June 9Jun 9 They don't need to find another Cliff Lee. Just get a dependable guy who can 6 innings and have the team still in the game.
June 9Jun 9 Thought about this the other day, Phillies might be better off going after a 1B at the deadline. Move Harper back to RF and have Garcia/crawford platoon. Garcia is slashing .253/.343/.525/.869 against LHP. Meaning if Crawford is solid vs. RHP you improve the outfield platooning them and then get a power hitter at 1b. Options at 1b: Christian Walker, Nathaniel Lowe, Wilson Contreras and Jake burger. All having good years
June 9Jun 9 19 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:They don't need to find another Cliff Lee. Just get a dependable guy who can 6 innings and have the team still in the game.They can get a back end if the rotation guy. Probably want someone closer to being a no. 3 since the wild card round they’ll have to likely start luzardo for game 1 of the nlds (assuming they win) and game two might not have enough rest for Sanchez and wheeler. I kind of think Robbie Ray, Sonny grey and Michael wacka make sense. I think Logan Webb is interesting as giants are out of it and he’s coming off an injury. He’s owed $23 mil next couple years but he’s in his prime. He’s likely be your wheeler replacement when wheeler retires after 2027 if acquired. He’s 29. He’s not wheeler but he’s a good no. 2 and with Cotham he might get him to go to another level. So you’d have sanchez, Webb, luzardo, painter/wood
June 10Jun 10 3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Thought about this the other day, Phillies might be better off going after a 1B at the deadline. Move Harper back to RF and have Garcia/crawford platoon. Garcia is slashing .253/.343/.525/.869 against LHP. Meaning if Crawford is solid vs. RHP you improve the outfield platooning them and then get a power hitter at 1b. Options at 1b: Christian Walker, Nathaniel Lowe, Wilson Contreras and Jake burger. All having good yearsHarper isn't going back to RF. I know he says he will for the right player, but I think it's all lip service, so he doesn't get blow back from the fans. They could tell Bryce they are bringing back 2006 Ryan Howard and I'm telling you behind the scenes, he would fight it tooth and nail.
June 10Jun 10 27 minutes ago, vsptroops said:Harper isn't going back to RF. I know he says he will for the right player, but I think it's all lip service, so he doesn't get blow back from the fans. They could tell Bryce they are bringing back 2006 Ryan Howard and I'm telling you behind the scenes, he would fight it tooth and nail.Tbh I actually think it’s about equal Phillies and Bryce. I think the investment that the Phillies have in Bryce Harper they think if he goes back to the outfield, he’ll decline faster. they want him to hit 500 home runs in a Phillies uniform and don’t want him to come up short by deteriorating fast. I do think he doesn’t want to Play outfield either for those reasons as well and some other. That said the options at first base are far better than the outfield options for right handed bat.
June 10Jun 10 Has Kerkering been brought out to start another inning after completing a full inning at other times this season or was this the first time? Regardless, I like it. That's another thing Thomson refused to do during the season. That dummy waits to do it in the playoffs only to see it backfire.
June 10Jun 10 Duran has been great this year. Phillies have a ridiculous record in one run games - biggest issue continues to be scoring runs. Broken record, I know.
June 10Jun 10 Just now, Bwestbrook36 said:Can't be blowing Wheeler gamesThey also can’t keep having Duran throw on back to back nights. At some point he’s going to wear down.
June 10Jun 10 3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:They also can’t keep having Duran throw on back to back nights. At some point he’s going to wear down.Be nice if they could get the ninth with a lead that wasn’t less than 3 runs too
June 10Jun 10 17 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:They also can’t keep having Duran throw on back to back nights. At some point he’s going to wear down.I wasn't necessarily putting it on Duran, I meant overall
June 10Jun 10 Waking up to Duran blowing a save wasn't what I had in mind. Guess you can't win all the 1 run games and Duran is going to blow a save or two. Need to win today to take the series and head to Milwaukee only needing a game to complete a .500 roadtrip.
June 10Jun 10 5 hours ago, DrPhilly said:Waking up to Duran blowing a save wasn't what I had in mind. Guess you can't win all the 1 run games and Duran is going to blow a save or two. Need to win today to take the series and head to Milwaukee only needing a game to complete a .500 roadtrip.He was bound to blow one sooner or later. The two hits to begin the inning were pretty flukey. He was also experiencing pitchcom issues, which caused a hard time communicating between him and Realmuto.
June 10Jun 10 Probably should deal him and/or McFarland at the deadline. Credit to him at 27 figuring it out in triple A as a reliever. That said Phillies BP could use a LH reliever with Alvarado being inconsistent and banks just not good this year. Unfortunate both are RHP. Tbh I’d still love to see McFarlane given a shot. I think Johnson is more of a byproduct of being a AAAA type pitcher. McFarlane never gotten a mlb chance
June 11Jun 11 14 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:he’s on pace for a career high in homers 21He isn't great but he isn't the worst player in the world he is made out to be sometimes
June 11Jun 11 9 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:He isn't great but he isn't the worst player in the world he is made out to be sometimesThey can use an upgrade over a third with more power. but I felt this way for a while if you didn’t have a Bohm batting cleanup and you had a batting like 6-7 he’s probably good enough. But the Phillies refused to go out and get a cleanup hitter so it forced him to have to be in a spot that he has no business being in.
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