From W.HY.Y.Y.Y. And Billy Penn, it is hit in season.

Hey there, podcast, pals.

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight and Billy Penn.

You can follow me on Twitter at John Stolness.

And coming up, we're going to talk a little bit about some of the news and notes and rumors going on around the Phillies,

as it looks like they

could still be eyeing some starting pitching maybe after missing out on Yamamoto and after

assigning Aranola to a contract. Are they still in the market for one of the top free agents

starting pitchers out there? We'll get into that. We'll get into some stuff Dave D'Browski

told the Philadelphia Inquirer today regarding plans for the rest of the offseason and we're going to talk some Hall of Fame stuff with

Fangraph senior writer Jay J Jaffe and author of the book the Cooperstown casebook no better expert

frankly than the guy who invented a metric a statistic that is being used by voters to determine who's worthy of being in the Hall of Fame.

That's the guy to talk to.

And we're going to talk about Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Bobby Ubreu, and some other, another Philly

that was from the 2007 to 11 team that I think has a good shot of getting in the Hall of Fame.

All that stuff coming up here on this edition of Hitt and Season.

But before we dive right into the guts of the show, I want to remind you folks to vote for

hit and season for Best Baseball Podcast of 2023. Again, we are one of 12 finalists over at

Sports Podcast Group.com. The finalists were announced for these different awards, and we would love to take home the title,

especially because it means that we would be beating out people like John Heyman for this.

And, you know, I don't know John Heyman personally, but, you know, he's got a great big newspaper

behind him and a great big national show.

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