16 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

It’s not where he’s hitting in the lineup, it’s who his hitting coach is now trying to fix something that was never broken

Eh long sucks but when you are hitting like .310 with no one on and .233 with RISP feels like that’s on him for pressing. Again, his career numbers of runners in scoring position looks good. But no team besides the Phillies have forced him to be somebody who drives in runs.

10 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Eh long sucks but when you are hitting like .310 with no one on and .233 with RISP feels like that’s on him for pressing. Again, his career numbers of runners in scoring position looks good. But no team besides the Phillies have forced him to be somebody who drives in runs.

His supporting cast should all be held accountable for not doing their jobs consistently which required placing a guy like Arraez to pick up their slack to simply drive in runs was already a recipe for failure. Trea being terrible at the plate puts Kyle back in the leadoff spot, you get the picture. It’s a shame really when you look at what this offense could have been

9 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

His supporting cast should all be held accountable for not doing their jobs consistently which required placing a guy like Arraez to pick up their slack to simply drive in runs was already a recipe for failure. Trea being terrible at the plate puts Kyle back in the leadoff spot, you get the picture. It’s a shame really when you look at what this offense could have been

I’d argue that’s a bigger failure on Dombrowski’s part. He needed a cleanup hitter for a couple years now and ignored it. If they had it arraez isn’t in that spot. Again long sucks at his job but the bigger issue is Dave ignoring a hole at cleanup for multiple years and just relying on aging jt, Bohm, inconsistent Castellanos and marsh. Now forced with Arraez .

I am all for bashing long. He is really not good at his job. He’s part of the issue and should be gone. However some of this is giving him guys who were either declining, inconsistent their entire careers or guys like Bohm who have no business hitting 1-4 and became a cleanup hitter

2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’d argue that’s a failure on Dombrowski’s part. He needed a cleanup hitter for a couple years now and ignored it. If they had it aaraez isn’t in that spot. Again long sucks at his job but the bigger issue is Dave ignoring a hole at cleanup for multiple years and just relying on aging jt, Bohm, inconsistent Castellanos and marsh. Now forced with Arraez .

Do you think they’ll finally go after a clean up hitter once this season is over? Dave pubically announced they don’t have one so you would think he would make a change for sure considering he still has a job. My guess is Arraez is also gone after this season

It would be nice if every time it rained the power did not go out

6 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

Do you think they’ll finally go after a clean up hitter once this season is over? Dave pubically announced they don’t have one so you would think he would make a change for sure considering he still has a job. My guess is Arraez is also gone after this season

Resign adolis garcia

2 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

Do you think they’ll finally go after a clean up hitter once this season is over? Dave pubically announced they don’t have one so you would think he would make a change for sure considering he still has a job. My guess is Arraez is also gone after this season

First, let’s hope there’s even a season next year. I’m not so sure we get more than 80 games if that. There’s a chance this thing goes all the way until July. They are really far apart. And then the whole Dodgers owner fiasco that’s going on is not gonna help matters.

I would hope he would. However, free agency is not very good this year. The guy that you really need to get any fits what the Phillies need except he’s 32 years old is Randy Arozarena. And he fits perfectly in what you need cause he’s the right handed outfield bat and can hit cleanup. he probably would rake at citizens Bank Park. They have money coming off the books so you would think they would do that. But there’s going to be a big market for him.

As for Arraez I’m not sure. They gave up a pretty good prospect for him. So I have a harder time believing they’re just gonna let him walk. Plus Bohm is off this roster so clear stott to play 3B or SS if you move Turner to the outfield. Really curious what they do at 3B cause miller isn’t going to be remotely ready in 2027. So could leave Turner at SS, Arraez at 2b and Stott at 3b with Harper at 1b.

Frankly a lineup of

schwarber

Turner

Harper

Arozarena

Arraez

Stott

Jt

Crawford

Marsh/ RH platoon

Is pretty good. That said i think they get outbid for arozarena

5 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Resign adolis garcia

That would be the Phillies thing to do. No one would be shocked just pissed

11 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Resign adolis garcia

Actually think the guy they target is Ian happ

Feels like we should be up way more than 3-1 and kept the dbacks in this game like Saturday with the angels

You can’t ask Luzardo to do much more than that tonight. Is it too much to ask the bats to score at least one more run, you know, for fun?

That a boy Crawford

Thank you

Harper is on 🔥

Best harper has looked in a really long time. This is like MVP Harper

Good to see the players still reading this thread

If Milwaukee keeps the top spot I hope the Phillies get the WC. Let the Braves and Dodgers go at it.

5 hours ago, RoadToHell said:

It’s not where he’s hitting in the lineup, it’s who his hitting coach is now trying to fix something that was never broken

Do you have any evidence of that or are you just speculating?

Worst case 6-3 West Coast trip which is always a success. One last game, then a travel breather, and then the meat starts.

23 games left. With the brutal schedule they have starting this weekend, I think it would be impressive if they can go 13-10 or better. That alone gets them to 92 wins. Who would have thought that a month ago?

If they want a chance to take the division, they need to go 5-2 against the Braves. Anything less doesnt get it done, unless the Braves go through another rough patch. #1 wildcard spot would be ok for me as well.

4 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

Do you have any evidence of that or are you just speculating?

We don’t like Kevin Long around here. We blame him for everything wrong with the offense. He’s the modern day McNabb

So do I start Andrew Painter on my fantasy baseball team tonight? First round of playoffs - I'm up big right now in all the pitching categories but that could change at any second. I rolled the dice with Nola and he paid off for me.

52 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

We don’t like Kevin Long around here. We blame him for everything wrong with the offense. He’s the modern day McNabb

Ok yeah I’ve understood that but I thought maybe you had something specific for this one which would have been interesting.

1 hour ago, mikemack8 said:

So do I start Andrew Painter on my fantasy baseball team tonight? First round of playoffs - I'm up big right now in all the pitching categories but that could change at any second. I rolled the dice with Nola and he paid off for me.

Well we scored 7 runs last night so take how they perform today at your own risk lol

6 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

So do I start Andrew Painter on my fantasy baseball team tonight? First round of playoffs - I'm up big right now in all the pitching categories but that could change at any second. I rolled the dice with Nola and he paid off for me.

Avoid