What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast.

And more pitching podcast from PitcherList.com.

My name is Nick Pong.

And today we're going to talk about the Philadelphia Phillies.

And look, this is the plan, guys.

I know I'm behind with the top 400 starting pitchers article.

There is just so much going on with the land of Pitcher List and also my personal life,

which means I'm a week delayed, maybe two weeks delayed than usual at this time of year.

I apologize profusely.

No, you do not need to get PL Pro to get my rankings.

They will be out in full this week.

And I am doing these plus pitch podcasts to a day until spring training to get through all 15 teams that are remaining, including this one. And then I'm going to be doing a plus pitch podcast every day of spring training to get through all 15 teams that are remaining, including this one.

And then I'm going to be doing a plus pitch podcast every day of spring training

because this is what matters so much. Spring training reviews every single day. This is just

what my schedule is now. So goodbye off season. Off season is over. Can join me from my morning streams as I get through everything and record these podcasts.

So looking forward to this.

But Zach Wheeler is the first one with the righties and then sinkers inside to righties.

And that is just so difficult with his extension.

Plus all the sweepers and the curves and the cutters and all that kind of stuff help out too.

The problem is always left-handers for Zach Wheeler.

And because it's so reliant on that sinker to right-handers, that's not as good against lefties,

that's still actually kind of a problem, but he always finds a way he has enough of a variety, has a good enough flat foreseamer that still works against lefties. It's just not nearly as elite. It's kind of mediocre. But when you're so good against one-sided batters, well, it's for the majority of right handers. And you have okayness against lefties.

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