MLB Legend Chase Utley: Old School Baseball, Joining Dodgers Front Office, Untold Phillies Stories
All The Smoke
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Chase Utley sits down with Matt Barnes for an extremely interesting conversation. Six-time All-Star, four-time Silver Slugger, World Series champion, 259 career home runs, and possible hall of fame inductee in the near future.
Utley opens up on the grind of the minor leagues, the unbreakable chemistry he built with Jimmy Rollins, what it was like watching Ryan Howard hit moon shots from the on-deck circle, how the Phillies dynasty quietly became one of the greatest teams of the 2000s and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back to All the Smoke Baseball. |
| 0:06.6 | Man, this is a really cool one today. |
| 0:08.9 | Someone I got a chance to go to college with. |
| 0:11.6 | We're just kind of reminiscing about Westwood. |
| 0:13.9 | One of the best second basements of all time, 259 career home run, |
| 0:18.5 | six All-Stars for Silver Sluggers. |
| 0:21.2 | He got him a ring in 2008. |
| 0:24.9 | Seven career World Series home runs. |
| 0:27.3 | Most ever, fourth, second baseman, 16 years of the Phillies, then came over to the Dodgers. |
| 0:32.9 | Like I said, fellow brewing, Chase Utley. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome to the show, man. |
| 0:36.6 | Good to see you. |
| 0:39.2 | How's life? |
| 0:44.9 | Life is good. No complaints. I've been retired now seven or eight years. Time flies. |
| 0:49.6 | I've been enjoying it. What was that transition like? I mean, you walked away on your core. Not too many people get to do that. And I think I tell people, I was lucky enough to do the same thing, |
| 0:54.1 | but I feel like if there's still a little bit of in there, the transition can be a little harder, but you walked away and you were good with it. Yeah, I was good with it. It can be a tough one. I've seen teammates not necessarily make the decision for themselves and the team makes it for them, and I just saw how that kind of went. And I didn't love that. |
| 1:11.3 | So I wanted to make sure that I made my own decision and made my own choice of when to shut |
| 1:16.6 | it down. |
| 1:17.4 | But I was almost 40 years old. |
| 1:19.9 | It was a good run, but it was time. |
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