Breaking ball and a call.

Strike three.

Third strikeout for Zach.

He's going to just watch it go.

A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

And there's a high fly ball.

Deep right field.

Harper watches it fly.

From W.HYY and Billy Penn, it is hit in season. Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm

John Stolmiss from The Good Fight and Billy Penn. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness.

Coming up, winter meetings are here, and the Phillies did get busy on day one. They went out and they got themselves reliever Jordan Romano. Will he be

the new closer? We'll talk about the addition, the pros and the cons. We're going to talk about

obviously the big Juan Soto signing. That's the big news coming out of the winter meetings here.

Late on Sunday night, the Mets sign Juan Soto, or at least the reports come out. We'll go over a couple

other winter meetings notes. And at long last, Dick Allen is elected

into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. So we'll get into all that stuff here on a

jam-packed edition of Hitting Season. Joining me, my co-hosts on this fine podcast, Justin Clue and Liz Rocher.

Elizabeth, you know, from Yahoo Sports.

You can follow her on X and Blue Sky at Liz Rocher.

Liz, how are you feeling on this fine Monday evening?

I need to ask how we feel about, excuse me, the phrase lost to free agency.

Like when a player is like we've lost this player to free agency.

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