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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

BOLD Predictions for the 2026 Phillies!

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.4730 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Phillies starters post the best ERA. Bryce Harper gets 100 RBIs. Adolis Garcia 35 home runs. On Episode 1050 of Hittin' Season, powered by WHYY in Philadelphia, hosts John Stolnis, Justin Klugh and Liz Roscher go over their BOLD predictions for the upcoming season. Also, a Phils prospect is off to a MONSTER start in the WBC, a longer conversation about Bryce Harper's outspokenness this spring, and the ABS system is officially here!

Transcript

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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, get it, crossed, 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, stuck him out.

0:16.6

Bold predictions for your 2026 Phillies.

0:19.6

We've got some world baseball classic takeaways and some random stuff from Phillies training camp. Also, what do we make of the new ABS system? Do you know anything about it? We're going to be talking about that here on this edition of Hitting season. Brought to you by W.HYY in Philadelphia. Hey there, podcast, pals. This is Hitton season. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Joined on the roundtable once again by Justin Clue and Liz Rocher. Justin, of course, is a writer for Baseball Prospectus. He also hosts a couple of podcasts over at our Patreon, The Dirty Inning, and Absolutely Hammered. You can follow him on Blue Sky at

0:55.4

Justin Klu, and Justin also is a newly published author. Summer of the Cheap Weeners is the name of the book.

1:01.3

You can find it at brooklinebooks.com. Lots of stuff there for you, Justin. How you doing, pal?

1:06.3

Make your summer a cheap one with Summer of the cheap weeners from Brookline Books.

1:11.8

Do it.

1:12.4

Yeah.

1:13.0

Have you ever seen the footage of one of those giant industrial like trash eaters where like if you get your, you know, it's like, you know, it destroys everything?

1:23.4

I think they threw Michael Myers into one at the end of the last Halloween movie.

1:27.7

I think you might be right.

1:28.8

I'm bringing this up because I'm really enjoying watching the Dominican Republic National

1:32.8

team play baseball.

1:34.1

And it's just the only thing I think of with it.

1:36.2

They're just taking care of business against Israel right now, 9 to 1.

1:41.2

And like, it's just anytime they're on the field, you just see him.

1:44.8

Hard hit ball after hard hit ball. Today was the Fernando Tatis Grand Slam that he looked at like

1:50.0

it was a bird and he had binoculars. It was fantastic. Just incredible. And yeah, anybody who's

1:56.2

a fan of offense, definitely watch any game in the World Baseball Classic that the Dominican Republic is playing in,

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