Boy does this team stink.

Can’t hit, our starters suck, our bullpen sucks. Can’t wait for football season.

4 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

Can’t hit, our starters suck, our bullpen sucks. Can’t wait for football season.

Can’t wait til they run it back in 2026

Basically Brandon marsh

Bohm can't even make a tag

Man this team stinks.

Marsh, Bohm, and Stott all need to go. I know Stott didn’t even play today, but that’s the problem. If your "starting” second baseman can only play against right handed pitching, he isn’t the answer.

DD is an overrated joke. Middleton should be pissed but he's the one who hired him.

5 hours ago, vsptroops said:

DD is an overrated joke. Middleton should be pissed but he's the one who hired him.

He is telling DD what to do because they do not have the money to spend thanks to the bad contracts, Dombrowski was a great Gm before coming here, Middleton is the problem

9 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

He is telling DD what to do because they do not have the money to spend thanks to the bad contracts, Dombrowski was a great Gm before coming here, Middleton is the problem

Huh? So who gave them those bad contracts? Who's idea was it to trade their top catching prospect for Brandon Marsh? Who's idea is it that Johan Rojas is an actual major league player? Signing Nola to a ridiculous 7 year contract? That Trea Turner contract isn't looking too good right now. Hey, only 8 more years after this one. Not trading Bohm in the offseason when they should have just taken whatever they could get for him. Now? He's not worth anything. They literally have 4 dead spots in their lineup and that's on DD. Let's not even talk about his trade deadline deals. Holy hell.

Has he done some good things? Sure. Trading for Sosa was a good trade and the Luzardo trade looks to be a good one. Signing Sanchez to that contract was a good move. Unfortunately, his bad moves far outweigh his good.

My if anyone cares thoughts:

Good:

• We aren’t even 10% through the season and the Phillies have a .600 winning %. All this doom and gloom and that’s not even bad

• This is still a very good team that will have its ups and downs.

• Criticize ownership all you want, there are only a handful of teams with both the will and the means to invest in a championship contending roster…and the Phillies are one of them.

Bad:

• Zach Wheeler is 34. He has been as good as it gets, but I was worried before the season that his days as an ace amongst aces might be numbered. 2 consecutive sub par starts make you wonder.

• Outfield, obviously, is a mess. I feel like the plan was to upgrade the bullpen at the trade deadline (which is sort of fine, I think the pen becomes more important in the playoffs). But they can’t fix both, just not enough resources.

• Bohm and Stott. They are fine. They are starters. But I don’t think either is going to be a reason the team contends for championships.

• With Harper aging, they are going to end up in a place, very soon, where the lineup has zero great bats. Just a bunch of decent hitters who are going to give you .240-.265 batting average with 15-25hr pop. Thats "fine” for any individual player. But we won’t have much that gives you more than that.

the fact they have to sit him now for 3 days and we are 15 games in is ridiculous. "Mental rest” when he’s been bad since July last year. He might just not be what you guys ever envisioned

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

the fact they have to sit him now for 3 days and we are 15 games in is ridiculous. "Mental rest” when he’s been bad since July last year. He might just not be what you guys ever envisioned

Nothing is showing up so dobt know who you are talking about

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

We’re fine there. 😤

17 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Nothing is showing up so dobt know who you are talking about

Marsh. Should show up though. It actually let me Embed it.

Don’t F this up JT!

Yay he didn’t. Cause he didn’t swing the bat!

Guess what?

Walker is such a disgrace. Somehow, I missed that lovely signing on my earlier post about DD. That's probably the worst thing he has done as a GM and he has had some bad ones.

Never thought this team was going to be as good as other people did. I just didn’t see what others were seeing. They have major issues with the lineup and bullpen and addressed neither in free agency.

A Walker reversion to the mean was inevitable. Should have bet the Giants tonight.

This team with runners in scoring position. Wow. 2nd and 3rd with no outs then strike out, fly out, ground out. That chump Rojas set the tone with his at-bat. Why wasn't he bunting? That's all he should be doing, bunting. 2 strikes? Sorry, he's bunting. He doesn't need to swing the bat, like ever. Then of course Turner swings at the first damn pitch. Just a bunch of undisciplined hackers.