Soooooooooooooooo.. question. Would it make sense to trade Dom Brown for an infield prospect (3rd or 2nd, maybe?) of equivalent promise?

I’m just pleading here, but if someone on the Phillies could suggest to Brown that he never, ever dive for the ball at this point I think it would be a good place to start. Let’s not even focus on catching the ball yet, let’s just start with not diving wildly and missing it. Just let it roll and then walk over and pick it up. It would at least save us some bases. Diving can be like stage eight or something, after that’s down pat.

He totally looks like you can’t use him in the field. That’s a problem. Hopefully it’s just two games and it’s not as big a deal as it looks. I’m less worried about his confidence and more worried about him being a 24 1/2-year-old outfielder who can’t play the outfield. I agree that it could snowball on him if it gets worse, but I think it’s already pretty bad.

Again, really just two bad plays so maybe it’s not that big a deal. He’s kind of put himself under the microscope at this point, though.

I really thought that Brown wouldn’t be so brutal in the outfield to this point. I have a fear that it will just snowball on him and he will lose all confidence out there, which will then hurt his batting. I was with you that he should start the season on the big club, but if you can’t play him in the field then he needs to learn in Lehigh Valley.

Results were good enough for Lee today. He went two scoreless innings, allowing a walk, a single and a double. Got Jose Bautista to ground into a double-play to end the first and got a strikeout in the second.

Also interesting is the chpoice of players the Phillies put on their season tickets and the long envelope it is shipped in.

On the envelope, left to right: Pence, Halliday, Mayberry (yup, Big John appears for the first time), Hamels, Victorino, Rollins, Thome.

On the tickets: Lee, Howard, Chooch, Utley, and, you goit it, Halliday again.

It seems like there’s only two possibilities — either he spent a lot of time working on defense in the off-season or he didn’t. Whichever is the answer, the early results are terrifying.

I will be interested to see what Lee does as well. He did have an issue that sidelined him briefly, but I think it’s hard to know if that was just people being especially careful in the early going of Spring Training. I really don’t think the Phils would let him pitch if he was in danger of hurting himself significantly, so I’m seeing that as a good sign.

Let’s hope so.