October 27, 20232 yr 7 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Have a feeling if that’s the case that bryce might go back to OF. And allows for them to bring back Rhys to play first. Basically would have a lineup of schwarber Turner harper rhys castellanos sott bohm realmuto marsh It won't happen but I would flip Schwarber and Stott. With Stott and Turner at the top, you have speed to wreak havoc on the basepaths and then you have the power guys coming up. Actually, I would have Schwarber hit 5th and Castellanos would drop to 6.
October 27, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, vsptroops said: He's wild as hell though. It seemed most of his appearances resulted in him missing the strike zone and walking people. Many times, he got out of his own jams, but it was frustrating as hell watching. What’s amazing is it was his lowest whip and BB of his career when appearing in at least 55+ innings. Right? Stunning when you look that up.
October 27, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, vsptroops said: It won't happen but I would flip Schwarber and Stott. With Stott and Turner at the top, you have speed to wreak havoc on the basepaths and then you have the power guys coming up. Actually, I would have Schwarber hit 5th and Castellanos would drop to 6. Tbh i would do it too so you maximize Schwarber’s power with guys on. My ideal lineup probably would be this turner stott harper rhys schwarber bohm castellanos marsh realmuto the issue becomes the 3 out of 4 right handed bats at the bottom. Where in the playoffs you are definitely getting a righty out of the pen. could also try Turner (R) harper (L) rhys (R) schwarber (L) castellanos (R) stott (L) bohm (R) marsh (L) Realmuto (R)
October 27, 20232 yr Woodruff is out for 2024. But I’d be pretty content with Bieber (assuming he’s healthy), glassnow or burnes
October 27, 20232 yr some fans are saying alvarado should be the closer like what? the guy is streaky and in pressure situations he's been letting up runs, he's not the type to close i dont understand why the hesitancy to pay for a good closer? you need good closers to win the world series especially if the bats start struggling, it's mind boggling. it's just as bad as saying we dont need good receivers in the early 2000s with eagles like just stop with this ego stubbornness and just fix the problem.
October 27, 20232 yr Jayson stark made a great point. I said it during the regular season. Way too many guys swinging out of the zone. I’m the postseason castellanos chased the most pitches out of the zone, Rojas the second most and turned the 4th most. Why would you ever throw them pitches inside the zone knowing they’ll just chase bad pitches outside of the zone.
October 27, 20232 yr 18 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Jayson stark made a great point. I said it during the regular season. Way too many guys swinging out of the zone. I’m the postseason castellanos chased the most pitches out of the zone, Rojas the second most and turned the 4th most. Why would you ever throw them pitches inside the zone knowing they’ll just chase bad pitches outside of the zone. They figured that part out and never threw strikes anymore. Players were way too aggressive and swung at everything no matter where the ball was. As long as it had movement the Phillies were swinging just hoping one would connect so it would somehow reach the seats. No patience at the plate, waiting for pitches that they liked or even scouted the pitcher they were facing. Just looked like they were up there hacking at everything blind hoping they got lucky. It was bad baseball
October 27, 20232 yr 8 hours ago, TV Guy said: Harper is staying at 1B. Lots more marketable facetime on TV broadcasts there than in the outfield and it saves his elbow. Hoskins is gone, but I think they will keep Nola. I hope they trade Castellanos, but for what? They need more pitching, but also need a major-league hitter in CF rather than Rojas. If you put Marsh in CF and trade Casty, now you need both corner OF through free agency? Obviously Mitch Williams, I mean Craig Kimbrel, is gone. Please no more Rojas. I just can’t with that guy.
October 27, 20232 yr 38 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: They figured that part out and never threw strikes anymore. Players were way too aggressive and swung at everything no matter where the ball was. As long as it had movement the Phillies were swinging just hoping one would connect so it would somehow reach the seats. No patience at the plate, waiting for pitches that they liked or even scouted the pitcher they were facing. Just looked like they were up there hacking at everything blind hoping they got lucky. It was bad baseball Castellanos is the worst at it. He makes his mind up to swing before the pitch. Heck i pointed out during his bad july he would get some pitches in the zone and he’d just whiff on him. He gets into these cold spells where he just can’t hit in the zone or out of the zone. And usually he doesn’t really battle at the plate. It’s usually 3-4 pitch at bats. Turner had this problem for a while too but he would actually connect with pitches when they were in the zone. One of the reasons why I say I’d rather have Rhys Hoskins then Castellanos, because I know Rhys Hoskins even when he’s in a slump is going to have a smart at bat. By that I mean, he’s going to make the pitcher work. Last year he had the second most pitches faced per at bat in the national league. Even when he was struggling to hit the baseball, he would make the other teams pitchers work, and he would sometimes draw a walk. He might get real cold, but he was always smart with his approach. it might not have helped him in the at bat but it wore on the pitcher, and the guy behind him might get a mistake because of how mentally exhausting it was just to get rhys out. That doesn’t happen with Castellanos. He’s such an easy out in his slumps and the next batter is less likely to get a mistake because he’s not battling. He has a bad approach at the plate. With the production he had this year and the three years he has left, I would try to maximize on this past season.
October 27, 20232 yr 35 minutes ago, Gannan said: Please no more Rojas. I just can’t with that guy. Probably not gonna see Rojas to start the year. Was the sentiment coming out of the presser today. Want him to work on his swing in the minors. That said i don’t think it’s out of the question that he’s a trade candidate. They have Crawford and de La Cruz. Both are better projected hitters. They might not be as rangy as Rojas but they are overall better prospects. So i wouldn’t be shocked if they deal him to get a bullpen piece or maybe in a trade if nola leaves to get a SP
October 27, 20232 yr 8 hours ago, Redden said: Sucks, still! Taking an additional 10mg of my meds to help get over this and it's not working. Go Birds
October 27, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, Gannan said: Please no more Rojas. I just can’t with that guy. IDK. I’m by no means ready to write the guy off. He was productive at the plate in the regular season, and has elite defense. He’s also cheap and controllable. I’m fine to platoon him in CF next year.
October 27, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Blazehound said: IDK. I’m by no means ready to write the guy off. He was productive at the plate in the regular season, and has elite defense. He’s also cheap and controllable. I’m fine to platoon him in CF next year. He can't hit major league pitching. He might figure it out at some point, but he needs to figure it out in the minors.
October 27, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Dump Stubbs and make Marchan the backup catcher for next year. If that makes some of the other players mad, they can shut the ef up.
October 28, 20232 yr 22 hours ago, Gannan said: He can't hit major league pitching. He might figure it out at some point, but he needs to figure it out in the minors. He had a much larger sample size in the regular season where he hit .302. To say he can’t hit major league pitching is unequivocally false.
October 28, 20232 yr 23 hours ago, Gannan said: He can't hit major league pitching. He might figure it out at some point, but he needs to figure it out in the minors. He hit over .300 in the regular season.
October 28, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, nipples said: He hit over .300 in the regular season. He hit under .100 in the post season. The regular season is meaningless, ask the orioles and the braves
October 28, 20232 yr 11 hours ago, Blazehound said: He had a much larger sample size in the regular season where he hit .302. To say he can’t hit major league pitching is unequivocally false. He needs more time to develop his hitting more. It got exposed by better pitching in the playoffs. A lot of the take away from that season ending presser from podcasts of beat reporters is Dombrowski may start him in triple A to refine his hitting and then bring him backup later in the year.
October 28, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, Blazehound said: He had a much larger sample size in the regular season where he hit .302. To say he can’t hit major league pitching is unequivocally false. 149 at bats isn't really enough to override how terrible he was in the playoffs. Guys who can't cut it in the major league often have good streaks (Dom Brown anyone?). The eyeball test of the playoffs showed he has no idea how to hit. He needs to spend next year in the minors figuring it out. They'd be far better off with Hoskins back at 1st, Harper in the outfield and Marsh playing CF every day. Marsh is a damn good fielder and his hitting has really come around.
October 29, 20232 yr Disagree..... Rojas had plenty of contact in the playoffs..... what went fair went at someone..... he had a bunch of foul contact which can be worked on. His misses were the same as everyone else..... chasing garbage that was in Delaware's zip code.
October 29, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, Gannan said: 149 at bats isn't really enough to override how terrible he was in the playoffs. Guys who can't cut it in the major league often have good streaks (Dom Brown anyone?). The eyeball test of the playoffs showed he has no idea how to hit. He needs to spend next year in the minors figuring it out. They'd be far better off with Hoskins back at 1st, Harper in the outfield and Marsh playing CF every day. Marsh is a damn good fielder and his hitting has really come around. So 149 at bats wasn't enough to show that he can hit major league pitching, but 43 postseason at bats is enough to show that he can't? Ok, makes sense...
October 29, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, nipples said: So 149 at bats wasn't enough to show that he can hit major league pitching, but 43 postseason at bats is enough to show that he can't? Ok, makes sense... When the GM says he is starting in the minors to work on hitting that does say he can't. Can that change? Hopefully.
October 29, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Diehardfan said: When the GM says he is starting in the minors to work on hitting that does say he can't. Can that change? Hopefully. During the presser when it was discussed, the sense was he was gonna be in triple A trying to get his swing better to start the year. Makes me feel a couple ways about things: 1. I think they feel as if harper wants to return to the outfield. If he didn’t then I think it would make sense to have Rojas on the mlb roster. as your depth is basically castellanos, marsh, schwarber and pache (maybe cave i doubt). You’d want Rojas to be a defensive replacement late in games or marsh in LF with him at center 2. Feels like if harper wants to go to back to the OF he’s doing it for the best for the team and trying to get rhys back. Which is best for the team cause the Phillies desperately need a hitter that works counts and gives professional at bats nearly every time. Rhys might be super hot or cold but he gives protection in that lineup cause pitchers know he’s gonna give quality at bats and make them work. Which benefits guys around him. 3. He’s not ready. I think they thought Rojas would just be up for 2 weeks due to injuries and then sent back down when he got called up. But since his defense was so good and he showed to be competent at the plate during that time they just couldn’t. But the playoffs showed he needs the time down there to get himself ready for the best of the mlb.
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