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

Swam on.

Get it.

Cross.

And the Phillies are going to lead it.

Harper, the swing of his life.

The O2 pit, swing and a miss.

Struck him out.

From W.

H.Y.

It is hitting season.

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Pitchers and Catchers reporting this week. Right now, even as you're listening to this podcast, Phillies, pitchers and catchers are reporting down to Clearwater. And so as the Phillies get ready to start spring training 2026, we here at Hitting Season, we'll do a little bit of spring training preview for you on this episode of the podcast. We'll take a look at some of the biggest Phillies question marks heading into spring training and get a quick look at a couple of non-raster invitees that we think maybe has the best chance of making an impact here in 2026. I'm not going to lie to you. A lot of the folks are, you're going to see

them with numbers in the hundreds in spring training and never see them again. But maybe there's

one or two here that'll pop during the course of the spring. There's always those spring training

heroes that end up batting 645 and getting 70 at bats during the course of the spring because they were going to every road game and playing and every single split double header. And then those guys never end up doing anything. But maybe there'll be one or two. So we'll go over some of those names. And also Dave Nebrowski and Rob Thompson made a little bit of news on the Zach Wheeler front and the Nick Castiano's front and even the gauge wood front. So we'll start the show off with that here in just a second. I know the gauge wood front. Get ready, everybody. Joining me for this episode of the podcast, a smaller roundtable tonight, but Justin Clue, he of baseball prospectus and author of the new book, of the cheap weaners get it at brooklinebooks

dot com it's it's it's it's time it's here it's ready to rock and roll justin spring training is also

here seems to me maybe you timed these two things out so that they happen together boy the the

people the people in marketing are just you know there's a reason they do what they do.

It's a reason they make the upper five figures, my friend.

Yeah.

There was a minute where, you know, the other day I was thinking about, yeah, pitchers and catchers are reporting.

Books coming out soon.

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