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.HYY, 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 do a little vibes check heading into 2026. Now that the calendar has flipped, how are we feeling about these fills? It's been a relatively quiet offseason. There are some rumors that have been jingling and jangling over the weekend,

but can we really trust them? Bo Bichette? I'm not so sure. We'll talk about that. What does it

mean for J.T. Rail Muto? The Phillies finally bring Don Mattingly on board for my, for my taste

40 years too late, but he's going to try and make an impact as the team's new bench coach. And once again,

the Phillies are unable or maybe in this case unwilling to sign one of the top Japanese players

that had to have been, had to have their posting dates come and go. And so the top Japanese

players, we were thinking might come to Philadelphia, could come to Philadelphia, wishing on a star,

not coming to Philadelphia. We'll talk about all that coming up here on this edition of the show. On the round table, Justin Clue and Liz Rocher here. Liz, of course, is the editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal, which is Just Out. She'll tell you in just a second how you can get a hold of one of those. Follow her on Twitter and Blue Sky, X and Blue Sky at Liz Rocher. Liz, how you doing?

Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, too. I started the year

very well by finding a solid source for my favorite office supplies.

Anyone who loves office supplies

will know how important that is to start a year correctly.

But yeah, I'm great looking forward to

baseball eventually happening. It's not right now. So my interest is starting to wane.

Well, not in talking about this. Not in not in talking about the sillies and I'll definitely

talk about how not interested I am. Now that's a curious strategy for us, I think, moving forward.

Oh, really? Because I feel like we've been doing that for kind of what.

I think we're, that's what the first like three to four years of the show was.

Well, that's, that's true, I suppose. I suppose there's a fair amount of feral, a nugget of truth in that.

All right, Justin Clue also here, joining us from baseball prospectus.

Also hosts a couple of our podcasts over at the Hitton season Patreon, absolutely hammered and the dirty inning.

You can follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Clue.

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