Trea Turnin’ the corner? Turner is finding his way in Clearwater

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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Philly Show. Rubin Tomorrow Junior, look at him. I'm here, I'm touching him. We're I'm completely close. Jim Salisbury's back in Philly. I'm todd z a lucky hope.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's doing well.

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Speaker 3: It's Friday, March fourteenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Rubin. How does it feel to be back in clear Water?

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Speaker 1: Love it, love love love it good. Weather's fantastic. Nice to see the fans supporting the team here as well, and it's been great. Can't wait for Jim to come back down. If he really wants to come back down. I don't know what's problem is, but we need to get him back down here so the Triumvirate can be together.

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Speaker 4: I was watching some ball the other day. I watched.

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Speaker 5: West Chester University lay one on Wilmington University. West Chester got a hell of a club.

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Speaker 1: So you're real fan, James, You're a true fan.

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Speaker 3: You miss it so much you went up went over to west Chester you to watch them ball.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 5: I love watching the local colleges play a lot of good talent around here.

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Speaker 2: The Local nine, Jim as you like, they really are the local Local nine. You're Harvey Hooper. What's his name?

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Speaker 4: Harry Hooper?

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Speaker 2: And sorry, he's in the He's in the Hall of Fame, Harry Hooper.

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Speaker 4: He's in the Hall of Fame, the big one in Cooperstown.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: He's now you know, he's a borderline pick for me, Harry Hooper.

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Speaker 1: Can you give me a quick Harry Hooper?

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Speaker 2: You give me a quick age, Harry Hooper.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, give us his his exceptance.

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Speaker 3: We laid a thumping on the fields in the World's Aies World Champs.

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Speaker 4: We are what was in the postgame spread?

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Speaker 2: What was in the postgame spread back then?

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Speaker 1: Probably like uh uh some fiddle and cabin he'll be cage exactly exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so funny.

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Speaker 3: So all right, So the Phillies. Today, it's Friday. They have a spring breakout game. It's here at Bacare Ballpark. So all the top Phillies prospects are playing all the top Pirates prospects, so that'll be a lot of fun. Then later tonight, Friday night, the Phillies are in Tampa at George M. Steinbrennerfield, playing the Yankees. Taiwan Walker will be pitching, so that'll be worth watching. But yesterday I wanted to bring this up because we've gotten some comments and some questions about Trey Turner at the plate. Trey Turner hitting lead off yesterday, lead off home run, and then he walks, he has a sacrifice fly. And I was talking with Kevin Long about Trey earlier this week, asking him, you know, hey, he's kind of struggling the spring. I know it doesn't matter, but what do you make And he said, honestly, I think that Trey coming into camp was so focused on letting the ball, get backing up on the ball and going to the opposite field. He said he kind of got caught in between in this decision making. He said he feels like Trey's getting more comfortable in that decision making process right now. And from what Trey told Kevin Long that Trey said, as long as I feel good with about three or four days to go before the season starts, I think I think I'll be okay. So can you explain when when a lot of people talk about you here, like hitting coaches and players say let back the ball up, but I don't know, if everybody knows what that means, tell everybody what that means.

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Speaker 2: Backing What does that mean? Backing the ball up?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know.

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Speaker 1: There's obviously been a lot of talk about swing decisions and seeing the ball longer and not guessing and making sure that you see the ball longer. That's sort of what they when you say backing the ball up. You sort of want to see the ball longer so you can make better decisions. The only way to do that is to get ready and get into your hitting position early. It's like a fine line, and you want to get into your hitting position early to be able to make those decisions. But you want to be able to wait longer and see the ball longer so that you're swinging at strikes. Obviously, it's been an issue, especially late in the season when you know they're sort of exploiting the Phillies' aggressiveness, and when you are really an aggressive hitter, you want to make sure that you see the ball longer so that you can swing at strikes. You can make adjustments on breaking pitches, you can make decisions on breaking pitches and off speed pitches, and yet you can still be quick enough to handle the hard stuff, and mostly most stuff is pretty firm these days. But and that's a hard thing to do in this day and age, because the velocity has increased on average so much that it sort of forces you to make your decisions earlier. That's what they mean by backing it up. And I always believed in spring training there's like three processes it has to happen. I think you know three levels that have to happen. You know, you start off, you first want to see pitches. You haven't seen pitches for several months. You want to see a live arm. You make adjustments. It takes some time to make that adjustment. You get hot, you start swinging the bat better, and then all of a sudden there's, oh, oh there now now that now the guys are spinning the baseball. So I think that there's like this, like there's sort of an undulation of your of your ability to get hot. And I think what hitters typically want to do is, as you said, by the by two or three days before spring training. You want to be before the end of spring training, you want to be in a position to have you all of your mechanisms, you know, straightened out, your timing, your your your your legs underneath you, and also your ability to recognize pitches. And uh, and I'm thinking, you know, Kevin Long is very hopeful that most of the guys get to that point. Not everybody's there, but uh, but typically most of the veteran guys get to that point. They know how many at bats, they know how many reps they need to get there. And you're starting to see Trey Turner get to the point where seeing the ball a little bit better and not quite so in between, when you're in between your loss. It's a little bit like feeling the same sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: Love love that you use the word undulation on the undulation.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't that wasn't on the bingo card this morning, wasn't the hell of a word.

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Speaker 5: Just listening to what Kevin Long said, they kind of put a lot out in Trey Turner's play coming in, you know, more selectivity, use the whole field, don't be pole happy. So it just sounds like he might have been thinking too much. And sometimes thinking can be the enemy of good performance.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be dumb to hit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 5: And Charlie used to say that I know what he means. By it because it's hitting is a It sounds a little silly, but obviously baseball is a thinking person's game, but it's.

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Speaker 4: More a reaction game.

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Speaker 5: You got to be so confident in your process and your skill that you eliminate the decision and it becomes a reaction.

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Speaker 4: The reaction is quicker than the decision. I know, it's splitting hairs.

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Speaker 5: But you know, if he says he only needs, you know, two, as long as he's good two or three days before opening day. Honestly, I believe that because I've seen hitters get hot with a good take. Seriously, like they take a pitch and they just know they saw it so well that they're this close to.

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Speaker 4: Being locked in.

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Speaker 5: So if he's slowly progressing towards being locked in and committed to using the whole field to the point where he's not thinking about it, he's just reacting and it's happening, that's a good thing.

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Speaker 4: You think he's gonna end up being the leadoff guy. I do.

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Speaker 2: I do? I feel like you almost have to, like you think it could possibly help. And I know Rob gets asked it like literally almost every.

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Speaker 4: Day, because one day he's one day he's going to say, you have to ask those questions.

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Speaker 5: I understand because one day he's going to say, as a matter of fact, I have arrived at a decision.

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Speaker 4: Get your notebooks out.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 4: That's the part I wish iuld tell her.

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Speaker 3: I like, Rob, literally, we have to ask you every day because if the day we don't, you're gonna go. You know, Actually I made up my decision on Monday. You guys never asked me on Monday.

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Speaker 4: It's like it should be a standing question.

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Speaker 5: And if I tug on my right ear, you know, and you tug on your left hand, that means no.

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Speaker 4: But if you tug on your right ear, it means I have an answer for you. So I ask the question.

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Speaker 5: It's like, you know, but I feel like one of these days there might be not until opening day in Washington, but I just feel like that's the way. Honestly, it's been trending since since October, when.

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Speaker 1: The real question is how long did you stay with it? And it got to give it a rod, You got to give it a little bit of a ride.

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Speaker 5: But it's been trending this way since October, since their breakup news conference, when Rob offered he might move Swarber out of the out of the lead off.

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Speaker 4: Hole to the middle of the order. It was right there.

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Speaker 5: You could almost see the sign, the beacon going off that this is coming, this is coming, this is coming, and I feel like we're seeing it.

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Speaker 1: And I really do. I have to tell you, I really do like the order that he threw out there. Yesterday. They scored a bunch of runs and it was nice to validate that. But when you have Turner, Harper, Boem and then Schwarber, boy, you've got a lot of thunder at the top of that lineup, and then you follow with some pretty dark good hitters after that too, So I mean you're looking at you're looking some quality and those are really, in my mind, your best top four hitters, and you're most the ones that should be the most productive. Then you followed up with Cassie, and I like the way Kepler swinging the back. Yes, yeah, he had a tracer and he's he looks relaxed, he looks good at the plate, he's making good swing decisions. Takes. You talk about takes, it sounds silly, it looks like he's seeing the ball really well, but you make it really astute. Point with it takes Jim because when you take a pitch and you're not off balance and you see the ball and you know it's either a ball or strike, that that really is a confidence builder for you in the box. I knew as a hitter that if I saw a pitch and I took it, a change up or whatever, breaking pitch that was just off the plate, and I took it and did not offer at it, I felt like that guy doesn't have a pitch to get me out. And when you have that feeling in the box, it's like.

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Speaker 5: That, it's like that one moment sometimes can unlock something. I remember reading something about Tom Glavin. He was having trouble with his change up. He was out in the outfield shagging back in the days when pitchers would shag, and he picked up a ball and he threw it in and with a change up grip, and it just felt right. For some reason, something just felt right, and it got him on track with his change up for like ten starts in a row. So sometimes a little thing can can click for a hitter or a ballplayer. Todd, did you get the impression from talking to Kevin Long that he is eager to see what this guy can.

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Speaker 4: Do in the leadoff ball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I think he would. I think he is interested in seeing what happens. I don't think like he didn't seem like overly like uh, concerned either way whichever way Rob goes with the lineup. But I do think he's kind of intrigued by by what Trey could do in that leadoff spot. If it could make him more selective, it could make him more in tune with just getting on base and you know, going to the opposite feel a little bit more, maybe take some pressure off of him not having to feel like he has to pull the ball all the time. So I think there's there was a little there is a little bit of that intrigue. But I also think, like if Rob says, I, you know, tells Kevin five days before opening Day, I'm going with I'm gonna you know what, I'm just gonna stick with Schwarber, forget it, We're gonna go that way, I think he'd be fine with that as well. So you know, Trey also is of course trying to you know, improve his shortstop play.

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Speaker 2: You know, match Gale.

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Speaker 3: But The Athletic wrote a little bit about that Trey knows that Trey has heard all the talk about you're moving to left field next year if you don't get better, and I wanted to talk about something else though. Bryce Harper talked to Ken Rosenthal Fair Territory and the Athletic a couple of weeks ago about being open to moving to the outfield, and he talked to the Phillies in the off season about And I followed up with Bryce just the other day because I thought it was so interesting because Bryce basically said I talked to the Phillies in the off season. I said, hey, you know, if you could find if I if it could help make the team better for a season, that would go back out to the outfield.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting. You know, Pete A. Lonzo was the big batt at first base. And I said, so you would really do this, huh? He's like yeah.

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Speaker 3: And honestly, if they come up to me in July and they say there's a there's a first basement out there, maybe it's Vlad Guerrero Junior.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, do you think that's what he was thinking about?

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's Vlad Guerrero Junior. And he said, I would I would move out there.

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Speaker 3: I would I would try to do what I can, you know, move out to the outfield if they needed me to do that for a half season. What do you guys think about Bryce's willingness to go out there?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: You have Nick cass Danilson, right, you have Max Kapler, and you would find a place for Bryce, of course, But just the idea that Bryce has told the front office if you need me to move, I would move to the outfield if you could get a big bat.

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Speaker 1: I mean it obviously tells you that he wants to win a World Series. That's that's the main goal. I mean, he's won everything else. I mean that the the articles that you've seen, Matt Galban, others who have written and you yourself have written, have been great about that. I think it's really important for people to understand there is you know, even though they haven't talked about it a lot, which I kind of like it, the fact that they haven't really talked to they know that their job is to win a World Series. That's what they want to do. These guys all have the money. Uh, for the most part, the Phillies have taken care of them. They've done a lot of things for their families, they've they've created a an at sphere that is a winning type atmosphere. It's now really up to the players to do their jobs. And I think they know that, but they're not talking about it a lot. I think they're going to try to just let it happen, you know. I think that they're just gonna hopefully, they'll let their abilities just take over when it's time for that to happen. And uh, And this is a perfect example of these guys their sole their sole goal right now is to win a World Series. For anybody who thinks that that's not what they're trying to do, or they're not you know, they're not getting pushed hard enough by Rob Thompson or whatever the case may be, that's a bunch of bs. The reality of it is, these guys want to win and they'll do anything to do so. And that's a perfect example of For the same reason, guys like Schwarburn Turner will hit anywhere in the lineup, same thing with Harper. You put me in the lineup with that. If the manager thinks that's the best way to go, let's go. Let's go do it. And and that's a testament to what these guys are about and how they you know, what this clubhouse is about. And and that's an important element because if they're pulling on the same side of the rope, they got a great chance to be a champion.

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Speaker 4: So where are we batting Vlad in the lineup?

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Speaker 1: But he can hit wherever he wants, Baby.

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Speaker 2: That would be a good one, right.

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Speaker 3: Maybe then you can talk right right behind Bryce, right behind him, right behind him for the protection.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that would be just a ridiculous lineup. But they're.

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Speaker 4: Happen. Yeah, Oh definitely.

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Speaker 5: It's a fascinating storyline heading into the season.

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Speaker 4: What's going to happen with Vlad? Is he going to be traded or you know.

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Speaker 5: Reportedly you have read that they're like fifty million apart the way they've had trouble attracting some players, closing deals with some guys the Blue Jays, I mean, I know they've got some tander, but there has been other difficulties closing deals.

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Speaker 4: I mean, do you feel like Rubin as you.

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Speaker 5: You know, watch that situation from thirty thousand feet that they got to close that gap.

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Speaker 1: I think that they do, I really do. If they made the commitment of Sandtown there. I think that they. I mean, it's a really big marketplace. They own the entire country of Canada, and and so I think Rogers is pretty papered up. I gotta believe that they've they've they've gotten to the point where they've missed out on so many big ones that for them to lose this one would be really, really tough for them. And I got to believe that at some point they're they're going to get to the point where they're gonna have to sign Blad just because it would really look bad. I mean, it's tough to stay and listen, there's good teams in the Al East, but that's still a winnable, very very winnable. I mean, the Yankees are beat up. There's all types of stuff going on in that a l East that Orioles haven't really honed up. Their pitching staff, boss is not quite there yet.

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Speaker 4: They're trying.

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Speaker 1: That's a very winnable division right now. And it didn't used to be that way. It used to be Yankees in Boston that was it. But I think that I think that the Toronto Blue Jays are gonna be, in a lot of ways going to be forced to make that happen with Blatt. I hope they don't because it will open up a whole lot of things for a lot of teams who are looking for first base thump pumpage.

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Speaker 3: So the Phillies on Thursday, they announced that Jimmy Rownds and Ed Wade are going to be inducted on the Wall of Fame on August first Alumni weekend.

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Speaker 2: We all knew Jimmy was going to get on at some point.

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Speaker 3: It was just kind of what year they wanted to put him on, and this is the year they're going to put him on. So what do we think, Jim about j Roll and Ed Wade? Ed Wade drafted a lot of those players. Of course, if Pat Gillick thanked him when they won the World Series in two thousand and eight, building, you know, bringing that core together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a well deserved honor, for sure.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm very happy for Ed, richly deserved. You mentioned Pat Gillick thanking him the night they won the World Series. That was kind of remarkable, and Pat also credited Ed at his opening press conference, like ten minutes five minutes into his opening press conference, he said, Ed Wade has built a hell of a roster here and he was, you know, very pleased to jump in the driver's seat and take over such a good group of talents. So Pat who is a great gentleman and a great, great baseball man, you know, one of the best we've all met, ever met, And you know, for him to single out Ed so many times for the job he did to me really jumps out at you.

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Speaker 4: When I think of Ed, I think of the word foundation.

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Speaker 5: He was, you know, so instrumental in building the foundation of that great era of Phillies baseball seven to eleven, five division titles, two NL pennants, and a World Series championship. Fingerprints were all over that. So it's nice to see his you know, foundation efforts being.

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Speaker 4: Honored and recognized.

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Speaker 5: But he also was at the foundation of the building of Citizens Bank Park, which is one of the most beautiful parks in the land and has been so important to this organization and the growth of this organization.

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Speaker 4: So hats off to Ed.

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Speaker 5: Really happy for him and Jimmy as well. We knew that was going to happen, but you know, Jimmy was one of those great young players that came to Flower under Ed and then won the championship a few years.

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Speaker 1: Later, Hey, Todd, I want to hear your opinion about Ed because you have a different perspective as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, he was the first guy.

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Speaker 3: You know, I started covering the team in April of two thousand and three, So who was the first GM I got to cover, And you know he was I enjoyed, I guess working with him and talking to him, and.

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Speaker 2: It was it was cool to see how he.

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Speaker 3: Handled a lot of criticism over the years. I mean, you talk about like a pro to total pro. I mean, man, you know, to be in Philip, I mean, you know I'm talking.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to a guy who got hammered as well.

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Speaker 3: You know, Ed Ed based a lot of criticism and just just Philly being Philly. But he was such a pro all the time and just to bring all those guys in, like you said, Chase and Ryan Howard and Cole and Jimmy and Ryan Mattson and Brett Myers and always very kind of humble about it.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I feel like.

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Speaker 3: The thing about Ed today is even if you say, like, hey, Ed, do you want to talk about the time when you could have traded Chase Utley and Cole Hamil's of the A's or whatever it was, or you could have traded Ryan Howard. He's like, ah, you know, he doesn't really like to get into that stuff, even though because he he doesn't want it to come off like I'm patting myself on the back, which kind of says a lot about him, which I admire. Like he's not going well, you know, I Well, let me tell you about the time I could have made this move that would have changed the entire you know, direction of the franchise and probably wouldn't have won the World Series in two thousand and eight if I had made this trade. Uh, He's he never really wants to get into those things. It would make for a really great story, a great book. But that's just not his not his style. But you know, clearly his fingerprints, like you said, Jim and Reuben, you know, are all over those that those two thousand and seven twenty eleven teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean people, I think people know my relationship with Ed Ed the one mistake he made was to hire me right right off the field. But the reality of it is that you know, Ed was one of the great mentors that I had a teachers for me as far as work ethic. He had that sort of man in the arena attitude about you know, never always taking the blame and always giving credit to others. That was sort of his mantra. And uh and I felt like that was a very very important, you know, essential part of who he was. They had a plan, David Montgomery and Ed Wade had a plan. It was to get good and stay good. And to get good they had to draft well and to develop well. And they did a heck of a job with many of the players that became the core players of that team, from Chooch to to Cole, et cetera, et cetera. You start thinking about all the guys that came through our system and the people that he required and the way he went about his business. Uh scouting player development, he learned a lot. He was a PR guy intern. He you know, went to went to Houston, did a bunch of things over there, did some contract negotiation, learned about, you know, the administration of the game there. Came back as an assistant GM and really helped Lee Thomas with the ninety three team as the assistant and then getting the opportunity he really started building from within and uh and And created that core. As you talked about, I want to, you know, kill the dead, be the dead horse there, but for someone, uh, on a personal level, great human being, a wonderful family man, and somebody that that has well deserved. I'm so glad that John Middleton and others who make that decision are put him on the Wall of Fame. It's really it was an emotional call that I got from him yesterday. That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Matt Threen from The Inquiry tweeted out something this morning fun fact ed Wade the only Wall of Fame inductee to also be a novelist.

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Speaker 4: That's right. He's written two books.

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Speaker 2: He's written two books.

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Speaker 4: A second one ed you you Ruben, you mentioned family man.

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Speaker 5: I bump into him a lot at the ballpark with his grandkids, and it's so cool that his grandkids, you know, are gonna be able to walk out on Nashburn Ally and see their granddad's plaque out there forever. And you also mentioned the plan him and David Montgomery had get good and stay good. I remember hearing that over and over and over, and kind of built within that was a commitment to patients and a methodical approach, and they were very patient, and they were methodical because they were also juggling another ball and that was a stadium, which they viewed as kind of a I don't want to say savior of the franchise, but they needed to get into a new stadium to provide revenue streams to sustain the organization be what they wanted to be.

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Speaker 4: So they were.

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Speaker 5: Building a team, trying to build a stadium as well, and you know, bringing that all there. So I think that led to a very methodical approach on you know, on both ends, building a stadium, building a team, and at the end, it just it probably didn't happen fast enough, some people got impatient and a change was made. But under today's rules, with six teams making the postseason, I think ED would have had three postseason teams, right.

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Speaker 2: With two thousand and three for sure?

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Speaker 4: They just two or three or two?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two thousand and three for sure, two five, I think for sure? Right, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Will say this, and lest we forget, he was also instrumental in sort of putting the Phillies back on the on the map in the organization, not just with the ballpark, but with the signing of Jim Tomy, bringing him in and the and the way that he went about getting that done and bringing Charlie Manual to the organization. Uh, lest we forget, he hired Charlie Manuel, He brought in Jim Tomy, and he sort of put the Phillies on the map. A lot of things that he did in not just with building the core, but actually moving it forward even beyond that. Again, we didn't get to the finish line with that because of the rules and because I mean there was a time when like for four, three or four years we started looking at the you know, the record of that team over that those four or five years, one of the better ones in all of baseball just could not you know, put all the pieces and parts together to get to the postseason. And that that was sort of sort of his downfall.

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Speaker 5: It It just didn't happen fast enough. But don't make the mistake in thinking that things good things weren't happening.

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Speaker 4: Good things were happening.

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Speaker 5: It just didn't reach the you know, the train didn't pull into the station quick enough under those rules.

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Speaker 4: Under today's rules.

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Speaker 5: With more postseason teams, they make it to the train station, they make it to October. And as we know very very well, anything can happen in October. So but bottom line is, hats off to a great man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no doubt. Congrats to Ed Wade, Congrats to Jimmy Rerownds Wall of Fame. A couple of quick things here.

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Speaker 3: Matt Strom had We talked about this on Monday show. Inflammation is left shoulder, brome brus and his left shoulder. He was supposed to be evaluated on Thursday. Rob Thompson said they're going to give him a couple more days. They're going to evaluate him again on Saturday, but Rob said he is feeling better. Matt Strom is feeling better. Don't know what that means. I would still expect he's not going to be ready by opening day. He's still not throw and so we talk about options. You know, no, Bill Chrismatt threw the ball well again yesterday. I think one in two thirds scoreless innings. He's a non roster guy, but he's somebody that that Rob is keeping an eye on. And Devin Sweet is on the forty man rofter. He got roughed up on Tuesday in Fort Myers. He's one of the forty man roster candidates. So you know, Tyler Phillips is a candidate. I guess you could say he's out of options, so if he doesn't make the team, he would have to go through waivers. So some of the just keep an eye on that. Saturday, maybe have an update on Matt Strom. A lot of people asked me yesterday what's going on with Nick castianis because he hasn't played since Sunday.

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Speaker 2: So well, one of the big reasons he hasn't played.

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Speaker 3: Sin Sunday is because none of the big boppers went to Fort Myers on.

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Speaker 2: Monday and Tuesday.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: None of them took that three hour hellish ride down down the interstate down to Fort Myers and at an overnight trip, so he didn't play Monday, he didn't play Tuesday as scheduled, Wednesday was an off day, and then Thursday he came to the ballpark feeling a little bit under the weather. So I think Nick is going to be in the lineup tonight against the Yankees, against.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: The Yankees and Tampas, so know, no cause for concern there. And yeah, spring breakout game is today Yankees tonight. Taiwan Walker pitching against the Yankees, So.

00:28:15
Speaker 4: Sounds like a showcase to me.

00:28:17
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, and that's okay. I hopefully he pitches well. It's a great test for him. We'll see whether his stuff is really playing up the way it has over the last couple of outings. He does look sharper again. Now, there's no question that the Yankees are probably looking for some pitching, starting pitching that might be out there, and they probably have the wherewithal as far as the cash flow to be able to do it. Although Brian Cashman does cry a little poverty from time to.

00:28:45
Speaker 2: Time, it is right now, right now, It is right now.

00:28:48
Speaker 1: But I will say that, but I will say that again, there's no issue at all with me with this team having too much pitching. You just never know when somebody can tweak. And I'm not trying to put the heck's on anybody, but the reality of it is, health is so important, and it's so fragile at this time of the year, and uh, you know, hopeful that these guys, all these four or five six starters, stay healthy as they rolled into uh late March and then opening day.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: Awesome, guys, Jim, come down, come on down, man, we miss you. Come on down.

00:29:25
Speaker 1: We'll get you a little color on that skin.

00:29:27
Speaker 4: Bro, I was there. I had some color, it faded. But you know that my.

00:29:32
Speaker 5: My crocuses apart popping up, and my daffodils are popping up, and you know I got I got the farm to get ready for the.

00:29:40
Speaker 1: Get the bomb ready, right, That's right, all right, guys.

00:29:43
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