A Few Phillies Links For You, October 21, 2010: Giants Win, Enough Said

Have to wonder about the credibility of that article since it ends with saying the Nationals may be in the mix.

It’s possible with not spending the cash on Werth, Moyer off the books, and trade of Blanton. We could afford Lee. It will be even easier once Oswalt is off the books after next year.

I think he really liked playing here… Plus a no-trade clause (which he has said would be a requirement in his next contract) would insure that Smuggles could not do it again.

That’s what pisses me off the most. They got Pat Burrell for FREE and Cody Ross only so he didn’t play for the Padres.

you don’t have to apologize to T.S Smelliot

Manager (going to use this loosely to include all coaching): Too many candidates here, but the top nominees are Sam Perlozzo (sending Carlos Ruiz in the fifth), and Rich Dubee/ Charlie Manuel for bullpen mismanagement.

Fielder: I only saw the last few innings with my own eyes, so I don’t have one here- while the Rollins error was ugly, no runs scored off of it, and he was a part of the double play to the next batter, so tough for me to go there.

Pitcher: Close call here, as I want to say both Durbin and Blanton- the former for coming out and pitching like crap, the latter for pitching so ineffectively that he could not make it out of the fifth, forcing the use of the former in a situation where he could not be pulled easily if things went south.

Batter: Impossible to name just one- so many of them K’ed on bad pitches with the score tight. Just bad at bats and plenty of blame to go around.

so If Ibeanez and Werth are gone, how do we have enough outfielders?

I know Lidge drives all of us crazy, but the bullpen is going to be in flux over the winter as it is- Lidge, Madson, Baez (ugh) are under contract for next year. Contreras, Romero, And Durbin are not. I would try to sign Contreras, and let the other two (particularly Romero go), promote Bastardo, and then look for one more decent arm either on the farm (Worley/ Zagurski/ Mathieson ???? Although the latter two looked decidedly bad in their opportunities with the big league club this year) or on the free agent market. Moving Lidge means another hole in the bullpen and finding either a consistent set up guy (with Madson closing) or closer (with Madson staying in a set up role- he seems to do better there, although that may be a fluke considering the small sample size for him as a closer).

If we win tonight, it will be because Halladay pitches great or the bats keep it going. The Giants are playing with house money. According to most people they should not be in the spot they are. I doubt they get overconfident.

It does look and has felt like they’ve had opportunities, but they have failed to take advantage of them.

The question is can they turn that around in the next three games? Maybe, I mean they did hit a ton of balls last night- which is a good sign.

The Giants are one of few team’s Halladay has never beat. They have hit him hard in the past, and Game 1 was the first time he did not allow them five runs. I want to be wrong, but am bracing for the sad end of baseball season.

But what would you have done differently.

If gets too much, remember the cathratic value of a Taco Pal Logic Thunderdome Smackdown.

Lee wanted to test free agency. Halladay agreed to a reasonable extension with the Phillies.