Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here. Swam on. Get it. Cross. And the Phillies are going to lead it. Hardborough, the swing of his life. The O2 pit, swing and a miss. Stuck him out. From W. H.Y. Why, it is hitting season. Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, the hot stove might be starting to heat up a little bit this week, especially as teams have to make some decisions with their 40-man roster and Rule 5 draft picks, and they've got to decide whether they're going to non-tender players. So we could see some things happening this week, and we're starting to get some rumblings that some of that stuff may be happening. So we'll talk a little bit about that. We'll talk about potential solutions for the outfield, kind of a running discussion here on this podcast as we go along but we're going to focus in

on a couple of guys in particular i also want to have a little bit of a conversation about andrew painter last week we did justin crawford i kind of want to get into andrew painter a little bit here on this episode of the podcast i got a couple of mailbag questions to answer and then we also talked with matt winkleman from philly's minor thoughts on the arizona fall league to get his expertise on the Phillies farm systems.

Lots to get to here on this episode of the podcast.

Joining me on the roundtable, again, it's just a two-person roundtable here on this edition of

the podcast. Liz is not with us tonight. Justin Clue from baseball prospectuses here.

Follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Clue. And of course, our hit and season, Patreon podcast, The Dirty Ending, and absolutely hammered, and author of the forthcoming book, Summer of the Cheap Weeners. That is a lot you got going on there, boss. Yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's pretty, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty tiring. I'm very tired.

To be totally, to be totally honest.

I'm exhausted, John.

Barely had enough time to do another round of Taylor Ward research as the Phillies enter.

Yet another period of, hey, this is when they want to, you know, go for that right-handed

outfield bat.

And then we just all hear

Taylor Ward's name for a couple of weeks. So dipped back into that pool for this episode.

It feels like a holiday. It's just every Philly's offseason or trade deadline is Taylor Ward

Research time. Taylor Ward Day. It's Taylor Ward Day. Let's just make it November 17th is always Taylor Ward Day. And we'll throw,

you know what, we're going to have to, it's kind of like President's Day now, where we celebrate,

you know, Washington and Lincoln's birthday. We're going to have to throw Joe Adele into the mix

when we talk about these two guys. So really, this is our, this is our Phillies hot stove

President's Day. Perspective fits from the Angels Day, collectively.

And then parentheses recognized.

Observed.

Yeah.

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