Comments on: Phillies Mid-Season Review

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:33:57 +0000

i totally agree that

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Joe Blanton to the Phillies! Phillies fans react with negativity! — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:38:12 +0000

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[...] have “accelerated,” possibly by the realization that Adam Eaton, as mentioned in the Phillies mid-season review, is literally the WORST starting pitcher in [...]

By: jjg

jjg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:55:40 +0000

Pete, #1 through #5, each professional is handed a pristine white ball (with 108 red stitchings) and complementary resin bag. Only one standard by which to truly judge, a variation on Al Davis – “Just help get our team a win, baby!”

Saturday, Eaton should have put him away with a 6’10″ strike zone to work with…but “the Big Unit” sure did battle!

Hopefully Myers will return with mental wrinkles ironed out and be a pig in slop once again on the hill…yes, it’s surely an iffy eventuality…you probably know that Cliff Lee was sent down by Indians last season for similar “tune-up.”

Pitching. Name of the game.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:08:27 +0000

jjg -

remember that the grades were also based on expectations. so Jamie Moyer’s “A” doesn’t mean he’s been better than Hamels “A-”, it means that you can’t expect any more from a 45-year old slow-pitch softball pitcher.

Eaton might deserve a “D”, he’s just caused me so much frustration (a frickin 2-out double to Randy Johnson, are you serious?) that I can’t upgrade him at all. But you may be right on him.

I’m sticking with Myers “F-” because if he had prepared for the season, he wouldn’t have had to make the choice to allow us to send him to the minors.

By: jjg

jjg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:33:50 +0000

Pete, Interesting read – good work. Looking at starting pitchers, I’d revise a few grades: (1) Hamels down to B+ for 18 gopher balls and for pitching well but getting outdueled by opponent’s ace on a few of occasions. ‘A’ pitchers pocket those. Highly talented, but not quite there yet IMO. (2) Moyer down to B for his 4 runs per 9 and penchant for mulling over ever pitch as though it’s a world summit meeting agenda item – “speed up the pace, Jamie!”; an A only when “rocking chair” handicap is applied. (3) Eaton up to D for stringing together May & June “quality” starts that, had Phils lived up to “batting behemoth” hype, might’ve resulted in Ws. Disappointing overall, especially when factoring big contract, but not a total failure. (4) Myers up to D for submitting to role of organizational yo-yo (and subsequent demotion), albeit with decidedly mixed results through time.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:30:01 +0000

Duke –

We need to do what the D-Backs did with Russ Ortiz a couple years back and swallow our pride, admit we made a mistake, a cut Eaton.

Tommy O-

I think I saw Cabrera’s name mentioned in a Buster Olney chat on ESPN.com. Could be wrong. Sweet Lou, despite how well is playing, is probably a little young to be throwing into a pennant race. However, he could be a September call-up, get some time at back-up, and make a run at the starting job in 2009. He’s in a similar situation as Carrasco. Just because “top prospect” is next to their name, doesn’t mean they are ready. We need to take our time with CC and not mess him up and I believe we did with Gavin Floyd (called up at age 21)

By: Tommy O

Tommy O — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:23:26 +0000

I agree well said. Can’t argue with anything. Where did you hear about Daniel Cabrera? I like his stuff. He has control issues, but I think he would be a solid pickup. I really don’t want Bedard. Burnett would be OK but he has too much other stuff outside of his performance to worry about. When are we going to call Sweet Lou Marson up to play?

By: The Duke

The Duke — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:16:17 +0000

Well done. I might be just as excited to see the Phils release Eaton & Taguchi as I would be if they managed a trade for a decent starter. I get sick to my stomach when either of them are in the game.