Random Phillies thoughts(of impending winter sports)

by **Grotewold** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:29:46

Revere is tied for the batting title

by **pacino** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:33:06

Tony Fernandez would be proud at the hollowness of said average

by **Soren** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:33:49

by **pacino** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:35:08

swishnicholson wrote:Domonic Brown trolling you guys again.

Brown entered the game hitting. 226 with seven home runs, 54 RBIs and a .615 OPS. This came a year after he was a National League all-star.

"I really had one bad month in May," he said. "I look at other numbers, my power numbers are down but my RBIs are the same."

one of the worst players in baseball thinks he's doing just fine

by **Grotewold** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:39:58

I guess you can't really blame him when he hears similar crap from upstairs. But I wasn't feeling him blaming his latest defensive miscue on "coming off of the bench"

by **stevemc** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:50:12

Grotewold wrote:I guess you can't really blame him when he hears similar crap from upstairs. But I wasn't feeling him blaming his latest defensive miscue on "coming off of the bench"

In a CSN Philly post game interview, he said it's difficult coming off the bench and he's trying to catch every ball out there. So he is blaming his PT for some of the defensive woes.

http://www.csnphilly.com/node/1438371 (:43 mark)

by **Woody** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:51:46

how could a guy signed to play wide receiver at Miami be such an ungifted athlete

by **pacino** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:52:13

following his logic, we can take away last year's may, too

by **Grotewold** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:58:53

stevemc wrote:
Grotewold wrote:I guess you can't really blame him when he hears similar crap from upstairs. But I wasn't feeling him blaming his latest defensive miscue on "coming off of the bench"

In a CSN Philly post game interview, he said it's difficult coming off the bench and he's trying to catch every ball out there. So he is blaming his PT for some of the defensive woes.

http://www.csnphilly.com/node/1438371 (:43 mark)

You can make a strong argument for playing him every day just to make sure he won't rebound, but he looks even more horrible than his stats

And enough already with the "jerked him around" and "playing out of position" crap.

by **smitty** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:08:03

Grotewold wrote:
stevemc wrote:
Grotewold wrote:I guess you can't really blame him when he hears similar crap from upstairs. But I wasn't feeling him blaming his latest defensive miscue on "coming off of the bench"

In a CSN Philly post game interview, he said it's difficult coming off the bench and he's trying to catch every ball out there. So he is blaming his PT for some of the defensive woes.

http://www.csnphilly.com/node/1438371 (:43 mark)

You can make a strong argument for playing him every day just to make sure he won't rebound, but he looks even more horrible than his stats

And enough already with the "jerked him around" and "playing out of position" crap.

Yeah. He had all the chances in the world. Him turning into a smoking turd of a player has been a huge setback for this club.

by **Grotewold** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:09:08

smitty wrote:Him turning into a smoking turd of a player has been a huge setback for this club.

It blows my mind that no one can help him, or he doesn't want to be helped, have balance at the plate. The list of guys who got away with that over the long haul is pretty short. Especially when you can't run or field.

by **Shore** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:59:54

On July 1st, Dom Brown played in his 81st game, in the team's 83rd game. He'd started about 73 or 74 of the 81, and missed only 2.

He rewarded this kind of consistent playing time with a .225 / .277 / .323 slash.

Since then, he's played in 37 out of 47, starting only 24. He's hit .229 / .283 / .362 in that stretch. Still dogshit, but just a slightly smaller pile.

He's awful. And he's full of it regarding lack of playing time causing him problems.

by **CFP** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 15:20:27

I wonder if they'd just release him this off-season.

by **Soren** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 15:32:06

CFP wrote:I wonder if they'd just release him this off-season.

you can't replace that cost certainty

by **bleh** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 16:02:09

Doesn't he have an option left? They need to sign someone else to play LF and let him compete for a bench spot in ST or send him to LHV.

by **BigEd76** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 16:29:23

MattGelb
Larry Bowa is currently teaching Andres Blanco and Freddy Galvis how to play first base. So that’s a thing.

by **Woody** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 16:34:17

eventually i'd like our entire roster to be under 5'11"

by **Philly the Kid** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 17:10:10

Grotewold wrote:Revere is tied for the batting title

This can only end up badly.

Guy wins batting title in off-year and steals some bases, and gets signed to crazy extension that saddles us for next 7 years...If he batted .325 with an .OPB .400+ well that's a whole other situation. If he was a gold glove cf-er that too.

by **Shore** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 17:20:13

BigEd76 wrote:
MattGelb
Larry Bowa is currently teaching Andres Blanco and Freddy Galvis how to play first base. So that’s a thing.

That's hysterical. Freddy Galvis and Andres Blanco. Too bad we don't have the DH in the NL - they could both play.

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 17:28:52

Grotewold wrote:And enough already with the "jerked him around" and "playing out of position" crap.

The Phillies gave him every opportunity to succeed because he was such a heralded prospect. So highly thought of by the org that he was the one untouchable prospect in any deal 4-5 years ago. In hindsight, it's obvious it was a bad evaluation based on a 60 game stretch in AA and they should've traded him when his value was so high.

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