Roster Watch

by **The Red Tornado** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 17:05:35

see?!

This is the problem with RosterBot!! No details, just cold information.

by **CFP** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 17:25:24

Fantasy Comparison:
Pedro Martinez 596
Johan Santana 576.5
Jake Peavy 549
B.J. Ryan 537
Matt Childers -1

by **LoneStarPhan** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 17:29:02

Spending $100,000 on the rule 5 draft each year is money well spent.

Over the course of several year, you will get some back if the player(s) go back to the original team or are claimed on waivers.

Every so often, you get a player who sticks or who is not taken back and you can add to your system.

Victorino certainly justifies participation in the rule 5 draft. This year, we end up with Blackley at AAA.

We also have added Lahey this year and Castro two years ago in claiming rule 5 players on waivers.

by **PSUPhilliesPhan** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 18:03:14

bleh wrote:He's on the 25 man roster as of right now...

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/te ... p?c_id=phi

although there's 26 people listed there...

Damn I tried getting some Matt Childers gear at the Phillies shop and this is what happened:

http://shop.mlb.com/search/noResults.js ... t+Childers

by **Phight On!** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 18:08:38

LoneStarPhan wrote:Spending $100,000 on the rule 5 draft each year is money well spent.

Over the course of several year, you will get some back if the player(s) go back to the original team or are claimed on waivers.

Every so often, you get a player who sticks or who is not taken back and you can add to your system.

Victorino certainly justifies participation in the rule 5 draft. This year, we end up with Blackley at AAA.

We also have added Lahey this year and Castro two years ago in claiming rule 5 players on waivers.

I agree with you regarding the Rule V draft but didn't we get Castro for Haigwood?

by **BigEd76** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 13:48:38

Snelling accepted his assignment to LV

Spidale falls to Reading to make room

by **BigEd76** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 14:00:05

16 members of Reading confirmed:

C = Marson
IF = Harman, Donald
OF = Golson, Spidale, Slayden, Moran, Blalock
SP = Carrasco, Outman, Carpenter, Castro
RP = Hill, Minix, Pope, Swindle

Article in the Asbury Park Press says Mattair will be the starting 3B at Lakewood

by **RosterBot** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 20:00:39

Roster changes for Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:00 pm
-- Matt Childers R/R 6-5 190 12/03/78
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by 1 » Sun Mar 30, 2008 20:36:09

reading's opening day roster:

Reading, PA – The Philadelphia Phillies have announced the 24-man roster for their Double-A club inReading.

Reading’s roster features seven of the Phillies Top 20 prospects as ranked by Baseball America: #1 Carlos Carrasco, RHP; #4 Josh Outman, LHP; #7 Greg Golson, OF; #8 Lou Marson, C; #9 Drew Carpenter, RHP; #15 Jason Donald, SS; #20 Brad Harman, 2B. Not one of the seven has ever been in Reading for Opening Day. However, Carrasco (6/20/07), Outman (7/26/07) and Golson (7/26/07) were all promoted to Reading from Clearwatermid-season in 2007.

Fourteen of the active 24 players are new to Reading: Kip Bouknight, Carpenter, Ron Hill, Justin Pope, Will Savage, R.J. Swindle, Shane Youman, Marson, John Suomi, Luke Appert, Donald, Harman, Neil Sellers, and Jeremy Slayden.

Carpenter, Hill, Savage, Swindle, Marson, Donald, Harman and Slayden will all be making their Double-A debuts.

Bouknight (Altoona), Pope (Trenton) and Suomi (Harrisburg) all played in the Eastern League in 2007. Youman played in the league in 2006 (Altoona).

Appert (Midland) and Sellers (Corpus Christi) have Double-A on their resumes as recently as last year.

In addition to Carrasco, Outman and Golson, returning to Reading from last year’s club are: Fabio Castro, Patrick Overholt, Joey Hammond, Juan Tejeda, Javon Moran, Michael Spidale and Tim Gradoville. Gradoville has a new roll in 2008 – player/coach. He’ll begin the season inactive as a player. Reading’s last player/coach was Larry Andersen in 1995.

Also returning to Reading is LHP Jason Kershner. Kershner previously pitched for Reading from 1999-2001. His last appearance in an R-Phils uniform came on 8/29/01 at Harrisburg. That was 2,405 days ago. Six whole seasons have passed since his last appearance for the R-Phils. That’s tied for the longest gap between appearances in R-Phils history with Sean Fesh (1998, 2005) and the late John Vukovich (1969, 1976-77).

Thirteen of the active players on the roster were originally signed or drafted by the Phillies. The roster’s average age on 4/1/08 will be 25.5-years old. Reading’s 4/1/07 roster had an average age of 27.1 years and eight players that were originally signed or drafted by the Phillies.

P.J. Forbes returns for his third season as the manager. Tom Filer is in his 4thseason as the pitching coach. Frank Cacciatore is in his first season as the team’s hitting coach. Also new to the staff are Gradoville, Athletic Trainer Chris Mudd and Athletic Trainer and Conditioning Specialist Justin Zabrosky.

by **BigEd76** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 21:36:44

So Blalock, Florence, Minix and Segovia aren't on LV or Reading....?

by 1 » Sun Mar 30, 2008 21:43:53

it appears that way, yes

there's always extended ST

i saw segovia last sunday at the carpenter complex, and he was in street clothes

not sure what that means

by **Squire** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 21:54:45

BigEd76 wrote:So Blalock, Florence, Minix and Segovia aren't on LV or Reading....?

The Reading Roster link (not the article) lists Blalock instead of Spidale, with all the others the same. Don't know what that means but I'd rather have Blalock at Reading than Spidale, Tejeda and a few others.

SQUIRE

by **Monkeyboy** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 00:44:44

That Reading team should be fun to watch.

by **Rev_Beezer** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:15:06

What's the story on J.D. Durbin? I can't find information anywhere.

by 1 » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:16:49

beezer210 wrote:What's the story on J.D. Durbin? I can't find information anywhere.

he suited up and was announced for the 'Pigs yesterday

by **BuddyGroom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:19:03

Castro in double-A? Is that because there isn't room in the rotation at triple-A?

by **seke2** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:29:16

our AA team is so much better than our AAA team

if we dont end up calling them all up to philly, that team is gonna have a great shot to win another championship

by **philliesr98** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:43:18

Reading is basically our AAA team

by **dajafi** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:53:21

I think it's that the AAA team is the "extension of the major-league bench" and AA is where the prospects are. This isn't atypical. To take one obvious example, Greg Golson has more upside than Brandon Watson, but if (okay, when) Werth gets hurt and Snelling is unavailable because he's hurt, I'd rather have Watson called up than Golson. Ditto Chris Woodward over Brad Harman if, say, Bruntlett went down.

by **RosterBot** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 17:00:09

Roster changes for Wed Apr 2, 2008 5:00 pm
* 68 Brad Harman R/R 6-1 175 11/11/85
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* 68 Brad Harman R/R 6-1 195 11/19/85

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