Comments on: Concerns abound, but none bigger than how much sense it makes to take on a playoff mindset with 150 games left in the season

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:56:20 +0000

I agree. Worley was great in the game and that was a huge at-bat. And it was a strikeout. The only thing that wrecks it a little for me is that the ball was so far off the plate.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:00:51 +0000

That strikeout to end the 7th was the mark of a real competitor. With the skills to compete

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:52:30 +0000

It amazes me how good he’s been.. and he’s been consistent, even as a September call-up in ’10..

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:58:47 +0000

Vance. Not bad for a kid wearing goggles.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:32:44 +0000

BTW, I am not doing doom and gloom. I believe that going forward means looking realistically at what is and what is not. What is, is that we are getting from this team what the players have pretty much delivered historically. Maybe a little more from Jimmy and Vic might be expected, but mostly each guy is kind of on track.

If so, Amaro has work to do, even with his crazy good starting staff. This year is not lost unless the front office deludes itself into thinking that things will just get better “somehow”. This is our team right now. Amaro has to get us at least one bat. Somehow. And no, I have no idea how he does that. Or who. That is above my pay grade.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:43:39 +0000

Jim, your last paragraph about irons in the fire? Yup. right on.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:44:37 +0000

True.. we should probably try Galvis 6th before we try the 2-hole.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:27:05 +0000

I would actually be interested to know what a team’s record is when it’s starter goes ten shutout innings. I would guess it’s closer to .500 than you’d guess right away, cause your starter can’t throw ten shutout innings unless the other team pitches very well too.

I agree that this Phillies team will have a good record when their starter goes nine shutout innings.

I actually am glad to see Galvis playing as well as he has, but hitting him second seems a little too much to me. He seems like a lock to be worse the rest of the way than he has to this point. Right now he’s at 237/256/395. I can see him hitting .240 and on-basing .260 or even a little better, but I will be very happily surprised if he slugs .395 or close the rest of the way. I wouldn’t feel real comfortable trying to guess how the at-bats are going to break down in terms of hot or not if I feel like the final line isn’t going to be real good.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:42:13 +0000

Interesting trend: the Phils are on pace for 40 walk-off losses. I’m pretty sure they won’t get there. That would have to be a record.

I think even this club wins more than it loses when the starter throws 10 shutout innings. Didn’t happen last night. But at least 8 out of 10 times, they probably scratch a run together.

Perhaps I’m being a little optimistic, but under the premise of “go with the hot bat” I’d think about moving Galvis up to the 2-hole. I’m actually pretty sure that I’d do every lineup this year different than Charlie did.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:18:59 +0000

I don’t think 5-7 is a problem at all. I think the problem is that the Phils don’t look they ought to be a whole lot better than that. I don’t think it’s time to give up hope at all, but I also think the current team has close to no chance of winning 90 games without offensive additions. I think the offensive additions will come. How much work they have to do when they arrive has a lot to do with what the current team does now. What the current team is doing now is losing games when their starter throws ten shutout innings.