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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:37:32 +0000

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By: egrissom

egrissom — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:26:55 +0000

I agree about Halladay and Howard. I don’t think there’s anyone more important for the Phillies in 2013 than Halladay. I think Howard is important, but doesn’t have the same chance to impact the team that Halladay does.

I think the Braves are pretty good. Chris Johnson surely isn’t the answer for them at third. But they’re looking pretty strong to me. I think we’ll see more predictions about the NL East in the coming weeks. I’d guess most of them have the Phillies third.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:07:57 +0000

Doc and Howard. One could fairly argue that they are the ball game. Amaro could have been brilliant this offseason and it would be for naught without those two guys being those two guys.

The Nats will be hard to beat. There’s a chance that the Braves will be more easily had. I think they will miss Chipper at third and Prado wherever they would choose to play him. I think they will really miss Prado. He’s just a gamer. Not sure their new out fielding brothers are just slightly underachievers, as good as they are. That just might hurt the Braves. And help us.

Assuming Doc and Howard. In fact, I wonder if Doc isn’t the single most important player in the NL East this year.

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:50:24 +0000

[...] From worse to bad Michael Young’s walk rate is bad. Unlike Delmon Young’s, though, it’s not atrocious. And I think it’s more reasonable toRead the Rest… [...]

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:24:20 +0000

I think there’s no chance that Howard isn’t terrible defensively. I think it is possible that he could make enough offense to be a productive player. 10 DH games for the Phils this year — it would help Howard’s chances of being a productive player overall for the year to get him off the field and let him DH those games. Not being terrible on the bases would help as well.

By: GregA

GregA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:12:52 +0000

I agree on Howard and Halladay. Unfortunately I don’t see much hope at all for Howard. He’s been steadily declining for a long time. Last year was a drastic decline, which I attribute to the injury. But, the years of decline before that don’t give me a ton of hope.

By: egrissom

egrissom — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:07:04 +0000

I think there’s a chance that Michael Young can be near average defensively at third — by that I mean goes back to ’09 to ’11 form, which was bad but not terrible. I don’t think Delmon will be near average, but I do think he could be better defensively in the past.

I think there’s a good chance that both Youngs will be better offensively with the bat in 2013 than they were in 2012.

Hopefully a lot better.

Still, it seems like a lot of things need to go right for the Phillies to hang with the Braves and Nats.

I think the biggest things are still around Halladay and Howard.

By: GregA

GregA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:45:11 +0000

Oh…forgot to mention…the pitchers better strike everybody out because I’m not sure who is going to catch the ball if it’s hit.

By: GregA

GregA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:44:37 +0000

That lineup would’ve been pretty awesome about 5 years ago.

As you know from most of my posts, I’m usually fairly optimistic about the Phils chances. But, the more I think about it, the only chance they really have is to be elite in starting pitching, decent to good in the bullpen, and about average in hitting. I just don’t know how likely it is that all three of those things will happen at once.