00:00Are they done looking at outfield bats?
00:02Is Brian De La Cruz the answer?
00:05Yeah, look, they're just throwing everything against the wall right now,
00:08but it can't be done.
00:10If they went into the postseason with this lineup,
00:12and particularly this outfield,
00:14it would be really hard to say, hey, watch out for that team.
00:17You know?
00:18I mean, if Schwarber and Harper hit a home run every day,
00:21yeah, they'd score enough, but they're outfields just to worry.
00:25I almost use this as the stat of the week,
00:28but you know what the combined on-base percentage is
00:31of all their outfielders this year?
00:34How about 291?
00:36You know, when I ran that number,
00:38that'd be the worst on-base percentage of any outfield in modern Phillies history.
00:45There's only one other year in the modern era
00:49that the outfield on-base was even under 300.
00:53That was more than 80 years ago.
00:55So they've got to look, and they are looking.
00:59I mean, those names you've heard, Lane Thomas, Taylor Ward,
01:02they're definitely in play,
01:04but they've got a much, much longer list than that.
01:09And as I've said to you guys before,
01:11it doesn't have to be just a right-handed hitting outfitter.
01:15It could be a left-handed hitter.
01:16It could be a switch hitter.
01:18It just has to be a guy who hits left-handed pitching.
01:22I mean, we're still almost two weeks out,
01:24outside of a half-dozen teams.
01:26It's still really hard to say who the sellers are.
01:29But whoever they are, you know what?
01:31They'll be hearing from Dave Dombrowski.
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