June 21, 20242 yr That’s probably the game right there with walker being hot garbage and our lineup being asleep lead in the NL East after tonight might be down to 6 games with Atlanta ahead 4-0 already. Id bet at some point the Braves are gonna catch the Phillies.
June 21, 20242 yr Nice at bat by Turner. Needed that two run bomb. Hopefully Walker doesn’t implode in the top of the 4th.
June 22, 20242 yr Credit to turnbull keeping them in this game after Walker went 4. Unfortunately the bats besides turner’s homer haven’t done much. Still think he should be starting and let him just go 3-4 innings and piggyback him with Walker or someone else.
June 22, 20242 yr Huge missed opportunity there with Bryce up and bases loaded. Guessing the dbacks go some combo of Thompson, Martinez or Sewald for the 8th and 9th inning and they’ve been pretty unhittable all year.
June 22, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Meaning he sucks and they realize Turnbull is a better option than Walker Just listened to his presser and he said he’s worried about his command and leaving balls up in the zone. Walker has been keeping balls high in the zone since his first start. Why now is he saying this and not any start beforehand? Walker has been brutal and now he wants to talk to him about his command? That doesn’t sit right with me. He should’ve said something a long time ago
June 22, 20242 yr 8 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: Just listened to his presser and he said he’s worried about his command and leaving balls up in the zone. Walker has been keeping balls high in the zone since his first start. Why now is he saying this and not any start beforehand? Walker has been brutal and now he wants to talk to him about his command? That doesn’t sit right with me. He should’ve said something a long time ago Frankly, the Phillies just need to accept the fact that it is a bad contract. Designate him for assignment or make him the long relief guy when they’re getting blown out. It doesn’t even have to be Turnbull if you have someone in the minors. But at this point, the only reason why walker keeps starting is because they’re paying him $18 million. he is one of the worst starters in the league. I just like the point out if we didn’t trade Bailey falter for absolute hot garbage Castro, we’d have a fifth starter and you wouldn’t need Turnbull to be the starter. Falter at least showed in previous year he could be fine as a 5th starter and had value. But we traded for a guy in Castro who sucks as a utility fielder in the majors and has been bad in the minors on top of it.
June 22, 20242 yr 4 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Frankly, the Phillies just need to accept the fact that it is a bad contract. Designate him for assignment or make him the long relief guy when they’re getting blown out. It doesn’t even have to be Turnbull if you have someone in the minors. But at this point, the only reason why walker keeps starting is because they’re paying him $18 million. he is one of the worst starters in the league. I just like the point out if we didn’t trade Bailey falter for absolute hot garbage Castro, we’d have a fifth starter and you wouldn’t need Turnbull to be the starter. Falter at least showed in previous year he could be fine as a 5th starter and had value. But we traded for a guy in Castro who sucks as a utility fielder in the majors and has been bad in the minors on top of it. Yeah, Walker is garbage and cannot continue to start. I'd take Falter in a heartbeat over Walker. Falter has a 3.74 ERA in 14 starts so far this year. The idea that they absolutely cannot go back to Turnbull as a starter now because they F'd up and put him in a bullpen role is BS. Give it a shot and see how it works. Can't be worse than Walker who should not be in the majors.
June 22, 20242 yr The bottom of the line up is complete garbage. Dombroski needs to make a move to improve the outfield. Pache, Dahl and Merrifield are not MLB quality starters.
June 22, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, Blazehound said: The bottom of the line up is complete garbage. Dombroski needs to make a move to improve the outfield. Pache, Dahl and Merrifield are not MLB quality starters. Merrifield is really the only surprising one that stinks. I thought he’d be a solid signing. But he’s just been awful. Add on he ranks 350th out of 354 hitters in exit velocity at 82.2mph. So he’s not even hitting it hard. He’s just been awful. There was a reason the Braves were willing to deal pache away to the A’s and why the A’s basically gave up on him like a year after they acquired him. Phillies are living off his couple months last year which he was ok but he’s reverted back to what the As saw. Dahl’s story was nice until he turned back into a pumpkin. This all goes back to their offseason and just saying the lineup was good enough and the only addition to it was whit. It wasn’t good enough last year when it mattered the most. frankly they struggled off and on throughout the year to consistently hit with RISP. On the surface you look at our RISP avg and say it’s good. even the last 24 games where they are .257. But you look into it deeper it’s feast for 2 games then famine for 2-3 games where they are like 1-8 or 3-17. There’s ups and downs with every season but this is the same issue they struggled with during the postseason. It got covered up more the first two rounds and 2 games of the nlcs cause they were hitting homers at a great clip. But when the homers clip stopped they struggled to consistently bring home runners in scoring position which was really an issue each round where they hit well below their season average. In NLCS it was like .160 the last 5 games. Unfortunately i think the same issue may occur in the playoffs. They need another OF bat badly. I’d argue likely two cause marsh against LHP hasn’t been very good and they don’t trust him against it as to why he’s being platooned
June 22, 20242 yr 31 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: So how long is he signed for if he wouldn’t have been a FA until 2029?
June 22, 20242 yr Instead of having to do arbitration every year they rolled the dice and gave him a multi-year contract. That’s my take-away
June 22, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Blazehound said: So how long is he signed for if he wouldn’t have been a FA until 2029? Based on looking at spotrac he wouldn’t have been a free agent until 2029. He was arb eligible through the 2028 season. Essentially they just gave him a contract that makes it so they don’t have to go to arbitration. So it either could work out really well and they get him cheaper than what an arbitrator would decide on (or they come to a number that year) or if he isn’t good they are stuck in the contract except it has options in it.
June 22, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: is Hot spot on index finger code for HR spot on his pitching arm? Whatever it takes to get Walker out of the rotation.
June 22, 20242 yr 9 minutes ago, John Blutarski said: Whatever it takes to get Walker out of the rotation. Kind of think if they don’t put him on IL they are just gonna skip one start
June 22, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: is Hot spot on index finger code for HR spot on his pitching arm? Yeah thats not a a made up injury, If I was MLB big time fine would come
June 22, 20242 yr Would rather have ryan spillbourghs than Schmidt, he says door is open now for Stott as all star, does this idiot even watch the games at all?
June 22, 20242 yr 2 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: Would rather have ryan spillbourghs than Schmidt, he says door is open now for Stott as all star, does this idiot even watch the games at all? No, he doesn't. I thought he was bad on Sundays but he's even worse on Saturdays.
June 22, 20242 yr 8 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: Would rather have ryan spillbourghs than Schmidt, he says door is open now for Stott as all star, does this idiot even watch the games at all? Feel like I’m partially to blame for Stott’s regression. Got a game used Stott jersey before the year and he’s played like this since i got it.
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