1 hour ago, mikemack8 said:

Anyone know what "illness" Schwarber has that's caused him to miss 3 games?

AIDS

14 minutes ago, hputenis said:

AIDS

Makes sense. Gone from tickle me Elmo. Just fun and games. Then he got aids as the tickling led to unprotected hand puppetness

Thankfully he’s recovering from his AIDS and Elmo disease

In 17 starts last season, the EAR was 6.01. Among 144 starters with at least 100 innings pitched since the beginning of last year, Nola’s 6.02 ERA ranks 141st.

Aaron Nola has been one of baseball’s most ineffective pitchers since the start of the 2025 season.

It’s why i said I’d sign Cortes or montas. Essentially going to be a veteran minimum and nola has been bad enough where even if they stink like him it is worth the risk of putting him on IL and seeing for 2-4 starts working with Cotham. Ideally get a guy in a trade but i dont know what teams willing to unload a SP in May

Nola will be on the IL very soon since they can’t do anything with him and that stupid contract

13 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

Nola will be on the IL very soon since they can’t do anything with him and that stupid contract

John stolnis said the same thing i did with wood being fast tracked. He’s the logical guy they try if he’s good in a couple double AA

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

John stolnis said the same thing i did with wood being fast tracked. He’s the logical guy they try if he’s good in a couple double AA

As soon as I seen you post that about Wood I already sensed the plan. They’re gonna push him like they did Kerk and get him ready to be called up and then put Nola on the IL

31 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

As soon as I seen you post that about Wood I already sensed the plan. They’re gonna push him like they did Kerk and get him ready to be called up and then put Nola on the IL

I would do that, but I would also sign someone like Nestor Cortes. He was awful last year. But he was good the year before. And prior to that he was good three of the last four years. Having Cotham I’d use that to my advantage. If anybody’s gonna get the most out of him, it’s gonna be him. So you might as well sign him for a veteran minimum and see what he can do. Because if he winds up being an average fourth starter, it’s not gonna cost you a lot. And if he fails, you can just release him anyways.

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

I would do that, but I would also sign someone like Nestor Cortes. He was awful last year. But he was good the year before. And prior to that he was good three of the last four years. Having Cotham I’d use that to my advantage. If anybody’s gonna get the most out of him, it’s gonna be him. So you might as well sign him for a veteran minimum and see what he can do. Because if he winds up being an average fourth starter, it’s not gonna cost you a lot. And if he fails, you can just release him anyways.

One things for sure there’s no fixing Nola anymore they have to do something. He’s not going to turn it around and be the Nola of old this is who he is now he’s done. Once again Dave screws us with a terrible contract that no one is going to take. We are stuck with him but he can not continue to go out and pitch every 5 days. He’s another Walker and he got DFA’d

5 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:

One things for sure there’s no fixing Nola anymore they have to do something. He’s not going to turn it around and be the Nola of old this is who he is now he’s done. Once again Dave screws us with a terrible contract that no one is going to take. We are stuck with him but he can not continue to go out and pitch every 5 days. He’s another Walker and he got DFA’d

Unfortunately, the Phillies will not DFA him. They’ll just put him on IL. Their biggest fear would be if they DFA him that he’ll go somewhere else and sign a veteran minimum contract. And if they fix him, then the Phillies will have egg all over their face and be a laughingstock. But frankly, I don’t think he’s gonna go somewhere else and be fixed. I don’t think this is a fixable problem. The issue is his fastball velocity has dropped by about 2 mph on average. He needs to be around 93 to 94 and he can’t do that nearly consistently. So he has to be perfect with his offspeed pitches and location. If he’s not, he’s going to get hit hard. The ABS also doesn’t help him. Aaron Nola benefited from no ABS because he could get pitches that are close and weren’t challengeable. Now that if its close they’ll challenge it

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

Unfortunately, the Phillies will not DFA him. They’ll just put him on IL. Their biggest fear would be if they DFA him that he’ll go somewhere else and sign a veteran minimum contract. And if they fix him, then the Phillies will have egg all over their face and be a laughingstock. But frankly, I don’t think he’s gonna go somewhere else and be fixed. I don’t think this is a fixable problem. The issue is his fastball velocity has dropped by about 2 mph on average. He needs to be around 93 to 94 and he can’t do that nearly consistently. So he has to be perfect with his offspeed pitches and location. If he’s not, he’s going to get hit hard. The ABS also doesn’t help him. Aaron Nola benefited from no ABS because he could get pitches that are close and weren’t challengeable. Now that if its close they’ll challenge it

Nola gets all the excuses, first it was the pitch clock and he’s not used to being faster on the mound and now it’s the ABS strike zone. This has to stop, he’s a veteran in the major leagues he has to adjust like everyone else does without all the baby excuses. He’s a bum, he stinks and that’s that. We are stuck with him and can only IL him to keep him from pitching every 5 games.

1 hour ago, RoadToHell said:

Nola gets all the excuses, first it was the pitch clock and he’s not used to being faster on the mound and now it’s the ABS strike zone. This has to stop, he’s a veteran in the major leagues he has to adjust like everyone else does without all the baby excuses. He’s a bum, he stinks and that’s that. We are stuck with him and can only IL him to keep him from pitching every 5 games.

Whoa i wasn’t using the ABS as an excuse. But he lives on the edges of the zone since he got into the league. so the new ABS definitely doesn’t help him. He sucks. No excuse from me. He’s cooked. been cooked for the last 2 years. However the new ABS is just adding insult to injury

6 hours ago, RoadToHell said:

Nola gets all the excuses, first it was the pitch clock and he’s not used to being faster on the mound and now it’s the ABS strike zone. This has to stop, he’s a veteran in the major leagues he has to adjust like everyone else does without all the baby excuses. He’s a bum, he stinks and that’s that. We are stuck with him and can only IL him to keep him from pitching every 5 games.

Don't forget the weather excuse

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

Whoa i wasn’t using the ABS as an excuse. But he lives on the edges of the zone since he got into the league. so the new ABS definitely doesn’t help him. He sucks. No excuse from me. He’s cooked. been cooked for the last 2 years. However the new ABS is just adding insult to injury

No I wasn’t directing that towards you I should’ve worded it better I’m on your side I was just implying people in general give Nola too many excuses to not criticize him on how much he has declined. I get where you’re coming from and yes there’s really no fix for him

1 hour ago, RoadToHell said:

No I wasn’t directing that towards you I should’ve worded it better I’m on your side I was just implying people in general give Nola too many excuses to not criticize him on how much he has declined. I get where you’re coming from and yes there’s really no fix for him

The thing that irritated me when people try to justify that contract on Twitter was saying well he doesn’t rely on his velocity/stuff. So he should age better. My thought was he has so many innings on that arm that at some point in time he was either gonna start breaking down when he got to about now (or maybe just a year or two later in his mid 30s) or he was going to eventually have more injuries. Imo it’s probably worse for him when his velocity drops by 1 or 2 mph as compared to somebody’s throwing 97 and 98. Because he needs to be at 93-94 to be as effective. the velocity drops by just 2 mph now his fastball is useless and it really doesn’t have great movement on it. So he needs to pitch backwards and he needs to rely on his breaking stuff more. his breaking stuff without the fastball is much more hittable or guys are just sitting waiting on the fastball and crushing it.

Imo I think the Phillies went all in on Nola because of painter getting hurt in 2023. Prior to that they really didn’t have much negotiations to getting a contract done. That was the big story. They knew Ranger was gonna come up for a contract in two years (but I don’t think they ever wanted to pay him unless he showed he could stay healthy, which he hadn’t to that point). it wound up he was really good, but he also was injury prone. The thought process may have been was we’re not gonna have painter for another year and who knows what he’s going to be after Tommy John. We still think he’s gonna be great but we need to replace Ranger down the road and that’s where he slides in. But if we lose Nola then we have to replace 2 guys and hard to rely on both Abel and painter hitting. Logic they probably used was Nola never misses time, he’s an innings eater and we think he ages well.

They never should’ve gotten into a 7 year contract with any starting pitcher unless the kid was like 22-25 at the time of the contract and proven at that point (rare) or just a star pitcher like skubal or skenes. They should’ve let him walk and after snell like I said at the time. Just overpaid him for 2-3 years. Because even if you overpaid and it didn’t work, you’re out in 2-3 years and you can move on and not be stuck in this situation.

Jump right back on the horse and win this series

I know Sanchez is pitching extremely well but, I still don't like him pitching this deep into every game this early in the season.

1 minute ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I know Sanchez is pitching extremely well but, I still don't like him pitching this deep into every game this early in the season.

This might be better than wheeler. He’s been ridiculous

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

This might be better than wheeler. He’s been ridiculous

Welp there goes that

The Phillies are back. 4 hits. Keep KLong forever

Just now, RoadToHell said:

The Phillies are back. 4 hits. Keep KLong forever

What’s funny is the pitching has been outstanding since Mattingly took over. hitting is still mediocre. So at some point in time maybe you’re hitting coach who’s done nothing probably needs to be fired.