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N happy Friday love saying that welcome into the phly Philly podcast Jamie Lynch Renee Washington we got Tyler zulie with us uh Renee you are the official uh tabulator of who is actually first here in the chat because uh I don’t have it open in front of me who we got who won
Congratulations to Chris lemmer number one in the chat Chris back up at his rifle spot yes and then Ray and Neil also were one of the earliest ones in the chat and then Jay Christy Dave P Kevin you’re all trickling in yes happy Friday J me I’m a little disappointed in
You because you had a grand opportunity to open the show the right way and you didn’t this is March happy first day of March everyone yeah yeah no it’s good it’s like uh it’s turning the P March is officially turning closing the book on winter to me now March weather typic
Sucks up here like it’s it’s kind of like you get some teas days but then there’s a lot of rain a lot of gray and a lot of but you know we got March Madness coming up I know you’ve been doing some work in the college hoop
Season uh you know you got Masters not that far away we’re going to Clear Water spring is behind or ahead and winter is behind it’s a it’s a good time of the year I I really like the spring a lot so uh Happy march to everyone how rude of
Me not to start the day I was I really thought you were going to do it when you said happy first well happy Friday I was like readyy first Friday happy first day happy March yes and uh welcome in Jay good morning and K yingst and him Aaron
Stewart and Dave der happy Friday to all you guys lot to get into today Jamie you’re a boomer that’s not Stewart that’s straightforward straightforward all right I’m trying to read you’re such a boomer what did I say I mean I just kind of like skipped the
Come on man I’m not speaking in numbers and letters also I will say it’s we have on our monitor it’s harder to see things so let’s go with that too Mopar is going to be in Clearwater Beach in 5 days Yao Ming joined the chat this morning oh
That’s it we got celebrities Wow We Are All We Have Made It guys ya has joined the chat let’s just end the show now so a lot to get into today we got a a split Squad we got the good and the bad from yesterday John Foley is going to be
Joining us we are going to go over the top five managers in baseball and does Rob Thompson make any of our lists I don’t know uh lots to get into including uh I know John Foley wants to talk about Christian Pache um I do too yeah I I do
Too I think it would be a massive mistake if they don’t keep this kid he’s shown you enough promise over you know just about a year of having him in the organization he’s still only 25 years old former top prospect which I can’t quit of the Braves you know the Braves
Were calling him the next Andrew Jones at one point before he couldn’t hit with them and they moved him to Oakland uh the Oakland A’s for some reason I don’t know why just gave up on the kid and sent him here uh Christian Pache with the home run yesterday he leads the
Leads the team with two Renee uh plays a great glove he’s young he’s athletic he’s improving at the plate uh you can’t you can’t move on from pche you got to keep him in you got to find a way to keep him I I really believe that
Yeah yeah and I just want to First give a thank you to Dave because it’d be rude of me to start things off without acknowledging the compliment my thank you um and as you were talking about Christian Christian Pache I actually tweeted out yesterday about like wait a
Minute Christian Pache is one of the ones that has consistently of the bubble group that we can consider him a part of those guys either not only fighting for a roster spot but fighting for more playing time more opportunity on the field Christian p is one that we’ve
Talked about that has you know you know what he gives you and it’s now a matter of in 2024 can he take that next step and so far two home runs and for him to be consistently one of the bright spots on this team I know you guys are taking
Uh talking in the chat about you know Johan roas and Dave shout out to the yo nickname it’s time for pcha to get it’s time for a nickname I’m going give it is no no no no can I be irrational and give him nickname oh wow Tyler gave me the
Thumbs I think he’s got to make the team first he does have to make the team and he if he doesn’t make the team I’m concerned because I mean anything could happen it’s only week one of spring trading games but listen he’s right now on Pace for deserving a nickname I’m
Going to start casually brainstorming some and then as he continues this consistency because you as you all know I’m very big on you know it doesn’t need to be a one and done let’s see this over time weeks months but he’s getting closer guys he’s getting closer to
Nickname status that’s all I got to say and I’m loving the fact that Pache has been flamming balls out of the ballpark and just being able to give us great at bats I love to see it yeah so he was one of the stars from yesterday a lot of the
Lower name uh you know Conor brogens and jior martes of the world all performed really well uh shut the Blue Jays out bunch of Chumps 5 nothing bunch of losers uh so the World Series plans are back on I was going to say this Bingo after a couple blown n Innings and a
Couple ties World Ser World Series parade plans back on um three straight games of of blowing the game in the ninth and we were all like this team’s not whatever we’re getting IR rational but it’s time time to get a rational again because as we are 27 days away
From opening day versus the Braves the Phillies have shut out the the Blue Jays and it feels like they’re on track guys they’re on track so the split Squad today uh some guys including Ranger Suarez who’s starting the g day that was a weird um is heading to
The Tigers which isn’t that far away and then Aaron Nola is staying home versus the Marlins the old split Squad and as Rich Hoffman said in his morning newsletter I’m always curious how that is split like because obviously you’d want to stay home right so of course
Aaron Nola gets the KN over ranger Suarez of course uh but some of the other guys that go to on the road it’s like how do they do they does Rob Thompson just pick out of a hat like how do you split up the split all right
Young fella get on the bus the BET stay home no that’s basically what it is um and I know I just you know as we saw the lineups come out today the Clear Water lineup is the the Veterans for the most part like the starting group is a lot of
The bigger name the veteran guys that are locked in the Lakeland group is not so it’s you know St is involved in that too so I you don’t want to read too much into it because I do as we talked about yesterday one thing that we’ve noticed
That Rob is doing a good job of is allowing for like a mixture in each lineup it’s not you know all the expected starters and then the next time all the expected you know bubble guys it’s mixing in and sprinkling in you know the Weston Wilson’s the Matt crws
The Nick pods with a Trey Bryson um Kyle so doing a nice job sprinkling and spreading things out but it is interesting I don’t know how you decide it but it looks like it was like Tyler said youngsters over here and Bryson St go lead them uh you guys go play Ranger
Bryson and then uh old heads over there yeah Bas um so I want to get real quick about IR rtion real irrationally quick about a 12-year-old um Dominican kid um the Phillies got an aunia the Phillies signed an aunia uh most likely the long history of getting the wrong brother in
Philadelphia will live on through the aunia family as the Phillies come to a verbal agreement with a 12-year-old Renee you excited the younger brother of Luis angle and uh or Lis Angel Luis Angel Angel wow words today it’s it’s it’s all one word so like L and Angel
Are two like to me that’s two names um and Ronald we signed them we got a 12-year-old listen as much as in 2028 he can actually sign with the Phillies in the international signing period as much as we don’t like the Braves and it’s annoying that Ronald
Aunia Jr is so good with the Braves we talked about wanting aunia we’d love to have aunia in Philly we just need to be I I I’ve learned this guys we’ve got to be better at being specific with what we’re manifesting because we did even when we were going through our top five
We’re like a man we’d love to have aunia with the Phillies and we have aunia with the Phillies just 12-year-old aunia but the aunia brothers and the the whole family sucker for Bloodlines I going to say the bloodline runs thick because Louis angel with the Mets uh in their
Pipeline program now you’ve got Kenny coming along I don’t see any reason why uh why not let’s get irrational this is 12 12-year-old Kenny I’m going to apologize to Kenny now I have um really no choice in this matter but to get completely irrational about your possibilities here in a Philly’s uniform
So so um I sorry you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders at 12 years old uh but he looks like quite a specimen quite a large 12 quite a large 12-year-old I don’t read into being a 12-year-old boy because you’re like well
When I first saw the video I was like oh this kid’s like 16 17 and then I and then I read more and I was like wait he’s 12 damn Louis angel I haven’t seen his picture in a while but he also is a bigger kid too like there’s there’s
Something there in the aunia family where they definitely uh you know grow a little quicker than they than they look but at 12 and what helps what I like the most because I know we’ve talked about this even on the union show with like uh cin Sullivan the younger brother of
Quinn Sullivan when you have a talented older sibling and you’re the youngster and you’re just learning from them and you’re picking up all their Tendencies and you know you get a chance to learn from each of them honestly it really does allow there’s a lot of pressure
There don’t get me wrong because you are constantly in the spotlight of a Ronald but on the other side you are a sponge taking all that in can you imagine your 12-year-old self learning from forget who else you learned from growing up imagine you’re learning from Ronald and
He’s giving you pointers and he’s showing you you know so for that reason alone it’s exciting because it’s like okay let’s see how this kid develops he is only 12 there’s a huge age Gap there which gives him also time and separation it’s not like he’s exced 12-year-old
I’ve ever been as a philes fan watch it there I mean we got aunia what’s not to be excited about yeah uh Dave saying all this talk about a 12-year-old is kind of creepy it is it is watch how you guys are talking about this 12-year-old we’re talking about baseball here we’re not
Talking about another other things but it is exciting because I think there’s a big enough Gap had he been like a year or two younger I feel like sometimes those types of siblings really struggle but there’s such a big enough Gap he can be his own person it’s so weird verbally
Agreeing with the 12 but that’s where we are in 2024 I would like to play for the Phillies one day yes sir I like the Phillies Natalie Dave Mickey just hit that Thumbs Up Button while you’re here as well thanks for the compliment Natalie Ray seeing some other people in
The chat Randy happy Friday everybody we’re talking about a 12-year-old talent that has already verbally committed and we’ve been seeing this in college commitments why not seeing them professional commitments you see a lot of like sixth graders and seventh graders are now committing to college I
Was just having some fun with it but like the good news here is the Phillies were historically behind on all signing like they were one of the last major league clubs to get a Dominican academy uh they were one of the last ones to you know basically tap into the
Latin American Market they’ve been slow in the Japanese Market uh and I think this is credit to Dave dumbrowski and mattingley and Sam fold and everybody um they you know the Dominican thing started like a decade ago now at this point but they were behind the times
Then um and you know our Discord Channel this morning was talking about Sasaki next year the3 three-year-old Japanese pitcher uh that’s going to be available and and a lot of people say he’s better than Yamamoto uh and you know the signing or the offer excuse me they made to
Yamamoto should really you know lend a pretty nice Olive Branch over to the Japanese market so like internationally the Phillies are are actually starting to get some clarity and starting to figure this stuff out and we joke about a 12-year-old kid because who the hell knows but great family uh but the these
Are the types of things that they you know kind of should be doing so uh kudos to them for for branching out internationally and uh making this stuff happen yeah it’s exciting it’s some it’s a change a sign of a change at the Times being a little bit more aggressive
Absolutely um so hey we’ll we’ll see how how it plays out years1 we’ll Circle back and see if this kid remember this moment on the first of March in he’ll be pretty much 18 yeah so by the time I mean if he’s on Ronald’s path Ronald was
Up at what 28 he’ll be 18 Jamie huh did you say he’s going to be 18 in 2028 17 right or I don’t know his exact age he’s approximately 12 or 13 well that’s true we don’t know so the international signing you can start when you’re technically 17 and you’re supposed to be
Around 18 so he’s so yeah maybe that math was not math but yeah okay let’s say he’s 13 Max so he’s let’s say he’s 17 in 2028 Maybe by 2031 he could be locking down an outfield where we be in 2031 we’ll be right here still talking about Kenny
Guys right here in the same spot uh but great blood yeah uh does anybody here care about who actually starts the home opener no I mean there’s an answer as to who it should be if you want the best pitcher well because Aaron Nola was
Asked about it okay and I don’t care I think Aaron no is going to get the ball again he probably will he’s the longest ten Philly and he disagrees with that well he’s right he’s he should not get the ball but he probably will like do I
Care though no I mean they’re both gonna pitch but they’re gonna Rob Thompson’s gonna give it to Aaron Nola probably yeah um so Aaron NOA was asked about it yesterday he was on foul territory uh and you know Zack Wheeler got bouquet thrown at him from Aron Nola
Uh here’s what Aaron Nola had to say about Zack Wheeler to me he’s the best pitcher in the Major League I mean he shows it every single year the way he can command a baseball with his pitches and Pitch at that High Velocity I really don’t see it much around the league a
Guy who takes the ball every single time and never wants to come out of the game it’s pretty awesome to be on the same team as him uh he basically said Zack Willer should start opening day uh and really just said you know I hope they
Lock him up I hope they agree to this extension with him I hope they get it done and he was just talking about how much he loved being a teammate and a compe editor with Zack Wheeler so it was really cool to see yesterday yeah and I
Like that because it’s very selfless of him to mention that it’s not like he’s saying you know there’s some of these time some of these conversations and questions um can easily lead a player down the wrong path depending on how they respond to it and I think that’s
The correct response as we know there’s so many games and there’s no question about you know Nola and Wheeler and and where they stand on the team so I don’t know that it I I agree like with you guys I don’t think it matters at all I know in the chat you guys
Like flip a coin PP circumstance like stuff exactly you love them both they’re both going to get plenty of opportunities um and hey it it’ll be a very long season so we won’t even remember who started opening day so I’m I’m whoever it is if it’s Nola if it’s
Wheeler I’ll just be happy in 27 days when we finally have you know we are officially into the start of the season because it is baseball month guys it’s happening it is and our own John Foley is going to be joining us in a little bit went viral yesterday with one of his
Tweets I saw like bar stool picked it up and it was in Philly’s Reddit and uh make sure you’re following along with John he’s going to be joining us in about 13 minutes or so uh but he had this uh in his tweet yesterday just got to say pretty good
For the Phillies World Series odds Renee uh John tweeted out leap years have been very good to the Phillies 2008 Leap Year 1980 leap year 2024 leap year here so get your Phillies bets in to win the World Series now plus 1500 those are pretty nice odds when
It’s clear the Phillies are going to win the World Series this year thanks to the leap year leap year equals championships basically is what that means uh yeah I I didn’t realized that I know I saw John tweeting about it and then as I was look
Thinking it over I was like wow that is that I was doing the math I’m like that is correct those are all leap years and so I know we’ve talked about that extra day and you know making the most of the addition 24 while the Phillies in the
Past leap years made the most of that extra 24 and had a leap year championship so if the world series title gets if if anything else to sway me that this is the year to win it all that was it clearly somebody in the chat was asking uh who Zack Wheeler’s agent
Is his name is Al goats from uh jet sports management so is not a uh Scott Boris on the leap year front I watched interesting video last night uh we have Julius Caesar to thank for uh the leap year installation into the calendars now
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Love this type of stuff and the whole reason behind leap year is because it’s you don’t get a full uh rotation each year of technically a full year is what 365 days2 so that leap year is to reset it so that actually makes complete sense if it wasn’t getting reset every four years
We’d have winter in July I know Christmas in July but it’d be winter in July I was in Australia one year for Christmas and we were on the beach playing Cricket that morning it was pretty weird ah was weird yeah I think yeah certain holidays need to be in the
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Here on a Friday uh John Foley will be joining us from clearw shortly uh to talk about the split Squad and uh you know the week that was John saw all the games this weekend not this weekend this week uh we actually were fortunate enough yesterday to have the MLB TV feed
Of the Toronto game here in the studios uh that was nice but let me get on my old man oh I was wondering where you’re going with this Jamie let me get on my old man soap box and yell at the clouds because you know look sometimes my uh my
Venting is irrational sometimes it’s I think profound and prophetic and and insanely rational all right Tyler you’re going to have to be bear with me here oh no where are we going with this Paul you just called yourself like a prophet basically yeah basically that’s that’s serial killer stuff Paul skin
SK Paul skin the number one pitching Prospect in baseball uh the big stud a lot of people call him liby Dunn’s boyfriend um you know number one pitching Prospect in baseball yesterday faces off against the number one positional Prospect in baseball Jackson holiday and oh yeah to boot Corbin Burns
Just happen to be on the mound as well so you have the number one pitching Prospect facing the number one hitting Fielding Prospect you would think that game is broadcast on TV right Renee this is something that would build uh you know the fan bases of the Pirates and
The Orioles Next Generation and get them excited about the kids the top prospects I know you would think they would it’ be streamed it would be broadcast it would be everywhere jie was it Renee no it was not Jamie it wasn’t even streamed two of the most exciting prospects in baseball
And all you could do was listen on the radio I know Jamie that is some [ __ ] they’re there they’re there thank you um come on I know what are you doing Major League Baseball look I’ve given you a lot of credit recently I think this Futures game is a great idea I
Think the rule changes were for the most part a great idea you’re you’re kind of marketing better you’re allowing social media videos and all that stuff you didn’t used to do you’ve come a long way but when you have a matchup like that spring training or not I know put it on
Something I know I know Rene you sound like a mom right now it’s okay she just wants to listen when my wife come home or she comes home sometimes and she just wants to like B and get off her CH I just walk over and pour a glass of wine I’m like
I’m in my mind doing right now she’s going yeah just get it off your chest Jamie the issue that it always comes down to is it is completely nonsense I know in the chat you guys are also getting fired up with Jamie it’s stupid and okay we’re back the thing is Chris
SL lives in Baltimore couldn’t even get it I know come on yeah it’s it’s egregious it’s bad so for sports that are still growing and trying to increase Their audience and get you know into more households get more diverse get more fans that are just aware of them and
Understand you know who they are who their players are under connecting with the athletes on a personal level they’ve missed the mark in a lot of ways unfortunately because they’re so focused on the right now Bottom Dollar we can’t Monti dollar yeah if we can’t monetize
It right now in this instant we don’t see the value of it which is why and I you know we’ve complained about this in the MLS because with the Apple TV deal they’re actually they’ve taken away local broadcast they’ve taking away the ability to watch preseason games Major
League Baseball is the same thing the only way you can watch is either through the radio listening or MLB Network you can’t easily just turn on your TV and watch a spring training game because they don’t make money off of that but as you’re mentioning you’re losing money in
The long run because this would be an investment that now if you have spring training should be something that’s like free and accessible especially in the local markets I understand maybe not broadcasting it nationally but for someone like Chris that lives in Baltimore it should be on your local TV
Where you can get a basic stream doesn’t have to be pretty doesn’t have to have a ton of broadcasters or all these you know replays and angles and things we would take a fixed camera just giving us a nice wide shot of the field that’d be
Fine just something to be able to watch what’s going on and if you can at least tap into those local markets so now Baltimore fans get to watch you know now as you mentioned Padre’s fans they get to watch now you’re going to in the long run connect fans with the athletes with
The players which will then in turn get you more Revenue through merch ticket sales you know I’ll be more excited to go watch Paul or Jackson in the future after knowing hey you know I remember seeing them back in 2024 so it’s a shame because they’re they’re so focused on
Money money money money money you’re missing out on what would help the league These Guys these teams the best and I don’t understand why in 2024 there still isn’t an easier way to have every single spring training game like unless coaches say this is going to be a closed
Game cuz you see that in theend NBA in the NFL you have closed scrimmages where you don’t get to see it at all but you have the majority of them are wide open you can watch everything I mean football you can watch everything from you know
The the combine to where these guys um go to eat to the watching them tie their shoes to get you know to go out for a jog like you get every saw kickball on ESPN 2 get every single detail and then on top of that exact as you’re
Mentioning and I know somebody I believe said it yesterday you’ll turn on an you know a sports network and you’ll get cornhole games kickball games like there’s there’s a need for something to stream clearly um why not get preseason games on your TV so it’s very frustrating that in 2024 they still
Haven’t found a way they could have a whole like pre-season you know stream on your on your phone I’ve got the MLB app and of course I have to like pay to be able to watch some of the games what J saying in
The chat he said if if I lived in PA I wouldn’t even be able to see it because locally blacked out I live in West Virginia so it allows me and that’s what we used yesterday watch the Blue Jays feed and like that’s fine I mean that’s kind of the direction everything’s going
Where you’re charging people for access to have MLB TV what it comes down but like at the same time when you have the number one pitching Prospect versus the number one exciting positional player in baseball give Baseball fans a chance to watch that because you know chances are
They’re only going to see each other once like even just do like a live check-in on MLB Network the way um with they used to do that with uh the live lookin what was that all the time it wasn’t Red Zone there the red zone for
The NFL where they do that I love like I would I would even enjoy a Red Zone style for spring training games where we just get because the other part is we can’t even get highlights fortunately John is down there so he’s he’s tweeting out videos and if you’re not following
Go do so he’s tweeting out videos from the games but you can’t even get Okay Christian Pache hits a home run you got to hope the Phillies tweet out because otherwise you might not see it I’d even love a live looking from some sort of MLB Dugout Vibe I don’t know what the
Name would be and you’re just going in and you’re showing clips from spring training games and giving updates and giving scores there’s just nothing and it’s a shame to do to fans because as we’ve been doing on the show you wait for so long you finally get you know
Spring training underway games are started they’re playing every day and you can’t even watch top prospects your team anything I love to watch a game it’s it’s frustrating guys so before we talk to John Foley momentarily here um this was in Rich’s newsletter yesterday this was the ESPN piece about the
Baseball realignment of Divisions and I just wanted to throw this out there because it’s so kind of wild to me so this was behind a pay wall so rich basically um just took the uh the part that was significant here with the baseball realignment um this is with the
Expansion of baseball you’d have to balance things out uh and the idea from ESPN was to make it a little more um Centric to the area um you know having the Braves in the NL East yeah sure they’re an East Coast team but they’re not that close so this is what the
Proposed new division for the Phillies would look like uh uh by ESPN uh the Phillies division would then be the Phillies Yankees Mets Red Sox Blue Jays Orioles Nationals and the Montreal Expos uh which was the expansion hypothetical in the argument uh I kind of love it it’s like
The Northeast division no more American and National League uh having the Yankees and Red Sox as kind of division Rivals I think would be pretty cool question mark I I have no problem leaving the Braves uh rivalry in the dust and you know the Nationals even
Like do very little for me uh that was fun for like two years but like I think that would be a fun real alignment if they actually went through with it yeah I mean I think it comes down to you know if you could regionalize these these
Divisions in a way that makes more sense it does for travel purposes for whatever that means cuz there’s so many games so much traveling anyways um but that would make it even easier yuck I and then I know it’d be something exactly as Chris is saying yuck like a lot of people at
First would have a hard time wrapping their heads around it because change is tough I know guys but overall with expansion I’d love to shake things up a bit also just from the sake that you get a chance to like you’re hitting on start a new rivalry rivalry with a new team
Take a train ride up to a lot of those games yeah like that would be fun let’s uh let’s bring John Foley in from Clearwater here and I’ll ask him uh not only do we have to get to Christian Pache with John uh but John we were just
Talking about the ESPN proposal uh for the expansion story they were doing for Major League Baseball in the division realignment uh I don’t know if you heard any of that but the proposed division alignment by ESPN would have the Yankees Red Sox Blue Jays Orioles uh Nationals uh and Mets in the division
With the Phillies are you thumbs up or thumbs down on that new uh realignment I think I think I got go thumbs down on that I I don’t know I mean I’m maybe maybe I’m a boomer too I call that conversation earlier uh but you
Know I was I was anti- Pitch clock and that’s worked out great huge success so maybe it would be fine and like Rene said you would create new rivalries I just I I don’t want those old rivalries to go away um I understand that it would makes a lot of sense
Logistically uh for all sorts of reasons but that’s a that’s a pretty radical realignment I I at least like to maintain national league and American League where where they’ve been if we can do that maybe that maybe there’s a compromise area yeah yeah well also John we were just venting and ranting about
The fact that we are unable to watch games easily on TV because they’re not accessible you have been able to watch all the games for the Phillies and fortunately you’ve been doing a great job uh tweeting out you know updates scores you know showing videos every time you know something a major
Highlight happen so we appreciate you for that but one of the biggest names that have been emerging as we’ve kicked off Spring training games Christian pce he uh had hit his second home run of spring training to start he’s been a bright spot and one that’s been consistently giving good at bats you
Know what have you seen from Christian Pache and and the Phillies down in their start for spring training games yeah you hit on you hit on two topics very close to my heart right there first of all I’m with you guys what is baseball doing you
You put out this product people want to see the product why don’t you let the people see the product so you know I’m doing what I can from the impress box trying to catch some highlights here and there uh whatever doesn’t get me kicked out whatever’s whatever’s legal um but
It’s crazy because I’m sitting there thinking I have my phone right here I can FaceTime and you know the city of Philadelphia could could watch the game so I almost got revoked from the NBA Summer League for doing that it was uh Ben Simmons debut in the summer league
And I was streaming it from uh the media and I had an NBA security come down and uh shut my ass down yeah they will lock it down so I apolog I can’t really take matters into my into my own hands and and stream it but I’ll I’ll bring you what I can
Within the rules um but it’s it’s just a shame and it makes no sense for anybody involved uh but we will jump to Christian Pache because the idea that the the Phillies might keep J cave on the roster instead of P 31y old J cave and look no disrespect to J cave
He’s he’s great he’s a fellow member of the premature Gray beard Club his seems fantastic I don’t want to disrespect JK but you can’t just have a job because you’re left-handed he he didn’t even hit radi particularly well Pache and yeah sometimes you get enamored with a guy who’s labeled as a
As a top talent early and I have been I mean this is this is a guy who uh who’s been highly talented for years he’s only 25 before Johan Roa showed up there was a brief period there where you know Kristen we were talking about Kristen Pache the same way everyone
Talks about Johan roas now you know he he showed up he was hitting 300ish for a while before things you know bottomed out but you know Elite Defender maybe not Johan roas if we’re wering for Johan roas we be we’d be talking about him
That way um and it just seems to me I understand you need left-handed bats and you don’t want your only left-handed bat on the bench to be Gars your backup catcher that puts you in a situation at the same time can you can you take that can you take that hit to
Keep a guy on your roster he’s out of modern League options for for anyone who’s who’s not aware so you can’t stash them in the minors you’re going to lose them um you want to hear my theory I think I can solve this really easy start so start talking and kicking tires in
Clear Water I think they trade Sosa stot can offset Turner marafield can offset bom and stot uh and also do a little Outfield I think you trade Sosa keep cave and pche boom problem solved yeah I I can see that um but so has value too that’s why you trade them
You might get like a veteran Bullpen type arm trade I mean trades change the calculus on any of this right like if you can get a position of Need for Pache for somebody for a team that similarly recognizes his value then go ahead and do that
Um you know if you can give value for Sosa okay do that but you know it’s just in terms of you know if you talk about I don’t want to get into Sixers world but if you talk about assets and just having you know pase feels like an
Asset Sosa feels like an asset J cave again my handed yeah he’s left like that’s what it is his value his his value yeah but now as you’re seeing guys like pach playing better um even Sosa having you know value as a trade asset you know Jake cave is just there and
There’s not there’s no need for him wh marfield is already and should solve a lot of problems um especially on the you know Fielding side but J cave it’ll be a never ending I feel like conversation about you don’t need him just cuz he’s left-handed so listen though John as
You’re down watching the games what are kind of your key takeaways that you’ve had because you’ve been able to see you know we get Clips we get the occasional stream here and there you’ve been able to see day in and day out from batting practice and Bullpen sessions to now
Spring training games to start off the spring training period you know what have you noticed about this team that’s you know or some key takeaways you can share for those of us that are limited I think the I think the biggest takeaway is the professionalism this is
A team on a mission you know 2022 might it sort of came out of the BL blue it was like a magical ride uh 2023 and they came in I’m sure professional but this year you you could just tell it it you know it sort of hearkens back to the the
Last Golden Era you know 2007 through 11 where there’s only there’s only one goal when Maryfield was talking about it uh on a broadcast I think we had a clip um you know they’re they focus there’s what Wht said was you know there’s there’s a lot of guys here
They’ve they’ve done the other things they need to do in baseball they’ve you know they they’ve made it they’ve proven themselves individually they’ve landed their contracts and there’s only one thing left for them to do a lot of these guys and that’s that’s bring that bring that trophy back so
John uh last one for you before we uh dissect the top five managers in baseball and does Rob Thompson fall in that list uh you had a tweet that went a little viral yesterday um it’s a leap year so I guess the Phillies are winning the World Series
Huh yeah I mean that’s the only logical conclusion the draw you know there are people out there who are trying to say that there are have been other leap years where the Phillies didn’t win a championship now I I don’t know if they’re right or wrong I’m doing my own
Research on that and it may be the case uh but I like our odds I like our odds there I think I think there’s only been three yeah well yeah John you’re doing a great job uh writing Recaps of the game I love The Good the Bad and the Uglies
For for those of us that don’t get to watch these games uh it’s a great little synopsis so uh keep up the great work keep pushing out great content on Twitter and uh have a great weekend watching the phills and we are how many days away 12 days away uh from cracking
A beer in the sunshine down in Clearwater Beach yes awesome job John thanks Jamie thanks R thanks Tyler it’s uh can’t wait till you guys get down here it’s gonna be a lot of fun it is 12 days away and yes Dave P we also cannot wait for the season to start because
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All right let’s get right into it the top five managers in baseball uh this is more or less rounding out our top five list the manager one is an interesting uh one because it’s hard to exactly dissect what a manager does the famous Earl Weaver saying in baseball is that a good
Manager can win you seven to eight games a year uh a bad manager can probably lose you you know seven to eight games a year um a lot of what a manager does is I think most important is managing the locker room and second most important is
Managing the bullpen outside of that I mean it’s kind of minimal game situation type stuff uh some guys get credit for Player Development some guys get over credited for having a really expensive High roster or highly paid roster some guys get a lot out of a little so it’s a
It’s kind of I’m interested to see where everybody is cuz there’s so many different ways at looking at a manager uh and whether they’re good or not uh so let’s just get it started I will go with my number five manager on my list uh we lost to him last year in the
NLCS uh I thought he out managed Rob Thompson I think he’s established himself as one of the better managers in baseball uh and I’m going to go with Lolo from out in the Arizona Diamondbacks Tory Lolo out managed Rob Thompson to me I thought he had a really really nice year the Arizona
Diamondbacks uh are good uh they have a lot of expectations and it seemed like they got the most out of a little bit last year uh they got some young players emerging I think a manager helped get credit for fostering young players uh like Moreno and Corbin Carol so I think
Lolo did a really nice job and is going to stay as one of the top managers in baseball and by the way real quick I’m an idiot I can’t spell I spelled that man’s name wrong on every single one of your graphics that’s who cares I feel
Terrible we’re not serious people no but it looks bad on me it’s fine so I’m going to I’m going to go with as number five Renee who you got so uh I’m glad you put out a disclaimer there because ranking managers going into 2024 is extremely difficult because as you
Mentioned there’s there’s hitting coaches there’s pitching coaches there’s so many other pieces involved you know what is the manager’s role so I went based off of guys that have steadily been improving that I feel like going into 2024 are are going to need to have a big role in organizing the troops and
Keeping everybody locked in um so I’m starting things off with a with Mr Brian Saker down in Atlanta now when you look at where the Braves were when he came in and when he took over back in 2016 after Freddy Gonzalez and as someone that you know worked his way through the
Franchise in many different roles he was of course he’s played with the Braves and he worked in his you know through the coaching staff was an inter manager and since taking over in 2016 when the team was having you know losing records his first couple seasons were not great
But Brian snaker did help the Braves be able to win a World Series back in 2021 also be a team that’s top of the league in various categories winning the NL East uh six playoff birs he’s been manager of the year once and also they’ve been the top dog across Major
League Baseball now I think it’s important because the bravs have not been able to get past the hurdle that is the Philadelphia Phillies that if Brian snaker is going to be the top a top manager he’s got to find a way to make this group get further into the playoffs
And uh I think it’s a big year for him it’s a it’s a test year for them because they have on paper one of the best squads and when you look at the what they’ve done in the last five seasons and his overall record through that this
Team uh has something very special so to for Brian Saker starting things off at my number five yeah so I grade managers on a bell curve So eventually you get to a point where your team is so good that you’re just expected to win and if
You’re not winning at a high high enough level you’re going to almost get a knock despite the fact that maybe you do win 95 or 97 regular season games and maybe you do get to the Cs but at some point that bell curve comes back to form and
So for me picking managers that are top five worthy are about Expediting your talent for what you have around you whether it be via payroll or roster construction whatever the case may be so I’m going to go with a newcomer to uh this list and the newcomer to the MLB
Last year his first time manager skip schoemer he was like heavily considered replac Dave Roberts who I thought did a tremendous job in getting a Marlins team that has a ton of really great pitching but the roster construction itself was not fantastic the Marlins were 33 and 14
In one-run games last season Leed Major League Baseball was the fourth best one run record in terms of percentages uh of all time despite the fact that they had a minus 57 run differential the guy did a tremendous job of of managing his his uh rotation did a tremendous job of
Managing his pen I don’t know if the Marlins are going to repeat as a playoff team in 2024 but I think schacher did a really nice job manager in baseball like sure um yeah skip Schumacher was under heavy consideration for me uh number four I’m going to go with one that was
The one I not that I lost sleep over it but you know the saying I lost sleep over Dave Roberts um I have him number four now the knock against him is me you and Tyler could go out there and manage the Los Angeles Dodgers their payroll is
A billion dollars you should be good uh I think they’ve been decimated by injuries a little bit lately um I think Dave Roberts is a fine manager uh I think his biggest challenge out there is especially now with the Yamamoto and Otani and the international uh contingency that’s going to be thrust
Upon them is just you know managing that Clubhouse you have the best player in baseball in Muki Betts or Otani uh you have Freddy Freeman who’s like a top 10 guy there’s a lot of ego and personality um and I think you know it hasn’t translated yet to the World
Series success that maybe the payroll says it should I still think Dave Roberts is a pretty solid manager so I’m not going to hold his roster against him uh and I’ll look more to like the Father Figure keep everybody at peace and at Bay uh type of manager role for him so I
Got him number four but I did consider putting skip shoeer over him yeah yeah no I agree uh definitely keeping in perspective the roster the talent you know what they’re working with you’ve got to be able to as a manager get the best out of your guys and so I’m going
To go with a guy that did just that to be able to lift the Philadelphia Phillies past Brian Snicker and the Brees and going with Rob Thompson Rob number four for me listen coming into his first year to be able to lead the Phillies to the World Series a team that
Prior had been under 500 obviously ended the playoff drought we we know exactly after following this team so closely all that Rob had his hands in and there have been so many opportunities that Rob was managing the team so well and the whether it was you know starting
Pitching rotation or you know making decisions out of the bullpen that this team has a lot of belief and composure and I know John talked about the professionalism that you’re seeing down in Clear Water around the Phillies a lot of that starts with Rob he’s very mild
Mannered never too high never too low and the guys embody that as well and to have two playoff birds of course that World Series run um where you are under 500 clenching a you know last minute grabbing a wild card spot surprising a lot of teams to go the wild the World
Series that belief starts at the top with Rob and I’m hoping that this year and it should be this year that Rob takes a major stride in how he’s organizing and leading this team as manager because Rob Thompson definitely has helped in his first two seasons one
Where he wasn’t even fully the the manager the entire year to be able to allow the Phillies to have that belief that composure that Underdog mentality still but also going out and grinding and and earning you know the ability to be a top team in the league so Rob
Thompson going with topper number four I all I see is chicken cutlets now mentioned by Mickey in the chat Tyler who you got number four so this spot uh by the way my the guy that ended up I was really deliberating between two guys I ended up going with the guy that made
The World Series this year Tory lell at number four uh spelled correctly on this one so SP correctly just sand I get it the guy that I struggled to keep off this list was Roco baldelli from the Minnesota Twins even though you know how high of
The I think of the Detroit Tigers this year I still think the Twins win that division in the central L did a really nice job of managing the 21st highest payroll to a World Series birth they only won 84 regular season games but sometimes you make your mark when it
Matters most and like you said Jamie I think you’re right he out he out managed uh Rob Thompson he out managed Dave Roberts and you know obviously they wiped the Dodgers pretty convincingly in the DS but he out managed Rob Thompson and then he ran into a buzz saw that was
The Texas Rangers I’m not sure anybody in b was beating the Rangers in the World Series this past year llla did a really really nice job with this team and I think that they get they got better this off season by adding Eduardo Rodriguez uh adding uh jock Peterson
This team is brought gel back I think this team is still going to be good I’m going to go level at four yeah uh you know he’s one of those things it’s it’s how you view these he probably got more out of what he should uh and I think
This next guy for me number three Kevin cash um you know when you’re highest paid player is uh Zack effin uh the highest free agent signing in franchise history and year in and year out with their Player Development and scouting um to be as competitive a franchise as the
Tampa Rays are uh is amazing and you know you see these guys all over the ray roster you know they lose a wander Franco who’s one of the top prospects in baseball and the team barely skips a beat uh they develop guys all over the
All over the field Uh Kevin cash is a great manager plain and simple I think he’s a top three guy in baseball I even considered him putting him number one uh that’s how highly I think of Kevin cash so uh number three is certainly no slate
To him I think he’s done a tremendous job with the Rays he’s my number three yeah and it’s interesting because I feel like for my list I was going with a lot of you know for four and five for Rob um especially you know falling short looking at Robin Bryan’s ability to have
Top teams that fell short and this team definitely did that but I feel like he’s going to have this has to be a top five year for him otherwise he’s not going to keep his job and so that’s why number three for me with one of the biggest off
Seasons after having a very disappointing year last year Aaron Boone uh listen the Yankees didn’t even make the playoffs last year a team that was one of the most disappointing Yankees teams that you can think of in recent years and Boon’s job was honestly very much up in the air and I completely
Agreed with it I understood why many people called for him to be let go but to see the moves they’ve made this off season Juan stto alone uh having a healthy Aaron judge the New York Yankees have to be a top team so I put Aaron bu
Number three because this is in my opinion a year we we need to see Boon coach at a higher level in his time there five playoff Birds they haven’t won you know a penet they haven’t he hasn’t won manager of the year they haven’t done honestly well and it’s
Disappointing for the Yankees franchise but but Aaron Boone has to be that guy this year it’s his time to manage you’ve got the talent now you’ve got the the the team is all set up there you obviously have Garrick Cole already back um you have all the pieces it’s time to
Go out and see what you can do with it and in 2024 you should see a top manager in Aaron Boon if not he’s out of there so he’s my number three for a different reason that needs to be he’s absolutely in the hot seat he needs to be a top
Five manager of this season if this team does not expectations of at least you know a playoff getting to the playoffs being in division uh title contentions he’s not going to have his job so uh yeah it’s Aaron Boon for me because the pressure is on for you Aaron Boon at
Number three who you got Tyler imagine adding $30 million in salary and you going up to the 23rd ranked team in baseball in terms of pay that’s what the Baltimore Orioles are looking at they they’re up to 83 whole million I’m going Brandon Hyde this guy in the course of
The last two seasons now granted the talent has been sign W manager of year last year did he he was he did yes he did but obviously the talent has gotten significant over the last couple of Seasons but from 2021 they won 52 games last year I thought 2022 might have been
One of his better managing times as well because they weren’t quite good just yet and he got that team to 83 and 79 despite the fact that there was very little Talent still on that roster even with Rutman coming up that last year they wi 101 games without the fact
Despite the fact that they didn’t have a really good starting pitching staff they add Corbin Burns Kyle bradish when he gets back to fully being healthy which I’m hoping is by like April is maybe you know late April you’re going to have those two guys John means gets healthy
Again it’s a a much better pitching staff I think Brandon Hyde did has done a really nice job with this Orioles team I expect them to be in contention again I’m going to go Brandon Hyde got a lot better getting Corbin Burns and adding Jackson holiday and some of these other
Kids uh my number two I’m going to go with a guy and organization I hate unfortunately uh but Brian Snicker um has won the nle every year he’s been the manager and again this is another manager that you look at and you go well yeah we could all manage that team yeah
I know but it’s easier said than done and to have a historic uh greatest offense perhaps ever yeah sure the players get a ton of credit for that but again you you have to manage that you have to manage the egos uh there’s a lot of Latin speaking
Players there so there’s a big melding uh pot and Brian Snicker has been awesome with the Braves uh you know Player Development he gets you know he gets a hand in the credit there in establishing the culture and the development and the Braves are just a freaking awesomely run team uh it’s
Really annoying and I’m not going to hold it against Snicker I think he’s one of the best managers in baseball yeah yeah uh for me next and actually Tyler you just hitting on how much he helped turn the Baltimore Orioles around it’s Bren Hyde who’s at my number two spot
And honestly could be number one with just how much he’s helped take this group to the next level look when he took over in 2019 the Orioles at that time were in the midst of a rebuild it was messy it was chaotic his first two seasons there full two seasons there
Were also worse uh bottom team across the league losing 108 games in 2019 110 and 20121 and for the Orioles to have quickly turned things around adley rushman was a big part of that they obviously have brought in Corbin Burns this past off season they’ve been adding pieces they’ve been rebuilding uh and
Are top team across Major League Baseball brenen Hyde has been able to manages group so well to have that quick turnaround sometimes it takes teams years to be able to do that and they were able to go from 2021 as I mentioned with 110 losses to then 2022 where they
Are a team that you have to keep an eye on so you know to be around 500 in 2022 or over 500 in 2022 I should say um he has continued to take strides with this organization and I think as a club the orial strides are because of Brandon
Hyde and his ability to develop the young Talent as we were talking about and have this team leaving and being able to play at a high level what you got Tyler not a huge fan of uh retreads or baseball lifers adding them to uh become a a manager for the a team that
Is looking to potentially you know compete but just in general not a fan of of the the baseball lifer per se I think that sometimes there there’s Merit in bringing in a fresh face and a fresh voice but hard to argue with five world series appearances and four World Series
Victories including his first year with the Texas Rangers I’m going Bruce brochi at number two when you talk about guys that are Shire locks to be managers that get into the Hall of Fame when it’s all said and done Boi’s name is at the top
Of the list I think it was before he won the World Series last year the three World Series and Five Seasons with the San Francisco Giants did a really nice job of managing this Texas team has a little bit of that old school feels to him still I think he’s more analytic
Than people want to uh admit just because he is a baseball lifer and a little bit of an old school manager but still has enough of that good mix of analytics and old school feel he did a tremendous job with this Texas team whose Bullpen was a disaster for the
First six months of the year blew more saves than anybody in baseball through August and they found a way to come together and win the World Series bochi did a tremendous job this year yeah he’s my number one I’m just going to take it right from there and continue on I think
Bruce bochi is just awesome you know he’s that baseball lifer uh basically was a part of a dynasty out in San Fran uh they bring him into Texas with their new high payroll um they call him off a retirement he wasn’t even expecting a call
They talk him into the job and you know he is that old school guy Tyler and then they have Chris Young You know the former Princeton pitcher SL president who probably balances him out with a with a nice analytical aspect of that uh so Bruce Bruce broi to me is is awesome
Um he’s number one and not just because he won the world series title again I think that just kind of cemented it he was always consistently one of the top managers uh in the game yeah all right well I was considering putting Bruce in my top five but this is really difficult
My number one though I’m going out to LA it’s Dave Roberts I know you had him at number five on your list Jamie he’s number one for me because when you look at what he’s done in his time with the Dodgers uh Roberts has had one of the the highest winning percentages across
All managers in the league you look eight playoff Birds three pennants won obviously a World Series call it an asri or not they still won a World Series title his uh winning percentage at a 630 he knows how to win games and what makes him number one for me going in 2024 is
Shy Otani Yamamoto Tyler glass now tasar Hernandez this is this is a manager that already knows how to get the best from his team and you look at the fact that you know the Dodgers have had multiple 100 win Seasons five times they’ve never missed the playoffs uh you know he has
Been a big part of that they’ve been at the top of the league already and adding in the and having the biggest off season that they did you should get a top manager uh performance all year from Dave Roberts in order for them to be the
Team that they are expected to on paper and it’s going to have to be a big year for him to at least you know get this team coming together we’ve already seen their start to spring training and I think Dave Roberts is going to be
Someone that at the end of 2024 is in the conversation for manager of the year and who you got Tyler yeah no point over the Last 5 Years including this year have the Tampa Bay Rays been in the anything higher than 23rd on payroll Uh
Kevin cash to me is the best manager in baseball uh 99 wins last season they’ve made the playoffs each of The Last 5 Years 96 wins in 19 121 uh they go to the World Series in 2020 the co shorten year uh yes they’ve lost in the ALCS uh
Excuse me uh the AL Wild Card round each of the last two years and it’s been under performance and I think that at this point you are going to start to look at Kevin cash inward a little bit you know he’s kind of lost a little bit
Of the benefit of the doubt but to me he’s done more with less uh in terms of payroll wise they’ve done a really nice job of cultivating talent I know Jamie you’re huge on their uh uh Player Development scouting all of that kind of uh you know getting the
Best out of their young players to me Kevin cash is still the best manager in baseball yeah he’s pretty he’s pretty freaking awesome and by the way I’ve seen it multiple times in the chat Ron Washington is one of the best baseball coaches to ever walk the planet I just
It’s so hard to decide that uh that Angels team stinks like be Ron Washington himself is an Elite baseball coach that is that is what makes this ranking so difficult and I know you guys this might be one of the days you disagree with us the most because it’s
Really hard I mean when you’re talking about individual players you can look at Stats and things managers how much are you Weighing on them versus the team it’s it’s tough plus we’re looking ahead into 2024 so Hey listen yeah you look at don’t like my list it’s fine my like the
Four guys I left off were probably Rob Thompson Brandon Hyde Ron Washington and um I didn’t really have Aaron Boone that high but there was one other see I looked at it as was like the top 10 is is Scott service deserves some consideration most people consider one of the top
Managers in baseb none of us I know I know I know Tyler you’re anti Craig but honestly he was in the consideration for me too but the top 10 is pretty impressive there’s some good man me it just comes down to in 2024 who needs to
Be at the top because their team uh is is heavily leaning on them so I don’t know let’s this thing up this is the last Guess That Swing we are probably scraping the bottom of the barrel when Johan carmargo makes your list you’re you’re near the bottom you guys have
Three minutes to do okay we’re we’re doing it and and get out of the show yes um let’s do it I’m going to fire right from the hit a five on the difficulty scale I see a left-hander no a rander um I think I see the top hand is
The left hand handed batter and that’s a righty that’s a righty cuz the left hand is top wait no sorry but I don’t like that he’s I don’t I don’t I don’t it’s a switchit by the way switch ofy here we go uh I think I have somebody I’m just
Going to shoot e shooto switch hitter which one is this um I don’t remember to be honest with you lovely just lovely um all right I’m going to send you a name giving you that it’s a switch hitter it Narrows the list down oh it does but I I was I was stuck
On Switch Hitters the other day um where why are you not popping up there you are Tyler I’m just gonna I’m just GNA you know it’s the last one yeah let’s do it just fire from the hip and get out here I’m not sure if we did him
Already Jamie uh you can enjoy your weekend but let’s see well Rene I wanton you to enjoy your weekend too but Jam but Jam’s got immediate plans is what I’m trying to say yeah did we do him yet Tyler uh we have not done him yet no
Okay Rene’s answer is locked in uh Dave I would say difficulty rating five because this guy was prominent for the Phillies not during good years but he was prominent oh okay I’m going to send you mine here we go Rene’s answer is locked in I don’t
Feel I don’t feel good about it because I don’t I think my guy is a little heftier I don’t know I got to get balls in the air all right Jamie’s going Carlos Santana he is locked in Renee went Freddy gal oh Galis final guest That Swing of the year goes to Renee
[Applause] You proud of yourself all right yeah I ended on a high note let’s go spy row I know you had it Stephen we were locked in with Freddy Galis as soon as you said he was prominent on in those bad years I was like okay I’ve got I’ve got
Potential here see Tyler you gave it away now she’s Waring I already had my answering before he said that okay for the record but that was fun guys maybe you should keep this going yeah there we all right everybody thanks for hanging out with us this week we’ll be back next week 11:00
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27 days welcome to March everyone have a great weekend we love you we appreciate you for Tyler for Renee for myself thank you for hanging out with us and we’ll see you next [Applause] week
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Rt is the biden of managers, poor pitching changes, multiple subs in same game!!!!!