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By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:00:29 +0000

If the boppers bop, this series will not be close. If they do not, then H2O better be beyond good.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:08:40 +0000

Some of us are starting to sound like Yankee fans

For teams without bottomless pocketbooks, you generally pick what you’re going to be and build around it. You’ve got formulas that tell you what kind of run differential you need to win post-season berths, to win playoff series, and such, and you have projections on the run differentials on all your players. The goal is to take the projected run differential to the actual, and keep a cohesive team in the process.

I think if the big boppers were bopping like it was 2008, Amaro wouldn’t have bothered trading for Oswalt. But the run differential wasn’t lining up to expected, and the difference had to be made up somewhere.

(Or, that’s my theory anyway. For all I know the Phils build their team based on MLB 2K10 simulations.)

By: egrissom

egrissom — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:48:07 +0000

I think Halladay makes a big difference. If you think you go into game one and will have the best pitcher in the game plus the best offense, it’s not too hard to like your chances. After game one I think the Phils still have a big offensive advantage, but the pitching gets a lot tighter. I will start to worry if we lose game one, but feel okay for now.

I think outpitching them and scoring a lot of runs sounds good, too.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:23:41 +0000

Why can’t the goal be to outpitch them AND put a bunch of runs up? That sounds like more fun to me.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:18:12 +0000

Think of it this way.. many of the faces are the same, but these are not the 2008 Phillies. The goal in ’08 was just to outscore the opponent. The goal in ’10 is just put a couple runs on the board and let the superb pitching do the rest.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:09:34 +0000

To be perfectly, succinctly honest, the Giants terrify me. It has nothing to do with how many more homers they hit than the Phillies head-to-head, even if they averaged 1.33 a game to the Phils’ less exciting .5.

Actually, perhaps that’s only a half-truth. It’s the .5 hr/game and the 226/308/362 line against that pitching.

I am astonished every time I realize the Phillies had the best record in baseball this year with some of the alarmingly down (relatively) years from the hitters. Only one Phil hit .300 or better and he resides in the 8-spot? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

By: egrissom

egrissom — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:39:15 +0000

I think the Phils are going to come on on Saturday with the appropriate amound of intensity. I think it’s going to help Halladay pitch well, but I’m less sure it’s going to make anybody hit well.

Most worrisome Phillies quotation in recent history for me is Ryan Howard after the ’09 World Series saying that the better team won. Whether it’s true that the Yankees or anyone else is better than the Phils right now, let’s hope that isn’t what he’s thinking at this point.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:19:22 +0000

Anything less than a World Series appearance this year (and to a lesser extent, next year really) will be a massive disappointment for this team the way it is constructed. I *think* (hope?) they all realize that and will play as is necessary. Game 1 will be important as always. Whichever team’s ace loses will be seen to be at a significant disadvantage the rest of the way.

On the homerun issue this season, I’m not too worried about Burrell. He only hits big homeruns against the Mets.