May 25, 20242 yr Crappy loss. Its not realistic to think the offense will never sputter some nights even against crap teams like Colorado. That's the nature of the sport. Good news is Bailey Falter came through for us and beat the Braves lol. Hoping that DD can pick up an outfielder and reliever by the deadline. Even though Castellanos has overall sucked this year and I've been really tough on him he's still got a better chance of going on a hot streak with hitting HRs and driving in runs than Rojas does. Regardless they could use one more outfielder.
May 25, 20242 yr 26 minutes ago, John Blutarski said: Crappy loss. Its not realistic to think the offense will never sputter some nights even against crap teams like Colorado. That's the nature of the sport. Good news is Bailey Falter came through for us and beat the Braves lol. Hoping that DD can pick up an outfielder and reliever by the deadline. Even though Castellanos has overall sucked this year and I've been really tough on him he's still got a better chance of going on a hot streak with hitting HRs and driving in runs than Rojas does. Regardless they could use one more outfielder. They have one of the worst hitting outfields in baseball
May 25, 20242 yr 5 hours ago, John Blutarski said: Crappy loss. Its not realistic to think the offense will never sputter some nights even against crap teams like Colorado. That's the nature of the sport. Good news is Bailey Falter came through for us and beat the Braves lol. Hoping that DD can pick up an outfielder and reliever by the deadline. Even though Castellanos has overall sucked this year and I've been really tough on him he's still got a better chance of going on a hot streak with hitting HRs and driving in runs than Rojas does. Regardless they could use one more outfielder. I don’t trust Castellanos or Rojas. But at least Castellanos you have the chance he just gets red hot. Right now Rojas has been bad outside of the back to back series in April vs. Rockies and white sox who are the two worst teams in baseball. He’s hitting .184 and .221 OBP percentage outside of that series. That’s horrific. it’s actually worse than Castellanos. At some point gotta realize it’s not helping him to try and learn to hit at the mlb level. He hasn’t shown consistent improvement over the first two months. He’s basically been the same. It’s pretty obvious he’s not ready to be a major league hitter. It would benefit him to play every day in the minors and even get some confidence hitting against minor league pitching. The issue is he’d be replaced by Whit or Pache who are not good either. At least with pache has a OBP of .314
May 25, 20242 yr 15 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: They need to trade for an outfielder. Can’t have 2 of 3 outfielders consistently hitting this poorly. Rojas can’t hit well enough to justify being an everyday player and Castellanos is too hit or miss. Rockies RP had a 8.38 ERA yet. None of our guys could do anything lol yup, they have to make moves at the deadline so this doesnt turn to the 2007 mets collapse and dont make the playoffs, they have to get depth starting pitching and depth bench hitting. it's the reason why the 08 phillies won it because they added alot of depth so if the starters flamed out, at least you have the other players that can step up, same reason for the 2023 nlcs collapse, our starters flamed out and we didnt have alot of depth that can step up for us, if we had depth we probably would talking about a world series victory and that's on dave. he has to stop acting like this team is good enough, it's a 162 game season, starters will get tired and start to struggle, we have to add good depth, if not then i wont be surprised to see this team in the wild card or out of the playoffs.
May 25, 20242 yr 17 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: They are eventually gonna go into some sort of slump. It’s inevitable with how long the season is. However the biggest concern I have right now is their outfield besides Brandon marsh is not very good. Merrifield has been downright awful outside of a week. Pache has also not been very good and is hitting .209 but at least he has a solid OBP. Rojas has been horrible hitting outside of the Rockies and white Sox series in April. That series he hit .438 (7-16) with a .500 OBP. The rest of the year he’s hitting .184 (23-125) with an OBP of .221. that is absolutely atrocious. Like Castellanos hasn’t been good but Rojas outside of the five game stretch has been atrocious hitting. He should be in the minors learning how to hit. Because he’s not getting better in the majors. He’s staying pretty consistently bad. Like this game should’ve been a game where he plays well cause the Rockies are not good and he look completely lost up there. And then there’s Castellanos who’s hitting .206 and has an OBP of .278. to me, you can’t have four of your five outfielders hitting below .215 and 3 of 5 below .280 on base percentage. i think you have to go out and get an outfielder if the other four guys besides Brandon marsh are going to be this inconsistent or this bad. In the playoffs you are putting a ton of pressure on the 7 other guys to continuously be consistent and not go into a slump. If one or 2 do now you have a much bigger problem. It’s kind of what happened to them after game 5 Could they move Harper back to RF, Bohm to 1st and play Sosa at 3rd? Marsh plays center and Nick goes to left. You could also put Schwarber in LF sometimes, Harper DH, and get Sosa some time at 3B. Is Harper in the outfield completely out of the question?
May 25, 20242 yr 6 minutes ago, vikas83 said: Could they move Harper back to RF, Bohm to 1st and play Sosa at 3rd? Marsh plays center and Nick goes to left. You could also put Schwarber in LF sometimes, Harper DH, and get Sosa some time at 3B. Is Harper in the outfield completely out of the question? I think Harper playing the outfield is completely out of the question. if that was a consideration, they would’ve just re-signed Rhys Hoskins who essentially was going to be on a 1-year prove it contract. The other issue is Sosa isn’t going to continue to hit this well. He’ll eventually come back closer to his norm. I think more he plays the more he will eventually get exposed. I think what’s gonna happen is if they get to July and castellanos and Rojas are still struggling you are likely looking for an OF bat. Preferably left handed so can platoon Rojas or castellanks if they are in a mega slump. Some guys who’s contracts are coming up at the end of the year and some guys on bad teams i think they’d be interested in: Michael conforto Tommy Pham (having a really good year) Max kepler Kevin kiermaier (having a brutal year) Kevin Pilar (having a good year but minimal games played) Rob refsnyder (having an outstanding year so far) younger guys you’d have to give up good prospects to get but long term future with Phillies: Luis Roberts Jr jazz Chisholm Randy Arozarena (Having a down year) Kyle Tucker (if the Astros are out of it. Heard on mlb Sirius channel they are not against dealing him if it means a big haul back and supposed Dombrowski inquired about him during the offseason to acquire him I’m guessing it starts with crawford/aiden miller and Abel https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-kyle-tucker-trade-rumors-3-possible-landing-spots-astros-rf-uncertainty-looms-future-houston)
May 25, 20242 yr Purely hypothetical but if the Astros were willing to deal Kyle Tucker (been rumors of they are out of it they would) would you deal a package of this for him get: Kyle Tucker give: Crawford or miller abel caba or ricconnes Jr i think id do it
May 26, 20242 yr Hoping Bohm begins to come out of his slump. He’s 1 for his last 15 and 4 for his last 22.
May 26, 20242 yr Awesome Nola has forgotten what the Fing strike zone is. Got 2 outs then up 0-2 on McMahon, walks him and throws 7 consecutive balls. If rogers didn’t check swing it’d be 10. Idk maybe send the Fing pitching coach to talk to him when he had thrown like 10 consecutive balls
May 26, 20242 yr Nola isn't worth his contract. Why they gave someone that much money who fell apart in game 6 is beyond me.
May 26, 20242 yr With Bohm cooling off and two zeros in the outfield I fear a bad stretch coming up, but I tend to be negative so maybe I am wrong
May 26, 20242 yr 45 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: With Bohm cooling off and two zeros in the outfield I fear a bad stretch coming up, but I tend to be negative so maybe I am wrong The fact it’s been 15 innings and we have 4 runs and 12 hits this series is concerning. Also marsh in his last 20 games is hitting .210 with a .311 OBP
May 26, 20242 yr Johan Rojas from April 25 to May 25 Hitting .167 (13-78) OBP of .198 16 Ks and 2 BB, 1 HBP
May 26, 20242 yr 29 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: What goes up must come down It’s their bats. It’s an issue. All 3 of their main outfielders the last month have been below average to bad with hitting. Marsh has been the best but really he’s fallen off from where he was earlier in the season. at some point Harper, Stott, realmuto, Sosa and Bohm aren’t gonna be able to just carry you when you have this since April 25 to May 25 rojas: .167 with OBP of .198 Castellanos: .224 with OBP of .300 marsh: .243 with ONP .343 pache: .233 with OBP of .314 merrifield: .173 with OBP of .283
May 26, 20242 yr 2 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: SOSA!!! Legit our best hitter right now. F it when Turner comes back play him in the OF lol also, this is why it made no sense last night to pinch hit for Sosa. When he’s this hot, let him Fing hit regardless if it’s a lefty or righty.
May 26, 20242 yr 2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Legit our best hitter right now. F it when Turner comes back play him in the OF lol also, this is why it made no sense last night to pinch hit for Sosa. When he’s this hot, let him Fing hit regardless if it’s a lefty or righty. Topper messed that up last night with that pinch hit
May 26, 20242 yr 3 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: Topper messed that up last night with that pinch hit Topper has had some head scratchers lately he had one lineup where it was Bohm, casty and merrifield 4-6 in the lineup. Thats all righties so late game you make it easier for your opponent. plus Sosa and Stott were hitting well. Could’ve easily had Bohm, Stott and then Sosa. Should never have casty and merrifield batting back to back especially when they are hitting .200 and below .200.
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