#1028: Phillies Free Agent Preview & World Series Thoughts

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 1028 of Hittin' Season, from WHYY, John Stolnis of The Good Phight, Justin Klugh of Baseball Prospectus and Liz Roscher, Editor of SABR's Baseball Research Journal, run down the names of the biggest free agents on the market and which ones are fits for the Phils. Also, some thoughts on the World Series, and Rob Thomson, Kyle Schwarber and Cristopher Sanchez are finalists for some of MLB's biggest postseason awards.

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0:00.0	Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.
0:05.6	Swam on.
0:06.2	Get it.
0:06.4	Cross.
0:07.5	And the Phillies are going to lead it.
0:09.4	Harper, the swing of his life.
0:12.3	The O2 pit, swing and a miss.
0:14.8	Don't give out.
0:17.0	From W.HY, Y, it is hitting season.
0:20.6	Hey there, podcast, pals.
0:21.9	I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.
0:23.8	You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness.
0:27.4	Coming up, we're going to recap this world series,
0:30.0	talk a little bit about the insanity of Game 7.
0:33.1	And, you know, as Phillies fans, how we felt watching the Jeff Hoffman connection,
0:37.2	but just, you know, watching what happened to the Toronto Blue Jays fans 32 years after they did it to us.
0:42.4	We'll get into all that stuff coming up here on the podcast.
0:45.7	Free agency is now officially, officially underway with the World Series over.
0:50.7	So we'll do a little free agency preview potential targets that the Phillies could be
0:55.1	going after. We'll talk about some of their own free agents, but we're really going to kind of
0:59.4	do a talk about some specific players here in free agency the Phillies could pursue. And yeah,
1:05.5	the award finalists were announced on Monday night and some Phillies were prominently mentioned.
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