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. Harper, the swing of his life. The O2 pit, swing and a miss. Struck him out. From W.H.Y. 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, we're going to talk a little Phillies hot stove, as you expected us to do at this time of year. We have some trades in the works now, not with the Phillies, of course, but some trades around Major League Baseball that went down over the last week that could impact the Phillies in some way or at least impact some Phillies rivals.

So we'll talk about that. some trades around Major League Baseball that went down over the last week that could impact the Phillies in some way or at least impact some Phillies rivals.

So we'll talk about that. We'll get over a couple. We'll talk about a couple of Phillies rumors, one involving Kyle Schwerber, which strains credulity, I think. Indeed, we will have some quick conversation on a couple of non-tender candidates, teams that were let go by their original teams on Friday that I wanted to just discuss real quick. And then Justin spoke with

Todd Zalecki, MLB.com Philly's Beat Reporter about the 20th anniversary of the Jim Tomey signing,

a really a landmark signing in franchise history. Trade. Trade.

No, they didn't trade for, oh, you mean when they traded him away? Yes. Oh, okay. Yes, the sad part sort of of that. Yeah, the sad part of it. Got it. The Jim Tomey trade when they traded Jim Tomey away. Got it. After the, after the, I'm tracking now. All right right joining me to talk about all these different things

justin clue and liz rocher uh justin of course from baseball prospectus you can follow him on

blue sky at justin clue and justin also is the author of the forthcoming book the summer of the

cheap weeners which will be available to you all to hold in your hands in february justin how you

feeling pal really good i'm going to sneak a uh a secret ambush top to you all to hold in your hands in February. Justin, how you feeling, pal?

Really good.

I'm going to sneak a secret ambush topic into the podcast here real quick with a simple question.

Johan Rojas, greatest Dominican winter league player of all time, currently hitting 366 with a 951 OPS, 11 walks and only six strikeouts in 20 games, 35 total

bases.

He's scored 15 runs and stolen 10 bags.

This is granted the Winter League.

So even hitting 366, you're still kind of like third or fourth on your own team as far as like batting average.

However, Johann Rojas is one of three guys on his team to appear in at least 20 games.

So those statistics are spread out over close to the most amount of games he could

possibly have played in. Everybody has a ceiling. And, you know, Johann Rojas, born in the

Dominican Republic. It's very possible. He's just a very comfortable hitter when he's playing

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