Comments on: Catch! Rising Star

By: egrissom

egrissom — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:29:58 +0000

I give Oswalt a lot of credit for wondering out loud how big the animal running across the field had to be before the pitch didn’t count. I didn’t know he had it in him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/skip-schumaker-baseball-card-features-rally-squirrel-not-190252048.html

I agree the Phillies could have signed Oswalt if they wanted to.

I kinda miss Jason Donald, at least if Michael Martinez is the other choice. Not enough not to get Lee the first time, though.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:00:53 +0000

Yeah. I think we did ok getting Halliday.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:30:14 +0000

On prospects, I think that the Phillies are pretty much the anti-Boston/New York. This team seems to go to great lengths to throw a wet blanket over any prospect hype that may be out there. Still having three pospects in the top 100 is about average (30 teams means 3.33 prospects per team is average), which all in all isn’t too bad when you consider all of the trades this team has made. It does say something to me that they would never trade Brown in any of the moves they’ve made to this point. So far, the only prospect they’ve moved that really seems ready to bust through is Travis D’Arnaud (I’d rather have Roy Halladay). There are some others that show some great promise, but are still really far away.

I’m all up for a trip back to 2005 to see Podsednik and Pierre in a foot race. We should look into what it will take to get that done. While we’re at it, can we go back to the 2007 Chase Utley and Ryan Howard?

I think if the Phillies wanted to sign Oswalt, they could have.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:30:41 +0000

I was never a fan of the Oswalt deal to begin with.. I think I’d still rather have Happ.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:55:38 +0000

Oswalt to Cards. Kinda lost respect for Little Roy. Who knew his name was accurate. I still cannot believe that he went home and got hurt last year, cashed $16 million worth of checks despite his lousy performance due to a non baseball injury, and then went somewhere else. I thought he was a guy who lived by higher values – like loyalty – than how much he makes.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:33:35 +0000

Hunter Pence signs a 1 year deal.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:45:13 +0000

Over the last two years, Pierre has gotten 1,445 plate appearances in which he has slugged .322. Really. He hit .277 over those two years, giving him an isolated power of .045. Valdez, by comparison, in his last two years with the Phils, hit .254 and slugged .351, giving him an isolated power of .097.

I also find it fantastic that Pierre is still just 34. It seems like he’s been around for a long, long time.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:03:17 +0000

If nothing else, maybe the Phils can come up with a time machine so Pierre and Scott Podsednik can go back to 2005 and race. That would be some good entertainment. What would not be some good entertainment is is if Pierre wound up as OF #5 for the Phils. I would say he’ll never see the field, but that’s what I thought about Wilson Valdez about 650 plate appearances ago.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:08:26 +0000

Juan Pierre. Minor league contract with invite. As long as he doesn’t have to keep someone stretch a base.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:07:42 +0000

Juan Pierre. Catch the fever!