Bo Bichette is NOT a Phillie, But J.T Realmuto Is!
Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast
WHYY
4.4 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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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. |
| 0:06.2 | Get it. |
| 0:06.4 | Cross. |
| 0:07.5 | 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. |
| 0:14.8 | Struck him out. |
| 0:16.4 | From W. |
| 0:17.3 | H.Y. |
| 0:17.7 | It is hitting season. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey there, podcast, pals. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. |
| 0:23.8 | You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolmust. |
| 0:26.1 | Coming up, the great Bo Bichette deceit has graced itself upon the citizens of Philadelphia. |
| 0:33.5 | Obviously, Philly's fans are in their feelings right now as the Bo Bichette situation took a nasty, weird, unexpected gut punch of a turn on Friday morning when all signs seem to indicate that he would be coming to the Philadelphia Phillies on a long-term contract. |
| 0:50.7 | Instead, Will Sampen of the Athlet athletic shocks everyone by announcing Bo Bichette |
| 0:54.8 | to the Mets was later learned three years, $126 million. That's a $42 million year average annual |
| 1:01.9 | value. The Mets get the guy that really the only non-Sillies free agent that was out on the |
| 1:09.6 | market that they showed any interest in outside of, you know, Brad Keller and Adalus Garcia. I mean, a real free agent, a real big-name guy. And it felt like the Phillies were going to get them. And at the end of the day, the Mets, their hated rivals in the National League East are the ones who actually are able to land the free agent star infielder. So we're going to talk about this. we're going to talk about the fact that, oh, hey, by the way, also, J.T. Rail Muto resigns with the Phillies almost immediately after the Bo Bichette news came down. And we'll get into that a little bit. Also, we'll say our goodbyes to Ranger Suarez, who left for the Boston Red Sox this week. |
| 1:45.2 | So Justin Klu, Liz Rocher here for this emergency edition of the podcast. We had to roundtable this one up |
| 1:50.4 | because one of the more momentous days in recent Phillies offseason history. And Justin from |
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