Archive for February, 2008
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Friday, February 29th, 2008The Phils young guns got hammered by the Pirates yesterday as the team fell to the Pirates, 11-6. With the loss they fall to 1-1 in spring training action. Savery and Outman both got hit hard. Savery started the fourth with a 5-1 lead and allowed five runs in the inning, including […]
Situational walking
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Here is a chart of the 35 intentional walks that were issued to Howard last season, who the Phils were playing, what the situation was and my opinion about whether or not walking Howard in that situation benefited the team that did so for each walk (there’s not enough room for it, so it should […]
Maybe it would help if we spent another two months talking about Alfonso Soriano
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Remember last off-season when the panic of the moment revolved around who was going to protect Ryan Howard in the lineup? Given the hitters the Phillies have I think that’s pretty much a non-issue. It doesn’t change the fact that the results in 2007 after Howard was walked intentionally weren’t very good for […]
Walk talk
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Despite the firepower of the Phillies’ offense, Ryan Howard continues to gather intentional walks at a tremendous pace. Howard received 35 intentional walks in 2007 after being passed intentionally 37 times in 2006. If you look at the single-season leaders in intentional walks, Howard has put his name in the top eleven of […]
Back in a flash
Monday, February 25th, 2008Brad Lidge will have surgery on his right knee and will miss three to six weeks. That’s bad news for a lot of reasons. Among them, it ensures the next round of Myers-to-the-pen talk will happen sooner than expected. Early results have Gillick saying that Myers absolutely will stay in the rotation […]
That’s heartwarming, but what if it was the blueprints for a really good bullpen?
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Given the choice of saving Victorino or the blueprints for revolutionary emissions-free technology from certain death, Utley would choose Victorino. I’d say chances are better than 50/50 that the described scenario never even develops. The same article says that the Phillies signed Kendrick, Dobbs, Brad Harman and TJ Bohn to split contracts. […]
Ow
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Here’s how many batters that pitchers from the teams of the NL East hit last season:
Team
HBP
FLA
76
[…]
Braves retool, hoping to rule the NL East once again
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Colin from Braves Blast took the time to answer some questions about the upcoming season.
Is Kelly Johnson’s defense at second base good enough to keep him at the position?
Kelly had a solid debut season at second. He transferred in from the outfield because he had to play there when we had Chipper, Giles, and […]
Phils glad to have Chad, but the numbers are a tad bad
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Just about everybody has Chad Durbin down as the fifth guy in the Phillies bullpen as spring training gets underway. It’s not that I don’t believe ‘em, but it just doesn’t make nearly as much sense to me that Durbin would be a sure thing as the other four guys, Lidge, Madson, Gordon and […]
On the plus side you can get a mean kielbasa
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008While the 2008 version of the Phillies’ pen looks sure to be improved, chances are good that you’ll still be able to look directly at without risking any type of eye injury. Better without being real good seems like a safe guess. One of the problems that’s worse than a weak bulllpen is […]
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