by Slowhand » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:10:57
Bill McNeal wrote:Mackanin criticized Herrera by saying, “You’ve got to play like a man.” He said, “Boys play Little League and men play Major League Baseball.”
its not even implied, Pete specifically said boys play little league men play in the MLB.
by swishnicholson » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:17:26
by bleh » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:17:32
by Soren » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:48:04
by Shore » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:49:15
bleh wrote:Why does Crashburn refer to Mackanin as "he"? Is he implying that only men can manage a baseball team? He should only use gender neutral pronouns when referring to any baseball activity.
by Bucky » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:51:55
by GrizzledVeteran » Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:14:33
Bucky wrote:thon
by Doll Is Mine » Tue Sep 22, 2015 15:23:47
Todd Zolecki @ToddZolecki
Phillies have extended the contract of Pete Mackanin as manager through the 2016 season. The extension includes a club option for 2017.
by BigEd76 » Tue Sep 22, 2015 17:00:47
by BigEd76 » Tue Sep 22, 2015 22:11:11
by phorever » Wed Sep 23, 2015 05:48:22
by Squire » Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:44:22
by BigEd76 » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:06:01
by stevemc » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:23:26
BigEd76 wrote:MacPhail said yesterday they'll look for supporting players but aren't in a position to make a huge splash yet
"The only caveat I give you is that if there's a unique opportunity out there, I wouldn't want to preclude it from happening … particularly when you consider that once we get to '17 we are really pretty footloose and fancy free. We have a lot of latitude."
by phorever » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:26:16
by Wheels Tupay » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:37:33
stevemc wrote:BigEd76 wrote:MacPhail said yesterday they'll look for supporting players but aren't in a position to make a huge splash yet
I do like his "caveat" though:"The only caveat I give you is that if there's a unique opportunity out there, I wouldn't want to preclude it from happening … particularly when you consider that once we get to '17 we are really pretty footloose and fancy free. We have a lot of latitude."
by Shore » Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:54:04
Squire wrote:In the scheme of things you have 3 pitchers in Nola, Eickhoff and Morgan who have been at least B/B+ performers this year and may even get better.
by joe table » Wed Sep 23, 2015 13:11:23
by JFLNYC » Wed Sep 23, 2015 13:17:23
by td11 » Wed Sep 23, 2015 13:18:10
phorever wrote:continuing my neverending search for silver linings during the march to 100 losses...
here are some notable excerpts from the fangraphs list of 74 mlb hitters 24 and under with 50 or more pa's in 2015, sorted by wrc+ :
rank wrc+ name
6 139 bryant
7 138 grichuk
9 137 schwarber
11 135 d.santana
12 133 correa
14 132 piscotty
17 125 franco
19 119 joc pederson
21 116 betts
25 112 bogaerts
26 112 puig
29 110 altherr
31 106 herrera
35 102 lamb
38 97 soler
42 95 y.tomas
44 93 polanco
45 92 villar
46 92 deshields
47 87 a.russel
50 84 swihart
51 84 gallo
some possible conclusions:
(a) trout and harper are so scary they aren't worth listing, but their teams still are surprisingly sucky
(b) cubs and cards are scary.
(c) franco wasn't too far off the pace of the elite rookies when he went down.
(d) d.santana may still turn out to be the prospect we most regret trading away during the amaro years.
(e) "bring me any cuban" strategy may not be as good a strategy as it seems, given that altherr and herrera are beating out the headliners from the previous couple of waves of the cuban invasion, and at a vastly lower cost.
(f) several of the headline prospects of the hamels trade rumor mill are starting to look pretty overrated compared to what we already had and the hamels trade package we actually got.
