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High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast

High Hopes Chapter 3: Emptying the spring training notebook

High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Don't have time to listen to the entire High Hopes pod? Check out this segment where Jack Fritz and James Seltzer discuss Phillies assistant coaches, breakout reliever candidates and more.

Presented by Miller Lite.

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0:00.0

Which has been a more important hire as an assistant coach, Kevin Long or

0:04.2

Coffin Slashkathlin? It's a phenomenal question. It's a phenomenal, like I've

0:08.7

thought about this because they both have been super important. So I actually think

0:14.4

it's Kevin Long. Even though I think so. Yeah, I really do. I think like he's

0:18.5

just done more, you know, in terms of all the adjustments we've heard, the stuff

0:22.4

he did with bone last year, the stuff he did was stout last year, the stuff he's

0:25.5

doing with Cassie now. I mean, trade turner partially coming here because how

0:28.8

many guys between strawberry turner, like, like I've never heard of players going

0:34.7

to a team because of a hitting coach, or even a hitting coach being involved in

0:37.9

the discussions for players going to a team. And his name keeps coming up with

0:42.4

this stuff. Like that's rare. Like that shows that that a how good he is, but

0:46.8

also how much these players believe in him is is you don't see that. Yeah, when

0:51.3

Wantsotos here in just getting kind, kind of open up the check. We got

1:00.1

well, get Steve Cohen. That was 500 million for Wantsotos down there. Either way

1:07.2

Kevin Long and Caleb Gotham and Brian Kaplan, yeah, lifetime contracts. Yeah, not

1:11.4

a lot of leave. I mean, please not a lot of leave. Yeah. But yeah, just you know,

1:15.7

and you can see the changes with bone. You're starting to see him learn how to

1:20.1

lift the ball more and people. Oh, he has to. Of course he does. You can't have 13

1:28.0

home runs. What? And this is what baseball is. Like, it's it works. I'm sorry. You

1:32.5

might not like the terminology and all that. But all it means is he's up for

1:35.8

cutting a little more. All right. Relax. Yep. So his swing looks different. Stod swing

1:40.5

actually looks a little different too. He doesn't have as much movement. And he's not

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