Inside R Phillies

The opening moves of the offseason have been made, as the Harrison Bader declined his end of a $10M mutual option for 2026, and the Phillies exercised their 2026 option for Jose Alvarado, at a cost of $9M. Bryan De La Cruz signed a minor league contract with the Phillies that comes with a Spring Training invitation. Is he better than Nick Castellanos? All of that, and more, on today's episode!

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We have one question to answer today. Is baseball broken? We will talk about why it might be, reasons to be optimistic that it isn't, and who to blame for the CBA nightmare that we will experience next year.

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Today, we are setting the table for the Phillies offseason, talking about what we want to see happen, don't want to see happen, and reacting to some predicted contracts. Also, more information came out about Bryce Harper and Dave Dombrowski, and talk about G7 of the WS.

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There are trade rumors about Bryce Harper. Nick Castellanos has hired an agent. The Dodgers and the Blue Jays will match up in the World Series, starting tomorrow. Let's talk about all of it.

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Dave Dombrowski and Rob Thomson held their end of season press conferences yesterday, and it's safe to say that people's opinions on it are... mixed. Let's talk about what happened, what we took away from the press conferences, and how they may have changed our expectations for the offseason.

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It has been a few days since the season came to an unceremonious end. Let's talk about what happened in the NLDS against the Dodgers, what we think about each of the Phillies players that will be free agents, and how the team should move forward from this loss on a large level.

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The Phillies lost Game 4 of the NLDS, and their season is officially over. This was heartbreaking and a game that will forever go down in Phillies lore. Here's my immediate reaction to it all.

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The Phillies won Game 3 of the NLDS in Los Angeles tonight. Everything worked perfectly, and the Phillies will live to fight another day. In this podcast with Joe and Jeremy, let's talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. The Phillies have paved their path forward, and it's up to them on if they want to take it or not. 

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The Phillies lost Game 1 of the NLDS in another game that completely sucked. The season is now on the brink, as the Phillies will face their first elimination game of the season in Los Angeles on Wednesday. This is the last dance of this iteration of the team. Can they finally make it all of the way? Let's talk about it. 

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The Phillies lost Game 1 of the NLDS in another game that completely sucked. The season is on the brink, and it's time to play elimination games.

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