Hittin' Season #662: Your Complete and Total Evaluation of Aaron Nola

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

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News, Sports, Baseball, Philadelphia, Sports News, Phillies

4.4 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On Episode 662 of Hittin' Season, Justin Klugh of Baseball Prospectus and Liz Roscher of Yahoo! Sports devote nearly the entire episode to answer this one simple question. What is Aaron Nola? Pitcher? Certainly. Human Being? No doubt. Ace? Ehhhhh. Bad Pitcher? No way. Something in between? You betcha. Justin and Liz went through his history, each start of 2023, and developed a definition for his varying performances that will ultimately not please anyone.

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0:00.0	Castiano has it.
0:04.5	And the Phillies have the National League Championship that have beaten the Padres four to three.
0:10.7	And they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the 2022 NLG.
0:19.7	From W.HYY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hittin Season, a Philadelphia Phillies podcast.
0:26.9	My name is Justin Clue. I write for baseball prospectus.
0:30.3	With me is Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports.
0:32.9	Yo!
0:34.1	Hello, Liz.
0:35.2	Happy Friday to you, Justin.
0:38.1	The Philadelphia Phillies return home from a bizarre at times road trip where they won, they won four games straight, they lost four games straight.
0:49.1	And now Bryce Harper is back to return to Citizens Bank Park for his first at bat of the
0:54.6	2023 season and hey maybe major league baseball will even let us clap for him without
1:00.3	giving him a penalty.
1:02.3	Ooh.
1:04.8	No, they won't.
1:06.3	No, yeah, the request has been formally submitted, but yeah, there's just no guarantee that that'll happen.
1:12.8	No, and everyone's just going to have to settle down and realize they're getting a, they're getting a, what is it, a pitch clock violation.
1:23.0	Thank you. They're going to get a pitch clock violation. See, now, our happiness about Bryce Harper being back is going to lead to him starting his at bat.
1:31.5	Oh, and one.
1:33.2	Yeah, baseball is really cracking down on fan enjoyment.
1:38.1	Yep.
1:39.0	Really preventing us from, first of all, yeah, I would also like you to just tell everyone in Philadelphia to calm down
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