ReadingPhilly wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:a post earlier made me think about a transaction the phillies made that i am now wondering if i am remembering correctly. in my mind it was the mid to late 90s and the phillies added a relief pitcher (maybe two) from the padres when they were in town. the players simply switched walked down the hall and switched uniforms. i can't seem to find a good site that tracks transactions back that far. anyone remember if this is correct and who the player(s) was/were?

I don't recall that, but I'm not sure where I put my keys, either. Retrosheet has a year-by-year listing of transactions, if that might help you track it down.

it appears i definitely made this up in my head. maybe it was a rumored deal that never came to fruition.

smitty wrote:Mauser for Mason. July 3rd 1993. Each pitched for their new teams on July 4th.

That is one awesom B-R feature, phhan.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7040.shtml

Also -- Big Ben Rivera!!!!!

Phils stole both Kruk and Joe LeFebvre from the Pads.

They've never traded anyone any good to the Padres. The best probably was Chris James.

smitty wrote:

bleh wrote:

Napalm wrote:108 wins in their last 162 regular season games.

Imagine how many wins they'd have if they weren't so terrible.

Or if they had a RH bat and more elite reliefers.

March 25, 1981: The Atlanta Braves traded Gary Matthews to the Philadelphia Phillies for Bob Walk.

phdave wrote:Orr is an OF? I thought he was up to be a backup 3B/2B. If Orr goes down they will only have one backup for 3B, SS, and 2B until Polanco comes back. Right?

philliesphhan wrote:

March 25, 1981: The Atlanta Braves traded Gary Matthews to the Philadelphia Phillies for Bob Walk.

Never knew that's how we got him. That's hilariously lopsided in our favor. I assume they thought he was good cause he won a WS game.

Trent Steele wrote:It's pretty amazing how absolutely awful Werth has been this year. He blows.

Meanwhile, Chad Drubin has an ERA of like 7.

JA HApp is basically the worst pitcher in MLB

Burrell was a disaster in TB

Brunt is out of baseball.

Juan Castro retired.

Myers has a -.1 WAR

Chan Ho where are you?

Don't mess with Rube

philliesphhan wrote:

March 25, 1981: The Atlanta Braves traded Gary Matthews to the Philadelphia Phillies for Bob Walk.

Never knew that's how we got him. That's hilariously lopsided in our favor. I assume they thought he was good cause he won a WS game.


Pointless trivia: With which franchise have we never made a trade?

Eddie Jordan wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:It's pretty amazing how absolutely awful Werth has been this year. He blows.

Meanwhile, Chad Drubin has an ERA of like 7.

JA HApp is basically the worst pitcher in MLB

Burrell was a disaster in TB

Brunt is out of baseball.

Juan Castro retired.

Myers has a -.1 WAR

Chan Ho where are you?

Don't mess with Rube

similar to what happens when the Eagles decide it's time to let someone go

ek wrote:looks like polanco is gonna get shot

mozartpc27 wrote:Here is something impressive:

If the Phillies win 98 or more games this year, that will mark the fifth straight year in which they have increased their win total. That will be a franchise record. The Phillies have improved their win total 4 years in a row three times: the current streak, in which they have gone from 85 wins in 2006 to 97 wins last year; from 1972-1976 (59->71->80->86->101); and from 1883-1887 (17->39->56->71->75).

What makes it impressive to me is that the Phillies started from such a relatively high number of wins on their current streak (85). it's one thing to improve 4 years in a row when you begin at 59 wins or (gulp) 17. But from 85? Damn impressive.

What makes it cool to me is that, despite the fact that the team won the World Series 2008 and hasn't since, and despite the fact that their players have gotten older, the ever-increasing win total makes the feeling of ascendancy continue.

I realize what stopped the ascendancy in the previous run (1972-1976) was the 101 wins the Phils put on the board; hard to top, and had the Phillies done that in 2008, it wouldn't diminsh what they are doing now. But the WAY they've won a little more each year has really helped them, I think, to keep up the idea that there is ever more to come from this team, whereas jumping from 86 wins to 101 back in the 1970s was part of the team's problem: they had nowhere to go but down.