2013 Philadelphia Phillies: AARP Edition (big shout out to Morbius #1 fan)

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yay phillies

hahahahahahaaaaaa

http://espn.go.com/blog/spring-training/post/_/id/1165/roy-halladays-minor-league-adventure

And once again Saturday, after the sixth start of his puzzling spring, it remained impossible to say what kind of pitcher the great Roy Halladay can be anymore.

The results? They were nothing he'll tell his grandkids about someday. You can book that.

He faced 18 hitters. He retired seven of them. Seven.

He allowed three doubles, four singles, two walks and a hit batter. Another hitter reached when Halladay made an errant throw to first after fielding a bunt.

The Phillies announced afterward that he had pitched four "innings" and allowed three runs (two earned). But his pitching coach, Rich Dubee, pulled the plug on one of those innings with two outs and the bases loaded. And four of the remaining 11 outs came on a caught-stealing and three double-play balls.

So only seven hitters actually headed back to the bench without reaching base. Just one of them struck out -- looking, on a fourth-inning changeup, on Halladay's 76th pitch of the day.

More messy details: Halladay threw first-pitch strikes to only eight of 18 hitters. (“That,” muttered one bystander, after another ball one, “isn’t him.”) He induced three swings and misses out of 81 pitches – none on his fastball.

He touched 90 miles per hour on the radar gun once, on his seventh pitch of the day. But mostly, when he delivered his fastball, the guns lit with numbers ranging from 86 to 89. Aroldis Chapman, it wasn't.

$20m guaranteed this season for a #4 starter at best.
at least he won't hit his vesting options this year and we can sign a 37yr old has-been on a minor league incentive-laden contract. or he'll reluctantly retire.
he's done for.

6.75er 12.0ip 13hits 3hrs 7bb 10 so
FUCK

spring training! small sample size! everyone overreacting! writers trying to force stories! everyone shut up!

dammit, I missed the assCole's first lollipop of the season.

That was some lefty-on-lefty slashfic - hottttt.

cole is SLAW

Wacky line for Halladay: 9 Ks in 3.1 innings, but that's as far as he got because the Braves were kicking the stew out of him between strikeouts.

@ajcbraves
#Phillies Halladay has 11.57 ERA in f5 starts against #Braves since beginning of 2012 season, w/ 36 hits inc. eight homers in 22 innings

too little season for so much big talkin', methinks

I dunno, the Braves really were kicking the stew out of him.

of course they weren't, look at his K/9! /sabr

woo walk off double for frandsen!

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he seems charming! (my first baseball practice of the season starts tmmrw. i'm on my synagogue team. wish me luck in not totally humiliating myself.)

what position do you play?

last time I played was in little league and I played second base

I'd feel a little pity for Halladay, but lol Phuckers

Knocked his ERA down to 11.05.

:( poor halladay

ben revere is on his willy mays hays ish - ground out/air out ratio is 19/1

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and here's the massive dom hr:

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D Battery Elected To Philadelphia Sports Hall Of Fame

lol

jeez, fab bellyflop catch by Revere just now

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26305439

revere catch

phillies have gone 29 innings without drawing a walk -- and the last one was intentional

reflecting nitwit Amaro's philosophy?

make it 37

yikes

that's a lot of home runs, dawg

current poll on philly.com: who will end philly's playoff drought?

:(

i voted iggles but most popular vote was flyers

u couldn't vote for sixers bc no one thinks it'll be them

wtf? flyers made the playoffs last year

probably why they got the most votes

i mean they suck and i hate them, but that's hardly a drought

i think it's bc it's the first time in 21 years thatnone of the Philly’s top four major sports teams made the playoffs.

http://crashburnalley.com/2013/04/30/the-thing-people-dont-understand/

good post; almost makes me feel bad for philly's top four major sports teams not making the playoffs . . .

nah. and you can have the sixers

time to put doc in a shoebox and bury him in the backyard eh?

It's sad to see someone so great fall apart like this.

losing it worse than lincecum at this point. his K rate remains ok, batting average against wasn't really that bad going into today (.240), walk rate up slightly. but man, he's given up only one less homer this year than he did in all of '11 and he's already halfway to last year's total.

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i love that halladay says he's been dealing w/shoulder discomfort since april 24 but they trotted him out there for two more starts. wtg phils, what a terrible organization.

yeah, maybe

welcome to philadelphia, carlos zambrano

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first changeup of the game

does spangenberg owe him money or something, geez

velasquez, wow

9 IP, 3 H, 0 BB, 16 K

16 K holy shit

97 game score

(against the padres tho)

@based_ball
the 2016 Phillies rotation is on pace to surpass its 2015 WAR next Saturday

the horror

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=28941

Velasquez's big game and Signature Significance:

http://www.billjamesonline.com/indicative_impressions/

So, what does this all indicate? I do think the list of pitchers having games like this bodes well for Velasquez. While there are a handful of starters mentioned that may not fit everyone’s description of a quality pitcher, it’s still full of players who went on to fine careers. Not 100% of them, of course, and certainly injuries derailed a few, but it’s a pretty compelling list.

get out yr brooms

n-o-l-a nola

hi5 Mordy

first ryan howard walkoff hr since 2014! i was watching the draft and switched over just in time to watch it :p

pieceee

now back to reading Ball Four

is it too early to rehabilitate ruben

6 straight!

i have perfect timing - every time i turn on the game howard hits a hr

pieceee

6 shutouts this year

now in 2nd place in the East with a -25 run differential

i will enjoy the correction

finally finished the bouton book last night - it's a super quick read but it took until my kindle melted down for me to make the time to wrap it up. he mentions off-handedly an SI story about the Dalton Gang that i had never seen before but is funny: http://www.si.com/vault/1960/06/13/637793/the-dalton-gang-rides-again

-28 DIFF. Second most wins in the NL.

so you know it's an illusion, rather like Clinton's progressivism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVewWbeBiY

under .500 ;_;

I had a dream last night that I caught an Odubel Herrera hit HR in my bare hands and it didn't hurt at all.

Jayson Stark reports that Carlos Ruiz and Ryan Howard have cleared waivers

BP hit List:

Phillies ERA by month:
April: 3.79
May: 3.92
June: 5.34
July: 4.12
August: 5.91
September: the numerical equivalent for “frowny face.”

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a hall-of-fame apology from mike schmidt

Old Baseball Player fail

https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/06/06/mike-schmidt-odubel-herrera-philadelphia-phillies

i'm guessing Mike goes to the SPEAK ENGLISH cheesesteak place

more like mike shit

hoskins looks pretty good so far

just hit another hr off the cubs

as pointed out on the EW podcast the other day, 8 of the ten pitchers he's victimized kinda stink.

you fuckin kidding me

ties the consecutive games record

8 of the ten pitchers he's victimized kinda stink

this may be true . . . but i don't see anyone else doing it

sorry, it wasn't his eighth consecutive game. i was checking his game log and didn't notice one of those days was a doubleheader. still, 8 of his last 9.

future footnote

https://deadspin.com/rhys-hoskins-is-off-to-one-of-the-greatest-starts-to-a-1798496048

In just 18 games he already has 1.2 WAR, or 8 percent of Ryan Howard’s career total (14.9) over 1,572 games.

Colin: The only thing with Hoskins that is really out of whack is his HR/FB, which currently stands at 40%. It’s not unreasonable to think he’ll be close to 20% given his power and the park he plays in. That’s still like 50 HR. Pretty good, I say!

Dave Cameron: Well, yeah, no one can really keep hitting 85% of their XBH as HRs. Every well struck ball he’s hit has left the yard, basically. That’s not going to last.

damn, Hoskins

up to 18 HR (and 26 walks!) in 34 games

in 115 triple-a games this year he had 75 K and 64 BB

presumably the league will figure him out as it did judge, but he's for real

Ryan Howard's total bWAR over the ten-year period following his MVP award: 6.3

Hoskins' this year (before today): 2.2

Rhys Lightning

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Pivetta Video