Bill McNeal wrote:Pujols and Howard would give the Angels the best 1b platoon in the history of the world (it's still 2006 right?)

BigEd76 wrote:Bowa told WIP this morning that Howard is "an AL player now" and sounded like he was trying to market him

Eem wrote:I definitely believe Howard's played his last game as a Phillie

Wheels Tupay wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:Bowa told WIP this morning that Howard is "an AL player now" and sounded like he was trying to market him

Nothing like marketing a player by cutting off 50% of the market.

Wheels Tupay wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:Bowa told WIP this morning that Howard is "an AL player now" and sounded like he was trying to market him

Nothing like marketing a player by cutting off 50% of the market.

"If you look at just numbers, I would be shocked if an American League team wouldn’t say 'You know what, I’ll take 25 and 100 and he’d be my DH.'...I think personally, it would help him just to get off his feet and not being able to have to stand out there for nine innings every night. But there’s also talk that this is really going to be....last year was his first full year since that injury and he thinks he’s gonna get stronger and better, so again, we’re going to have to wait and see. But I think an American League team.....I think he can help an American League team."

I’m not going to tell you that six playoff games means that Moustakas, at age 26, after hitting .212/.271/.361 during the season, after hitting .233/.284/.364 last season, has finally and instantaneously figured out how to hit. But I am going to say that it wouldn’t shock me at all if he has. Gordon hit .232/.324/.378 in 2009 and .215/.315/.355 in 2010 – when offensive levels were higher – before breaking out with a .303/.376/.502 campaign in 2011, when he was 27 years old. Like Gordon, Moustakas was the #2 overall pick in the draft. Like Gordon, he was a top prospect in the minors, albeit not the top prospect. Like Gordon, he showed promise in his first two seasons in the majors, albeit not quite as much promise.

nycphils wrote:An argument for keeping Dom and continuing to run him out there every da:

I’m not going to tell you that six playoff games means that Moustakas, at age 26, after hitting .212/.271/.361 during the season, after hitting .233/.284/.364 last season, has finally and instantaneously figured out how to hit. But I am going to say that it wouldn’t shock me at all if he has. Gordon hit .232/.324/.378 in 2009 and .215/.315/.355 in 2010 – when offensive levels were higher – before breaking out with a .303/.376/.502 campaign in 2011, when he was 27 years old. Like Gordon, Moustakas was the #2 overall pick in the draft. Like Gordon, he was a top prospect in the minors, albeit not the top prospect. Like Gordon, he showed promise in his first two seasons in the majors, albeit not quite as much promise.

. (rany Jazerli)

Bucky wrote:SO YOU'RE SAYING FOLES HAS A CHANCE !?!?!?!?!?!?!?

mcare89 wrote:

nycphils wrote:An argument for keeping Dom and continuing to run him out there every da:

I’m not going to tell you that six playoff games means that Moustakas, at age 26, after hitting .212/.271/.361 during the season, after hitting .233/.284/.364 last season, has finally and instantaneously figured out how to hit. But I am going to say that it wouldn’t shock me at all if he has. Gordon hit .232/.324/.378 in 2009 and .215/.315/.355 in 2010 – when offensive levels were higher – before breaking out with a .303/.376/.502 campaign in 2011, when he was 27 years old. Like Gordon, Moustakas was the #2 overall pick in the draft. Like Gordon, he was a top prospect in the minors, albeit not the top prospect. Like Gordon, he showed promise in his first two seasons in the majors, albeit not quite as much promise.

. (rany Jazerli)

Also, IT'S A SIX GAME SAMPLE SIZE.