High Hopes Chapter 1: The Phillies have a Soto
High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Don't have time to listen to the entire High Hopes pod? Check out this segment where James Seltzer and Jack Fritz react to the Phillies trade for Gregory Soto and what they think it means for the bullpen in 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | They got Gregory Soto automatically becomes the best Soto in all of baseball 100% can't think of another one that that even you know compares to them. So, um, you know, we've been talking the last goal podcasts of like, all right, they got Kimberl and he started going through it. |
| 0:14.8 | And it's like, yeah, Kimberl strength. |
| 0:16.6 | It's literally how he ended the last pod. I was like, Jack, this is the one area. I'm like, do they have enough here. |
| 0:22.2 | Yeah. And then I guess Dave was like, Hey, I listened to the pod. I kind of agree. |
| 0:28.2 | Like I kind of agree. So, um, I just love that absolutely no one cares about the Eagles clenching the one seed today. |
| 0:35.4 | Gregory Soto is at the top of everyone's brain. Um, and James, this that was thrown out yesterday by, uh, so good 81% of left handed it through 100 |
| 0:48.7 | mile in our fastballs last year. We're thrown by Jose Alvarado and now Gregory Soto. Um, you know, it's so funny James, because I believe |
| 0:57.6 | that the, the foundation of this podcast for the first three, four years that we did it was, just give me guys |
| 1:05.0 | very hard and have like ridiculous stuff. And now you start going through the entire bullpen. And it's just stuff on stuff, |
| 1:12.3 | on stuff, slider, cutter, 98, 99. And it's like, what universe? Like, dude, three years ago, we were watching Mike Moran and like, |
| 1:22.4 | Blake Parker split their way. It's like, whatever, we've come so far. Um, and, and Gregory Soto, I can't wait, dude. I can't wait. And, you know, |
| 1:35.1 | we talked last podcast about, I kind of felt like they're going to name Kimberl the closer. This, this signing just confirms that they're |
| 1:42.3 | they're going to go with whatever works every single night, you know, like whether it's |
| 1:47.1 | Syracuse when they can, they can, they have they actually can. Yeah, they got like matchup like guys now. Like you can really |
| 1:54.8 | like play it by what you need to do and do it the right way. Like it's a really well put together pen where the |
| 2:00.8 | all the kind of strengths and weaknesses work together, you know, arms all of it. And you know, the, the, the |
| 2:06.5 | lefty snack. We got like three lefties who we feel good about. What the hell is that, dude? I mean, you want to talk about |
| 2:13.1 | living in an alternate universe. Yeah. Um, we're at a point now where, uh, let's say, |
| 2:18.1 | Sri Anthony or, um, Kimberl pitched two days in a row and it's like, oh, we're going for three straight wins. Like, |
| 2:23.8 | would hate to lose the momentum. This is okay. Let's just throw Gregory Soto and close out the game, you know, 30, 30 saves last year. |
| 2:29.5 | No big deal. Well, because like, is it the last couple of years? It was like, oh my god, if Sri Anthony gets hurt, |
| 2:34.0 | like, we have no one that can get the last three and three outs of a ball game, you know, and we, we would have to like |
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