Zack Wheeler Out for Season: Impact on Phillies' Playoff Hopes

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00:00okay so sad news for uh donnie right side fans here today as it looks like zach wheeler

00:05is not just going to be out for this season look i'm not going to bet against anyone donnie but

00:11this seems to be the pitching injury that does in the careers of guys i'm just saying like and

00:16zach wheeler has been the most consistent ace in major league baseball for about a decade

00:22he's out for the year i know that aaron nola came back so that's good news for them and nola by the

00:26way is not going to be zach wheeler he'll go to like the four or the five but in a seven game series

00:32i still think donnie the phillies may have the two best pitchers going in the postseason it's still

00:38very maybe three it's very possible based on the performances but i do feel uh bad for wheeler who

00:43by the way said that i think that he was done anyway after his next contract i wonder if he

00:47speeds that up next year yeah it's gonna be a tough one and the phillies put out the right you know

00:52statements there and the teammates saying you know it's about family it's about life it's not about

00:55the game but it's got to be a devastating blow because when you get to the playoffs the phillies

00:59one of the few teams in major league baseball that would have two or three starters craig that you

01:04don't have to worry about a bullpen game they'll pitch right into the seventh or eighth inning give

01:07you a hundred pitches and then you hand it over to one of your closers or a deep bullpen guy and

01:11away you go that advantage is taken away and you're even seeing the odds market react to it hey the

01:15phillies are playing great baseball now yes but it's not so much sometimes craig about the regular

01:19season it's the projection once you get to the playoffs if you were relying on zach wheeler you knew

01:23he'd be there now it's christopher sanchez he's been wonderful have we seen that high level effort

01:28in the playoffs so far for him how about you know you take a look at ranger suarez great start yesterday

01:3211 strikeouts doesn't give up an earned run he's been known to break down at the end of the season

01:36that lynch pin too because sometimes well he's hurt every year you hit the nail on the head craig

01:40zach wheeler is never hurt and always available and now he's down with a terrible injury that will carry

01:46into next off season and this isn't a 24 year old saying you know what i'll get it back here

01:51you're in your mid-30s at this point it's hard to come back from those type of injuries

01:54a devastating blow to the world series hopes of my philadelphia phillies absolutely