October 2, 20251 yr 11 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:I don’t have a good feeling about this series. I think it’s the two best team. IMO this is really the one team the Phillies could run into where the loss of wheeler is likely felt. He could single-handedly win them 2 games in this series. Frankly keep the dodgers off the scoreboard for 7 til we get to their BP. If the Phillies lose game one i don’t see them coming back to Philly. IMO winning or losing game one is massive for the Phillies. I kind of think dodgers win in 4It's the same story from the last 3 years. They run into the team that can beat them and they do. The MLB lets them use Japan as their farm system without any consequences. Until they get a cap in baseball or at least an international draft the Dodgers are going to keep winning.
October 2, 20251 yr 1 minute ago, Diehardfan said:It's the same story from the last 3 years. They run into the team that can beat them and they do. The MLB lets them use Japan as their farm system without any consequences. Until they get a cap in baseball or at least an international draft the Dodgers are going to keep winning.Bigger issue to me with the dodgers is them deferring like 500 mil down the road. The deferring of money was never meant to be something like a half of billion dollars deferred to the future. It was established to have small market teams be able to keep a superstar knowing they couldn’t pay them all that money now and maybe big market teams deferring some money. The dodgers basically abused and circumvented the system to do that an help in creating essentially a super team and sign whoever they want. Meanwhile already had the advantage of being LA and the money that’s there.
October 2, 20251 yr Nice to be in this position which felt unreachable early in the season. Now if we can just take advantage of it.
October 2, 20251 yr 52 minutes ago, mattwill said:More impressed with Turner and Bohm cause they were doing it vs. LHP and RHP. Marsh was fantastic against RHP and bad vs. LHP. Marsh vs. LHP .206 (71 plate appearances). Marsh vs. RHP .325 (303 PA). So marsh benefitted from not playing and not hitting nearly as often vs. pitchers he was bad against.
October 2, 20251 yr 57 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:More impressed with Turner and Bohm cause they were doing it vs. LHP and RHP. Marsh was fantastic against RHP and bad vs. LHP. Marsh vs. LHP .206 (71 plate appearances). Marsh vs. RHP .325 (303 PA). So marsh benefitted from not playing and not hitting nearly as often vs. pitchers he was bad against.Fair enough. What was the BA of his replacement(s) in the LHP games he didn't play?
October 2, 20251 yr 15 minutes ago, mattwill said:Fair enough. What was the BA of his replacement(s) in the LHP games he didn't play?It’s kind of been a weird year. Because it’s been Weston Wilson since he’s come back. Sometimes kemp. But also now Castellanos is platooning with Kepler. But really when it’s a LHP I’m guessing it’s going to be Wilson, kemp in one corner outfield spot and Castellanos in the other. So Castellanos hit .243. Kemp hit .231. And Weston Wilson hit .194. So really Wilson shouldn’t be. Problem is the Phillies signed Kepler who was never going to be a platoon with marsh as he’s a LH. They needed a RH to hit LHP with marsh platoon. It’s kind of worked out cause Castellanos had been bad from July to end of August which allowed for platoon with Kepler. But the Phillies really didn’t plan on casty being a platoon. He just wound up being bad enough to do it
October 2, 20251 yr The thing about Castellanos is that you just never know. He could go 1-18 with a bloop single or he might be 8-14 with three homers
October 2, 20251 yr 2 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:The thing about Castellanos is that you just never know. He could go 1-18 with a bloop single or he might be 8-14 with three homersTbh I’m not counting on Castellanos. If the Phillies win this series Turner, Harper and schwarber have to play like stars. If they are just so-so or bad we aren’t winning against the dodgers hoping Castellanos, Stott, Bohm and marsh carry us. They can be contributors but not the ones who carry us. Hard time seeing us win 3 games vs. LA with schwarber, Harper and Turner are just not good.Also Phillies were 28th in chase rate and strikes seen (in the zone) per plate appearance 30th.
October 2, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Tbh I’m not counting on Castellanos. If the Phillies win this series Turner, Harper and schwarber have to play like stars. If they are just so-so or bad we aren’t winning against the dodgers hoping Castellanos, Stott, Bohm and marsh carry us. They can be contributors but not the ones who carry us. Hard time seeing us win 3 games vs. LA with schwarber, Harper and Turner are just not good.Also Phillies were 28th in chase rate and strikes seen (in the zone) per plate appearance 30th.Bader has been super clutch. Hope that carries over into the playoffs.
October 3, 20251 yr 4 hours ago, DrPhilly said:The thing about Castellanos is that you just never know. He could go 1-18 with a bloop single or he might be 8-14 with three homersI mean....get his kid to the game for starters but try him out. If he is bad Cast bench his ass fast because he's not snapping out of it. If he's good let him cook.
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