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Zack Wheeler's angry, Trea Turner's concerns at shortstop

Phillies ace Zack Wheeler showed everybody on Tuesday why he believes he should be an NL All-Star.

He struck out a career-high 14 batters in seven innings in a dominant performance against the Reds. Afterward, he made his case to join his six teammates at the All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park.

Kyle Schwarber continues to hit Schwarbombs, although Tuesday’s in Cincinnati was an unusual one. Plus, Orion Kerkering’s issues in the eighth inning, Trea Turner’s defense and more.

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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Zach Wheeler.

Speaker 2: Welcome to Philly Show.

Speaker 1: Zach is Jim likes to say, Zach wheels Wheeler absolutely

Speaker 1: deals on Tuesday Night, he says, I'm just offering everybody

Speaker 1: a reminder. Anybody who wants to be reminded, I'm offering

Speaker 1: them a reminder. Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salsbury, todds Alecki.

Speaker 1: It's the Philly Show and we got to talk about

Speaker 1: our good friend, Zach Wheeler. It's time for first pitch.

Speaker 1: First Pitch is powered by Monster Energy.

Speaker 2: He goes out.

Speaker 1: I asked Don maddingly before the game, guys, I say,

Speaker 1: what do you think the chances are that he goes

Speaker 1: out and pitches with a little bit of an edge

Speaker 1: on Tuesday night? And Don kind of smiled and he says, well,

Speaker 1: if he pitches with an edge and it helps him,

Speaker 1: then I hope he goes out an edge. So I

Speaker 1: asked Zach that question and he said, yeah, I pitched.

Speaker 1: I wanted to pitch with an edge. Would you guys

Speaker 1: think of that performance send sending an all star message?

Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he wants to make the All Star team.

Speaker 1: He's all Star worthy. All of that.

Speaker 3: It was great he did.

Speaker 4: He pitched I would even say he pitched with something

Speaker 4: greater than an edge. He pitched with anger, like Bob Gibson,

Speaker 4: like Randy Johnson, like Roger Clemens. Those guys pitched with anger,

Speaker 4: and they channeled it the right way. Sometimes that type

Speaker 4: of emotion could work against you, but with Zach Wheels

Speaker 4: Wheeler it did not. And his last two starts just

Speaker 4: eleven and two thirds innings because he was yank durly

Speaker 4: and that contributed to his edge, but mostly the All

Speaker 4: Star But his last two starts eleven and two thirds innings,

Speaker 4: twenty four punch outs, one walk.

Speaker 2: That's good, right, that's good. H Yeah. I mean he's

Speaker 2: a special pitcher. May go down as one of the

Speaker 2: best all time already is one of the best all

Speaker 2: time pitchers for the Phillies, Number one, number two. It's

Speaker 2: not I don't think it's just about it. He's got

Speaker 2: a lot of pride, so I don't think it's just

Speaker 2: about the All Star thing. I think it's a bigger,

Speaker 2: deeper picture, like that All Star thing, that that's a

Speaker 2: Hall of Fame issue, Like the dude should be on

Speaker 2: the All Star team. That's a fact. He's better than. However,

Speaker 2: many pitchers have been named and or replaced and all

Speaker 2: that he's better than a lot of them. He's one

Speaker 2: of the top three four pitchers in baseball, number.

Speaker 4: Number one since the number one, since he got here.

Speaker 2: I'm just saying even this year after I know that

Speaker 2: he but I mean miss Rowski made the team last

Speaker 2: year with five starts and was named. You know, this

Speaker 2: guy has had a spectacular season and nobody cares about

Speaker 2: wins and losses anyone. Was he ten and one? Now

Speaker 2: nine one one? I mean nine and one. I mean,

Speaker 2: he's the reason why the Phillies are back in this

Speaker 2: thing and playing so well. He might be the single

Speaker 2: greatest reason people could talk about the change in managerial

Speaker 2: their managerial change now it's about him starting in their

Speaker 2: rotation and setting that rotation back to where it's supposed

Speaker 2: to be. And so there's so many factors here, and

Speaker 2: I think long term, you know, he doesn't get named

Speaker 2: for this All Star team. That's a resume issue. You know,

Speaker 2: it's this guy who's got a chance to be a

Speaker 2: Hall of Famer if you start to break down all

Speaker 2: of his numbers and what he's done in his era.

Speaker 1: Yeah, Kyle too, yeah, Kyle Swarber talked about that. He said,

Speaker 1: you know, he's like, listen, he wanted to make this clear.

Speaker 1: Of course, he goes alesch Warber being alech Warber, he said, listen,

Speaker 1: we're all here to win the game, win games, and

Speaker 1: win a World Series. That's our number one priority. But

Speaker 1: when your career is over, you do want to look

Speaker 1: back and see some of these accolades, in these awards

Speaker 1: that you've won, to show that you've had a really

Speaker 1: nice career. And kind of like Jim on Sunday morning,

Speaker 1: when we were talking with Harper in Kansas City, we

Speaker 1: said nine is pretty good. I mean he's like, well,

Speaker 1: that's not enough, because at the end of his career,

Speaker 1: Bryce Harper would love to have instead of nine time

Speaker 1: All Star, he'd love to have thirteen time All Star

Speaker 1: or fourteen time Allster, just like Zach Wheeler would like

Speaker 1: to have five time All Star or six time All Star.

Speaker 1: And that stuff does build your resume for a Hall

Speaker 1: of Fame candidacy down the road if he ends up

Speaker 1: pitching beyond this contract.

Speaker 3: A couple things, A couple things. I think the cy

Speaker 3: Young Award will outweigh an.

Speaker 4: All Star birth in my opinion, and he's right in

Speaker 4: the thick of this He's right, He's right in the

Speaker 4: thick of this thing. And we talked about this recently.

Speaker 4: It would be poetic justice because in what twenty one,

Speaker 4: Burns wins it with one hundred and sixty five innings,

Speaker 4: Wheels has two hundred and thirteen innings. Well, this year

Speaker 4: his innings are going to be down a little bit.

Speaker 4: And I think he's right in the thick of it

Speaker 4: with you know, Sanchez and Misowski and Sale and who's

Speaker 4: the Burns from Cincinnati. He's good and he can have

Speaker 4: a finishing drive here and it just looks like it

Speaker 4: started last night and he can win the Cy Young

Speaker 4: And the other thing I wonder about, I just he

Speaker 4: was named to the All Star team last year. He

Speaker 4: was lining up to start that game, he opted to rest.

Speaker 4: I wonder if major League Baseball that's in the back

Speaker 4: of their mind and they said, you know what, last

Speaker 4: year he.

Speaker 3: Backed out, We're going to go in a different direction

Speaker 3: this year.

Speaker 2: I just wonder, Yeah, that's not right. And you may

Speaker 2: be right, but that's not right. I don't care what

Speaker 2: they say. That's just not right. I mean, he opted

Speaker 2: to take take that stance because he needed it, and

Speaker 2: it was clear that he did need it. And I

Speaker 2: just don't feel that that's the that would be a

Speaker 2: reason to swipe the guy, to handslap him for that reason.

Speaker 4: It's just not right the handslap or just shape there

Speaker 4: thinking the fact that he was going to pitch on

Speaker 4: Sunday wasn't gonna be But I think you name him

Speaker 4: and you let him bow out because he's pitching on Sunday.

Speaker 4: I mean, Skeens is bowed out because he's pitching on Sunday.

Speaker 4: Miss Rowski is pitching on Sunday, He's not gonna be

Speaker 4: able to pitch. You give him the honor, and especially

Speaker 4: when you factor in the story behind it, coming back

Speaker 4: from major surgery and and getting on a dominant track again,

Speaker 4: it just totally adds to it all.

Speaker 2: So he said.

Speaker 1: So I asked him, if you pitch on Sunday, is

Speaker 1: there any way that you could throw face a batter

Speaker 1: on on Tuesday? Because I think that's the thing. Yeah,

Speaker 1: they need. I mean, you need pitchers that can pitch

Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. You don't want to have

Speaker 1: another fiasco where you know you're in the eighth inning

Speaker 1: and you've run out of guys or whatever, because you

Speaker 1: know you don't have enough bodies to pitch. So he said, yes,

Speaker 1: I you know that would be like a bullpen day.

Speaker 1: I usually feel good two three days after I start,

Speaker 1: so I would be able to available to pitch. Now

Speaker 1: here's the question, well would say? Major League Baseball said,

Speaker 1: all right, if you can give it, if you can

Speaker 1: promise you'll give us an inning, we'll name me to

Speaker 1: the All Star team. Now what do the Phillies say?

Speaker 3: That's why they made the rule.

Speaker 2: I think the Phillies would allow him to do it.

Speaker 2: If he wants to do it, he'll do it. I mean, listen,

Speaker 2: he knows his body.

Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows his body.

Speaker 2: I just don't know whether it's gonna have I can't

Speaker 2: imagine up and now. But should it should?

Speaker 4: I think they made the rule to protect pictures from themselves,

Speaker 4: so I actually don't know that that could happen.

Speaker 1: But there are Jimmy mcgra great point. There's a lot

Speaker 1: of pitchers who were snubbed at the All Star Game

Speaker 1: went on to win Cy Young Awards. I'm just looking

Speaker 1: at a story about this right now. Twenty twenty three,

Speaker 1: Blake Snell, Robbie Ray in twenty twe with the Blue Jays,

Speaker 1: Jake Arietta in twenty fifteen with the Cubs. You know,

Speaker 1: Felix Hernandez in twenty ten with the Mariners, Johann Santana

Speaker 1: in two thousand and four with the Twins. Goes all

Speaker 1: the way back to Greg Maddox in ninety three with

Speaker 1: the Braves even I mean, well beyond that, Roger Clemens

Speaker 1: eighty seven, nineteen eighty how about John Denny former Philly

Speaker 1: John Denny nineteen eighty three, didn't make the All Star team,

Speaker 1: win the Cy Young Awards. So lots and lots and

Speaker 1: lots of pictures for this back Don Newcombe nineteen fifty

Speaker 1: six of the.

Speaker 2: Dodgers, Don Newton, I played with it Sohn at Stanford?

Speaker 3: Is that right? Really?

Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't. He didn't really have too many at bats,

Speaker 2: Lieutenant hitting first basement.

Speaker 4: Was he was he on the field when Jeffrey Leonard

Speaker 4: hit that bomb?

Speaker 2: He were there? May have been behind me, yeah, when

Speaker 2: it took him like twenty minutes to get around the basis.

Speaker 3: I love that story.

Speaker 1: Is a great story. But yeah, so we'll see what

Speaker 1: happens with Zach Wheeler. Probably nothing. He'll probably be watching

Speaker 1: it from home, and you know what, if it motivates

Speaker 1: him in the second half to keep going and doing

Speaker 1: what he's doing, wouldn't it be something. Wouldn't it be something?

Speaker 1: If he ran down the mizz and won a Cy

Speaker 1: Young Award, that would be pretty wild. That would be

Speaker 1: pretty wild.

Speaker 2: So impossible. I mean, listen, he can have a listen

Speaker 2: the way he's throwing the baseball right now. I mean

Speaker 2: it's he's electric man, great stuff, but he doesn't have

Speaker 2: great stuff, man, it's still electric.

Speaker 1: It was just fun to watch the nipe just because

Speaker 1: he struck out fourteen batters, a tied a career high,

Speaker 1: no walks, and it's just struck struck out everybody with

Speaker 1: all of his different pitches, and it was fun to

Speaker 1: see him how he started early he went, he was

Speaker 1: striking everybody out with his sweeper early. I think four

Speaker 1: of his first five strikeouts were on a sweeper and

Speaker 1: then his last three were on splitters. So you have

Speaker 1: if you were a Cincinnati read last night, you don't

Speaker 1: know what the hell was going on here?

Speaker 4: Was that pitch has made a big difference. He's throwing

Speaker 4: it more this year and he's really executing it. I

Speaker 4: think of shilling when he added that splitter. Remember Ruben,

Speaker 4: he became a different guy.

Speaker 2: And he became basically unheittable there for a while, No doubt.

Speaker 3: Brush that pitch up using it more in the last

Speaker 3: couple of years. It's got a.

Speaker 2: Good grip on it. He feels comfortable with it, and uh,

Speaker 2: that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber hit his thirty first home run of the season. Uh,

Speaker 1: what was cool about that? Unusual about that? Do you

Speaker 1: guys know why it was an unusual Kyle Schwarber home run?

Speaker 2: Yes?

Speaker 3: I do.

Speaker 1: Yeah, care to share rubin enlighten the people that aren't

Speaker 1: aren't so privy.

Speaker 2: Rarely does he swing at a three tozero pitch.

Speaker 1: Rarely does Kyle swork.

Speaker 2: And he got a lefty and he decided, guess what

Speaker 2: I'm swinging on this three to zero pitch, and he

Speaker 2: swung with intent and he did exactly what he intended

Speaker 2: to do.

Speaker 3: He crushed.

Speaker 4: He didn't over swing, which a lot of times guys

Speaker 4: overswing on three to zero and they hit us, you know,

Speaker 4: a pop up skyrocket, and he just stayed with himself

Speaker 4: on top of that ball.

Speaker 3: He gave him a lyft last night.

Speaker 4: Zach Wheeler gave him a list last lift last night

Speaker 4: because Todd I thought they looked like a tired.

Speaker 3: Team in Kansas City and they needed a little jolt.

Speaker 1: They they did look a little tired, and even Don

Speaker 1: mannically alluded to the debt before the game on Tuesday

Speaker 1: about Brandon Marsh looking a little tired. I think, you

Speaker 1: know that's why he got a rest Tuesday. But Schwarber,

Speaker 1: he can inject some life into you. You know, that

Speaker 1: was only the second time all season he swung in

Speaker 1: a three to zero pitch. It was like he's gotten

Speaker 1: thirty He's been in thirty two to three zero counts

Speaker 1: this year. Wow.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and the left hander the left handers laid in

Speaker 2: there at ninety one point two. You know, that's the

Speaker 2: problem with looking all the analytics and oh, he's never

Speaker 2: gonna swing. You know, guess what, my friends, it's not

Speaker 2: analytics when you're standing in the box. Okay, you can't

Speaker 2: predict shit all the time. You just can't. You want

Speaker 2: to know why, because baseball is an unpredictable sport, and

Speaker 2: it's the beauty and why we love it so much.

Speaker 2: So and yeah, so it's pretty pretty cool.

Speaker 1: So I MTSA see if I gotta throw this little

Speaker 1: graphic up here. This is before Tuesday. You look at these.

Speaker 1: This is Kyle Schwarber's career in three zero counts. And

Speaker 1: I asked him, you know you had you don't swing

Speaker 1: a lot of three oh counts in the past few years.

Speaker 1: He only swings at a three oh pitch seven percent

Speaker 1: of the time, I said, But earlier in the carease

Speaker 1: he swung a lot, a lot more, I should say.

Speaker 1: And I said, why'd you kind of stop swinging? He's like, well,

Speaker 1: if you've seen my numbers in three zero counts, you

Speaker 1: know I don't hit very well for whatever reason. Well,

Speaker 1: sure enough, his career batting average in three zero counts

Speaker 1: before yesterday's one forty three. But the funny part is

Speaker 1: that's in one hundred and ninety one played appearances. He's

Speaker 1: walked on seventy seven times. He's got a nine to

Speaker 1: thirty seven on base percentage in three zero counts thirteen

Speaker 1: hundred ops. But it's just, you know, he realizes that

Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he doesn't smoke the ball in three

Speaker 1: zero counts. You know, a year about guys getting a

Speaker 1: green light, right, So he's like, I'm just not going

Speaker 1: to do it. But the last night he said, it

Speaker 1: was the perfect moment, perfect opportunity.

Speaker 2: And also, I mean, it's about passing the baton. It's

Speaker 2: about being a team player. Man, I get on base

Speaker 2: and now Bryce Harper is going to do some damage.

Speaker 2: So I mean it's you know he and he mentioned

Speaker 2: that as well, So having a guy like that behind

Speaker 2: him certainly helps him. And uh, you know you got

Speaker 2: to take sort of take advantage of that by being

Speaker 2: a base runner. What is this about. It's about productions,

Speaker 2: about scoring runs and driving in runs, and that's all

Speaker 2: it really matters at the end of the day when

Speaker 2: you're an offensive player. So I mean, that's the approach

Speaker 2: he has, and that's the right one.

Speaker 3: Todd any more intel on the Derby.

Speaker 1: No, I nothing, nothing yet. But I still believe that Schwarber.

Speaker 1: I think Schwarber is going to participate. No Harper, not

Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure.

Speaker 2: Yet. I think he's building all these chrescendoy He's going

Speaker 2: to crescendo that at the end and then the Showman's

Speaker 2: going to say, I got a batting practice pitcher.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's going to get one.

Speaker 2: He's going to get one, and he's going to drive

Speaker 2: balls out of that ballpark with regularity, and it's going

Speaker 2: to be a fun thing to watch.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 4: My guess is he's going to go for that. Dino Ebel,

Speaker 4: the third base coach of the Dodgers, who is an exceptional, exceptional,

Speaker 4: laid in there guy, very good now and everybody likes everybody.

Speaker 4: Everybody likes Dino Abel. We'll see if his arm holds up,

Speaker 4: because he might have other requests, but I think he's

Speaker 4: a pretty good one.

Speaker 1: That's an interesting name. That's an interesting name.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Whatever can get brace Harper into the home runner it

Speaker 1: would be great for Phillies fans and Major League Baseball.

Speaker 1: You get it, Harper and Schwarber participating in the home

Speaker 1: run der.

Speaker 2: I did want to get into that one subject. You

Speaker 2: talked about, the Phillies looking tired is a concern. I mean,

Speaker 2: I looked at I talked about Scott Franski about and

Speaker 2: he put together some stuff about, you know, their winning

Speaker 2: percentage as far as and their overall production. You know,

Speaker 2: some of the guys who are a little bit longer

Speaker 2: of tooth, meaning the Turners, Schwarbers and Harper's of the world,

Speaker 2: you know, their numbers oh ps wise are down significantly

Speaker 2: on day games. And the question is why is that happening.

Speaker 2: There's a lot of different reasons. I think one is,

Speaker 2: guess what, you can't put a lot of artificial pep

Speaker 2: in your step anymore. The reality of it is amfittamines

Speaker 2: or not part of the game anymore. And I know

Speaker 2: we don't. You know, that's a touchy subject, but that's that.

Speaker 2: And now you have to do it with natural caffeine

Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff and those monster energy drinks,

Speaker 2: which are certainly helpful. But the reality of it is,

Speaker 2: it's it's a different game today for the players who

Speaker 2: are a little bit longer of tooth and not.

Speaker 1: Able to.

Speaker 2: I guess, play as effectively in day games after night games.

Speaker 2: And it's it is a thing. And so it's something

Speaker 2: that I think that the nutritionists and the people with

Speaker 2: the phillies should sort of look at and probably are

Speaker 2: about how they work around that. And so one of

Speaker 2: the reasons why Don Mattingly is probably you know, giving

Speaker 2: guys rest. Why why you see why you saw Topper

Speaker 2: do it as well. I mean, some of these guys

Speaker 2: are just not performing as well in the day games.

Speaker 2: And there's a reason for that. It's it's a long

Speaker 2: ass season and during these dog days of now July

Speaker 2: and August, man, you're it's getting hotter and hotter. It's

Speaker 2: tough to revent.

Speaker 1: Don Don did talk about it a little bit before

Speaker 1: the game on Tuesday and said that, yeah, he's you know,

Speaker 1: he tries to keep an eye on those types of things,

Speaker 1: and he says, what you don't want to do is

Speaker 1: have players look to the All Star Break as it

Speaker 1: approaches and kind of take your eye off the ball,

Speaker 1: so to speak. He said he always tells guys to

Speaker 1: play through the All Star break and go in and

Speaker 1: then take a good solid four days, three four days, Well,

Speaker 1: now it's three and then they open up on Thursday

Speaker 1: against the Mets. For those guys not on the All

Speaker 1: Star team, but.

Speaker 4: Something, yeah, like it's like you look at a season,

Speaker 4: the season doesn't wind down, it stops. You've got to

Speaker 4: play right to the whistle, right And I mean is

Speaker 4: very interesting case because you know, you talk about Wheeler

Speaker 4: having some motivation here with the snob or whatever, you

Speaker 4: want to call it. Harper's got the same motivation with

Speaker 4: Dombrowski's comments in the off season their last October, and

Speaker 4: in addition to putting up big numbers, you get the

Speaker 4: feel he wants to play in every game. He's played

Speaker 4: in every game. But I think at some point they're

Speaker 4: gonna have to trim him back a little bit.

Speaker 3: You know.

Speaker 4: It's like the old gardener, you know, snip here and

Speaker 4: a snip here makes the makes the rose stand taller.

Speaker 4: So they're gonna have to, you know, watch him in

Speaker 4: the second half.

Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt about that. I thought you

Speaker 1: were gonna say tomato. Jimmie threw me through a loop

Speaker 1: with the rose analogy.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's horticulture.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. I mean, the games

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Speaker 3: Yeah they did.

Speaker 2: They really laid an egg for sadly.

Speaker 1: Yeah they did.

Speaker 2: They did.

Speaker 1: But so, Jim, you mentioned Philly's looking a little tired

Speaker 1: this weekend in Kansas City. But I think there's also

Speaker 1: a bigger issue that kind of showed its head in

Speaker 1: Kansas City, and that happened on Monday in the series

Speaker 1: finale at Kaufman Stadium, and it happened in the first inning.

Speaker 1: You know, Christopher Sanchez has a chance to get out

Speaker 1: of an inning with an inning ending double play, Trey

Speaker 1: Turner commits an error, five more runs score, and Christopher

Speaker 1: Sanchez is on his way to have the worst start

Speaker 1: of his career. Trey's defense has been an issue all

Speaker 1: season long, and it I mean to me, it's it's

Speaker 1: a concern moving forward as his team. You know you

Speaker 1: need to get out, you know you gotta get you

Speaker 1: gotta get out with this pitching staff.

Speaker 4: Well, you say Christopher Sanchez had the worst start of

Speaker 4: his career, you got to fix a huge asterisk to

Speaker 4: that because that play changed the entire game, right, six

Speaker 4: earned runs in the first inning. I mean, come on that.

Speaker 4: That crushes your spirit as a as a team and

Speaker 4: as a starting pitcher. And I think that had a

Speaker 4: lot to do with Christopher Sanchez leaving those change ups

Speaker 4: up on the zone. It crushed his spirit and he

Speaker 4: would never say that, but you know he's human, and

Speaker 4: you're right. Trade Turners defense has been an issue pretty

Speaker 4: much the entire time he's been here. I mean, he

Speaker 4: made forty errors his first two seasons here, did a

Speaker 4: good job last year, really improved, but it's it's an

Speaker 4: issue again this year and these plays rear their head,

Speaker 4: these miscues rather had it, you know, very inopportune times,

Speaker 4: and you just, you know, you hope it doesn't bite

Speaker 4: them in big games down the road. We've talked about

Speaker 4: they're gonna have to investigate moving this guy to the

Speaker 4: outfield at some point. I still believe that's the case.

Speaker 4: But you know, he he flat out said, I have

Speaker 4: to be more consistent for the guys that are on

Speaker 4: the mound, at least, he said that. And he has

Speaker 4: to do that because that's a crucial defensive position. And

Speaker 4: when that ball is hit on the ground, you have

Speaker 4: to know it's an out. When that, when you have

Speaker 4: a double play to get out of an inning, when

Speaker 4: your pitcher's bobbing and weaving a little bit, you got

Speaker 4: to make the throw. And it's it's it's like this,

Speaker 4: it's like a gnawing itch that kind of won't go away.

Speaker 4: It's it's there in the back of your mind, and

Speaker 4: you just you hope it doesn't bite them.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I liken it to you know, you

Speaker 2: can win and lose a game in the first inning,

Speaker 2: in the first pitch of big game, you can. I mean,

Speaker 2: one pitch the first inning means just as much as

Speaker 2: the ninth inning. And so it much in the same

Speaker 2: way that Zach Wheeler was sort of propelled by the

Speaker 2: great play by Derek Hill in centerfield on Soto's ball

Speaker 2: in New York. That means the whole dynamic of that game.

Speaker 2: He goes on, pitches his ass off, and they win

Speaker 2: the ball game. Same way with this play, you can

Speaker 2: lose the game. That's a groundball routine double play that

Speaker 2: should have been an out. Kay Leon does not run

Speaker 2: well and if he makes, if he plays catch the

Speaker 2: game that the inning's over, you move forward, you possibly

Speaker 2: win the game. Instead, it's a blowout. Now I'm not

Speaker 2: saying that, I'm not giving it making an excuse for

Speaker 2: Sanchez because he needs to pitch over that, right the

Speaker 2: great ones will pitch over that. And then so and

Speaker 2: I think that he I think he understands it. And

Speaker 2: I give both these guys credit because they did. They

Speaker 2: showed their accountability, like I have to make those plays

Speaker 2: and and Trey Turner said that, and Sanchez said I

Speaker 2: pitched like shit, So yes, and so they had accountability.

Speaker 2: But those games can be won and lost. And it's

Speaker 2: been ironic to me. And I know the numbers are

Speaker 2: not great for Sanchez, obviously a big disparity on the road.

Speaker 2: But the three games that really affected him with one

Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, the game in a Nationals park, and then

Speaker 2: this past game. All three of those games there were

Speaker 2: plays that Trey Turner did not make or could not make,

Speaker 2: not necessarily errors, but could not make that really changed

Speaker 2: the dynamic of the game. Now you know, Trey Turner

Speaker 2: has been a great baseball player in this league for

Speaker 2: a long time, and he really improved last year. But

Speaker 2: there if they that becomes a liability the player. He

Speaker 2: has to make those plays at some point. If the

Speaker 2: Phillies don't feel like those plays are being made, they

Speaker 2: have to really consider, as you said, Jim, makeing a

Speaker 2: change in that position because you cannot You cannot sustain

Speaker 2: that either for the long term or the short short term,

Speaker 2: particularly in a playoff situation. If you don't have the

Speaker 2: trust of your shortstop to be able to make those

Speaker 2: plays maybe some routine, maybe not quite so routine, but

Speaker 2: routine for other shortstops who who are more accomplished, then

Speaker 2: you have to consider, you know, making a change. I

Speaker 2: feel badly for the guy, because the man wants to

Speaker 2: be successful and who wants to work. He works at

Speaker 2: it and all that stuff, But the reality of it is,

Speaker 2: if he can't make those routine plays, then it makes

Speaker 2: it very difficult for the team. It's not about Drey Turner.

Speaker 2: It's about the team and making sure that that that

Speaker 2: the team is benefiting from from his play.

Speaker 4: You have to have a dependable shortstop. I mean, I

Speaker 4: go back to the ninety three Phillies and and you know,

Speaker 4: I remember Jim Fragosi telling me the story. You know,

Speaker 4: Wan Bell was a shortstop. Everything was an adventure, and

Speaker 4: one day Lee Thomas opened the door and said, you're

Speaker 4: getting a new shortstop tomorrow, and Kevin Stalker showed up,

Speaker 4: solidified the position, and they won the division.

Speaker 3: You have to have a dependable shortstop.

Speaker 2: No question about it.

Speaker 1: But do you guys see anything like that happening this year?

Speaker 1: I mean, j Bell is one thing. Tray Turner in

Speaker 1: a three hundred million dollar contract is something entirely different,

Speaker 1: isn't it.

Speaker 2: It's a very very difficult conversation to have. Is it

Speaker 2: a conversation that me, if I were in a GM seat,

Speaker 2: would I consider having that conversation? Well? Possibly even in season,

Speaker 2: And I don't know, is now the time to talk

Speaker 2: about it? For the All Star Break. Is it fair

Speaker 2: to like throw this guy in the center field or

Speaker 2: left field, or field or whatever the case may be,

Speaker 2: change his position in the mid season after he hasn't

Speaker 2: done it for years and years and expect him to

Speaker 2: do okay. I mean, he's a great athlete and probably

Speaker 2: could do it. Is that fair? I don't know, But

Speaker 2: is a conversation that at least internally I would be having,

Speaker 2: and perhaps at some point, I mean, you have to

Speaker 2: be honest with the player. Listen, if this is really

Speaker 2: gotten to the point where it's affecting the team and

Speaker 2: their ability to have maximize their production, then it's a

Speaker 2: difficult conversation that needs to be had.

Speaker 4: Difficult, But I actually think he'd be a heck of

Speaker 4: an outfielder. And every time I say that, somebody says, oh,

Speaker 4: he doesn't have the arm. You know what I say

Speaker 4: to that BS. In the infield, he slings everything and

Speaker 4: he side arms everything. In the outfield, he would use

Speaker 4: his back leg and he would throw more purely and

Speaker 4: more fundamentally purely, and he'd get more power on the

Speaker 4: ball because he'd get that push. I think he's he's

Speaker 4: an incredible athlete. I think he'd be a very very

Speaker 4: good outfielder. It might ease some stress, help them, help

Speaker 4: them at the plate. It's something that is just it's

Speaker 4: getting hard to hide from.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and for a team that needs to play deep

Speaker 1: in October, you can't be having a guy out there

Speaker 1: that can't make a play like you're right room. There's

Speaker 1: so many times where it's been like a ball that

Speaker 1: he has to charge in on and just just can't

Speaker 1: finish the throw at first. You know, an infield single,

Speaker 1: not an error, but it's an infield single. But you wonder,

Speaker 1: you go, man, that play's got to be there.

Speaker 2: And I mean especially an ouse and those. I mean

Speaker 2: there is the residual and domino effect that's associated with it.

Speaker 2: Right now, there's twenty extra pitches, there's forty extra pitches.

Speaker 2: There's you have to use to bullpen too early, and

Speaker 2: then you know the soft part of the soft spot

Speaker 2: in in the Phillies. You know, pitching corps is their

Speaker 2: middle relief. They're just not very good right now, and

Speaker 2: so when you start stressing the bullpen, there's also so

Speaker 2: many domino effects for not being able to play quality defense.

Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why the teams like the

Speaker 2: Cleveland and you know Guardians, I say Indians, Guardians and

Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Brewers and all those teams, even Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2: They play well defensively and so they win games. Pitching

Speaker 2: in defense. It really helps, you know, it changes the

Speaker 2: whole dynamic, changes the whole dynamic of the game and

Speaker 2: the team and the season.

Speaker 4: You give extra outsets blood in the water, and it

Speaker 4: becomes a feeding frenzy. All the sharks come in. Next thing,

Speaker 4: you know, boom, you know, six runs are on the board.

Speaker 1: One last question for me for you guys, is are

Speaker 1: you concerned with Ryan Kirkering his recent performances in the

Speaker 1: in the a thing. It's now the second time in

Speaker 1: his last four appearances that he's walked the bases loaded,

Speaker 1: both times coming in the eighth inning, both times coming

Speaker 1: with a save situation, meaning you know, lead of three

Speaker 1: runs or less. But man, a.

Speaker 3: Little bit, a little bit.

Speaker 4: I mean, I think he's had a great season in

Speaker 4: terms of bouncing back from a difficult October. And he

Speaker 4: said he's got a lot of big outs for this team.

Speaker 4: Very encouraging. But yeah, those those walking the bases full

Speaker 4: two games, I mean last night. He is delivery at

Speaker 4: times when he's walking. Guys there looked very rushed. He

Speaker 4: was kind of pulling the ball, yanking the balls. Mechanics

Speaker 4: seem to deteriorate a little bit. I don't know what's

Speaker 4: going on, but all I know is the circle of

Speaker 4: trust at the back end of the bullpen to me

Speaker 4: is shrinking, and they need to address that. And one

Speaker 4: of the ways they can address it is by you know.

Speaker 4: I mean, Bowland got some big outs in Kansas City,

Speaker 4: big out in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

Speaker 3: That's nice to see.

Speaker 4: But they're gonna need O'Ryan to you know, avoid games

Speaker 4: like he had like that and continue his progress upward

Speaker 4: like he's shown kind of the majority of the season,

Speaker 4: and also going to need i think, need to augment

Speaker 4: from the outside. It's a bullpen to me has become

Speaker 4: the number one need. I'm talking back end leverage, shut down,

Speaker 4: protect that lead game over type. You know that compliments

Speaker 4: the ultimate game over guy in Duran.

Speaker 1: We'll bet brag Keller exctivated, so hopefully you can show

Speaker 1: show some life before the all start break go ahead.

Speaker 2: Well, I mean two things have to happen. Brad Keller

Speaker 2: has to come back and be effective, and they have

Speaker 2: to add a piece, because right now, there's as you

Speaker 2: said there, you know, for Don Matting, they you trust

Speaker 2: somebody to get three outs or two outs or even

Speaker 2: one out in the eighth inning prior to and hold

Speaker 2: the lead or keep the the game intact. It just

Speaker 2: really isn't there right now. And you know, Ryan Kirkering

Speaker 2: in the sixth and seventh lights out in the eighth

Speaker 2: tighter and tighter, not so much. Can he get there eventually, Yes,

Speaker 2: I think he can. I think at some point he

Speaker 2: will get over that hump. I mean, sometimes it takes

Speaker 2: a while for guys to get to the point where

Speaker 2: they're like, screw it, I'm just gonna go and throw

Speaker 2: my best stuff, and I'm gonna throw it over the plate,

Speaker 2: and I don't care whether it's gonna get hit or not.

Speaker 2: It's going to be an out. That's a hard thing

Speaker 2: to get over deep in the game. And until that happens,

Speaker 2: they're going to have to get somebody that they feel

Speaker 2: can do that. And I think that in particular from

Speaker 2: the left side. I mean, it could be a right

Speaker 2: hand or it could be a left he doesn't matter.

Speaker 2: But you've got to get somebody you can really trust

Speaker 2: in the eighth inning to get to get to get

Speaker 2: three outs.

Speaker 3: Or more time high Chapman.

Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been talking about it forever. I mean we

Speaker 2: we've talked about Chapman. I think I talked about that

Speaker 2: what two months ago?

Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was too much.

Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, can you imagine having those two

Speaker 2: guys and sometimes he's not even all that reliable, but

Speaker 2: he's been there and done it, and he's made the

Speaker 2: last picture of the season, and so yes, you know,

Speaker 2: I'll take my chances with a guy like that. I

Speaker 2: always talk with Pat Gillick about that, veterans in the bullpen,

Speaker 2: young pictures in the starting rotation.

Speaker 4: And he's been acquired twice late in seasons and both

Speaker 4: those teams won the World Series. So I mean, there's

Speaker 4: my question, what do you guys think, would he he's

Speaker 4: been so good with Boston as the closer, would he

Speaker 4: want to come and be a setup man because you

Speaker 4: can't you can't touch the r in season, the performance

Speaker 4: he's provided the.

Speaker 3: Last it's a good question.

Speaker 2: I don't know, you probably have to get dig deep

Speaker 2: into that and find out about his psyche. What is

Speaker 2: it more important than him for him this in this stage,

Speaker 2: for him to win a World Series or is it

Speaker 2: more important for him to show the world I can

Speaker 2: still be a closer. I'm not sure that's something I

Speaker 2: don't know the person, I don't know the player, but

Speaker 2: it's certainly something that you have to do some background

Speaker 2: on and uh and and see whether that's a role

Speaker 2: that he would consider, because you cannot take Joan Durant

Speaker 2: out of his rop. He's as good as it gets

Speaker 2: no no disrespect to Mason over there in San Diego.

Speaker 2: But the reality of it is no, no, no disrespect

Speaker 2: to him. But I'll take Joan Durant every time.

Speaker 1: I would like to think that a guy like Eeraldas

Speaker 1: Chapman has been around the book, he's won a World Series,

Speaker 1: has been a closer forever. Would look at see the situation,

Speaker 1: Philly Go, that's one of like two guys I would

Speaker 1: set up for. Yeah, not coming into a situation where

Speaker 1: it's you know, get no disrespect, it's Jeff Hoffman and

Speaker 1: Matt Strom in the back of the bullpen. You're like, wait,

Speaker 1: I'm setting up for these guys, right, I'm Eeraldi's Chapman.

Speaker 3: You would think, so good point, Yeah, yeah, what about that?

Speaker 3: What about that?

Speaker 4: Aj Mintor with the Mets. The Mets is soon gonna

Speaker 4: put a for sale sign on a lot of people.

Speaker 2: Also a great, a great, a great idea. Hey, listen,

Speaker 2: you know sometimes you have to go to plan B,

Speaker 2: C or D and if you can't get the best

Speaker 2: one that doesn't match up. I mean, I'm sure that

Speaker 2: Dave Nebrawski and his people, Mike Goo and his people

Speaker 2: are out there sniffing around just as much as possible

Speaker 2: to see what what they can do for this, For

Speaker 2: this bullpen.

Speaker 1: Just got to make some sort of upgrade, you guys, Ruben,

Speaker 1: You guys whiffed in two thousand and eight with C. C. Sabathia,

Speaker 1: but you got Joe Blanton and he helped it.

Speaker 3: Yeah, big time.

Speaker 2: You made us marginally better again. You have to go

Speaker 2: to plan B and C and D, and we ended

Speaker 2: up getting somebody who could eat some innings and had

Speaker 2: some cojones, right, you had some cojones and and uh

Speaker 2: and did a decent job for us. And then he

Speaker 2: ended up hitting a freaking home run, which is kind

Speaker 2: of cool because I think he might be enjoying our

Speaker 2: slug ball competition. He may be joining us.

Speaker 1: Todd, look at that how about.

Speaker 2: That maybe joining us on the on the eighth of August.

Speaker 2: Are you boys coming, You're you're officially invited to come

Speaker 2: join us.

Speaker 1: I would love to go.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be there.

Speaker 2: I love to see your faces there at Michael john Field.

Speaker 2: I guess is Tom Assorta. I don't uh. We're working

Speaker 2: on a couple of other guys, Aaron Rowan as one

Speaker 2: of them might as well. So there's a few guys.

Speaker 2: I am still working on some big names. Still working

Speaker 2: on J row how about a still working on still

Speaker 2: working on No not a Rod, Still working on a

Speaker 2: couple of guys, maybe the Flying Hawaiian. Oh there, working

Speaker 2: on J. Dubb anyway, I don't know if that's gonna happen,

Speaker 2: but we're we're those guys have other responsibilities, but we

Speaker 2: have some really good names and that we're we're excited

Speaker 2: about it.

Speaker 1: That's awesome. It'll be a good event. Guys.

Speaker 2: That was gentlemen to be there at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 3: I can I hit now, we want to hit. We're

Speaker 3: not coming if we can't hit.

Speaker 2: All right, we have the original wheels and yeah, friend,

Speaker 2: our good friend Leslie Goodell, I think are going to

Speaker 2: both be announcing that's cool.

Speaker 3: Right, you mean Chris Wheels Wheeler.

Speaker 2: Chris Wheels Wheeler, that's right.

Speaker 1: Somebody. I'm not going to name the person, but somebody

Speaker 1: yesterday goes, why do you guys always say Zach Wheels Wheeler?

Speaker 1: And I said, because it's silly, and because it's fun

Speaker 1: and it makes.

Speaker 3: Us look silly. It's good to be silly exactly, So

Speaker 3: it be.

Speaker 2: Silly, you can't be.

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