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In 2008, the Phillies won the World Series, but you know that. Obviously you also know that Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, and Cole Hamels were huge parts of that team. Obviously you know that since then, those guys have aged, but the team has went from an $85 million payroll to a $189 […]
The Phillies had a nice walk-off win yesterday. Anytime that Ryan Howard hits a walk-off homer, it's a good night for Phillies fans. He can be our difference maker. In that win though, we also saw another drama play out, and that is in the bullpen. The Phillies are a 23-27 team, but while they've […]
Losing isn't fun. I get that. Last Sunday, the Phillies had a 4-1 lead, and were about to sweep the Mets to get back to .500. Then Antonio Bastardo, and the larger bullpen happened, and they haven't won since. The Phillies disaster of a bullpen has lost seven games this season, their rotten defense a […]
Well, Ruben Amaro Jr. is lost, folks. First, he sent the only legitimate power threat on the bench, Darin Ruf, to AAA to create space for Phillippe Aumont and Cesar Jimenez (Jeff Manship went to the DL too), then Aumont served up a two-run homer to take the loss Sunday against the Mets. That's bad […]
Well, the Phillies completed the first third of the season on Sunday afternoon with their 4-3 extra innings loss. The Phillies are 24-30, which computes out to a 72-90 record for the season, one game worse than last season. Their bullpen has ten losses, which computes out to 30 losses for the season, effectively making […]
Saturday at the ballpark, for me at least, was a great, great day. When Jimmy Rollins came up in September of 2000, it was the start of my junior year of high school. I'm 31 now, and in between, Jimmy, along with Chase, Ryan, Cole, Chooch, and others, gave us the best era of Phillies […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. Well, the Phillies are still bad, even after the joy of this weekend's Rollins' record wore off. The Phillies are 29-38, good enough for last in the NL East, but just 6.5 games back. You could make a solid argument for as many as 22 or 23 of the 25 […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. The Phillies went 5-2 in a week where they went to Atlanta and St. Louis. They've went 9-4 over the last two weeks. They're back to just five games out in the brutally awful NL East, and six in the Wild Card race. In short, they're alive enough to warrant […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. Back in Spring Training, when people were bashing Jimmy Rollins for saying he won't allow a trade (before he reaches certain milestone, and the team would be out of it), I defended him. Ten-and-five rights are a collectively bargained right of a baseball player. You have to make it ten […]
Hey guys! It's the crew- three outfielders who are all negative WAR players! And they're on a plane, after getting swept for four games with the Braves! And…. and…. they're all smiling! I'm not saying players should sulk and cry after a bad series, but maybe there's a little more to be said in this […]
