OT: Philadelphia Phillies: Science Class With Bryce Harper

[Flybynite]

Just a friendly reminder that Gabe Kaplan is in first place and the Phillies are still trash.

*Weeps bitterly

Well Gabe Kapler is in first place with the Giants.

Not sure Gabe Kaplan has ever been in first place in anything since maybe beating Robert Conrad in a race on Battle of the Network Stars in 1976.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[GKJ]

Brainless out at 2nd base by Harper. What are you doing?

 

[DancingPanther]

Hey well Gibson didn't suck

 

[landsbergfan]

 

[DancingPanther]

Vedelopmint

 

[SnS]

What a joke. Jesus Christ.

 

[Jack Straw]

I really can't stand this ESPN crew doing the Phillies game. It's like a bunch of guys sitting around talking about baseball and every once in a while they remember there's a game going on.

 

[BiggE]

Can we finally move on from Hoskins and find a first basemen who can hit north of .250?

 

[Flybynite]

Can we finally move on from Hoskins and find a first basemen who can hit north of .250?

Eric Hosmer is hitting .276. Hoskins is hitting .240. No way in hell do I want Hosmer over Hoskins.

Sorry, it's 2021. We got ways to measure productivity beyond just batting average. Hoskins is the bottom of the top-10 in pretty much all advanced metrics calculating run generation/offense among 1b. Hosmer is in the 20s.

If you wanna point at a free agent of possible acquisition who can come in and be better than Hoskins then sure... but that's not a very big list for 1B and many of them are not free agent eligible yet or likely to be available. I'm not sure Hoskins looks like the kind of guy who is going to age well and you want to give a big long-term contract to in another 2 years though.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Guy f***ing sucks. Stop using him late in games.

RT

 

[Jack Straw]

Seems like Zimmerman has always been a Phillies killer.

 

[BiggE]

Eric Hosmer is hitting .276. Hoskins is hitting .240. No way in hell do I want Hosmer over Hoskins.

Sorry, it's 2021. We got ways to measure productivity beyond just batting average. Hoskins is the bottom of the top-10 in pretty much all advanced metrics calculating run generation/offense among 1b. Hosmer is in the 20s.

If you wanna point at a free agent of possible acquisition who can come in and be better than Hoskins then sure... but that's not a very big list for 1B and many of them are not free agent eligible yet or likely to be available. I'm not sure Hoskins looks like the kind of guy who is going to age well and you want to give a big long-term contract to in another 2 years though.

So is Hoskins really that good or is there just a shortage of good 1bs

 

[Flybynite]

So is Hoskins really that good or is there just a shortage of good 1bs

I think it's prob more the latter. We used to see more of the top-10 hitters in the league be 1B. As recently as 2010 you're talking about like 5 or 6 of the top 10 in OPS+ being a 1B. This year that number is only 3 of the top-10.

If you expand it to top-20 it probably looks even worse comparing 1B in the top-20 league hitters now vs 10 or 20 years ago.

 

[flyguy]

Yo this dude is playing with a praying mantis on his cap.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

RALLY MANTIS!!!

 

[flyguy]

They haven't showed him in a while though. Probably flew off his cap during that double by Segura.

 

[flyguy]

 

[Flybynite]

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

RALLY MANTIS!!!

SAID!

 

[trostol]

thats impressive that it stayed there and he didnt freak out

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

@Captain Dave Poulin

 

[FLYguy3911]

Meet the new closer. Same as the old closer.

 

[trostol]

i might..have to get rid of Ian Kennedy off my fantasy team

 

[Adam Warlock]

Meet the new closer. Same as the old closer.

Maybe Girardi is just awful at managing his pitchers.