He turned down the DBacks pitching coach job because he's focused on the one here

BigEd76 wrote:He turned down the DBacks pitching coach job because he's focused on the one here

eat shit, GoDBacks

who should be more willing to leave a ws team for a record contract from the still a long ways off phillies:
(a) cole, who is no longer under contract, fell tantalizingly short of winning his first wfc ring with a team that will be favored to return to the series if he re-signs, and has had a career year under an apparently very good pitching coach....
or
(b) strasburg, who now already has his ring and is guaranteed very good money for four more years, but will very likely add another $100 million in guaranteed salary if he opts out and can assume that if that extra money comes from the nats they are likely to lose rendon and thus take a step backwards?
obviously it will be a bit easier to guess the answer if strasburg actually opts out, but, at present, i'm not sure which is more likely to end up a phil. or is the answer (c) rendon?

phorever wrote:who should be more willing to leave a ws team for a record contract from the still a long ways off phillies:
(a) cole, who is no longer under contract, fell tantalizingly short of winning his first wfc ring with a team that will be favored to return to the series if he re-signs, and has had a career year under an apparently very good pitching coach....
or
(b) strasburg, who now already has his ring and is guaranteed very good money for four more years, but will very likely add another $100 million in guaranteed salary if he opts out and can assume that if that extra money comes from the nats they are likely to lose rendon and thus take a step backwards?
obviously it will be a bit easier to guess the answer if strasburg actually opts out, but, at present, i'm not sure which is more likely to end up a phil. or is the answer (c) rendon?

I am not convinced the Phils are a “long way off.” Add an ace, bring up Howard, reconfigure the bullpen, figure out third base, and we are all set imo.

Prepare for Gibsonia's very own Neil Walker

Now that they have an actual very good pitching coach (assuming nothing goes south with hiring Price) and all things being equal, I'd rather stay away from the top-end pitchers like Cole and Strasberg and splash out the big contract for Rendon instead.

There are some interesting enough names in the pitching market and Price is good enough as a pitching coach that the benefits and optionality that signing Rendon gives you is more valuable to me than taking the risk on a huge contract for one of the big two pitchers.

I can't find the blurb where someone tweeted that it's amazing that the phillies have never played in a game 7 in their ~130 year history, but I disagree. Prior to 1985 the world series was the only 7 game series. the only amazing thing about it is that the phillies had played in so few ws prior to 1985.

Bucky wrote:I can't find the blurb where someone tweeted that it's amazing that the phillies have never played in a game 7 in their ~130 year history, but I disagree. Prior to 1985 the world series was the only 7 game series. the only amazing thing about it is that the phillies had played in so few ws prior to 1985.

I had the same thought. It really isn't that odd when you realize that only the WS series was a 7 game series prior to 1985.

It probably doesn't help that they haven't played in a lot of Games 1 through 6 either.

It would be interesting if they were the only team not to Play in a game 7.

Game 5 v. the Astros in 1980 was a winner-take-all game; not that much different.

06hawkalum wrote:

phorever wrote:who should be more willing to leave a ws team for a record contract from the still a long ways off phillies:
(a) cole, who is no longer under contract, fell tantalizingly short of winning his first wfc ring with a team that will be favored to return to the series if he re-signs, and has had a career year under an apparently very good pitching coach....
or
(b) strasburg, who now already has his ring and is guaranteed very good money for four more years, but will very likely add another $100 million in guaranteed salary if he opts out and can assume that if that extra money comes from the nats they are likely to lose rendon and thus take a step backwards?
obviously it will be a bit easier to guess the answer if strasburg actually opts out, but, at present, i'm not sure which is more likely to end up a phil. or is the answer (c) rendon?

I am not convinced the Phils are a “long way off.” Add an ace, bring up Howard, reconfigure the bullpen, figure out third base, and we are all set imo.

this is actually a ton of stuff

claimed robert stock off of waivers

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/10/ ... stock.html

Seems like he has a fastball that can break glass which is nice for a team that doesn’t have many hard throwers of note.

Loved him in Airplane

Loved him in Airplane and the Untouchables

dammit CFP!

Bryan Price hired as pitching coach.

Turned down 2 other offers to accept here

Uncle Milty wrote:Turned down 2 other offers to accept here

at what Price?