LOCKDOWN: The Philadelphia Phillies Must LOCK IN Jesus Luzardo—Why An Extension Is a Game-Changer

LOCKDOWN: The Philadelphia Phillies Must LOCK IN Jesus Luzardo—Why An Extension Is a Game-Changer

The Phillies are interested in a Jesus Lazardo extension, but how much would that cost and would it be worth it? We discuss it on today’s episode. You are Locked on Phillies, your daily Philadelphia Phillies podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Yes, this is Locked On Phillies. I’m your host, Connor Thomas. Thank you so much for joining us today. We come to you as part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. We’re also now the number one sports podcast network and Locked On Phillies is your number one place for daily Monday through Friday Philadelphia Phillies content. You might know me for some of my other work in the sports talk space. I’ve been on air over at 975 the fanatic doing sports talk radio here in Philadelphia for over six years. I’ve been a credentialed Philadelphia Phillies media member for the past four seasons and this is my fourth year as the host of Locked on Phillies. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit fanuel.com and place your NFL live bets all season long. The Phillies might be about to place a bet on Jesus Lazardo long-term. The 28-year-old has been said to have some interest on the part of the organization in a long-term extension. So, should they do it? We’ll look at history and we’ll look at the future. Got to look both directions, folks. Plus, Kyle Schwarber is apparently actually considering the Cincinnati Reds, but there’s a major hangup for the Reds, and the Phillies do not have that same issue. So, I’ll tell you why. If Kyle Schwarber picks the Reds, we should be pretty darn upset. And then we’ll wrap up with a look at Andrew Painter. It’s like a pitcher sandwich in this one where we talk pitcher, schworber, pitcher. I guess that would be a Schwarber sandwich. But anyway, Andrew Painter is not really getting as much excitement from fans these days. Are we missing something? Are we giving up on the kid? We’ll discuss all of that. But let’s start with Jesus Lazardo because I haven’t really touched on this yet this off seasonason and something that’s sneaky big for the Phillies to figure out as soon as possible. It is a gamble and to me it is one worth taking. He is 28 years old and he has had some really strong stretches of pitching at the major league level. This past year was a career best year for Lazarda with the Phillies. He set a career-high in innings, a careerhigh in strikeouts. He was unbelievable. And that’s with a couple of really rough performances in there where he was tipping pitches. But he’s a guy that while it seems like he can get rattled a little bit, has undeniable arm talent and was big time in the postseason for the Phillies against the Dodgers. If you look at this guy and his temperament, you just see another Phillies pitcher who’s ready for big moments. So, credit to Jesus Lazardo on a great year. Now, the problem is this. this upcoming season. The 2026 MLB season is the final year of Philly’s team control over Jesus Lazardo. So, the thought there is if you’re going to get an extension done, this is the time to do it. You don’t want him to go into his final year because that’s when players decide, hey, I’m just going to bet on myself and test free agency. Meanwhile, you can lock down Jesus Lazardo, you being the Phillies, ahead of that ever happening. Let’s look at history first with Lazardo. Not just what he did, but situations where this went poorly for the Philadelphia Phillies. They didn’t make a competitive enough offer to Kyle Schwarber this past offseason. Because of that, they left themselves open to risk. What if he goes out and has a great year? Like say, I don’t know. I just could pick some numbers randomly. Uh, second in MVP voting, 56 home runs, 132 RBI’s. One of the best seasons in baseball. No, but that’ll never happen, right? We’ll just resign him after that. The Phillies cost themselves a lot of money by not getting a deal done with Kyle Schwarber ahead of the 2025 season. Now, I still think they resign him and nobody expected Kyle Schwarber to have that type of year, but not making that move then cost you more money now. The price went up. The same thing happened kind of with Ranger Suarez where last year, last year in season, not 2025, but 2024, they decided to hand out a contract extension to Christopher Sanchez. Long-term deal. And because of that, Rangers Suarez went unextended. They didn’t do it this past off season. Christopher Sanchez is now on an incredibly manageable deal. I want you to listen to this. Right. Jesus Lazardo’s projected contract if you were just like looking at it uh you could see him probably getting I don’t know 27 million per year is the projection according to Smrak. Do you know what Christopher Sanchez is making right now? He’s making 22 and a half million over four years. Split that far ways. He’s on an insanely lucrative Well, I guess not lucrative. It is lucrative because 22 and a half million I’d take it. I don’t know about you, but someone gave that to me, I’d be pretty darn happy. But no, it’s it’s just such a beneficial deal for the Phillies. So, when you hit the nail on the head, you can save a boatload of money. Now, you can’t really do that with Lazardo because it 28, he’s going to command money on the open market. He’s only under team control for one more year, so you are going to have to pay up a little bit. But history would tell you that at least with this organization’s hierarchy as it is, Dave Dumbrossski as the president of baseball operations, John Middleton as the owner, Rob Thompson as the manager jumping the gun on extensions has been beneficial to the Phillies. So, you should really look at Jesus Lazardo. This is where we get to the present or we’ll just call this the present year. His numbers this year were awesome, incredible, better than anyone expected when he was acquired via trade from Miami. Went 15-7 with a 392 RA, a career best 183 and two/3 innings pitched, career-high 216 strikeouts as we talked about that. Here’s the one tricky thing with Lazardo. He tied his career-high mark of 32 starts. That hasn’t been typical for him in his career. Injuries have been a concern and he got through this year healthy, which is awesome to see. But knock on wood as I feel like I’m doing a lot these days on the podcast and not wanting to jinx anything healthwise for some of these guys. While the Phillies have been remarkably healthy, you do have to consider just like you did with Ranger Suarez, how durable is Jesus Lazardo if you give him a long-term deal. Let’s say you give the guy a three or fouryear contract extension. We get excited about if he’s this guy, but if he starts to age into his early 30s and has more injury issues, well then you could be up a creek without a paddle, we’ll just say, without finishing the entirety of that expression. So, it’s a risk you got to take in my opinion. I’m doing it like Lazardo is supposed to be a big part of this rotation going forward. And while you are going to have to pay based on a career-high in innings and a career high in strikeouts, I think it’s worth it because of what we’ve already talked about this off seasonason with the pitching staff. So, here’s why I’m absolutely doing a Jesus Lazardo extension this off season because Zack Wheeler’s done in two years, whether there’s a lockout or not. Aaron Nola might be done now because I don’t know where he’s at physically and that contract doesn’t look great. Ranger Suarez is not coming back to the Philadelphia Phillies. I don’t know how many times I have to say it, but I will continue to until we get that notification that another team signs him. He’s not coming back. So, in the next two years, look at this previous year’s rotation. You’re going to be out Ranger. You’re going to be out Wheeler. And you very well could be out any version of Aaron that’s usable. That’s projection. The other two are certain, well, seem to be certainties. We’ll see what happens with Ranger, but I’m telling you, he’s not coming back. Uh, but that’s three of the five or six guys you used in your rotation this past year. The only guys that you can expect to have two years down the line as of right now are Christopher Sanchez and Andrew Painter. And we’re going to talk about Andrew Painter later because it seems like the Phillies fan base has lost a significant amount of faith in their top pitching prospect. But that’s a story for later on in the podcast. If you don’t resign Lazardo, in two years you’re going to be done with Walker, Lazardo, Ranger, Wheeler, and Null’s going to be even further along into the back end of his career with a lot of tread on the tires. You almost have to resign Lazardo because outside of Andrew Painter, take a look at the Phillies minor league system. Sure, you got Griff McGary buried down there somewhere. They’re not even protecting him from the rule five draft. So, I don’t know. That tells you they don’t believe other major league teams would put him on their 40man roster or it means that the Phillies aren’t worried about keeping. If he if he goes, he goes. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. There aren’t really Do you think Gage Wood is going to come up and be an ace at the major league level? Maybe. If you’re not familiar with Gage Wood, he’s the guy that threw the no hitter in the College World Series a couple years ago for Arkansas. He’s expected to make a quicker transition through the minor league system because he was a multi-year college player. So, we’ll keep an eye on him, but I haven’t heard anything about his ability potentially at the major league level. So, I’m not counting him as part of the MLB rotation yet. Like, that’s a hell of a projection. You kind of have to make sure Lazardo’s here long term. And I don’t think it would be too costly of a deal. Again, like four years, 27 and a half million. you’re you’re looking at about $und00 million over four years. That’s not bad if you get what you got out of Lazardo this year, especially with where the market’s going. You saw the Dylan Case contract where he got a billion dollars to go play for the Toronto Blue Jays. I’m exaggerating, but still, I don’t think that would be a bad deal. And the more deals that get done like Dylan CE, the more expensive the extension for Lazardo gets. So, Phillies, get your man, lock him down, make him a top half of the rotation arm for the next three or four years, and take care of that problem before it bites you in the ass like it did with Ranger, like it did with Schwarber, like it could have with Sanchez, though you avoided it. Just go ahead and take care JT is another one. Go ahead and take care of business before you get behind the eightball again. You can’t let Jesus Lazardo get out of this building. that would cause major problems for rebuilding this rotation. I also think he can’t let Kyle Schwarber get out of this building, but maybe he wants out. Maybe he wants a change of scenery or maybe he wants a homecoming. We talk about his interest in joining the Cincinnati Reds from a recent report by Ken Rosenthal. As we continue today’s episode, let’s talk about FanDuel first, though, because NFL Sundays move fast. One big play and suddenly everything in the game feels different. 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You got to go ahead and check it out. So if you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit fanal.com and place your NFL live bets all season long. FanDuel, the game moves fast and so can you. Let’s talk about the latest with our guy Kyle Schwarber. So, Ken Rosenthal, who’s a great MLB insider, and we only really, if you’re hearing me mention the name of a report or of a reporter, I should say, to put something out, just understand they’re legitimate sources. We’re not doing uh Red’s fan 111 says Kyle Schwarber was seen in a Skyline Chili’s in Cincinnati. So, the next thing you know, he’s going to be a Red. Like, we’re not doing that here on this show. This is coming from reports that are being put out by MLB insiders with legitimate sources. So, Ken Rosenthal brought up how in a recent article with The Athletic, there seems to be not just interest from Cincinnati to sign Schwarber. We’ve heard about this for months. Even when the Phillies went to Cincinnati this year, they had Kyle Schwarber catch the first pitch being thrown out by his dad. Or did he throw it? I forget who threw it. Bottom line is you don’t do that. You don’t get to throw out the first pitch at another team stadium when you’re playing against them. That is essentially the Cincinnati Reds watching you walk into a bar with your girlfriend and buying her a drink, saying, “Hey, come on over here. Talk to me for a second.” That’s not good. That’s unacceptable. They’re they’re basically hitting on your girl right in front of you. And Kyle Schwarber, though, they they’ve got history, him and this other suitor. He he’s from Middletown, Ohio. So, this would be a homecoming for him to go back to Cincinnati. And now, not only does Cincinnati have interest, sounds like Kyle Schwarber is open to that happening. And at base level, you can’t blame him, right? Hey, he can go wherever he’d like to. He is a free agent. That’s on the Phillies for not locking him down sooner if he wants to win. Well, the Reds did make the postseason this past year. They have a young core. It’s not like he’s going to Sacramento or Colorado where you’re going to I guess Sacramento had moments this year with the A’s, but let’s just say Colorado for the sake of kicking the Rockies while they’re down. Uh it’s not like you’re going to Colorado and masquerading as a contender. you squint your eyes a little bit and the Reds could be a legitimate playoff player. So, I I understand that at the base level of wanting to go home and play for your hometown team. And he’s played a bunch of places in Chicago, Washington, Boston, now Philly. He’s knocked back a lot of big cities, a lot of tough fan bases, and had a lot of success. So if he wants to go and spend the big contract years trying to make the team closest to his hometown a legitimate playoff contender, I think that’s an admirable thing just from an individual standpoint. Here’s the issue. The Reds do not play in the same league as the Phillies when it comes to payroll. Much like how Dave Dumbrossski said that he and John Middleton have basically come to the point where we’re saying, “Okay, our payroll this year is going to be pretty much what the payroll was last year.” That is right around $300 million for this year’s payroll. The Reds are saying the same thing, but they don’t have no $300 million payroll out there in Cincinnati. They are keeping the payroll the same at a much much lesser total rate. They are not going to be able to afford to offer Kyle Schwarber what the Phillies are going to offer. There is just not a snowballs chance in Tampa, Florida that Kyle Schwarber is going to get a more expensive, more lucrative, a higher dollar amount offer from the Cincinnati Reds. And yet the interest is still there. So let’s look at this. What would Schwarber have to do if he were to sign with the Reds? He would have to look at an offer from the Phillies that would pay him more to potentially significantly more money and say, “No, thank you. I’m going to Cincinnati.” You would pick the lesser team in the lesser market for the smaller dollar amount to go back to Cincinnati. Now, I love my hometown of Hannesport, New Jersey. I do. And I am a Philadelphia sports fan through and through. But let’s say I played for, I don’t know, let’s pick a random team, the Kansas City Royals. And the difference between me playing in Philadelphia and me playing in Kansas City was something along the lines of 15 to20 million. Guess what, y’all? I’ll see you on holidays. I’m a Kansas City Royal. Like that’s how much does your hometown mean to you that you could take that big of a discount? That would be something. And I love Kyle Schwarber and I understand and I just spent like five minutes telling you why I get why he would make that decision just from like a base level human standpoint. But if he sees a much better offer from the Phillies and he turns it down for less money to go to Cincinnati, one, I am ticked off at Kyle Schwarber for basically saying, “Nah, I I don’t want to be here anymore.” That wouldn’t be a he got a better offer. That wouldn’t be a he’s going home. That would be a he’s just turning his back on the Philadelphia Phillies, which he has a right to, but that would annoy me. Two, I’d be ticked off at the Philadelphia Phillies for not getting this done sooner, knowing what could potentially happen if you let him to get free agency. Like, weird stuff happens all the time in free agency. You let him get to that point, it’s on you more than it is on him because you didn’t find a way to get this deal done ahead of the 2025 season. Like, those are the two things I’d be mad at. And then it would just also be an indicator of maybe this organization isn’t where we thought it was. Right. And that would be a major red flag that I’m not ready to confront. If Kyle Schwarber looks at this Phillies team and looks at that Reds team and says they’re close enough to contention there in Cincinnati that I can go and feel comfortable. What does that say about the Phillies? All due respect to the Reds, but you’re not supposed to be in competition with them. We’re supposed to be in competition with the Dodgers, with the Yankees, with the Mets, with these top spenders, highlevel talent teams in baseball, not these mid-market teams out in middle America that can’t outspend you, but might steal your star player anyway. What does that say about the Phillies organization if Kyle Schwarber were to pick Cincinnati over Philadelphia? That to me would be the number one indicator of this team is no longer in true championship contention. Because how do you walk out the door to take less money just because your hometown? Like he can’t go back whenever he wants. Like Kyle Schwarber’s got enough money for a plane ticket. He can fly Spirit anytime. Anytime he wants to go back home and visit everybody. Heck, Ohio’s not that far away. I’ve made that drive from Philadelphia to uh Columbus. So, I mean, but still, if he picks Cincinnati over Philadelphia, that would be an organizational failure. It would be a complete change of perspective. And honestly, I’d be upset at Kyle Schwarber as well, too. So, let’s cross our fingers and hope that one doesn’t happen. Again, things are really starting to heat up because as Jeff pass previously reported, he’s expecting Schwarber to get a deal done with the team before the end of the winter meetings. That’s December 10th. It’s December 3rd as I’m recording this. We are a week left in Schwarber watch or until passing is wrong watch. But again, another guy that seems to know what he’s talking about more often than not when it comes to baseball. He’s he’s got a lot of great sources. So, we’re watching that closely. We’re getting new information every day. It certainly feels like every single episode we do is going to have some type of Kyle Schwarber update in it. And I don’t think that’s changing until he signs a deal with somebody. God, I hope it’s the Philadelphia Phillies. But I’m excited for that, right? I believe in the potential and the ability of what a Kyle Shore new contract could mean for this organization. Are we still excited about Andrew Painter? some recent results from the Athletic. They did their uh fan offseason poll. There was something that really stood out to me about Philly’s prospects and how we’re viewing Andrew Painter. I’ll tell you what it is and why it’s a major shift from where we’ve been in the past as we continue today’s episode. Before we get into Andrew Painter, I hope you have confidence in me to continue to give you great Philadelphia affiliates content day in and day out. 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I was like, I’ve never taken a picture with him. I know him because he plays in a softball league that I’m in. And we here on Locked on Phillies were his number one listen to podcasts on Spotify wrapped. So if we’re up there on your Spotify wrapped for podcasts, I would love for you to tag me in that on Twitter or on Instagram. They’re both at Connor Thomas975. I’ll retweet it if it’s on Twitter for the Locked On Phillies account, but let me know if I’m showing up in your Spotify wrapped. I would love to see that. That makes me feel just really validated and proud of what I’m trying to do to help you guys get your good Philadelphia affiliates content. So, I appreciate all that very much. Okay, enough about me. I just thought that was a really cool moment today. I wanted to say thank you for everyone who who listens because it’s it’s humbling when stuff like that happens. Andrew Painter was humbled this year by his minor league season. He looked rough at points in AAA. remember Dave Thumbroski bringing up that uh timeline of like Julyish for Andrew Painter to make his major league debut and everybody, myself included, were like, I can’t wait to see Andrew Painter come up. You got Andrew Painter waiting in the wings. Where’s Andrew Painter at? Is Andrew Painter never coming up? Where is like it went from excitement to questioning to giving up on the chance to see him in 2025. Now, I will tell you right now, barring injury, which will be our second wood knock of the episode, he will 100% be in the rotation for the 2026 MLB season. I don’t know how long for. Like we saw Mick Gable come up and go down and come up and go down, but Andrew Painter is going to make a start at the major league level for your Philadelphia Phillies in 2026. You heard it here first. It’s not a big limb to go out on, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. What we’re talking about is the result of a recent poll by The Athletic. So, Charlotte Varners, who put together a uh poll with the Athletic, basically asked responses from Phillies fans as to how you’re feeling about a bunch of different hot button topics for the off seasonason. There’s the Schwarber stuff and Lazardo extension and JT, all the all the usual suspects. But then there was a question, which Philly’s prospect are you most excited about? Last year, 91.8% of responders said Andrew Painter. That is about as landslide as landslide gets. This year, 37% said Aiden Miller as the lead option. 29% said Justin Crawford. and 29% said Andrew Painter. So Andrew Painter, if you want to round down for him in the tie with Justin Crawford, you could say would be the third most anticipated prospect in his own organization after getting 91.8% of the vote last year. So what happened? Well, he had a down season at Triple A. He was promised to us in like mid July or at least that was the projection that Dave Deowski was looking at and then well he just never really progressed and Mick Cable got his opportunity and did well enough and by the time you you really got to the point where you would need Andrew Painter he had already shown that he wasn’t having a great year. There are a couple of reasons. One of them not Painter’s fault. Why I think it’s valid that people have lost interest in Andrew Painter the way that they had it last year. So, first and foremost, when you’re promised something and it doesn’t show up, then someone tries like, think about this. Let’s say you order a package from some online site. You purchase a good and they’re sell they’re telling you it’s going to be delivered on this date and then it doesn’t show up. and doesn’t show up and doesn’t show up and doesn’t show up and then you you reach out next month to the company and be like, “Where’s where’s my thing at?” They say, “Oh, okay, cool. Yeah, we’re going to send it to you. Our bad. I just got a little delayed. It’ll be here on this date this month.” You’re less excited for that delivery with the delay because well, they burned you once. And that’s how I think a lot of fans are feeling with Andrew Painter right now. Now, it’s not his fault. He didn’t promise us he was going to pitch at the major league level this past year. That was Dave Deowski who set that timeline. It did not work out. But what is his fault is the fact that he did not throw well enough at Triple A to deserve that promotion this past year. But he is still recovering from that Tommy John surgery. So I will continue to beat the drum of Andrew Painter’s ability. The makeup, all I’ve ever heard about the kid from people who all they do is talk prospects, right? This is not just me reading articles online. is me talking to and interviewing people who handle baseball scouting and focus on the minor leagues as much if not more than the major leagues. And everything I’ve heard from all of these people is that Andrew Painter has great makeup. He has great ability. He has great arm talent. And he is going to be a plus major league rotation arm. Now, is that an ace? I don’t know. Is that top two or three in the rotation? Possibly, right? Like I don’t know what that slots out to. All I know is that nobody’s told me this dude’s a bust. Nobody has told me, yeah, he’s got the ability, but I don’t know if mentally he has it. So, I will continue to lean on the fact that he’s still working his way back from that Tommy John surgery, which that’s a debilitating injury. And remember, the Phillies waited a couple of months to get that Tommy John surgery two years ago because they decided or was that three now. They wanted to see if it would heal on its own, which it never did, which I think was a major oversight by the organization, Andrew Painter’s people. But whatever the case may be, I look at this past year as much more of a he’s still trying to feel out his return from injury than it was this guy forgot how to throw. But there is a positive spin to this for Phillies fans when we look past just Andrew Painter. You’ve also seen Justin Crawford put together an absolutely incredible year in TripleA. And you’ve seen Aiden Miller become one of the coveted pieces of the Philadelphia Phillies farm system when it comes to potential trade talks. Think about the Catel Marte deal where people want to see in Arizona Aiden Miller be part of that deal. When I say people, I’m talking about members of their front office. So maybe it’s that the other prospects have just closed the gap. Maybe it’s that people have lost faith in Painter after the presumed timeline didn’t come true. But I’m going to continue to tell you so that one day I can say at his Hall of Fame speech, no, I’m kidding. But I’m going to continue to tell you, even though I can’t project it out that far, that this dude’s going to be good at the major league level. Everything I’ve heard says that to me. So we’ll watch, but we’re going to see it this year. that I can assure you. That’s all for today’s episode of Locked On Phillies. Thank you so much for joining us once again. We are part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Please make sure you’re rating, reviewing, subscribing to the YouTube. We are also now the number one sports podcast network. Oh, and by the way, when the winter meetings end and we get to the 15th of December, we will be going to three episodes a week. So, we will be cutting down into our full offseason programming, but through the winter meetings, we’re still doing five days a week. So, we will have daily Phillies content for you. And I’ll talk to you tomorrow on our next episode.

The Philadelphia Phillies weigh a high-stakes gamble: should they lock down Jesus Luzardo with a long-term extension? As contract negotiations heat up, Connor Thomas weighs the risk-reward of investing in Luzardo’s arm talent and postseason composure, factoring in injury history and market trends. With Ranger Suárez likely gone and starters like Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola facing uncertain futures, the rotation’s next era hangs in the balance. Is a $100 million commitment for Luzardo the move that secures the Phillies’ future?

Connor Thomas also spotlights Kyle Schwarber’s looming free agency, challenging the Reds’ financial power and questioning what it signals if Schwarber chooses Cincinnati over Philadelphia. Plus, fan confidence in pitching prospect Andrew Painter plummets after a rocky season and slow recovery from Tommy John surgery—will he rebound as the next impact starter? Get the latest on Phillies contract strategy, roster turnover, and a passionate look at the prospects reshaping the club’s long-term outlook.

0:00 — Jesus Luzardo Extension RumorsPhillies’ interest in a long-term extension for Jesus Luzardo, historical comparisons, contract projections, and rotation outlook.

12:58 — Kyle Schwarber Free Agency & Reds InterestAnalysis of Kyle Schwarber’s reported openness to joining the Cincinnati Reds, payroll differences, and the implications for the Phillies if he leaves.

21:48 — Andrew Painter Prospect ConcernsA look at Andrew Painter’s diminished prospect excitement among fans, reasons behind it, and Connor Thomas’s continued optimism for his future.

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