Hittin' Season #665: When Phillies Players Try to Change Positions

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 665 of Hittin' Season, hosts Justin Klugh of Baseball Prospectus and Liz Roscher of Yahoo! Sports chat about Bryce Harper's eventual move to first base, and take a look back at other instances in recent Phillies history when other, lesser players tried to change positions. How did they all work out? (Hint: not all that great). That plus chatter on the state of the Phils as they begin a weekend series in Colorado against the Rockies.

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0:00.0	Castiano has it. And the Phillies have the National League Championship that had beaten the Padres four to three and they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the 2022 NLG.
0:20.4	From W HYY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hittance season, a Philadelphia
0:26.2	Phillies podcast.
0:27.8	I'm Justin Clue, and I write from baseball prospectus.
0:30.7	With me is Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports.
0:34.1	Yo.
0:36.3	Another fun week. Another fun week.
0:38.1	Another fun week of Phillies baseball.
0:41.1	Feels like we just saw this team do some stuff.
0:45.3	It wasn't doing very well for a long time.
0:47.7	So that's been exhilarating.
0:50.2	I don't think a lot of people are looking at the Phillies right now
0:53.0	based on the other things happening at the sports complex.
0:56.8	But that's when the Phillies are at their best, really.
0:59.5	You're not looking at them.
1:01.2	Yes.
1:01.7	I've said that.
1:02.6	Whenever anyone notices how well the Phillies they're doing, like, oh, crap, everyone's looking at us.
1:08.4	So, you know, the Sixers being good or bad is good for them because it means
1:13.4	people aren't paying attention. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's the same principle to turning the game
1:19.6	off when the Phillies are struggling and then finding out later that they have actually succeeded.
1:24.5	And we all know that is exactly what I did on Wednesday.
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