High Hopes Chapter 3: Do the Phillies need to do more work before Spring Training?
High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 8 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 discuss what moves they want to see from the Phillies before the start of Spring Training in a few months.
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| 0:00.0 | win. We're great. What's next? That was the argument next question. |
| 0:04.0 | But and at this point, looking at the reliever market, you know, there's some like interesting little names, but you're kind of like |
| 0:13.0 | how confident are we supposed to be heading into next year with |
| 0:19.0 | and Samantha and Alvarado are great. But also to the point you made about Nolan Wheeler, |
| 0:25.0 | serenthing Alvarado asked to pitch into November, like coming back after a short off season all that. |
| 0:31.0 | Like, you know, both in pitch was year to year. It's so fluctuating. You know, I, you know, I can't just say their locks. |
| 0:38.0 | I feel great about serenity, but like I'm not, I'm not sure they're going to be as dominant as they were last season. |
| 0:43.0 | They hope they were. But do you know what I mean? Like, well, it's uncertainty there. |
| 0:46.0 | I mean, serenity there. I mean, serenity there. Alvarados had like, you know what, like three good months, right? |
| 0:51.0 | I mean, three great months, but like prior, he gets sent down in June or whatever it was. |
| 0:56.0 | So, you know, like, you know, I, you're asking a lot of you're saying, |
| 1:00.0 | we got these two studs and we're sat like, you know, well, and the other thing about serenthing is, is that, dude, |
| 1:08.0 | when he, when he got hurt for the month or whatever it was, the bullpen was a disaster. |
| 1:14.0 | Like, who's a freaking mess? |
| 1:16.0 | Well, like, they lost like the, the linchpin of the bullpen, they were just, they lost everything. |
| 1:21.0 | It was awful. |
| 1:22.0 | Um, and like, I love Brockton. I love Balotti, but like, you know, Brockton was on pitchable at one point. |
| 1:30.0 | And then he got hot, which is great. But we've seen every year, like, relievers get hot. |
| 1:34.0 | I, I just think that, you know, and serenity, I mean, serenity in Alvarado actually, I mean, by the end of the world series, |
| 1:41.0 | like, they didn't have, they didn't have their best stuff. Like, they were, they didn't look, they didn't look how awesome they looked, you know, in the, in the CS and the, and the DS. |
| 1:49.0 | Um, so, that's a real big concern for me. Like, they were linked to Seth Lugo today from, from Heyman. It's like, that's fine. |
| 1:58.0 | Sure. You know, Seth, he's been rates. Um, apparently he wants to start those with their saying that, |
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