A hurts turnover and a Nola homer within seconds. I am shocked 

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

 

I would keep Kennedy over Hays just to prove a point. Hays can take a long walk off a short pier as far as I'm concerned. Dude has been utterly useless since he's been here.

1 minute ago, vsptroops said:

I would keep Kennedy over Hays just to prove a point. Hays can take a long walk off a short pier as far as I'm concerned. Dude has been utterly useless since he's been here.

Hays has a back issue. I’m guessing he’s not going to be on the playoff roster for nlds. I kind rather have Stevenson then Kennedy tbh. 

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

Hays has a back issue. I’m guessing he’s not going to be on the playoff roster for nlds. I kind rather have Stevenson then Kennedy tbh. 

He has a back issue from what? Sitting on his rear end too much? It can't be from playing baseball. I agree with you about Stevenson.

9 minutes ago, vsptroops said:

He has a back issue from what? Sitting on his rear end too much? It can't be from playing baseball. I agree with you about Stevenson.

Idk but I’m guessing in one of the games he played since coming back. Trade looks worse and worse as time goes on. Two years in a row our bat acquisition at the deadline has been useless 

DD and Howie can have a contest on who is worse in regard to trade deadline acquisitions. They are both god awful. 

On 9/9/2024 at 9:30 PM, TV Guy said:

8-8
13-3 (21-11)
13-3 (34-14)
11-5 (45-19)
8-8 (53-27)
9-7 (62-34)
4-12 (66-46)
8-8 (74-54) 
12-4 (86-58) – Third-best decile of the season.

9-9 in the final 18. (95-67)

50-48 since June 9th

So dbacks are in if the Braves or Mets sweep the DH

if the Mets and Braves split then both are in and dbacks are out 

They coasted to 95 wins.  They never had a must-win game or series all season.

sixth best Phillies season all time

 

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

 

I think I’d want to avoid the Mets in the NLDS

2 minutes ago, Blazehound said:

I think I’d want to avoid the Mets in the NLDS

Frankly i think the brewers would beat the Mets. I think the brewers would lose to the dbacks.  Dbacks play well in Milwaukee even last year. Mets won today but 1-5 vs. Milwaukee this year 

Brutal 

 

On 9/28/2024 at 9:53 AM, toughfighter83 said:

i dont see the phillies making it to the world series, it's either the braves or the dodgers, if we get that far, i just dont think we have a chance of beating those two teams.

I'm thinking Brewers.  They have been resilient, winning despite a lot of injuries.  Of course, having so many injuries catches up to you, so I see the American League team beating them in the World Series.  I am going with the Yankees over Brewers this year.

 

On another note, "expert" David Ortiz is already wrong with his World Series prediction from the All Star Game, since he picked the Red Sox to win the Series (again, back in the middle of July).

1 hour ago, xzmattzx said:

I'm thinking Brewers.  They have been resilient, winning despite a lot of injuries.  Of course, having so many injuries catches up to you, so I see the American League team beating them in the World Series.  I am going with the Yankees over Brewers this year.

 

On another note, "expert" David Ortiz is already wrong with his World Series prediction from the All Star Game, since he picked the Red Sox to win the Series (again, back in the middle of July).

Idk the brewers hitting isn’t great. Have a great bullpen but really besides peralta their starters aren’t very good. Rea, civale and montas might be the worst 1-4 rotation in the NL playoffs.

Still think the padres. Cease, darvish, king and musgrove are a really good 1-4. Perez got lit up toda but had been really good prior. musgrove who’s been much better second half. Their bullpen is top 3 in ERA since all star break. They also got tatis back and can hit. Since all star break they are  2nd in average, 3rd in slugging, 3rd in OPS and 2nd in wRC+. they don’t strikeout a lot and put the ball in play (team that struck out the least in baseball)

Actually pretty impressive. 

 

I don’t see the Phillies getting enough quality innings out of their bullpen to get on a long playoff run, and I certainly don’t have confidence in their starters being a 3-headed monster to carry them through a series.  I have confidence in Wheeler but it’s a bad position to be in, hoping that Nola can be a solid playoff performer.

Sanchez is an unknown commodity in the playoffs and Suarez has been throwing batting practice the second half of the season.  Didn’t he start the year 9-0?  He finished 12-8 …. yikes.

Even if the bats get hot — they can only stay hot so long in the playoffs.  Gonna need excellent starting pitching and the bullpen will need to overperform.

Good to get that last game and go into the break with a W

3 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

Good to get that last game and go into the break with a W

Agreed. Getting sweeped by the Nats going into the playoffs would be bad JuJu.

6 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I don’t see the Phillies getting enough quality innings out of their bullpen to get on a long playoff run, and I certainly don’t have confidence in their starters being a 3-headed monster to carry them through a series.  I have confidence in Wheeler but it’s a bad position to be in, hoping that Nola can be a solid playoff performer.

Sanchez is an unknown commodity in the playoffs and Suarez has been throwing batting practice the second half of the season.  Didn’t he start the year 9-0?  He finished 12-8 …. yikes.

Even if the bats get hot — they can only stay hot so long in the playoffs.  Gonna need excellent starting pitching and the bullpen will need to overperform.

Not this season, but I wonder if they consider putting Ranger in the pen long term. He doesn’t appear to be able to handle a full season as a starting pitcher without getting injured and losing effectiveness. 

4 hours ago, Blazehound said:

Not this season, but I wonder if they consider putting Ranger in the pen long term. He doesn’t appear to be able to handle a full season as a starting pitcher without getting injured and losing effectiveness. 

I’m not sure the Phillies can do it next year unless they go into FA and get another starter. Painter is back but he’s going to be on an innings restriction. So by the time the playoffs come (assuming we make it) he’s likely done for the year. Frankly i have a feeling we are going to make a trade or sign a starter. Crochet makes sense if they keep painter. I don’t see them trading painter for him as they already turned that down. Add on he was not good the second half of the year as he had a 5.12 ERA. Part of me wonders if guys like Freddie peralta and cease. Peralta has 2 years of club options and ceases has 1 year left on his contracts. Cease less likely but padres didn’t keep Soto due to payroll so i wonder if they rather deal cease and get prospects back then pay him. 

Breaking news!!!! Next year going back to old style uniforms and for all star game players will wear the team uniform 

33 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Breaking news!!!! Next year going back to old style uniforms and for all star game players will wear the team uniform 

 

Read this on a separate Phillies site:

"Listening to Ruben on the Phillies podcast today and I think it's pretty clear the issue with Ranger. Same issue that has always been there and the reason he can't get past 150. He's out of shape again.

Amaro danced - a little - around the reason saying it was a chicken and the egg situation, unsure whether the back injury prohibited his staying in shape or him not continuing the conditioning he received in spring training once the season started causing the back issue.

All of the guys on the podcast including Zolecki agreed that right now he is out of shape and said Thomson is hoping that the adrenaline of the playoffs will get him through like before.”