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00:00From MLB.com has covered the Phillies for years.
00:02Andrew McCutcheon tore his ACL last night,
00:06will miss the rest of the season.
00:08That is about the worst news that the Phillies
00:11or anybody in baseball that's a fan of the game
00:14could have gotten this year.
00:14That's when it happened.
00:17Pop up and we saw him escorted off the field last night.
00:22Dempy, you and I were here with John Smoltz last night.
00:24We thought, wow, that's too bad.
00:25Hope he's not hurt for very long.
00:27Turns out it's a torn ACL.
00:29Yeah, it sucks.
00:30This is a big blow, big blow to their offense.
00:33You know, the guy at the top of the lineup
00:34has been doing a great job for them.
00:36Fits very well in Philadelphia.
00:38And a guy that's over his career always been healthy.
00:40He's always out there playing.
00:41And so to see something like this happen to anybody
00:43but a guy like Andrew McCutcheon,
00:45who is one of the faces of baseball
00:47and to not have him out on the field
00:48for something like this, so innocent,
00:49a rundown like that and all of a sudden
00:51now his season's done well into next year too.
00:53It's brutal.
00:53It's a huge loss for the Phillies.
00:55There's no way around this.
00:57Remember how they collapsed last season?
01:00A lot of young players there.
01:01I thought his professionalism and just the optimism
01:03he brings to the ballpark every day,
01:05besides being an on-base machine,
01:07doing it once again this year,
01:08was a perfect fit for this team.
01:11And now there's gonna be less traffic
01:13for Harper and for Hoskins.
01:15But more importantly, I think they've lost
01:17one of the real pillars of that clubhouse.
01:19Comes at a terrible time too in terms of the schedule,
01:22in terms of the Braves breathing right down their necks,
01:25in terms of Mike Alfranco getting really cold
01:28and all of a sudden we were celebrating him
01:30as the best number eight hitter in baseball through April.
01:33And in terms of what else is out there,
01:35look, they bring in Jay Bruce,
01:36not knowing that all of a sudden
01:38he was gonna get four at-bats a night,
01:39and that's happening.
01:40And I would imagine they're gonna shop even more
01:42with the loss of McCutcheon.
01:43They're gonna need a right-handed hitting outfielder,
01:45no question about that.
01:46I mean, you could look at somebody like
01:47Nicolas Castellanos, Trey Mancini.
01:50Problem with those guys, they're not really plus defenders.
01:53And I think they need someone who can play the outfield well
01:56as McCutcheon, because you still have Harper,
01:58you still have Jay Bruce,
01:59and they need a good glove guy
02:00as well as a right-handed stick.
02:01So I'm sure they're working the phones already.
02:04Philly's in San Diego,
02:05dealing with Chris Paddock after a loss yesterday
02:08in the series opener.