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

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

Harper! The swing of his life!

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

Spring training down in Clearwater nears the midway point.

We've got an update for you here on the show. Aranola, Alec Bohm, updates coming on lots of players. The WBC is underway. When will we see Harper, Schwabre? And yes, even Brad Keller, lace them up for Team USA and the World Baseball Classic. Phillies on ESPN's top 100 players. How many Phil's are on that list? The answer will surprise you,

and we will chat about where the Phillies rank among baseball's elite with MLB writer and

stat cast guru Mike Petriello. All that coming up here on this edition of Hitting season,

powered by W.HYY in Philadelphia. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. I want to encourage everybody, please. If you haven't done so yet, give us a follow on Spotify. I'm not making any bones about it. We want to increase the number of people who are listening to us over on that platform. So even if you listen to us on Apple Podcasts or Overcast or

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All right, let's get into a quick Philly spring training update as I'm recording here on Wednesday morning.

The Phillies are not winning many spring games right now, but there are lots of individual performances that are good

signs for the team here at this stage of the game. And Aaron Nola on Wednesday had another

very effective outing. He appears to be ahead of schedule. Three shutout innings, one hit,

four strikeouts, a first pitch strike to all 10 batters that he faced. He pulled, he reared back and got 93.9 miles an hour in one pitch in this outing.

And his stuff was overall about a mile or two per hour faster than it was at this point a year ago and where it normally is.

And this is really, really good news for a pitcher and for a team that desperately needed Aranola

to be better than he was a season ago.

I mean, half a season in which Aaron Nola was injured, and in that half a season when he wasn't

injured with an ERA over six for a guy you just signed to a huge contract and you have under

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