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Chapter 1: What are the offseason plans for the Phillies?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring.
You don't get bored by baseball.
Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you. You. You. You. You. You. You.
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You. It's mutual. It's mutual.
I come here just to talk to you. This is where all the, listen, all the praise and all, we never feel better about ourselves than standing in a hotel lobby for three days at a WAC, right?
Oh, yeah. You know, everyone says, oh, it's great. You get to go to Orlando for three days. They can have this on the moon. We don't get to go outside and see anything. We just look at each other for three days.
you know you know the ironic thing as you said that i can look out this window we're in a hotel lobby what's this place signia insignia yeah bonnet creek three names yeah yeah it's a disney property so i'm looking out the window and i can see inner tubes for the lazy river yeah so i will give
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Chapter 2: Why is Kyle Schwarber a crucial player for the Phillies?
person you could plug in is Pete Alonzo. He would have to agree to DH most of the time because Bryce Harper's the first baseman and is not moving to the outfield, or so they say, or they've said, for the last several years. So, you know, Alonzo would be kind of a plug-and-play, DH, power guy, could protect Harper.
He'd make you more right-handed, Schwarber's left-handed, so he'd kind of balance your lineup a little bit. And then, you know, I guess, like, the other things, like, if you did Bregman or you did Bichette, you'd have to
make that work somehow, so that would involve probably then turning around and trading Alec Bohm, which is something they've wanted to do, but haven't done because they've kind of overvalued him a little bit, I think, in the trade market, so they would have to do some other things to make a Bichette or a Bregman work, but I like Bichette's athleticism, I think that that could give them a different look, and certainly Bregman brings the leadership component that you'd lose in Schwarber, so...
You know, I'd put Schwarber at the top, and I think you could sort of make a case for all the others. Oh, okay. All right, so it's one, and then just lump them in. I'd go, you know, Schwarber, and then I'd go Alonzo, and then I'd probably go Bichette Bregman, just because of the age.
Yeah, okay. So when you look at, so now comes the what you think is going to happen. Which is a hard thing. I was just talking to somebody, talking about how Dombrowski, we all celebrate, we are going to do this and this and this, right? Remember the, we are going to sign an ace and we are going to trade for a closer. And David Price, Craig Kimbrell, boom, boom.
It doesn't seem quite, it seems a little more convoluted for him this year than other years, right?
Well, it is in the sense that he has to kind of wait and see what Schwarber and JT Real Muto are going to do. He would love nothing more this week than to sign Schwarber and Real Muto. And then his offseason is not over, but, you know, the big pieces are over. And then you just sort of recast your bullpen a little bit. And obviously they have some work to do in the outfield.
But the two big moves would be done. I think he'd love to do that. But the thing is that, you know, if those guys aren't ready to sit down and talk or to come to the Phillies with their best offer, then he can't move as quickly as he would like. So I do think we're getting to the point where he probably is going to go to the two of them and say, all right, what do you got? Like, let us know.
We either do this or move on. And they're not there yet, but I think they're probably getting closer.
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Chapter 3: What alternative players could the Phillies pursue if Schwarber leaves?
No, they're not trading. Never were. I mean, never were. What a mustache. I feel a little bit better about myself seeing Bryce Harper than knowing that everybody, you can be really, really good at something that you do and also lose the aging process.
Make some decisions that you, you know. Yeah, you know, he's also getting all his blood taken out of his body and put back in. I don't know if you've seen that.
Last time I saw it was Lance Armstrong. Anyway, I mean, but it's anyway, science. So is there other pieces like, for instance, you know, I know, you know, like with Matt Strom, like that was that's an interesting one because of the contract. And I don't know how much it matters, like the whole thing back and forth at the end of the year with Dombrowski.
But is there anyone else you see like that who might be dealt?
Yeah, I mean, well, I think one thing that they would rather do is trade off their major league roster, which is strange for a team that's contending and trying to win a World Series. But they've traded, you know, a couple of top 100 prospects in the last calendar year. Their farm system is kind of top heavy.
They really need Andrew Painter and Justin Crawford and then Aiden Miller to be good and to be big leaguers and be good for them. So, you know, Strom you mentioned, they have three lefty relievers. Alvarado, Strom, and Tanner Banks. One of them, I think, could go somewhere, and Strom is probably the likeliest to move. Alec Bohm is someone we've talked about, they've talked about for a while now.
Maybe a Brandon Marsh, but they need outfielders, they don't want to trade outfielders, so I do think that it's sort of that second tier group of guys below the Harpers and the Turners, who are obviously not going anywhere, who they could look to move and maybe change the mix in that way, if that's what they want to do.
Do you feel, this is the last thing, but do you feel, you know, like if we go back to midway through last year, it was like the Phillies, I don't know what the odds were. I know the Dodgers odds were always top, but the Phillies weren't that far behind. The perception was the Phillies were this juggernaut. They were the elite team.
And then we get to the end of the year and this sort of like the wheels are falling off vibe with them. I don't think it was probably as ever bad as people thought. I think it was going so well for teams like the Dodgers and maybe the Blue Jays or whatever that we lose sight that the Phillies can still be a good team. That's what I'm asking.
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