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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the First Pitch Podcast.

My name is Trevor Huth, and I appreciate you joining me here on this one.

Lots of games, lots of news, as usual.

What do you say, we just jump right on in.

Looking at the news, after being removed from the second inning yesterday with a very clear knee injury,

it is unfortunately going to be a long absence for Tristan Casas of the Red Sox. He's expected to

miss the rest of the year with a ruptured left Pateler tendon. That is, you hate to see it.

Hopefully he has a good recovery, but he's not likely to be back this year.

And more news, I'm sure we'll come on that as we get closer to the next season.

But an unfortunate thing to happen for Tristan Casas.

Now, filling that role, they've thought about some options.

Rafael Devers probably is the most likely if they're going to choose to move somebody to first base. They have said Roman Anthony and Marcelo Meyer are not going to be moving to first

base. So we're going to still have to wait to see two of their top prospects as they're

just isn't a spot for him at this moment. The Phillies are planning to move Taiwan Walker to the

bullpen and it's not performance base. Taiwan Walker has had a 2.54 ERA so far this year. He's been

pitching pretty well, but Ranger Suarez is back and that is going to push

Walker into the bullpen at least for right now another starter getting moved to the bullpen

in st louis stephen mats will be working out of the bullpen from now on he has a 1.54 er a he's

actually been pretty good and honestly this news is a little shocking to me,

just for the sheer fact that Miles Michaelis exists. But they chose Stephen Matt. Stephen Matt's

heads to the bullpen. At least for right now, they aren't closing the door on his rotation future,

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