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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

Is the World Baseball Classic a Litmus Test for Bryce Harper?

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

News, Sports News, Baseball, Sports, Philadelphia, Phillies

4.4730 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Bryce Harper is leaving the Phillies... along with Kyle Schwarber and reliever Brad Keller to begin play for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic starting this week! Will a big Harper WBC performance be a springboard for an All Star 2026 season? As for the players still in Clearwater, there are a number of things to feel really good about right now, including hot starts from uber prospects Andrew Painter and Justin Crawford, and veterans Bryson Stott and Cristopher Sanchez. On Episode 1048 of Hittin' Season, hosts John Stolnis, Justin Klugh and Liz Roscher discuss all that and much more, powered by WHYY! Subscribe on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6fMSJlk... Follow all WHYY podcasts here: https://whyy.org/radio-podcasts/ Read John at The Good Phight: https://www.thegoodphight.com Read Justin at Baseball Prospectus: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/au.... Become a Member: https://whyy.org/membership. Buy Justin's NEW book, "Summer of the Cheap Weiners: What the 1941 Phillies Were Up To While Joe DiMaggio Was Making History" at Brookline Books! https://www.brooklinebooks.com/978195...

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0:00.0

Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.

0:05.5

Swam on, get it, crossed, and the Phillies are going to lead it.

0:09.2

Harper, the swing of his life.

0:12.3

The O2 pit, swing and a miss, stuck him out.

0:16.3

Andrew Pater sizzles in his debut.

0:19.5

Zach Wheeler, Aranola getting on the bump this spring, and Bryson Stott and Justin Crawford, Red Hot down in Philly Spring Training. Here on this episode of Hitting season, we've got all angles of Philly Spring Training covered for you on this roundtable edition of the show from W.HYY. It is hit in season. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on

0:38.7

X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Also coming up, we've got Bryce Harper and 15 other Phillies

0:44.1

headed out to the World Baseball Classic right now. Who will have the biggest impact with the

0:48.8

WBC? MLB Pipeline is out with their top 30 Phillies prospects. Who had the biggest rise?

0:54.1

Who's had the biggest fall since we last saw these rankings? And another Philly tested positive for a banned substance.

1:00.3

What are we doing here? I'm just, and really the names of these guys who are testing positive,

1:05.4

these band substances, you have to wonder if they're actually working. So joining me here on the

1:09.7

roundtable, Justin Clue and

1:10.9

Liz Rocher, of course, Justin Clue from Baseball Perspectus and author of the book, Summer of the Cheap Weeners.

1:16.5

You can follow him on X and Blue Sky at John Stoleness. And of course, you can follow all of the other

1:20.7

podcasts. The dirty inning absolutely hammered that we have as part of the hit and season cinematic

1:25.3

universe over at patreon.com slash hitting season.

1:28.6

Justin, how you feeling, pal?

1:30.0

That was one of those sentences that you think about saying to a founding father and they'd run away screaming.

1:35.8

Have we all seen that video from the door of a, like, it's like a dog, it gets a camera

1:41.8

strapped to their back and then runs from the door of a beach house

1:44.7

across a path down the sand passing people and then into the ocean so the phillies had brandon

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