Alex Mcfarlane

So what are you going to do with that position? You have to go address it in free agency.

Or you can hand it over to Alex McFarlane, who came up partway through the year and say, well, that's our guy.

He's a righty.

I'd rather have a lefty option there.

And we're going to look at the most reliable arm in the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen, not named Jawan Duran.

We evaluate John Bolin.

We take a look at Alex McFarlane.

And the guy that the Phillies announced that they re-signed, Tim Mazza.

That's something.

Is that it? Oh, Alex McFarlane, too.

So we'd have basically three arms for next year.

None of them are left-handed.

But Tanner Banks is a guy that you give him, a low-end contract, a prove-it deal, he could very well be the 2025 Tanner Banks, and you've got a solid lefty in your lineup, depending on what happens with other guys that are out on the market, Adrian Morhone, by the way, he's also a guy who's expected to get a qualifying offer, which would cost you a lot more to sign, but if Banks can bounce back to 25 for him.

Alex McFarlane continues to progress.

You could have a real nice setup there.

And Banks, when he was in the minors on his injury reassignment, they were looking at turning him into a potential long reliever option.

And they found some pieces on the back end.

Estebenzon Jimenez, who's now playing in the Arizona Fall League, he replaced Alex McFarlane as the closer and was absolutely dynamite in that role.

I think he maybe blew two saves, but he was striking out batters.

He wasn't giving up free bases.

Of those five guys I mentioned, is there any one of them that particularly stands out to you in the AFL?

just the, you know, I mentioned Estebenzone Jimenez just because he's the one to me that, that was really interesting.

Um, you know, towards the end of the season, he took over for, uh, I mentioned Alex McFarlane, um, you know, when, when Alex was called up to the big leagues and, uh, he's not overwhelming he doesn't throw 100 miles an hour he's more in that 94 to 96 range like he strikes me as a really good middle relief type of guy that they're going to be able to work with he's never going to be flashy um but but it He's a guy that I think can help a big league team.

He's 24 years old.

You know, he's going to stay.

I would pencil in Alex McFarlane into that Orion Kirk ring.

Hopefully a little bit better than Orion.

But as that younger reliever that has options, but you don't think you're going to option down to the minor leagues because you trust him.

He's the only lefty in that pen right now, which is really scary.

But, you know, you have Alex McFarlane, Jonathan Boland.

They like Caleb Killian.

You know, he was hurt, but they like him, so he's going to be sticking around.

But on the other side, the, the Phillies were a team that we saw as, they got a couple of good relievers, but they're gonna have to have some guys step up due to injuries, uh, mostly to, to Brad Keller.

But with other guys being left off the roster, I mean, there was a lot of pressure put on Alex McFarlane in that series.

Yeah, he was the guy.

He was the first one.

Almost consecutively, game after game after game, of course.

And Johan Duran and I think Alex McFarlane probably are the only two members of the bullpen that should be coming back this coming season.

They need a complete overhaul, right? At this point, they need a complete overhaul.

Will we see about six new faces at this point? at this point with this particular aspect of this team in the bullpen, this off season here, are we going to see like six new faces?