Brad Lidge is hurt: Phillies 2011

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it's almost like they're experiencing some cosmic reversal of fortune where the entire team EXCEPT the 'big four' goes to shit

their time will come

The Luis Castillo era is over.

Long live Wilson Valdez

love the title

I'd prefer The Greatest Four crash n' burn

i h8 baseball players:

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0331/mlb_a_phillies11_300.jpg

lol at this line up

wtg phils

1 strike away from the phillies first opening series sweep since like 95 i think

nope, since 1970. done!

i think it'll be 1970 all over again

i h8 baseball players:

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0331/mlb_a_phillies11_300.jpg

― call all destroyer, Friday, April 1, 2011 12:17 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

i dont understand

It's the city of brother-lee love :)

Haven't finished it yet, but cool article about philly pitchers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03Phillies-t.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all

nb that unless you dislike the phillies i'd ignore the context/opening. it's a kinda silly argument about how pitchers today have less "stuff" than in the past. But I found the interviews and descriptions later in the piece really interesting to read.

ha! yeah...phil niekro's pure stuff.

cya cole

didn't think I'd hear Filly fans booing one of the Phantastic Four, even if it's Big Pussy!

i cannot figure out the philly's closer situation right now. is contreras really the closer or was that just a this night thing? i thought madson was gonna close until lidge came back...

apparently so! well, good for him.

Shame Victorino

what just happened w/ that weird grounder

lol at this line up

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 1, 2011 12:13 PM (1 week ago)

lol @ u
http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings/_/group/9/sort/pointsFor/order/true

Cole Hamels made up for last week's game with a shut out today.

yay

CHOOOOOOCH

lee w/ 10 strikeouts, 5 in a row, through 7

Werth V Lee for the final out of the series. Taut!

complete games back 2 back

anyone else watching the phillies this friday evening?

GREG DOBBS

g'night. Oswalt out with a sore back after 6.

*pisses in vat of melted cheese wiz*

too far

never

J.C. Romero is hurt

Francisco just hit 6 fouls in a row before striking out. I'm sure that's not a record but it is certainly fun to watch.

they just pulled hamels, but he pitched 8 innings shutdown before they did. (i wonder why they didn't let him finish. maybe his arm got tired?)

130 pitches, 14ks out of halladay 2day

more exciting tho - in the park hr for flyin hawaiian

Holy crap, just read this on my Rockies forum:

The Phillies have now scored four runs or less in 14 straight games but they are 9-5 in those games because their pitching has beeen that good.

SP ERA: 3.32
RP ERA: 2.20

magelb Matt Gelb
A Phillies official says Roy Oswalt has left the team for personal reasons. No expected return date.

where do Phils stand in runs scored?

middle of the pack

holy shit is that for real? wtf

;_; re oswalt news

Yes, it is for real.

I mean, it's a good offense, but only good w/r/t other 2011 offenses. Certainly not an "all-time"

The Giants offense is one of the worst in the game over the past 2 seasons.

I think I mentioned something to Jordan (?) a few weeks ago: Run differential wins games. Not singularly offense, nor defense, nor pitching.

You can subtract out a Jayson Werth* and add back Lee which may have a net win differential (not looking at stats, just assuming, also Werth is awful this year).

Also what Pence has been doing since coming on is making Werth a distant, distant memory.

yeah and those Giants teams aren't going to be "all time" either despite a great rotation

I guess if Lee/Halladay/Hamels just crush in the playoffs maybe we could discuss it

The Phils 2008 offense + 2011 pitching would be legendary.

will enjoy pointing out Pence regression before long

This series with the Dodgers is really a tale of two franchises and doing it right and doing it wrong. Dodgers and Phillies both clashed in the 08 and 09 playoffs, both times the Dodgers get bounced. Couple years later, the Phillies are EVEN BETTER and the Dodgers are a pile of useless shit. =(

this game is unbelievable.

last time the phillies had this big of a comeback was against...

the dodgers. in philly. 8/12/2010. philly scored 8 runs in the last two innings.

https://worldwariitcms.pbworks.com/w/page/15461938/f/Atomic%20Bomb.gif

oof, Madson. I guess Bastardo is gonna be closer again.

"(noun) sinks Phillies" is such a glorious phrase

http://maddadzblogs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/slingshot.jpg

Jon Heyman
got to love the way victorino plays. a very apt name.
1 hour ago

This confused me and made me barf at the same time.

33 games in 31 days phillllllllllllies baseballlllllllllll

no way this is gonna work is it?

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lol yeah, no way. so... video here:
http://www.the700level.com/08/31/11/Cliff-Lee-82-IP-Shutout-Whatever/landing_phillies.html

or rather http://www.the700level.com/08/31/11/Cliff-Lee-82-IP-Shutout-Whatever/landing_phillies.html?blockID=557350&feedID=8510

jaysonst: RT @magelb: Opponents are hitting .112 against Antonio Bastardo in 2011. That would be the lowest ever in baseball history for a pitcher ...

I hate that whenever a game gets delayed it disappears from tv :/

wtf.

just got back from doing an interview at the phillies clubhouse. it took all my willpower not to fanboy out

anyone special?

i was interviewing a relief pitcher but pretty much the entire starting lineup minus pitchers were hanging out / wandering out / getting ready

can u offer any insight into chase utley's hair?

when i walked into the clubhouse howard + utley were shmoozing. that's about the amount of insight i can give into anything. carlos ruiz was talking on the phone in spanish and ibanez was discussing the hitting conditions + wind quality from the night before

i could tell you all about this relief pitcher tho! i'll link to the profile from here when it runs

i hope it's BASTARDO, obv the Aristotelian ideal of a surname for a Phillie.

alas no -- but looking over the roster should be pretty easy to figure out who it was

hoping for schwimer, who smote the international league this season

oh, of course! he is a big kid.

bing bing bing

next year, visitors' clubhouse and World Series MVP Ryan Braun

In an interview in the October issue of Philadelphia magazine, Rollins says it's time for rich people like him to start paying more. "Warren Buffet pays less taxes percentage-wise than his secretary, you catch that?" Rollins asks. "How can that be?"

"I'm blessed to pay a lot in taxes, " Rollins says. "I have friends and relatives that go day-to-day. Every American deserves to feel secure at the end of their life. So if it's going to lift two families up, go 'head, tax me more, I can handle it. Best I know, everyone's going to die. No one's taking money to the afterlife."

jimmy rollins, social democrat

holy shit - hero!

srsly, wtg JR

still, no one's idea of an MVP.

THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US GROUNDED IN REALITY, MORBS.

your loathing of all things Phillies related is a matter of record.

You guys are easy pickins!

I'm sure Bam will spring into action now that J-Roll's countering Geithner.

i doubt that any Mutt has enough brain power to have a coherent opinion about progressive taxation. i am also sure that the Wilpons are just fine with having their secretaries pay more taxes than they do (they were certainly fine with cavorting with people who'd rip off their secretaries' 401(k)s if they had a chance).

c'mon Eiz, ballplayers. You get a smart one now n' then, but, no matter the uniform, he's a freak. Enjoying the losing streak?

i'm enjoying the fact that losing streak or not, my team's going to the playoff and yours isn't.

that's been apparent for a little while, eh? If by your team you mean the one you never go to see play.

http://crashburnalley.com/2011/09/26/on-worrying/

http://twitter.com/#!/mschwimer/status/119072417128783873

Phillies bought out Lidge + Oswalt's contracts. Lidge still wants to come back to the team in some capacity.

The jokes write themselves.

need Hot Stove thread

i have stolen this from a post on a baseball board, it looks at the Phillies payroll with the added Papelbon contract.

PHILLIES 2012 Anticipated Team Payroll:

$111.7M in Committed Salaries for 2012 according to Baseball Reference – That’s for 10 players (Howard, Lee, Utley, Halladay, Blanton, Victorino, Polanco, Ruiz, Contreras and Thome plus the buyout clauses of 2 players Lidge and Oswalt).

$12.5M projected new contract for Papelbon per year. Brings the total to $124.2M.

$22.5M Estimated for just Hamels and Pence the main 2 arbitration cases. That makes it for just 13 players approximately $146.7M +/-.

$12M Estimated for resigning Rollins (or comparable player). That brings the total for just 14 players to about $158.7M +/-

$12M Estimated for possibly signing Cuddyer. That brings the total to $170.7M for just 15 players.

$8 to $10M Estimated because the Phillies still need to sign 10 players to fill out the 25 man active roster. Now most of those are 2nd time pre-arbitration and currently 2nd year arbitration cases on the Phillies roster. Using the lower total of $8M that brings the 25 man active roster for the Phillies for 2012 season. Brings the total to $178.7M to fill out the 25 man active roster.

$178.7M Grand Total Estimated Phillies 2012 TOTAL PAYROLL. That’s with no substantial changes in their roster over 2011 in players other than the anticipated signing of Cuddyer and the new signing of Papelbon. Now my math may be off a little but I think it’s relatively very close.