Comments on: Three’s a kind of motley crowd

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:24:41 +0000

Oh. Wait. I forgot. Our fifth starter, though we might wonder if he hits Utley while throwing batting practice.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:21:57 +0000

Oh much better.

Seriously. I’m trying to count the positions without real question marks right now. I’ve got short, stopper, our second starter, and… lets see….. Um…

Yeah. That’s it. Mother goose. That ain’t good.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:56:50 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, Amaro says it’s probably nothing.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:09:03 +0000

Man, you gotta be kidding me. Now there’s talk about Hamels having shoulder soreness?

Geezus.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:12:22 +0000

I think even if the Phillies don’t add a corner OF before the start of the season, there’s a good chance they will early in the year. I think the options open up a lot once you get into camp and teams tighten up who is going to make their team and who is not. More players become available and the Phillies don’t need a great one to improve in left field at this point.

Still, if it’s Brown in right and platoon in left with the guys we have, we know left field is going to be very weak and right field is a big question mark.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:03:16 +0000

I’ve not given up trying to figure out what Amaro is going to do, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never been correct, whether talking about the Lee and Doc trades or the fiasco of last winter.

But yeah. Seems to me he has to get a corner outfielder, a real one, not some half baked platoon player.

My hunch is that Amaro knows he is a contract year too. If they miss the post season again, and that is a far more likely result than making it right now, he has to be gone. He has to be pretty seriously motivated.

But then I’ve certainly not been right up to this point. Except that I called their failure to make last season’s postseason somewhere in March.