Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.

Swam on, get it, crossed, 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, 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. Winter Meetings preview. The winter meetings are this week in Orlando, Florida, and all of the executives from all of the teams. Yes, I think even the pirates and the Marlins are going to send

executives to the winter meetings this time around. I know it's a crazy. The Rocky's hired a general

manager in time to go to the winter meetings. Have fun. What do you know? I mean, there's a process.

They actually seem to be part of the process. So the Phillies will absolutely be a major part of

the process. At least there will be a lot of rumors. We'll see how much they actually get done next week or this coming week here at the winter meetings. And we're going to discuss some of the things that they might do. The big topics as we head into these all-important winter meetings is this team tries to put together a roster to get another crack at winning a World Series that that has just, that has alluded them for these last few years. So, uh, Justin Klu and Liz Rocher joining me here on

the roundtable. Justin, of course, from baseball prospectus. He also hosts podcast for our hit

and season Patreon, the dirty inning and absolutely hammered. Follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Klu

and also author of the forthcoming book, Summer of the Cheap Weeners,

which is a fantastic Christmas present for you to pre-order.

So do that.

Justin, how you feel, bud?

Yeah, you can pre-order that on the Brookline Books website.

But an even bigger celebration, I think, to be had the annual tradition of, we had our first boob nightingale moment. Yeah. Oh, this was good. I'm glad somebody brought this up. Yes, let's get into it. Let's do it. Zach Gellon, a pitcher that anybody signing is thinking, well, you know, maybe, maybe it'll work for us. Like, he's coming off a rough one.

But he's, he pitched well, you know, from August to the end of the year. So it's, and it's a starting pitching market where people are, you know, if they don't want to pay too much, then Gallin is exactly the kind of pitcher they're going to go for. So, you know, Bob Nightingale tweets out that the Cubs are close to...

Just for people who aren't as neck deep in this as we are. So, you know, Bob Nightingale tweets out that the Cubs are close.

Just for people who aren't as neck deep in this as we are,

Bob Nightingale featured senior baseball reporter for USA today.

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