Hittin' Season #786: Phillies Sign Zack Wheeler To An Extension

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On Episode 786 of Hittin' Season, hosts John Stolnis of The Good Phight, Justin Klugh from Baseball Prospectus and Yahoo! Sports' Liz Roscher discuss the record-setting contract extension the Phillies gave to Zack Wheeler, the chances of adding Blake Snell or Jordan Montgomery, and what having so many big-money players on the roster means for their flexibility in 2025 and beyond.

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0:00.0	From W.HYYYY and Billyy pen it is hit in season hey there podcast pals i'm john stolness from the good
0:27.5	fight and billy pen you can follow me on twitter at john stolness this is not an emergency podcast
0:32.9	because we would normally be podcasting around this time and we would be normally recording this video for our good hit and season YouTube subscribers.
0:40.8	But we're going to be talking a lot about the Zach Wheeler contract extension that came down the pike on Monday afternoon.
0:46.8	Monday morning actually is when the story broke.
0:49.1	Zach Wheeler met with the media on Monday, signing for another three years after the 2024 season. So we're going to get
0:55.2	into all of that, the numbers that go along with it, what it means for the 2024 season, the
1:00.0	immediate future. And we're going to get into a bunch of other stuff here on this episode of
1:03.4	the podcast as well. Joining me, Justin Clue, Liz Rocher, my podcast pals here on the beginning
1:10.0	of the week edition of the podcast.
1:12.2	Justin from baseball prospectus and, of course, the dirty inning and absolutely hammered
1:15.7	on our hit and season Patreon.
1:17.2	Follow him on Twitter at Justin underscore Clue.
1:20.5	Justin, the Phillies, and Zach Wheeler did the thing.
1:23.4	They sure did, but I was going to start with, have we shifted from it being a fun question to being just a downward ticking clock that Bryce Harper will win a gold glove as a first basement?
1:37.8	Well, I don't know. How firmly do we think that's going to happen this year we think? I mean, I don't know about
1:45.8	gold glove. I don't, I think in the next three years, Bryce Harper will win a gold glove
1:50.2	at first base. And if I were to walk that back, which I will immediately, I would say he would
1:56.0	be a top three finisher as a gold glove first baseman in the next three years?
2:02.8	I could see that because a lot of times the gold glove has as much to do with the player's
2:07.0	offensive ability as it does their defensive ability. He has shown a remarkable adaptation to it.
2:12.5	I mean, there's no doubt about it. He picked it up so fast. I have been saying that I think
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