Oakland Athletics
According to reports from ESPN and The Athletic, the Philadelphia Phillies will continue to focus on adding to the bullpen ahead of Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline. The ball club is one of a handful of clubs showing “significant interest” in Oakland A’s reliever Lucas Erceg. Per reports from ESPN & The Athletic, the #Phillies […]
Philadelphia Phillies vs Oakland Athletics preview
Watching the early blowup and early departure of Phillies ace Roy Halladay evoked a haunting memory from 2007. In fact, the stats are eerily similar to June 9, 2007. Although he only got five outs, the starting pitcher for the Phillies that day gave up six earned runs, and Charlie Manuel went out to […]
According to reports, the Baltimore Orioles and Phillies have been at a stalemate all night regarding Joe Blanton and it seems to be over Blanton's salary. With the Phillies set to deal the 31-year-old righty starter, the Phillies want to shed the remaining $3MM they owe out of the $8.5MM Blanton's set to make this […]
Posted by Frank Klose Wikipedia commons Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, spoke at Villanova University as part of a panel discussing the effect of "Moneyball" on the economics of sports. The Phillies team lost out on signing free-agents such as Bobby Bonilla the year before to the Mets and instead filled the roster […]
Posted by Danielle Wilson Courtesy of Daylife.com Thanks to our very own Christina Angelos, I get to write the recap today and was told to do so in the ninth inning, so I'll make this short and sweet. Roy Halladay pitched his 63rd career complete game striking out four, and allowing one earned run on […]
Posted by Danielle Wilson Cole Hamels went for his tenth win of the season tonight, attempting to become the first National League pitcher to reach ten wins. Roy Halladay went for that feat on Thursday, but unfortunately the offense came too late in the game, after Roy was taken out. It felt like 2010 tonight, […]
Posted by Danielle Wilson I'm going to be completely honest right now. I don't have an ounce of energy left in me and this game was just a total snooze-fest. Usually, I enjoy pitching duels in their entirety, but tonight, I just wasn't feeling it. The Vance Worley-Guillermo Moscoso matchup wasn't exactly considered a marquee […]
