Cliff Lee is a Phillies!!! We did it!

by **MoBettle** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:11:54

lol billy king is on wip.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:14:26

So what was Lee's deal from 2004-2007?

by **S2D** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:17:31

Houshphandzadeh wrote:So what was Lee's deal from 2004-2007?

He was hurt in 2007. Apparently really worked on his delivery/pitches while rehabbing and turned into an ace in 2008.

by **cshort** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:17:33

What else is nice about this is that teams know they can't screw around with Rube. The dark days of Ed Wade are officially gone, and our front office should be taken seriously.

by **philliesphhan** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:21:26

VFB wrote:

This is a picture of him watching Gillick and Monty rough up JP.

by 1 » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:21:31

bleh wrote:you ever just hear a name and immediately think "man, there is no way that guy will be a star." ive brought it up before, and probably gotten $#@! on for it, but seriously, Cliff Lee...not a star, sounds like a football player.

when he busts in a few years, remember me

i see what joo did there

by **CrashburnAlley** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:21:45

philliesphhan wrote:
VFB wrote:

This is a picture of him watching Gillick and Monty rough up JP.

i lold

by **FTN** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:22:31

S2D wrote:
Houshphandzadeh wrote:So what was Lee's deal from 2004-2007?

He was hurt in 2007. Apparently really worked on his delivery/pitches while rehabbing and turned into an ace in 2008.

Yep. I linked to Will Carroll's comments on that earlier.

When he really was struggling, they completely shut him down, and while he was rehabbing he studied lots of old video and corrected the mechanical flaws in his delivery.

ERA+ of 143 this year. The Indians are 25th in the bigs in Defensive Efficiency, the Phillies are 11th, so he gets a bump there. His home/road splits aren't drastic at all (3.00 at home, 3.27 road), and lefties have a .511 OPS against him this year. His BABIP against RHB is .345, thats slightly high.

He has two starts this year where he's been bombed (7 ER both times), one of them in the first start of the year. If you remove his first start, his line is

147 IP - 2.82 ERA - 102 K - 32 BB

He doesn't walk anyone and is murder on lefties. Hes gonna be juuuust fine.

by **Grotewold** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:23:21

Still in pinch me mode

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:23:36

Sounds just peachy

thnx

by **stevemc** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:24:37

Damn - not only will Cliff Lee bump Rodrigo from the rotation, he'll steal his jersey # at the same time! Cruel.

by **FTN** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:25:14

kind of wish id get the Phillies feed on extra innings tonight. i wanna hear about cliff lee!

by 1 » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:25:47

FTN wrote:kind of wish id get the Phillies feed on extra innings tonight. i wanna hear about cliff lee!

if you want, you can use my slingbox tonight

by **Eem** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:26:01

What the hell is on Lee's elbow here?

by **CrashburnAlley** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:26:26

Imagine if the Phillies had thrown in another prospect or two and received Victor Martinez as well. :shock:

by **FTN** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:27:08

nipple elbow!

by **philliesphhan** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:30:29

Lee is making the greatest face ever in that picture

by **Phight On!** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:31:27

it looks like one of those c0cktail weenie clits

by **S2D** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:31:38

Heyman will be on WIP in a few.

Eskin is just embarrassing. Keeps whining that the Phillies "didn't do what's best for the franchise over the next two years". Doesn't care about prospects. "Before Cole Hamels, the Phillies had never developed a two time all star pitcher" (some nonsense guage of quality he came up with).

by **Brantt** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 16:33:01

Stark on 950 now........

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