WINTER MEETINGS: Phils Sign Jordan Romano, What’s Next?

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Speaker 1: Hi, call Hamil swapping to The Hilly Show. Hey, everybody, welcome to The Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury. I'm Todd's lucky. It's day three of the Winter Meetings in Dallas, Texas.

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Speaker 2: We're all here.

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Speaker 3: You're probably wondering where.

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Speaker 1: We were yesterday on Monday.

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Speaker 2: What happened?

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Speaker 3: What happens?

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Speaker 1: We had a major technical issue, not on our end, not on our and we recorded an entire episode and down the road, when the paint has gone away, we'll tell you about.

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Speaker 2: The other episode we recorded.

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Speaker 3: Yeah lost, I'm not We don't want to.

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Speaker 1: The wounds are so fresh on that one, Ruben and Jim.

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Speaker 2: But uh so we're gonna.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna. We're gonna redo an episode that you that we recorded yesterday that you've never heard, that you never heard, and uh because we have to talk about Jordan Romano or Romano is a romano Romano.

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Speaker 4: As Rob Dominson corrected us today, not only corrected, but it corrected.

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Speaker 3: Me on MLB Network to boot.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he corrected us as well.

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Speaker 3: We were on set. You know in Canada we say romano. I know, and then I think it was I can't remember who it was. I think it was. Somebody said, uh, Buck, I think it was Buck Show. Walter goes uh. You know how they're gonna say it in Philly though, Romano, that's great, that's great.

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Speaker 1: Well, so they signed Jordan Romano or Romano to a one year, eight and a half million dollar deal with some incentives. They say he's going to be a potential closer, high leverage guy for sure. He's coming off an injury at Arthur scoptic Surgery in July. He was on a zoom call yesterday the reporters. He says, I'm throwing the mid nineties. I feel great, I'm motivated. I wanted to only sign a one year deal because I wanted to re establish myself on the market, prove I'm one of the best closers in baseball again, and then then hit the market next year. What did you guys think of that, that move and what it means for the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: I like the move.

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Speaker 5: I especially like it on paper because you know, he was so good from twenty one to twenty three with the with the J's and era and the two ninety five saves, a low whip thirty percent strikeout right, really good stuff. He enjoys the closer role. He was a two time All Star in that span, so the credentials are good. It looks like he's got the makeup. I mean, he's proven he's got the makeup to be a closer. Obviously, the injury, the surgery, uh, you know, that gives you a little little pause, maybe a little risk, a little fine print. But when you really look at that fine print, it wasn't the dreaded elbow injury. It was an impingement where you know, we spoke to him yesterday, said he had some loose body in there or a little bone spur. They cleaned it up that was causing the impingement. And the fact that he's thrown again throwing so well. And I love the fact I think it speaks loudly that he only wanted a one year deal. It shows that he is confident in his health, confident that he can perform in that role and hit the market again, because obviously this is his strategy to hit the market again next year for an even bigger payday. But I think we can all draw, you know, a little bit of confidence from his confidence. So you know, they lost two good arms, two good arms have left in Hoffmann Anastevez, two leverage arms. It appears at the moment they're gonna potentially just replace those guys with one arm, but at least to the back end in Romano. But I still think they'll tweak around the edges in the bullpen and depending on what they can do in the outfield, I think they're going to try to allocate some resources in the outfield. If maybe they don't use all their resources out there, maybe they get back in for a more.

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Speaker 2: Accomplished reliever.

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Speaker 5: But I still think there's a chance that you know, haha, I'm sorry, Romano.

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Speaker 2: Could be their big acquisition out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I sort of view this as a low risk, high reward type of assigning in a lot of ways. I mean, it's money, it's real money, but it's not a ton of money. I don't think it really puts them out too much. My feeling is that it was an absolute priority. I mean that bullpen needs to be short up, there's no question about it. It did crumble at the end of the year last year, and you lost you guys in the back end, so I like to make up. I like the player. I've scaped him. I've seen him over the years. He's got guts, he's got balls, he can do the things that are necessary to to close out games. I'm not sure if he'll be the guy I would think he would be right now if he is indeed healthy and throwing like he had been.

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Speaker 3: You know in twenty one through twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Obviously twenty four of the numbers were poor because of and it was pretty obviously had an injury issue that he got cleaned up now. So I like all those elements of it. I do feel like there's other moves to be made. I think it's sort of a placeholder move. But that said, I mean Phillies have a ton of money to work with Sony. Any of the moves that they have to make, I think they probably have to move Castianos, maybe a little money, maybe Boom to be able to do other things, to add maybe to the bullpen or add you know, starting pitching depth, or you know, add some other things. Obviously, i'd love to see them tweak the outfield a little bit. I know they're gonna be hoping that, you know, like Brys and Scott improve my understanding. I think they talked about it that Scott was playing with, you know, a real issue in his elbow.

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Speaker 3: All year long.

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Speaker 4: It affected him and he did not progress. I was wondering why he was not able to get to the fastball consistently. That may be one of the reasons why the year before he did a really good job of getting on the high fastball. This year he just could not get there, couldn't get extended, couldn't it didn't have the quickness to be able to get there. Maybe it was the elbow. He really needs to step forward. There's other things that need to happen in that lineup for this team to be better.

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Speaker 3: People need to improve.

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Speaker 4: Guys like you know, they could take a page from Choorbur and say, you know, Shorebert said, listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna change some of my ability to make contact and stuff. And there's a lot of things that still have to happen internally with the team. And it's and it's still a really, really talented team, maybe the one of the more talented teams in all baseball. But some things have to happen internally for them to be successful. And they do have to add I believe at least some sort of bat that will give them a different dynamic in the in the lineup.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Rubin Date, you mentioned Statt's elbow, and it was illuminating because we talked a lot last summer about how he just wasn't getting to fastballs. You know, showed with the eyes, but it also showed in some of the some of the metrics. So to hear that he struggled with a sore elbow was illuminating. I look at him and I look at Orian Kirkering as two young players on the rise who have put some experience under their belt, who have you know, really good talent and are really important in their individual roles. Two guys that could improve next year or two guys who might be primed for a step forward.

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Speaker 2: And the Phillies could really use it from both of those.

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Speaker 1: Guys, especially the way that Dave Dombrowski to talked about the bullpen. Yeah the past, the past couple of days, you know, I mean, and yeah, he has said that he's comfortable with where they are. I mean, he specifically cited Ryan Kirker and being on the rise.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: So if he's if they don't add another legit laid in your reliever, because you lose Hoffman and estev Is you only bring in Romano. You know, Romano, you really need Kirkering to step up big time. You know, I meant that is huge, that's huge for this team.

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Speaker 2: So and he might be he might be ready to that might be part of their calculus.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I talked to talked to Rob Thompson about this at the late part of the season, especially when they were getting ready to add during the trade trade deadline. And I asked him, like you, I said, you probably feel like you need another right handed arm that you can really trust back there. He said, yeah, we do. That was then now they're trusting him. They're trusting him at the outset of the season and for him to be able to pitch in the eighth inning. Now we're trusting Orian Kirkering along with Alvarado and Strom to pitch in the eighth inning. Right Kirkering was pitching in the sixth and seventh pretty consistently. Now it's time for him to step up, and you know, you're asking guys to do it.

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Speaker 3: I think he can.

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Speaker 4: He's got some now, he's got some experience under his belt. I think he's got more weapons. He's moving his fastball differently. He's throwing a sinker along with his four steamer, and he's and he's throwing his slider, not every pitch anymore. He just has to be able to continue to develop those things. But you can't necessarily think that he's going to do it. That's why I like to get greedy. That's why I want Tanner Scott because I'd love to have that other arm in there to take the heat off those guys and make it really dominant. I don't think that they have the money to do it, frankly, unless they move somebody off. And I also think that there may be other priorities they want to try to hit on before they do that.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, Ruben Like and Jim, we've talked about this big picture wise. The Romano deal at eight and a half million to me says they are super and Dave Dombrowski said yesterday it's not an impediment that they can go past it, but that three hundred and one million dollar luxury tax, that's the fourth tax threshold. Every dollar spent over three hundred and one million, they get penalized at one hundred and ten percent, and they don't want to go over that if they if they can, I think they might they maybe they maybe they do, maybe there's no way around it. But the Romano deal and saying, you know, we're probably not going to get another reliever. You know, boy, we really like our lineup. I don't necessarily believe that they're done. I think that they're going to do something else. But it does tell you that the payroll is a significant factor in what they're trying to do. And that's why Dave Nebrowski keeps saying, you said it again yesterday. We're being very open. We're having a lot of conversations about a lot of different ways to improve this team right.

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Speaker 3: Now, like a lot.

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Speaker 1: So I imagine that involves trades, that involves free agents, that involves being creative. He says, no, no, nobody. There's no discussions about potential position changes. We asked him the other day about, you know, would you move Trade Turner the outfield? Is like, no, we're not moving Trade turn Up. Would you move Bryce Harper the outfield? We're not moving Bryce Harper the outfield. So they're not at that point in terms of being creative. But you know, I certainly think Alec Bohm could get traded and Jim, you were there yesterday when Rob Thompson offered the nugget that he made a telephone call to Alec Bohm the other day while he was working out and said, Hey, I just want to let you know, uh, you know, this means you're a good player and we're not actively shopping you. We're not trying to get rid of you. But you're a good player and people are interested. I do know, you know they are. They've let teams know that you can have Alec Bohm in the trade. So it's kind of how do you want to.

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Speaker 2: How you want to view it? How do you want to view it?

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Speaker 1: You know, they're not saying please take Alec Bouma off our hands, but they're saying, yeah, if you want to. You know, we're willing to trade Alec Bohm. But he made a point to reach out to him the other day and just kind of maybe calm his nerves a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, which I think is a good thing because I'm sure Alec Boum we keep calling him a young player, but he's in his late twenty getting to be his late twenties now.

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Speaker 2: He's been around a while.

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Speaker 5: But it can be disconcerting for a player to hear your name swirling and see a lot of trade rumors and stuff.

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Speaker 2: But uh, he didn't come out and say, Alec, we ain't trading you.

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Speaker 5: He's he said, you know the reason is out there is because you're a good player.

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Speaker 2: We like you.

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Speaker 5: But you know, in the in the in the quest to move our team forward, you have to listen.

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Speaker 2: So it's clear he's out there.

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Speaker 5: There might be and there's a lot of bodies on that third base market between Bragman and our Bada who could move. And maybe when some of those things clear up, there'll be a little clearer picture on Alec Bohm. But I think I still think there's a a very solid chance he's right back there in clear Water and he I would put him on the list with kirk Ring and Stott as a as a player still on the rise. Yes, he has some flaws, but he is still a.

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Speaker 3: Good player, really good player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And if he can fix a few things, maybe even attitudinally, he's going to be an even better player.

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Speaker 4: So the call that they made to Alec Bahum brings me back to Bobby A.

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Speaker 3: Bray back in the day.

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Speaker 4: With when one of the things we ended up doing is trading Bobby and it sort of opened things up when Pat Gillik took over. But we did there was a lot of rumors out there about him being traded.

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Speaker 3: We did have discussions with him.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't like we were trying to move him or get rid of him, but we felt like, you know, we were open minded about making that move. And so we went and visited with Bobby and told him, listen, we're not we're not giving you away. We want to trying to get rid of you, but but we also are having to field, you know, conversations with things because we're working on trying to improve the team and uh and so I think that those are important discussions to have because you want to at the end of the day, you still may have the player. I mean, Alec Bone's Gold have probably the likelihood of him getting traded probably like ten percent.

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Speaker 3: So you you know, he's good.

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Speaker 4: He's got a chance to be the opening day starting third basement and hitting in the four hole, and he's the all star of the team. So I mean, you're you know, you're talking about a very important piece of the puzzle, and and everybody talks about Alec Bahum, Alec Bohm. Let's move Alec Bohlm. Got to get rid of Alc Bahulm. Guess what, guys, good luck replacing Alec baum right. I mean his production. I mean he was the best, most outstanding RBI guy in base one of the best in baseball in the early part of the season. Now he faded at the end, There's no question about it, after the All Star Game for whatever reason. There could be a zillion reasons. One of them he had a hand issue at the very end. Another was maybe he put a little heat on himself after being an All Star, trying to get to one hundred RBIs having his own personal goals, trying to put himself in a position to really make a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: These are human beings.

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Speaker 4: But this guy's got ability, man, and he's gotten better at third base.

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Speaker 3: I know he had some you know, issues.

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Speaker 4: With being able to handle himself as far as his own personal you know, emotions on the field. But listen, this game's tough. It's emotional, it's negative, it's hard to perform, it's hard to hit in the major leagues. It's hard to have that expectation. And so at some point, you know, I think, Jim, You're right, there's more to come on this guy. There's more to come on Kirkering, There's more to come on Stot and I think in a lot of ways the Phillies are still banking on some of those improvements.

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Speaker 5: Alec Baum needs to come into camp. If he's a Philly, this is a test of character and he needs to come in too.

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Speaker 2: He's an emotional guy.

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Speaker 5: If he's an emotional guy, he has to use those emotions to his benefit. He needs to come into camp after this experience of this winter with a chip on his shoulder and show the world that I'm a great player and that they made a mistake by even thinking of trading me. That's the attitude he needs to come in. He can't come in pouting, you can't come in with a negative frame of mind. But there has to be this silent chip on his shoulder that I Am going to show the world that the Phillies would have made a huge mistake if they traded me. I'm going to have two great years and go off to free agency. That's the attitude he needs to have.

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Speaker 1: But go to shibe is great man out justin Romano.

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Speaker 2: Romano.

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Speaker 5: He is from Canada. Yesterday they signed him on the first day of the Winter Meetings. But you and I had an encounter that kind of hinted at maybe a Canadian pitcher would be on the Phillies radar screen.

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 5: Heay first day of the Winter Meetings. It's still probably one of the highlights of my Winter meetings.

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Speaker 2: You want to tell that story?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we ran into Fergie Jenkins. Uh Hall of Famer. Fergie Jenkins, one of the Phillies' greatest regrets in their one hundred and forty five year history or over what it was. I looked at that trade Jim yesterday, and he's Canadian's Canadian, He's Canadian. He's Canadian. So we're talking to this nice Canadian, you know, Fergie Jenkins, and Jim goes, uh, yeah, man, you were one.

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Speaker 2: Of the Phillies' biggest mistakes.

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Speaker 1: And he just kind of laughs and he figured, well, you know, I was just a young kid back then, because they traded him in nineteen sixty six. He only made a few appearances for the Phillies in sixty five. I think he made one appearance in sixty six, and they just.

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Speaker 3: Traded him like the first month of the season.

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Speaker 1: God, and that didn't work out so well for the Philms. And then Jim. Then Jim go, I gotta ask you a question. He's probably thinking like, oh, this guy wants to ask him, you know, great baseball questions, and goes, do you drinkle bats?

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Speaker 3: The bat's blue?

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Speaker 1: It's like, I am Canadian?

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Speaker 2: Is that what he said? Jim? Yeah, something like that. I was just choking with That's what he laughed.

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Speaker 1: He got the joke.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he got the joke. But I did remind him he was a big Phillies mistake.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he did.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 4: Ferguson Jenkins is pretty a one quick story about him. I think he comes back to pitch with the Cubs, like I think it was late in his career. He went. Yeah, he came back in eighty two and eighty three, and he pitched a lot of games, like one of the seasons I was actually batboying and I did not know this, but apparently when he pitches during the course of the season, the man does not uh for whatever reason, He's got this thing where he does not wash his under shirt.

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Speaker 3: That he pitches it. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: So if he pitches like a good game, he'll keep he'll hang it up afterwards, sweaty, nasty, and he'll wear it. He'll keep wearing it because I think there was like a it's like a you know, lots of baseball players have some serious superstitions, right, nasty ass smelling undershirt underneath his uni like nobody wanted to sit next to him.

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Speaker 3: In the dugout.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he came back and pitch like he came back in pitch like sixty seven games or something for the Cubs late in his career.

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Speaker 3: Think about that.

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Speaker 5: Here he had a long If we see him in the lobby today, we got to ask him, I he's got to clean on his shirt.

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Speaker 2: Off's go up and go.

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Speaker 3: If you're wearing he smells fine, I said, went past him. He smelled just fine.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: You know he's in his eighties.

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Speaker 3: He's representing it.

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Speaker 4: He's representing the He was representing the Cubs during the draft right.

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Speaker 3: That the draft lottery. I think, yeah, I mean he was on the dais he is.

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Speaker 1: In great I hope I look and moving around that well when I'm when I'm in my eighties. Yeah, you know, just absolutely unbelievable. So, uh, you know, Philly's looking for outfield help. They they they might or might not get another reliever. You know, Dave Dombrowski said that, you know, we would like to have a number five starter come in at some point, but you know you're not signing a number five starter right now. You know, right now they're they're looking at the internal options Taiwan Walker, et cetera, et cetera. So they've got some work to do, but they got one thing done today is the Rule five draft, Which is that exciting anybody they could lose a couple.

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Speaker 3: It's almost exciting.

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Speaker 4: It's exciting to the people who are real baseball people feel like they can get a player or nothing.

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Speaker 3: Basically, right, was it one hundred thousand dollars now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave Well, Dave Dave pointed out Dave Debrowski pointed out, Yesterday's like, yeah, we might take somebody, but he's like, we're also picking like twenty ninth, so the chances of us finding somebody quality at that spot and then keeping him on the the roster all year might not be that great. But they could lose a couple of guys.

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Speaker 5: So big question if they're going to lose Griff McGarry, I mean, firearmed right hander who was exciting and kind of was untouchable back in twenty twenty two at the trade deadline just because of that great arm, but just has had huge issues throwing strikes. It'll be interesting to see if somebody takes him and can get something out of them. Kind of a referendum on Phillies pitching player development. But we'll say he's got a hell of an arm, but the Phillies left him unprotected. I'm really curious to see what happens with him.

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Speaker 4: I think it's more mental than anything else for him. I don't know, there's any question, and it was an issue in in call with him in college. I think it's as continued. It's been a struggle for him. But there may be somebody who can feel like they can get to him, maybe a different change of scenery, whatever the case may be. I remember this one of the biggest days for Pat Gellick myself.

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Speaker 3: I mean, trying to pick up a player.

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Speaker 4: Maybe if you really like somebody, trying to trade up, pay for it, that sort of thing. Ask a team to pick a guy and trade for him or trade that pick. There's a there's a whole host of things that can happen. Not as exciting for a team like Philadelphia who's trying to contend, But yeah, you never know. You can even grab some talent over the years. It's kind of you know, you just never know.

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Speaker 1: You just never know, guys, you never know, you never know.

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Speaker 2: There was a year with Chris Gomez.

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Speaker 5: I think Baltimore had to deal with him and you guys picked him, or you had to deal with him.

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Speaker 2: Baltimore picked him.

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Speaker 4: So Chris Gomez had signed, just signed, just before the we really needed an infielder, so you guys took George and we were we were gonna we were We told him we were going to take him, and we ended up I think we ended up did. They were so mad at us, like, dude, that's your fault. You signed him, you didn't put him on the roster. He made him available, and you know, I remember it was a Jim Batty was the was the GM there, and like he was pissed off at ed Wave, Like.

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Speaker 3: Why would you be pissed off? That's that's your fault.

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Speaker 4: And then there was one time that we actually put remember we almost rule fived our own player, a catcher who ended up going to the Boston Red Sox. He was a Venezuelan catcher and we really needed a backup catcher at that time. This is like one of my first year's ninety eight or ninety nine, and we were going to pick our own catcher because we had signed him. We had done a good job of signing him as a six year free agent. We should have waited until after the Rule five draft. We found out that someone was going to take him. I think Boston ended up taking him and he played for Boston that whole year, and you know, we ended up having to sign like a backup catcher. I think we ended up having a sign like Tom Prince or somebody like that, because we I'll go back, I can take a look at it and in ninety eight we'll have to look at the rosters for the Boston Red Sox and see what catcher that was.

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Speaker 3: But it was like a backup catcher. Pretty good, but we were going to take them ourselves and then somebody else. I think I ended up them.

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Speaker 1: There is some fun behind the scenes stuff if you really get into, like how about Phillies drafting Noah's song in the Rule five a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 3: Guy was in the.

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Speaker 1: Navy, hadn't pitched in a couple of years, but Dave Dombrowski loved them. At the time, he was the top of the rotation type of picture before you went back into the Navy. And uh, surprise the hell out of the Red Sox when when Dave Dombrowski took Noah song didn't work out, but it was kind of a cool story when he got to camp.

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Speaker 5: And I don't know if the top of the rotation pitch yet well, potential arm right right right back at a lot of development that needed to take place.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so the rule five today, Phillies made a move. Maybe they'll make they'll they'll make something else that's at some point down the road. I imagine maybe before we Jim. Maybe when we're on a plane tonight, we'll land in Philly and we'll see if they've made it.

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Speaker 5: Just like like like the year we were all racing to the airport in Nashville and Reuben traded for Ben Revere. Yes, right, I had to write that story from the gate in Nashville, that's right.

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Speaker 4: And that was a difficult one because we you know, we had some issue. The only issue really was we were taking a look at his knee. There was a real issue with his knees, and you know, speed was his game. So we were like, Christ, we made this. We made this deal, or you know, a potential deal, but we're we're waiting on medical. It was really a medical issue, and hey, is this guy gonna be okay? He's been taking these these sind disc you know, injections and stuff. Is this guy gonna be okay for the next few years? He's under control, but he's the speed guy. We really needed a center fielder because I wasn't going to re sign Victor Reno at three times eleven million dollars or where the hell it was. And I had told the aces is that their agents like, he's going to become I love Victory, know, but he's going to become a right fielder and a right handed hitter because he's not going to hit leut haendant anymore. And they're like, bs, that's not going to happen. And that's exactly what happened. He became a right fielder and he became a right handed hitter.

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Speaker 3: That's right. You get it up listening.

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Speaker 4: And he helped them win. He helped them win. It was the right fit for them. But and and God bless him, you know, I love it, but.

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Speaker 3: It's exactly right.

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Speaker 4: Thirteen million a year, and he was asking for like a twelve or something like that from us. I'm like, we don't have that kind of glue for you right now, my friend, Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Don't have a lot of glue right now, it seems either. I mean, they've been spending a lot of glue, but they're limited, so we'll see what else they do down the road. I also want to mention, you can get Philly Show t shirts by forty seven. Go to the Phillyshow dot com pick up pick up a Philly Show t if you love the show and look very very nice for the holiday.

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Speaker 3: See nice, nice, very nice.

00:28:04
Speaker 1: Well, guys, maybe we'll be back this week later this week if the Phillies make a move. Hey, don't forget to check out the Mike Schmidt documentary on Thursday night, eight pm Eastern on MLB Network. We caught a sneak peek and it is tremendous. It really is a good it's it's a great documentary they did. They did a really really nice job with it.

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Speaker 3: I thought, So that's great.

00:28:26
Speaker 1: And keep your eye on Yeah. All right, guys, we'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 3: Smary later, boys, spell Jim.

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