August 17, 20251 yr Goes without saying that the most important thing is Wheeler ends up ok, blood clots are serious and I know people personally who've dealt with them for years.From a baseball perspective the hardest way this impacts the Phillies isn't necessarily on the field. Losing Wheeler is huge. Where it hurts them most is when the Phillies go one and done(which they would have done with Wheeler anyway, this team isn't winning a playoff series) it will give Dave Dombrowski the excuse he needs to have another season to run this organization into the ground. He's set this team up so poorly for the future and unless Middleton is willing to not only spend the money it takes to re-sign Schwarber, but also go out and add a Kyle Tucker on top of it, then this team is beyond F'd. I don't see any realistic way they can improve for next season without overspending because their airhead GM has jacked up the pay roll with terrible contracts and gave them no diamonds in the rough who can fill in.Look at the upcoming free agent class. There are very few outfield bats on that list worth much. The Phillies don't have a ton to trade after giving up some top guys for Duran. And no one in their farm system is ready except the overrated Crawford who is a slap hitter with no power. A guy they think so little of, they won't bring up to the majors with the worst outfield in baseball.Dave Dombrowski is nightmare, and the longer he's here, the worse he will get. And now he will have a ready made excuse if they get bounced early again. Remember that press conference last year where he sat there with a straight face and made excuse after excuse for the offense, basically telling us everything is fine and they are actually better than their stats showed? This year's will make that one look sane by comparison. "I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses, but when you're a club built around pitching and you lose maybe the best starter in baseball, then..." after they lose an elimination game 3-0 because they can't hit... and Middleton will be sitting there J'ing his D to it, because he believes Dombrowski can do no wrong.Had to rant about this, been holding it in for a while. It's been years since this city has had a GM that I've hated as much as Dombrowski.
August 17, 20251 yr The fact Crawford is still in triple A raking for months while this team’s offense is super inconsistent is amazing
August 17, 20251 yr So the most important thing about blood clots is where they are. Deep vein thrombosis is a fairly big deal. That means it’s in a large vein with an easy return course to the heart. That also means you need to go on blood thinners for a period of time. And that’s not really something compatible with professional sports.That’s one extreme. The other extreme is a thrombophlebitis where a tiny little peripheral blood vessel collapses or clots off. It can cause some discomfort or even some substantial pain, but it’s structurally irrelevant. What Wheeler has is most likely much closer to the 2nd option, especially if they are saying it could have been worse and it’s 15 day IL. He’d have no reason to have a deep vein thrombosis.
August 17, 20251 yr 32 minutes ago, eagle45 said:So the most important thing about blood clots is where they are. Deep vein thrombosis is a fairly big deal. That means it’s in a large vein with an easy return course to the heart. That also means you need to go on blood thinners for a period of time. And that’s not really something compatible with professional sports.That’s one extreme. The other extreme is a thrombophlebitis where a tiny little peripheral blood vessel collapses or clots off. It can cause some discomfort or even some substantial pain, but it’s structurally irrelevant.What Wheeler has is most likely much closer to the 2nd option, especially if they are saying it could have been worse and it’s 15 day IL. He’d have no reason to have a deep vein thrombosis.They actually said they need more tests to make a determination. I’m not optimistic based off watching Dombrowski talk about it and saying need more tests to determine what direction they want to go. Feels like if it were lesser they’d have come out more optimistic.
August 17, 20251 yr FYI..... This was from before the game on Saturday. People were shitting on Thomson for pitching Duran
August 17, 20251 yr Just now, John Blutarski said:Castellanos is so slow he looks like he's running in concreteI think he may actually be made of concrete
August 17, 20251 yr 3 minutes ago, John Blutarski said:Nola is garbage. The good news is that Dombrowski signed him through 2030.The moment they signed him to a 7 year contract you knew it was a mistake. No other team was remotely giving him that type of contract.
August 17, 20251 yr 10 minutes ago, John Blutarski said:Nola is garbage. The good news is that Dombrowski signed him through 2030.We all know pitchers get better with age, relax
August 17, 20251 yr 6 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Odds the Phillies offense doesn’t do anything the rest of the game now?1000%
August 17, 20251 yr 17 minutes ago, John Blutarski said:Dombrowski is a moronPart of me would laugh if they just completely unraveled and missed the playoffs. The other part angry as i know Dombrowski will blame the wheeler injury when realistically his shot offseason and traded deadlines of 2023 and 2024 have doomed them even with wheeler
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