ayo lets go phillies get me a fukkin tastykake

lol

you guys are playing very well, you have eliminated the Rockies with this game.

it might come down to the Phillies vs the Giants or Padres for the Wild Card unless the Braves have problems.

braves lost tonight

how many games are you behind?

2 now

it might come down to the Phillies vs the Giants or Padres for the Wild Card unless the Braves have problems.

― Bee OK, Thursday, September 2, 2010 8:33 PM (2 hours ago)

crazy talk. Phillies are finally at full strength (injuries to Howard, Utley, ShaneVic, etc.) plus added Oswalt who is in Cy contention mode. This team will surge ahead out of the wild card race and take the NL east. the wild card is the braves to lose.

at last we know who he's a fan of

It's going to be close. It'll come down to what the Braves can squeeze out of their 4th and 5th starters.

Oswalt is not the best pitcher named Roy on his team

Hamels is the best pitcher named Cole on his team.

Phillies have been putting on some crazy dramatic games this month. This last inning was insane.

just want to say MLB Video recaps Iluvu and this may be my way in back to following the phils.

braves losing 0-5 to the pirates, and another great close phillies game ->> best time of year

charlie manuel should keep bringing in lefties to face the guy that is hitting .410/.540/.590 vs lefties

man -- it's not a phillies game if it doesn't make u sweat.

i'm out of nails to bite

BACK IN FIRST PLACE!

you guys are on fire, how many games left against the Braves?

I think we have a 3 game series against them at the end of the month?

6, apparently - 3 in the beginning of October

full frontal female helps

haha, wrong thread

:|

what was the right thread?!

lol glove of Ibanez

lol mets fans making fun of phillies

FU

Another Phillies 1-0 win tnite

crazy talk. Phillies are finally at full strength (injuries to Howard, Utley, ShaneVic, etc.) plus added Oswalt who is in Cy contention mode. This team will surge ahead out of the wild card race and take the NL east. the wild card is the braves to lose.

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:24 PM (2 weeks ago)

Howard/Utley/Victorino are absolutely KILLING it right now fwiw.

Oswalt is not the best pitcher named Roy on his team

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, September 3, 2010 6:50 PM (1 week ago)

What metric are you using because... you wrong dawgglez.

It's not super controversial to say Halladay has been playing better than Oswalt atm, I don't think. Dude has a perfect game this season and 19 wins.

And even still... look at Oswalt's stats. You may be surprised.

JUST SAY IN

maybe since aug 1 but theres no way you'd justify picking oswalt over halladay head to head ever

VORP:

Oswalt 48.2
Halladay 70.4 (best among pitchers and 3rd most in MLB)

How much of VORP is defense dependent? Because Roy O. with HOU vs. PHI defense is pretty O_O.

VORP is so 2005

xpost Let's just say that it isn't 50% defense dependent, which is what it would need to be to make up the difference between them.

wait I thought you were a maths guy. how are you getting to the 50% diff.?

~2/3rds of his season (to date) was with Houston.

I meant that Halladay's VORP is 50% higher than Oswalt's.

That would have to be one really shitty defense in Houston. Like, me playing all the positions kind of bad.

Oswalt has pitched better than Halladay since Aug 1 though. (which is more of a credit to Oswalt -- Halladay has still been really really good)

That would have to be one really shitty defense in Houston. Like, me playing all the positions kind of bad.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:21 AM (8 minutes ago)

this is what I am thinking is the case! Would love to have access to that Stats Inc data.

WAR adjusts for team defense, and Fangraphs has Halladay at 6.4 WAR and Oswalt at 4.0, if you prefer that stat. Disregarding the whole dueling definitions of WAR thing between different websites (which I don't really care about), that's still a huge difference.

baseball-reference WAR is the one that adjusts for team defense

fangraphs WAR uses FIP for the defensive component which only looks at K, BB, HR, and ignores actual runs allowed completely

err the pitching component i mean

Ah, OK, so using B-R's numbers it's 6.7 vs 4.4. Not sure what we learn there, besides the fact that Halladay is still way ahead on the season.

Shasta mancrush on Oswalt: touching

just batted around on JMarquis and the Nats while only recording one out.

another great game tonight -- top-notch lidge save

Kruk calls them the best team in baseball every night, as if we needed another reason to hate em

i think they might go all the way! great pitching and monster offense.

another NYY-PHI Series wd again let me skip it