OT: Philadelphia Phillies (MLB): How is Ruben still here?

[Hollywood Cannon]

Utley is the lone Phillies player to make the All-Star team. Pretty much expected.

On another note, Sean Doolittle, who went to my High School in South Jersey, made his first All Star Team which is pretty awesome.

 

[Sombastate]

Utley is the lone Phillies player to make the All-Star team. Pretty much expected.

On another note, Sean Doolittle, who went to my High School in South Jersey, made his first All Star Team which is pretty awesome.

Yeah, he's starting too. Good for him

 

[FLYguy3911]

Utley is the lone Phillies player to make the All-Star team. Pretty much expected.

On another note, Sean Doolittle, who went to my High School in South Jersey, made his first All Star Team which is pretty awesome.

You're a Shawnee guy, eh?

He was a senior when I was a freshman and he was pretty hyped around here. We were supposed to play you guys that year in a tournament. Luckily for me, we didn't (I'm a lefty ).

Didn't look like he was going to make it there for a little while as a first baseman, but the pitching thing came back pretty quickly. I actually went to a spring training game 2 years ago which turned out to be the first professional game he pitched in. Didn't think he would make it to the bigs that year. Good for him. He's having a heck of a year. Up until last week he only walked 1 guy!!! That's crazy considering his conversion just two years ago.

 

[sobrien]

According to Jon Heyman on MLB Tonight from today, the Phillies are unwilling to give up their pieces that they won a championship with (Utley, Rollins, Hamels, probably Lee, and Howard because they can't)




The guys on the block or who Heyman said we could/should look to trade are Papelbon, Revere, Brown, and Mayberry. Not sure who'd want Mayberry, I'd give him away for a small bag of BP balls. Papelbon I can understand. But I feel like Revere and Brown (along with Hamels) should be the "bridge" to the next contending team...if we had anything worth a damn to do that with within the next 3-5 years.

 

[Phileeguy]

But I feel like Revere and Brown should be the "bridge" to the next contending team...

Will there be barricades on that bridge to prevent people from jumping?

 

[Protest]

According to Jon Heyman on MLB Tonight from today, the Phillies are unwilling to give up their pieces that they won a championship with (Utley, Rollins, Hamels, probably Lee, and Howard because they can't)

Makes sense. I wouldn't want to have a successful franchise either.

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

I'm a little iffy on nominating relief pitchers to the ASG. I think there are 30 relief pitchers with a sub 2.5 ERA and 50ip, or something. I can't remember what the stat I saw was.

 

[Halladay]

Not sure who on this team has value. Utley maybe, Lee is almost 36 with shoulder issues. I think if Hamels was year further into his contract he could potentially get a good haul for him.

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

There's certainly no easy fix for this squad.

 

[JC128]

Can we start a countdown until RAJ is fired? I really never thought I would see a worse GM than Ed Wade, but yeah. The sad part is that the Philles, by far, have to be in the worst shape going forward. Take in to account the talent on the roster, their age, the money and term left on their contacts, and whats coming up in the farm......its real bad

Edit. I mean they have to be in the worst situation in all of baseball going forward

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Honestly, I think the only way the Phillies could get to do anything anymore is to go the moneyball route basically. Get cheap guys that perform well enough and are consistent.

 

[JC128]

Honestly, I think the only way the Phillies could get to do anything anymore is to go the moneyball route basically. Get cheap guys that perform well enough and are consistent.

Yea I hope they move toward advance stats. Problem is that so many teams have been doing that for years. Lets hope they can dump their MLB talent for prospects in A ball and below. RAJ asks for guys who are about to be in the pros, he will never get that. Look at how the astros murdered the Phils for Pence, They took high potential guys in the lower minors. No GM is giving up blue chips about to make the jump.

 

[sobrien]

Will there be barricades on that bridge to prevent people from jumping?

Absolutely not! Revere and Brown will be at the bottom attempting to catch you.





...key word there is "attempting"

 

[FlyingPhilly]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/...rs-frank-assessment-of-moribund-Phillies.html

"It's disappointing, particularly the offense," Amaro said at Miller Park. "What more can you say other than we're not swinging the bats very well. I didn't anticipate our guys being this poor. Because they are. They are this poor.

 

[Sniped]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/...rs-frank-assessment-of-moribund-Phillies.html

RAJ is the only one on this planet who apparently didn't see this coming.

 

[Phileeguy]

RAJ:

What more can you say other than we're not swinging the bats very well.
I didn't anticipate our guys being this poor

They're not poor. They're collectively making serious bank to not swing the bats very well.

 

[Karma]

he's an idiot. pretty much everyone saw this coming.

 

[FlyingPhilly]

http://www.csnphilly.com/blog/700-level/ruben-amaro-calls-mike-missanelli-uninformed

Ever the antagonist, Missanelli wasted little time making small talk and lobbing softballs, and dove right into the hard-hitting questions.

“I gotta ask you straight up: how could you not have anticipated that these guys would play like this when all the statistics would indicate that they would play like this?”

Retweeted by Andrew Kulp
Derek Bodner @DerekBodnerNBA · 3h
"I don't know how well-versed you are in statistics." These words actually came out of Ruben Amaro's mouth.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

No words

 

[JC128]

http://www.csnphilly.com/blog/700-level/ruben-amaro-calls-mike-missanelli-uninformed

what gets me is the arrogance it takes to make that statement. RAJ treats people like he is god, when actually he is horrible at his job

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Cole Hamels can be traded to LAD, LAA, STL, WAS, ATL, NYY, BOS, TEX, SD without his permission, sources tell @Ken_Rosenthal and me.

— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) July 8, 2014

Cole

 

[Karma]

How good of a return could we get for Hamels?

 

[TheWolfOfBroadStreet]

How good of a return could we get for Hamels?

we would get a very, very good return on Hamels. it would take a top prospect + to acquire him, there is a chance we would have to eat some salary but thats expected with most of our players if we were to trade them at this point. It sucks Lee got hurt when he did, he definitely could have garnered some nice prospects with the assumption we eat most of his salary, now i am not so sure.

 

[JC128]

we would get a very, very good return on Hamels. it would take a top prospect + to acquire him, there is a chance we would have to eat some salary but thats expected with most of our players if we were to trade them at this point. It sucks Lee got hurt when he did, he definitely could have garnered some nice prospects with the assumption we eat most of his salary, now i am not so sure.

I still think they could pull a very good prospect for Lee. He is known for dominating after the all star break and in post season. Any team who wants to win now should be all over him. Worst case we move him next year and get the same return

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

On the cusp of sweeping the Brewers. This team.