From W.HYYYY 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.

Coming up, we're going to talk about some interesting stuff that came down the pike this week from Scott Lauber about the Phillies pursuit of

Yoshinobo Yamamoto and what it means for their future trying to get good players to come

to Philadelphia from Japan.

We'll also go over the Phillies' luxury tax situation.

We'll talk a little bit more about Whitmerfield.

And I want to talk about a Ken Rosenthal article in The Athletic about the Boris for the

four big free agents of Scott Boris, Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery, Cody Bellinger, Matt Chapman,

all still available. As time ticks by, could the Phillies jump in? Why they could and why they

might not. Also, the Phillies on the top 100 MLB network,

and they released their top 10 on Wednesdaysum,

an interesting top 10 of the top 100 players in Major League Baseball right now.

So I'll talk about all that stuff coming up here on this edition of hit and season.

But I did want to start off with a report by Scott Lauber this week

that I wrote about for the good fight,

where he talking about the Phillies pursuit of Yamamoto, the 25-year-old Japanese phenom,

who signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers.

Laubber reported this week that after meeting for three hours on December 14th, remember

they did that video presentation, Bryce Harper appeared on it.

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