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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

#1035: Kyle Schwarber Signs With the Phillies... Again

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

News, Baseball, Sports News, Philadelphia, Sports, Phillies

4.4730 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Schwarber is back with the Phillies. What does it mean for the team, their window of contention and their ability to add to the MLB roster this winter? Hosts John Stolnis, Justin Klugh and Liz Roscher discuss the Schwarber deal, what's next for Dave Dombrowski and the front office, as well as Rob Thomson's contract extension and the Mets losing closer Edwin Diaz to the Dodgers on Episode 1035 of Hittin' Season, powered by WHYY!

Transcript

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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, get it, crossed, 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, struck him out.

0:17.0

From W. HYY, it is hitting season.

0:38.0

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolenness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, Emergency Podcast. We've got a bonus podcast coming your way here on the one-year anniversary of the Philly signing Jordan Romano to a free agent contract. So we're going to break down where we were that night that this all happened one year ago on the episode of the podcast. And we will also talk about

0:42.6

Kyle Schwerber staying in Philadelphia. That, of course, is the big news out of the first two days

0:48.8

of the winter meetings. The first major free agent to sign is, of course, Schwerber with the Phillies.

0:53.0

And it all, it all happened exactly like everybody said it was going to happen. I think there have been a lot of people out there trying to create drama where maybe there really wasn't a whole lot of drama to begin with in the first place, including ourselves, you know, for listens and clicks and downloads and whatnot. So it was a, it was, I think it was a well spent last month and a half of podcasting here about Kyle Schwerber. But he does return to the Phillies, signs a free agent deal. The Phillies confirmed it on Tuesday night, so we're going to break it all down. Rob Thompson also signs a one-year contract extension through 2027. That was also expected. We'll talk about that. And we will also talk about why the New York Mets are having a

1:27.8

really, really bad start to the winter meetings thus far. Still a long ways to go here in this

1:32.5

offseason. So joining me for this emergency podcast, my roundtable co-host, Justin Clue, and

1:37.7

Liz Rocher, of course, Liz from Sabre's Baseball Research Journal. Follow her on X&Bloosk at

1:43.9

Liz Rocher.

1:44.6

Liz, Kyle's coming home.

1:47.0

How are we feeling?

1:48.8

Pretty good.

1:50.0

Pretty good.

1:50.6

I think most of us are feeling pretty good, especially since we all thought this would happen.

1:56.6

And it feels good to be right.

1:59.2

But also in this case, it feels really good to be right,

2:01.7

because we're not going to have to hear about it.

2:03.9

Yeah.

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