Comments on: Walks, walks till we drop

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:35:39 +0000

Yeah, not likely. But an awful lot of fun to imagine. Imagine, Michael Young at third. Kind of give you chills, doesn’t it. And I’m the one who LIKES Polly.

(NB: Lee wasn’t likely either. I agree; Amaro is not done with this yet. And again I agree; we will not see it coming. That’s his style.)

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:20:22 +0000

I’d be happy and surprised if the Phillies got Michael Young. I don’t think it’s real likely. No doubt Amaro will stun everyone with something in the next couple of months, though. I’m going to guess we don’t see it coming.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:31:50 +0000

BTW, that would get Polly off the field. Polly is not a favorite on this blog. LOL

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:30:52 +0000

Did you see that Amaro called the Rangers about Michael Young? Reports say nothing serious or expected. I wonder if the stealth GM has something in mind. Young is young and very good.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:07:16 +0000

I’ll see what I can do. If I come up empty, maybe I’ll expand the focus of the site to dog walking, yo-yo tricks or that thing people do in the Olympics where it looks like walking but they move their arms around a lot. I also find Jim’s catchers walks per nine innings idea compelling.

I think Gload gets a spot on the roster for sure. That guy can hit. I’d even let him play out in right and platoon with Francisco for a few games if Brown isn’t ready to start the season. I’d be a lot less excited about that as a long-term solution, though.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:38:04 +0000

Lee is just going to teach everyone to look as disinterested as possible when fielding balls-in-play (he will also pitch really well). All these pitchers do is play awesome and do awesome things in the playoffs that we’ll remember forever. I hope Phillies baseball never returns to the pre-2000′s.

Anyway, any possibility of a walk-related post in the future?

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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:26:26 +0000

Way to stay on theme, Eric. For your next post I expect 1000 words on Catcher’s BB/9.

If the Herndon bit from last year is any indication, the Phils will gift a roster spot to a Rule 5 pick unless it becomes painfully obvious it’s hurting the team, and sometimes even then. And Valdez just got a fair chunk of change. And neither of those plays First Base, so Gload gets a spot. Yippee..

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:15:31 +0000

Yeah, that Burrell thing was pretty memorable. Halladay is a scary dude. I really don’t know what’s going on with the walks, but I sure think it helped the pitching last year. In their defense, the Phils were pretty good at not walking people in 2009, they just got great at in 2010. I really don’t see how adding Lee, who almost literally didn’t walk anyone last year, can hurt.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:10:07 +0000

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