Comments on: Phils hoping for Hollywood Hamels to help them out against LA after take five doesn’t go much better than the previous four

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:30:10 +0000

I really think something has to happen with Mayberry. He can’t keep starting at first against righties if he’s terrible defensively and going to hit 198/261/235 against them. The team’s organizational depth is truly pitiful.

I think they need to call up some different offensive players, even if it’s a stretch to say they should be in the big leagues at this point. It’s a big stretch for the guys they’re playing already. Maybe someone gets hot. I hate to say it, cause it’s never true, but it can’t get a lot worse.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:13:28 +0000

The Mayberry error – he is paid to make that stop – is the second one in the last couple of games. If leather is his strength and why he is here and not Dom Brown, I kind of wonder what they might do there. Not sure they are desperate yet, but they have to be getting close.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:05:27 +0000

True. Up until that 9th inning I was going to come in here and post that at least they lost each game by 1 run, so there was still some hope, they were close…

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:01:55 +0000

…and they still lose 4-3.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:14:19 +0000

Roughly.. if you count the Mayberry miss as an error, I believe taking away the 4 errors takes away 4 runs.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:57:58 +0000

Less than eight seems like a safe guess.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:35:19 +0000

I do get the offensive contribution. I also wonder how many runs the Dodgers would have actually scored if there were competent defenders at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:09:52 +0000

I agree Galvis is better than Fontenot at second defensively. Fontenot also had as many hits today as Galvis has in his last 16 at-bats and as many RBI as Galvis has in his last 34. In the last two days, Fontenot has walked twice — that’s twice as many times as Galvis has walked in his last 81 plate appearances.

By: DaMannse

DaMannse — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:07:58 +0000

We are getting exactly what these guys are. Post game, Charlie said we have four regulars playing. The rest are career long part timers from second division teams.

This is Amaro’s creation. This is Amaro’s choice this past winter.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:36:19 +0000

And you wonder why I want Galvis on the field. If I could field 4 copies of him, I would.