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. 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 Phillies, spend the last few days completely remaking their bullpen. We'll talk about the big free agent that they signed. Philly's mainstay from the last three years on his way out the door, out the door. Actually, not on his way out the door.

They kicked his bottom.

They did to Kansas City, and he's not coming back anytime soon.

So we'll talk about that trade.

The Phillies also make kind of more of a minor signing or a minor trade with the Tampa

Bay raise to replace the guy they let go. And we'll talk a little JT Realm, Ruto. We'll talk a little Japanese imports. The White Sox getting involved here in the offseason. And we're also going at the very end, as it's being just a couple of days before Christmas, we'll talk about the one piece of Phillies merchandise we'd like to see enter the marketplace that is currently not there. So that'll be at the end of the podcast. Make sure you stick around for that. Joining me here on the roundtable, Justin Clue and Liz Rocher, Justin from Baseball Perspectus. He also hosts a couple of podcasts over at our Hitton Season Patreon, which is at patreon.com slash hit and season absolutely hammered and the dirty inning are those two

podcasts he's also the author of a book coming out in february called summer of the cheap weeners

which you can pre-order now justin how's it going bud yeah you know it's uh it didn't really occur to me

i didn't really see the pattern we just kind of had the pieces in place, but things are starting to come together now,

that it's late December.

But if you recall, the very fateful Dave Dombrowski press conference in which he made

comments that Bryce Harper responded to, that Scott Boris responded to.

And I was saying at the time, my biggest questions are about his comments regarding

Matt Strom, the kind of like Sn questions are about his comments regarding Matt Strom.

Yeah.

And the kind of like snide way, which he responded to comments from Matt Strom, which now

it's kind of been reported that Strom had his own ideas a lot of the time about like stuff

that was going on with like Phillies, like how they worked in the bullpen and everything.

And perhaps that's what Dombrowski was was sort of like hint saying but not saying

in the tone of his response to Matt Strom.

My point being that Strom is now gone.

And we've heard all offseason that Nick Castiano's is more likely than not to be on

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