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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

#960: Phillies 1st Quarter Grades Are In!

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 960 of Hittin' Season, powered by WHYY, John Stolnis of The Good Phight, Liz Roscher of the Baseball Research Journal and Baseball Prospectus' Justin Klugh hand out grades for different areas of the Phillies through the first quarter of the season, talk about the incredible run by the starting rotation, an improving offense and bullpen, the worst Phils seasons of their lifetimes, and whether Boston star Rafael Devers is right in telling the Red Sox he refuses to change positions again.

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0:00.0

Breaking ball and a call.

0:02.7

Strike three.

0:03.4

Third strikeout for Zach.

0:04.8

He's going to just watch it go.

0:07.0

A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

0:10.0

And there's a high fly ball.

0:12.7

Deep right field.

0:14.3

Huffer watches it fly.

0:20.0

From W. HY. It is hittingY, it is Hittin season.

0:23.9

Hey there, podcast, pals.

0:25.1

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.

0:26.6

You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness coming up.

0:29.7

We're going to talk a little bit about the Phillies Guardian series that wrapped up over the weekend,

0:33.4

but we are recording here on Monday evening for the roundtable as the Phillies are opening up their three-game series with the red hot running redbirds,

0:41.4

the St. Louis Cardinals at Citizens Bank Park.

0:43.7

And as we are recording, it's the seventh inning, and it's all tied up at two-two.

0:47.4

So histrionics and last-minute reactions to things as they happen are sure to come here on the podcast,

0:55.0

which I know everyone loves. But we are also at the one quarter mark of the Philly season.

0:59.2

So we're going to hand out some generic grades. We're not going to go player by player,

1:02.5

but just some areas of the team on how they've done in the first quarter and maybe kind of

1:07.0

look ahead just a little bit. And of course, you know, we will kind of take a look back

1:11.0

at the, at the Cleveland series just a bit. And also a little bit of nonsense at the end of the

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