec Bohm did. He got it turned around. Chase Utley had a horrific April twenty fifteen, and then he got it going a little bit before. You know, Ruben you traded him to the Dodgers Raoula Banyez in twenty eleven. Remember he had a his His April was horrific. He had a four to sixty six ops through the end of April. He finished the rest of the way, he had a seven to fifty five OPS. Going back even a little bit further, Ron Gant had a terrible April of nineteen ninety nine five oh five ops he finished. He went the rest of the way with an eight thirty eight OPS. So all four of those guys I mentioned Castiano's utly at Banyas Gant all have track records. Their managers stuck with them because they had track records, and they got it turned around. So you know, the whole if Boem struggles, you know for another week or two, is auto kemp and play. I just never saw that happening, am I Am I wrong?

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Speaker 5: Maybe not at third base, but I think if he continues to hit like that, there an opportunity will present itself.

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Speaker 3: Here I mean, hats off to this kid. He is absolutely mashing.

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Speaker 5: To me, the intriguing thing would be he's a right handed bat. Maybe a left field platoon with Max Keapelier might be really able to optimize the offensive output at that position.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know.

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Speaker 5: He hasn't played a ton of outfield. You don't want to take you don't want to give away runs defensively, if he can't play the position, he plays some third base as well. It might be his best position. But he is not a strong defensive player, so that's it's not even fine print. He's just not a strong defender. But my gosh, he just continues to rake. I mean, I know there's a difference in the pitching between the two levels, but the guy continues to hit.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna have to. He's gonna he's.

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Speaker 5: Gonna earn a look in some way, shape or form before this thing is over, mark my words.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's almost gotten that legendary He hit that one game even where he got hit four times with the pitches, So he's kind of building up a legendary status down in Triple A. And that's why I think, you know, people are people love talking about it.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that he's going to necessarily replace anybody unless somebody were to go down physically. I just don't think that he's going to push somebody out. Max Kepler swinging the bat well. I like to see Max Keper get more bats against left handers, honestly, just the way he's approaching his bats. I think he was over three yesterday, but he had like five quality at bats. I like the way he's going about it right now. He's a very good defender. He can't minimize that. You got to be able to catch the baseball, and that's important. And atto Kensman doing in Triple A, I mean, I hit well in.

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Speaker 1: Triple A and then I have a very good major league career.

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Speaker 3: But you still learned at some point that doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, at some point he will get his opportunity, because if you have bat, it will travel, especially now in today's in today's game where nobody hits really other than maybe Aaron Judge and Shoe Aotani.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like he's not gonna.

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Speaker 4: Necessarily push somebody off the field just because those those guys who are playing right now have track records.

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Speaker 1: And I think the whole Alec Bohmee thing.

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Speaker 4: It sort of started at the end of the year last year with the attitude stuff and the fact that he was benched and really struggled after he hurt his hand and all that stuff. There is a carryover with the fans about whether this guy can really perform.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's a pretty damn good hitter. He's always been a good hitter.

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Speaker 4: He's always been a productive hitter, and he just needs to stay with it and keep doing this thing because that's at the end of the day. I think things will get back to quote unquote normal for him.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. I was thinking about this over the years covering the Phillies.

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Speaker 5: There's always, I shouldn't say always, but often been that one guy in Triple A who has, you know, a dynamite season, and you know, people just kind of evaluate and kind of pick him apart and say, well, he can't do this, he can't do that, he can't do that. The guy keeps performing. Like remember that guy Tyler Cloyd, he just kept winning in Triple A. He ended up getting a shot here. Joe Rowe, I remember him. He kept winning in Triple A. He ended up getting a shot here. Long before that, Ruben, do you remember a guy named Travis Chapman.

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Speaker 3: Really good hitter.

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Speaker 5: I think he was a Mississippi State kid, really good hitter, minor league hitter, but.

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Speaker 1: The first coach for the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 5: I think he might.

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Speaker 3: I think that is the guy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Travis, Yeah, he was a good hitter in the Phillies minor league system, and everybody's like, I don't know if you can hit major league pitching. You know, at some point, you know you get a shot. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you know I do have I have a lot of respect from what these guys do.

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Speaker 3: Gotta shine and shining.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, good stuff. Man.

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Speaker 4: I just feel like Western Wilson is going to a good guy that provides a lot more right now for this team than Otto Kemp does because he can play all those positions. He's athletic, he can steal bases, he can run, he can do a lot of different things, and he's got some power to can swing. And he put those numbers up in Triple A too. I mean he was he was a dominating force in Triple A as well. So I just feel like right now for this team that Western Wilson sort of provides more of what Rob Thompson needs for this team at this time. But you're right about that Auto Kemp keeps playing and can swinging it. At some point he's gonna get an opportunity to be in Philadelphia or possible trade bait.

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Speaker 1: Who knows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's also true. To keep that in mind. Trey Turner had a couple more hits last night. He's batting three ninety one, three doubles, seven RBIs, four stolen bases, eight eighty o PM in his last fifteen games. He's got seven multi hit games in his last fifteen games. So he's also, Uh, that's a good sign. He hasn't he hasn't, let you know, slugged, I guess. But man, getting on base at that clip I think is on base percentage is like four fifty in the last fifteen games. That's okay, that'll work.

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Speaker 1: That'll be just fun. Yeah, that's his job is to get on base and score runs. Man, produce runs. That's it. That's your job. Producer runs.

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Speaker 4: If you do it by driving them in great, if you're doing by scoring great.

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Speaker 5: Last night, like two, three, four, five in the lineup, all just multi hit, multi hit. I mean, it was a really good sign.

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Speaker 1: Big big, one of the biggest moments of the game.

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Speaker 4: I thought yesterday again, he's not facing like the best pitcher in the planet at the end of the game, but Bryce arperated a bullet to left center field. That is a tremendous sign for the Phillies and for Bryce Harper, because when he's driving the ball the opposite way means he's hanging on it. Yep, and he's getting ready to make a run here. So look out. My prediction, he's going to go deep today, Okay, tonight, and he's gonna go deep again tomorrow night, and he's gonna go on a tear for a while.

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Speaker 2: Foul We're back. Kyle Schwarber. He hit his twelfth home running the season last night, one of three opposite field home runs. Schwarber did his in the first second inning, gave the Phillies a lead, and he is now tied with Aaron Judge and Cal Rawly for the MLB lead in home runs. His last seven games, he's batting three twenty five home runs, ten RBIs ops over fourteen hundred. You know, right in the comments section, gotta sign that guy. Gotta sign that guy. Price keeps going up, up, up, up up, Kyle Schwarer. He's uh, he's making a good case for himself.

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Speaker 1: Oh and he will. He keeps getting better with age sort of them. You know.

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Speaker 4: I think that the fact that he's everybody's worried about sliding him out of the one hole and this, that and the other, well, he's made the adjustments he can. He hits, he hits, and he gets in streaks where he punches out.

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Speaker 1: Because he's going to do that. Guess what, That's what power hitters do.

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Speaker 4: They punch out some times. But the beauty of this guy is that he's really put himself in a position to make more consistent contact through the middle of the field. He can get hits, he can drive the ball the other way like he did last night, and he seems to be getting better like as he gets older. So it's a it's going to be an interesting one. I mean, it's not about the money. It's about the length of the contract, because what is he with thirty one right now?

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Speaker 1: Thirty thirty or thirty one?

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Speaker 4: Anyway, I think it's going to be about length and.

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Speaker 5: And but and the length is you know, somebody's gonna want We're gonna throw an extra year.

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Speaker 3: Is gonnas gonna go up, and.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna escalate, Yeah, iscalate. I mean I could see it being a four or five year deal.

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Speaker 4: If he continues to do the things that he's doing right now, and you know, he has an ops of eight fifty or and hits forty home runs and.

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Speaker 1: Drives in you know, one hundred and ten runs.

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Speaker 4: The man's gonna make his money, and he's gonna get length.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a five year deal. It might be a six year deal.

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Speaker 5: In his why ideally you'd love to get him on like a three year deal. You're gonna know you have to go to four to get him. Somebody's gonna do something and go five, and then somebody's gonna do something crazy and go six. So uh, you know it's he's gonna he's gonna be a good power hitter right until his late thirties with that bat speed.

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Speaker 3: How many?

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Speaker 1: How how many home runs? In New York? Is you gonna hit in Yankee Stadium?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't know. There's a Yankee guy. He's played all over the place. Maybe how many does he hitting?

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Speaker 3: How many does he hit in Cincinnati?

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Speaker 2: At there?

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Speaker 5: If I'm the GM, If I'm the GM in Cincinnati, he's the guy I have my eye on. Almost like you guys have told me years ago, this is a guy. I got a young team that's getting better, getting closer to ready to win. The guy is a winner. He's great between the lines, he's great in the clubhouse. He goes to the postseason every year in his career, and he would demolish my ballpark, and it's his hometown, and he would electrify my fan base.

00:28:04
Speaker 3: That is the team that needs him. That's the team I would.

00:28:06
Speaker 5: Keep an eye on, but I'd also keep an eye on the Phillies because I think they're gonna re sign one of one of those guys either M Moro, I'm not sure who.

00:28:15
Speaker 3: I think one of them comes back.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: You and imagine him playing I agree with that. I agree with everything you just said, Jimmy, and imagine him coupling up with Terry Francona.

00:28:25
Speaker 1: I mean, it's sort of a really good it's a really good mix of people there.

00:28:29
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to sell him on it, but I'm just looking at I'm just looking at the reality.

00:28:35
Speaker 1: I'd love for him to be a Philadelphia Philly.

00:28:36
Speaker 4: For life, to the way the type of person he is, the player, he is, the leader, he is all the above.

00:28:44
Speaker 1: It'd be great to have him in Philadelphia for a long time.

00:28:47
Speaker 4: But hey man, there's a lot of different factors when guys are making these decisions.

00:28:52
Speaker 5: Philly, Philadelphia, the Phillies are in the driver's seat.

00:28:56
Speaker 3: But I, you know, I Cincinnati.

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Speaker 5: If I was there, GM, I would be like you and Ed way back when when you were targeting big GYM big Gym.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. But he is thirty. He just turned thirty two about a month ago. I guess, yeah, thirty two in March. We've talked about this before, and Jim, you mentioned the bat speed. He hasn't It's not like he's he's slowing down the bat speed. The bat speed is still like he's still swinging the bat and hard, and I just don't see that. I just don't see that dropping off like in the next one, two or three years. So yeah, I would feel, you know, you never, you're always it's a risk to sign somebody who's thirty two to a five six year deal. But man, if you're going to take a bet on a hitter to continue hitting into his late thirties, I feel like Kyle Schorverz is about as good of a bet as you can make.

00:29:52
Speaker 4: And the per and the accountability of the man, and that as well last.

00:29:58
Speaker 3: A great a great man.

00:29:59
Speaker 5: I mean, he's he He is a boon to your organization all over the place. But I think somebody goes five or six and hopes to get four good ones. I really do, And it might be worth it if you do, because you know, he he wins every year, he goes to the playoffs. Year, you pack your seats, you make money. It's a good deal.

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00:30:44
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly right.

00:30:46
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00:30:52
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