Archive for March, 2008
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Monday, March 31st, 2008It is not a beautiful day in Philadelphia, so we’ll have to settle for the promise that one is coming. Then another and another. All around us things are reborn this time of year and baseball is no exception.
While so much of the changing of the seasons comes with brilliant colors or new life, […]
The sun’ll come out tomorrow?
Sunday, March 30th, 2008The Phillies’ opening day roster is set. Wes Helms is the fourteenth hitter and Tim Lahey the eleventh pitcher.
The Phillies lost both games of the series with the Blue Jays at Citizens Bank Park, falling 3-1 on Friday and 5-3 on Saturday afternoon.
The Phils beat the IronPigs today 5-3 in their final preseason action. […]
At least you can stop Laheying up at night thinking about it
Friday, March 28th, 2008The eleventh pitcher on the Phillies appears to be right-hander Tim Lahey, who the Phils claimed off of waivers today. Barring another move, which seems at the very least possible, Wes Helms would be the fourteenth hitter and final man on the 25-man roster. Snelling and Olmedo were sent to Triple-A. Lahey […]
Sigh of the tiger
Friday, March 28th, 2008Apparently you can put your Adam Eaton for Cy Young hats and party favors away. I don’t wanna be a stick-in-the-mud, but you might want to think about canceling that party altogether. After back-to-back solid spring starts, Eaton was hammered yesterday as the Phils dropped to 12-16 with a 14-5 loss to the […]
Carpenter complex
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Turns out that the remaining issue of spring training for the Phillies isn’t who fills out the last two spots on the roster so much as whether Andrew Carpenter should be made the fifth starter or traded for A-Rod. It’s an issue intelligent people can disagree about, so maybe they can make him the […]
The 35th cut is the deepest
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Opening day draws nearer and while we’re still not sure who will be on the Phillies on Monday we have some more information about who won’t. Vic Darensbourg and Gary Knotts are gone, sent to minor league camps. Travis Blackley is out of the picture as well, offered back to the Giants. […]
Some combination of less Nunez and much better pitchers may be the way to go for Phils
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008The Phils had pretty good win-loss numbers when they didn’t allow many runs, too:
Runs Allowed
W-L
Cumulative W-L
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It takes a village, but all the villagers with a career slugging percentage of .314 better be able to pitch
Monday, March 24th, 2008Still on one-run games. For me the bottom line is this: whether it cost the Phillies in one run games last year or not, the Phillies need to keep their best hitters in the game as long as they can because they need to score a whole ton of runs to win. […]
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