Castellano has it and the Phillies have the National League Championship.

They have beaten the Padres four to three and they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the 2022 NLJ.

From W.HYY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hitting season.

My name is Justin Clue. I write for baseball prospectus, and you can follow me on Twitter at Justin underscore Clue. With me is Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports. You can follow her at Liz Rocher.

Happy Friday, Liz. Happy Friday, Liz.

Happy Friday, Justin. I guess legally we can't call it Twitter, I guess. That's not.

No, we're going to call it Twitter. That's what it is.

I mean, legally, we certainly can. But I guess it does not. Here's the thing. He can't come after us for calling his business something else.

That's just not.

Is that how it works?

Accurately.

I could call it the duty head factory.

And often do.

Yes.

But hopefully we're having happier Fridays than they are about 3,000 miles west of here,

where devastating news surfaced out of Anaheim this morning.

Show Hey, Otani, Major League Baseball, and Global Baseball Superstar, has torn the ulnar collateral

ligament in the elbow of his pitching arm.

His season is over.

This is terrible news for Otani, who is set to enter free agency and was projected by actual people, not just MLB network propagandists, to make world-breaking money.

This is terrible news for the Angels who were making the small moves they did make at the trade deadline for the sole purpose of trying to prove to Otani that they were willing to win now, and in any remaining years of a deal, he'd

signed with them, potentially.

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