Brogdon has been trash lately

10 minutes ago, BirdsFanBill said:

Brogdon has been trash lately

yeah but in his defense this situation he’s not a closer. Asking him to do something he’s not used to or done often is recipe for disaster. I’d have used Alvarado as the closer. I believe he did it for the rays and the Phillies a couple games last year. Brogdon has done it once this year and it was shaky that game 

thankfully he got the job done and we had a multi run lead

Bailey Falter and Edmundo Sosa leading the Phils to the playoffs just like everyone predicted 

Small sample size and all that, but is it possible we’ve got something in Sosa? I didn’t realize he was still only 26 years old. Didn’t know much about him before, so don’t know if he was ever touted as a great prospect or not. 

13 minutes ago, nipples said:

Small sample size and all that, but is it possible we’ve got something in Sosa? I didn’t realize he was still only 26 years old. Didn’t know much about him before, so don’t know if he was ever touted as a great prospect or not. 

He reminds me of Pedro Feliz but can play multiple positions. Don’t think he’s ever a great hitter but he can be a solid hitter. Gives you flexibility to have him or stott at third and move bohm to first when when hoskins arbitration runs out after next year.  

Wow Joe with a rare good point 

 

Going well for soto

 

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

Going well for soto

 

Would be crazy to see San Diego not be able to sign him after giving up what they did. 

9 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

He reminds me of Pedro Feliz but can play multiple positions. Don’t think he’s ever a great hitter but he can be a solid hitter. Gives you flexibility to have him or stott at third and move bohm to first when when hoskins arbitration runs out after next year.  

Wow Joe with a rare good point 

 

The Brewers have a tough stretch of Cards/Yankees/Mets coming up too

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

Going well for soto

 

It'll be interesting to see how he performs next year. Was this year just an aberration or is this the start of a steep decline? If he continues to decline, he's gonna wish he took the Nats offer.  

12 minutes ago, vsptroops said:

It'll be interesting to see how he performs next year. Was this year just an aberration or is this the start of a steep decline? If he continues to decline, he's gonna wish he took the Nats offer.  

Still can’t believe he turned down $440m guaranteed. What a moron. 

5 minutes ago, Blazehound said:

Still can’t believe he turned down $440m guaranteed. What a moron. 

He's a Boras client so he always recommends them to go into free agency plus the $440 million was spread out over 15 years which would have made him something like the 20th highest paid player in MLB per AAV. Boras wants him to be paid top 3 money at the minimum. Plus, the Nats like to differ a lot of their money into later years which is one of the reasons Harper didn't re-sign. It would be funny though if Soto continues to decline and it blows up in both of their faces. 

2 hours ago, GoEagles5921 said:

The Brewers have a tough stretch of Cards/Yankees/Mets coming up too

Yeah. If the Phillies didn’t have such a rich history of letting us down, I’d say the wild card is pretty much a lock right now. 

Outside of 1964, when I was too young to really even know what baseball was, I can't think of another time where the Phillies had a lead in a pennant race and failed to make it. I recall several times where they finished out of the money, but as far as I can remember, they were always the ones doing the chasing and just came up short.

17 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Outside of 1964, when I was too young to really even know what baseball was, I can't think of another time where the Phillies had a lead in a pennant race and failed to make it. I recall several times where they finished out of the money, but as far as I can remember, they were always the ones doing the chasing and just came up short.

I hear about 1964 from my dad every single time the Phillies are coming down the stretch in a potential playoff push. I can’t imagine watching that unfold. He really doesn’t trust the Phillies with anything since that. 

 

What happened to Sundays with Schmidt? did they realize he was terrible?

Robertson back to being trash again

Hoskins is an embarrassment defensively at first base

Loser team doing loser things.  WC lead down to 2.5.  After the Nats (who have been playing well) they face Alcantara, Cabrera and Lopez.  Then the Braves.  Ouch 

Robertson with his 7th blown save of the season. Harper and Schwarber 0-8 with 4 strikeouts between them. Good stuff.

2 hours ago, John Blutarski said:

Robertson with his 7th blown save of the season. Harper and Schwarber 0-8 with 4 strikeouts between them. Good stuff.

Losing culture.  Been this way for years and not sure how to fix it.  They just have nobody that can step up 

They are going to get the 3rd wildcard just because the Brewers are worse

 

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

 

Now that is a playoff bound lineup.

This team truly does not deserve the postseason.

11 minutes ago, GoEagles5921 said:

Now that is a playoff bound lineup.

This team truly does not deserve the postseason.

Random question, how many games this year have the Phillies had their complete lineup out there? by that i mean the best lineup they could have which includes schwarber, hoskins, bohm, harper, realmuto, castellanos, segura, stott and marsh/CF? Really feels like the last 4 months it’s been under 20 games.