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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

The Phillies Blew It With Harrison Bader & Other Mailbag Questions

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.4730 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, Harrison Bader signed a two year deal with the San Francisco Giants that pays him a little over $10 million a year. Why didn't the Phillies try to beat that? On Episode 1043 of Hittin' Season, John Stolnis of The Good Phight, Justin Klugh from Baseball Prospectus and Liz Roscher, the editor of SABR's Baseball Research Journal, discuss the signing and the state of the Phillies outfield. It's all apart of a Mailbag Edition of the podcast!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

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

0:09.4

Harper, the swing of his life.

0:12.3

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

0:16.4

From W.HY, Y, it is hitting season.

0:19.9

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolmust. Coming up, we're going to dip in to the hit and season mailbag on this episode of the show. We haven't done a mailbag in a little while. You've got a lot of questions about this baseball team. You've got a lot of questions. We've got a lot of concerns. You got a lot of rants, let's face it, during the time I spent on X and Blue Sky here

0:42.5

over these last couple of months. And I'm with you guys. So we're going to talk about it.

0:46.2

We're going to take some Twitter and some blue sky questions. But also we got some news on

0:50.2

an important member of the 2025 Phillies who we now know today, Monday, the day after

0:57.3

Sleet again here in most of the Northeast, that he is not going to be coming back to the Philadelphia

1:02.9

Phillies in 2026. So we will feel our feelings about that as well.

1:06.8

Joining me on this week's roundtable, of course, Liz Rocher and Justin Clue.

1:10.2

Liz is the editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal.

1:13.9

You can follow her on X and Blue Sky at Liz Rocher.

1:17.6

Liz, how you feel it?

1:18.7

Oh, I'm a little angry at the Phillies.

1:21.8

I'm a little angry.

1:23.2

The, uh, I've, I've been saying they should sign Harrison Bader since the moment the off season began.

1:30.3

So we'll talk about my feelings.

1:32.2

We'll talk about them.

1:33.6

I could say more, but we've got a time planned for that, and I'll wait.

1:37.5

That's right.

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