On 7/31/2025 at 4:59 PM, RoadToHell said:

Have the Phillies even had an Asian ball player on the team besides So Tagooch-cooch? And he barely counts because all I remember out of him was him being on the bench the whole time

They traded for Tadahito Iguchi after Utley broke his hand in 2007.

9 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Welp

I'm all for keeping Schwarber if they plan on Dodger/Met-ing the luxury tax and just sending the payroll to the moon (which they don't).

But how much money are they going to invest in a team that is still a big move away from getting over the top when all of their assets are declining?

2 hours ago, eagle45 said:

I'm all for keeping Schwarber if they plan on Dodger/Met-ing the luxury tax and just sending the payroll to the moon (which they don't).

But how much money are they going to invest in a team that is still a big move away from getting over the top when all of their assets are declining?

The good news is that Romano, JT, and Kepler come off the books after the season, Probably can throw in Ranger as well since he won't be re-signed. JT may be re-signed at a reduced rate since they don't have any catching prospects other than Marchan. Walker and Castellanos have 1 more year left on their contracts. It would be nice if they could unload both of those guys even if they have to eat half the money owed. To be honest, that is more likely to happen with Nick than Tajuan. I don't know if any team would want Tajuan, even for free. Who knows what they do with Bader. If he performs well, he might opt out of his player option and hit free agency. We are stuck with Harper, Turner, and Nola for the foreseeable future. I think they either re-sign Scharber or go after Tucker. Schwarber will be cheaper and for less years (although he will get a nice raise over what he is making now).

1 hour ago, vsptroops said:

The good news is that Romano, JT, and Kepler come off the books after the season, Probably can throw in Ranger as well since he won't be re-signed. JT may be re-signed at a reduced rate since they don't have any catching prospects other than Marchan. Walker and Castellanos have 1 more year left on their contracts. It would be nice if they could unload both of those guys even if they have to eat half the money owed. To be honest, that is more likely to happen with Nick than Tajuan. I don't know if any team would want Tajuan, even for free. Who knows what they do with Bader. If he performs well, he might opt out of his player option and hit free agency. We are stuck with Harper, Turner, and Nola for the foreseeable future. I think they either re-sign Scharber or go after Tucker. Schwarber will be cheaper and for less years (although he will get a nice raise over what he is making now).

I hate to be overly negative, but I don’t think the Phillies make the playoffs next year. Every foundational piece of this team will be a year older and a year regressed. I don’t think they’ll be so far out of it that they are deadline sellers, but Walker and Castellanos might actually be modestly trade able commodities next deadline.

We deserve to lose tonight for starting Kepler again.

1 hour ago, BirdsFanBill said:

We deserve to lose tonight for starting Kepler again.

I heard he is swinging the bat better

Castellanos got a single. Need him to get going. Entering the game his slashes from July 1 onward have been

.221/.253/.389/.642

Of course Morton - with an ERA over 5 this year - is settled in and mowing these limp Ds down one by one

The Tigers are just seeing this change up on a completely different plane than where it’s actually going.

This ump is squeezing Sanchez during a gem.

I don’t blame Topper for all the platooning and pinch hitting with Kepler, Marsh, Sosa, Stott, Bader, Rojas…but it sure is annoying. None of these guys are good enough to solidify the full time job, but the constant shuffling and R/L matchup dance isn’t doing too many favors either. I generally think Topper over emphasizes R/L matchups, but the numbers don’t lie. When you have a morass of replacement level hitters, they are going to be disproportionately worse with the wrong matchups.

Last 3 pitches were 102, 102 and 103

Duran is Fing nasty

Duran is awesome but I wanted to see Sanchez throw the CG shutout

Sanchez is the new Number 1

Duran is that dude, can't believe I cared about sending Abel

48 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

Duran is awesome but I wanted to see Sanchez throw the CG shutout

We would have if we still didn’t have a closer. Now we don’t have to rely on our starting pitching to get overused and have their arms fall off by September

2 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

Duran is awesome but I wanted to see Sanchez throw the CG shutout

Me too!

9 hours ago, RoadToHell said:

We would have if we still didn’t have a closer. Now we don’t have to rely on our starting pitching to get overused and have their arms fall off by September

He was at 84 pitches - he'd have been fine to go the 9th.

lose the last series against the 2nd worst team in mlb, but come back and take 2 out of 3 against the 2nd best team in baseball.

2025 phillies