Kyle Schwarber

The Phillies opened the spring leaning toward using Schwarber as a cleanup man, but they've been going back more to their 2024 arrangement lately, with Schwarber leading off in front of Trea Turner, Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm. We'd say that's the right call; Schwarber finished fifth in the NL in plate appearances, third in runs scored and fifth in RBI while hitting leadoff last year. Why fix what's obviously not broken?

A Kyle Schwarber homer was the only damage. Berrios's velocity today was down about 1.5 mph from last year's averages, but he still did a nice job in amassing a 31% CSW. He'll head into his Opening Day start against the Orioles with a 2-0 record and a 2.18 ERA in five spring starts.

Turner was back hitting second today. It has seemed like the Phillies are leaning towards going with a top four of Turner, Bryce Harper, Alec Bohm and Kyle Schwarber, but they're clearly not decided just yet. They went back to the 2024 standard today, with Schwarber leading off and Harper hitting third. Bohm would hit fourth in that scenario, though he was sitting today.

Even Wallner's one out today was hit 101.9 mph. The hits topped out at 110.5 mph. Wallner is 10-for-41 this spring, but he's up to five homers and also had a couple of doubles. That certainly doesn't scream leadoff man, but the Twins are planning to let him do his best Kyle Schwarber impersonation there.

Trea Turner, Bryson Stott and Max Kepler also homered for the Phillies. Schwarber struck out in his other three at-bats today, and he's still batting just .148 through 29 plate appearances. It probably doesn't matter much, though. Last spring, he hit .132 with no homers in 44 plate appearances.