High Hopes Chapter 2: Will this be Aaron Nola's last Opening Day with the Phillies?
High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Jack Fritz and James Seltzer discuss Aaron Nola's future with the Phillies and the rest of the franchise's pitching staff ahead of Opening Day.
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| 0:00.0 | So I love aeronol. Let me get that out of the way first, but the reports of like him |
| 0:05.0 | possibly commanding $200 million. Like that's fine. Good lot, buddy. Godspeed, pal. Go get |
| 0:12.3 | that money. No, I mean, it's not unrealistic. Like when you look at the free agent pictures |
| 0:18.5 | as like other than Shoah, he was obviously just his own in his own class, his own thing. |
| 0:22.3 | Like there's no one. I mean, there are some older guys like Scherzer as a free agent |
| 0:26.1 | and stuff, but like there is no one even in Noah's hemisphere when it comes to age and |
| 0:31.7 | accomplishment in terms of a long term contract coming. Like he is going to, I mean, if I |
| 0:36.4 | were him, I would not sign a contract now either. I think it's like go to the market. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm not surprised. No, and I think he might get like he might durability good. |
| 0:48.0 | Great. Durability great. Durability great, but you know, good to great. You worry about |
| 0:53.8 | the wear and tear and all that, for sure. Yeah. Um, I'm just saying that I got no interest. |
| 0:59.7 | It's that money. It's going to go to that point though. You're right. Like especially with |
| 1:05.2 | the way that, you know, I think baseball teams value Aaron Nolan more than baseball fans |
| 1:10.8 | too. Like we love him and all that. But baseball teams look at what this guy does year after |
| 1:14.5 | year after year, if you're in the metrics and the advanced metrics, all that. And I think |
| 1:18.6 | he's viewed in baseball like teams. View him as one of the better pictures in the sport. |
| 1:22.6 | He's going to get paid like it. Yeah. I actually think, uh, you know, where I obviously |
| 1:27.4 | have been very like the brass. He's been a godson. But I think waiting this long has been |
| 1:31.5 | a mistake. You know, like you should have got it done as one of your free agents, you |
| 1:35.8 | know, I mean, like before Darvish signs, um, you know, get an old thing done because now |
| 1:39.7 | you're now you're kind of screwed. I mean, I mean, you really should have been looking |
| 1:42.1 | to it last. So I know there was a lot going on and, and all that. But like last off season |
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