From W.HYYYY and Billy Penn, it is hitting season.

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

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Coming up, we're going to talk some Phillies prospects.

I got Jeffrey Paternastro, the lead prospect writer for baseball prospectus.

He's going to give us his top 10 Phillies prospects that the publication put out just this week.

And we'll get a really good look at what's going on inside the Phillies farm system with some of the young position players and some of the arms that might be closer to the majors.

So we'll get his thoughts on all of that.

Plus, an interesting scenario I read about this week about Alec Bohm in terms of maybe getting

a little bit more creative with this offseason.

I'll share that with you coming up here in just a few minutes.

And all that stuff coming up here on this edition of hitting season.

But let's get into some of the hot stove news and rumors before we get too far into things here.

Again, not a lot of big names have been moved since we last spoke, but that Japanese

left-hander Shota Imanaga has signed.

He inks a deal with the Chicago Cubs four years, just $53 million, but there are some incentives in there and options that

could make it $80 million over five seasons.

So a little bit of a, it's a complicated contract, it sounds like, but it gives the Chicago

Cubs a middle of the rotation starter, a left-hander.

His name had been mentioned with the Phillies in numerous different publications, but over the last week or so, it seems as though the Phillies really didn't

have a whole lot of interest in bringing him on board. 24 games for Japan last season. He was

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