Bill McNeal wrote:Now we managing!

“For me, numbers mean something,” Mackanin said. “When I have a player in Ruf who’s hitting .370 against lefties and has the [second-] highest OPS in the major leagues against left-handed pitchers, it only leads me to believe that’s the guy we should play against lefties. So I just leave it at that.”

Rube's fired, and a month later a Phillies manager is dropping OPS and platoon data on us. Not a coincidence.

Maikel has been activated.

CFP wrote:Maikel has been activated.

This seems incredibly stupid.

if he is healthy let him play.

The Braves won last night so what is our magic number to clinch the #1 pick? We have to be close, right?

He's as likely to hurt himself using a rake or a jackhammer as he is playing baseball.

let someone else jackhammer the sidewalk

Roger Dorn wrote:The Braves won last night so what is our magic number to clinch the #1 pick? We have to be close, right?

Reds passed them so still 2.

Solid 11 game losing streak for the Reds. Gotta love that GRIT

Bill McNeal wrote:Now we managing!

“For me, numbers mean something,” Mackanin said. “When I have a player in Ruf who’s hitting .370 against lefties and has the [second-] highest OPS in the major leagues against left-handed pitchers, it only leads me to believe that’s the guy we should play against lefties. So I just leave it at that.”

phillies twitter hates ruf and it's gotten tiresome. i'm sure it has to do with them being smarter than everyone else and knowing he wouldn't be a superstar when some people wanted to see him play more like that was a minority opinion and they were right. he's hitting .374/.443/.648 with a .460 woba and 196 wrc+ against lefties this year. for his career he's .300/.387/.549 with a .399 woba and 155 wrc+. he's a really nice piece for a platoon. i engaged the crashburn girl the other night when she was ragging on him and she was saying he's worthless because he can't play a passable first base. good to see mackanin isn't as dumb.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Now we managing!

“For me, numbers mean something,” Mackanin said. “When I have a player in Ruf who’s hitting .370 against lefties and has the [second-] highest OPS in the major leagues against left-handed pitchers, it only leads me to believe that’s the guy we should play against lefties. So I just leave it at that.”

phillies twitter hates ruf and it's gotten tiresome. i'm sure it has to do with them being smarter than everyone else and knowing he wouldn't be a superstar when some people wanted to see him play more like that was a minority opinion and they were right. he's hitting .374/.443/.648 with a .460 woba and 196 wrc+ against lefties this year. for his career he's .300/.387/.549 with a .399 woba and 155 wrc+. he's a really nice piece for a platoon. i engaged the crashburn girl the other night when she was ragging on him and she was saying he's worthless because he can't play a passable first base. good to see mackanin isn't as dumb.

i dont understand; the numbers literally back him up here

pair this with a decent lefty and you get borderline all-star output for cheap

ReadingPhilly wrote:phillies twitter hates ruf and it's gotten tiresome. i'm sure it has to do with them being smarter than everyone else and knowing he wouldn't be a superstar when some people wanted to see him play more like that was a minority opinion and they were right.

bingo

passable first base? is his defensive value at 1B any less than it would be in the OF? you're not saying sign the sumbitch to a long-term extension; just that he'd be a good fit for a platoon.

Reds are about to be 1 back of us for the #1 pick with 3 to play.

We are going to blow this.

they are throwing young arms out there and doing terrible; we are throwing young arms out there and winning. i'll take it


also, we basically have no one pitching this entire weekend

pacino wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Now we managing!

“For me, numbers mean something,” Mackanin said. “When I have a player in Ruf who’s hitting .370 against lefties and has the [second-] highest OPS in the major leagues against left-handed pitchers, it only leads me to believe that’s the guy we should play against lefties. So I just leave it at that.”

phillies twitter hates ruf and it's gotten tiresome. i'm sure it has to do with them being smarter than everyone else and knowing he wouldn't be a superstar when some people wanted to see him play more like that was a minority opinion and they were right. he's hitting .374/.443/.648 with a .460 woba and 196 wrc+ against lefties this year. for his career he's .300/.387/.549 with a .399 woba and 155 wrc+. he's a really nice piece for a platoon. i engaged the crashburn girl the other night when she was ragging on him and she was saying he's worthless because he can't play a passable first base. good to see mackanin isn't as dumb.

i dont understand; the numbers literally back him up here

pair this with a decent lefty and you get borderline all-star output for cheap

Not too happy about the cost but it's not much you can do about it and since you're paying him anyway... I wouldn't be too upset going into next year with a Howard/ruf platoon. The Phillies actually got good production from first base this year and would've been even better if they did the platoon from the start. I also wouldn't mind seeing cozens get some reps at first during the offseason. While I'm skeptical of stassi I wouldn't eliminate him, in addition with cozens and for that matter Dugan to see if one of them might push Howard out the door come mid season. Then the following year you have Hoskins.

The Phillies have lots of options at lots of positions and since most prospects don't ever quite pan out, I don't know who was responsible for that, but they did a real good job and the new GM will be in an excellent position following 2016.

Brantt wrote:Reds are about to be 1 back of us for the #1 pick with 3 to play.

We are going to blow this.

Big Ed says we win the tie breaker so it is basically two.

azrider wrote:I also wouldn't mind seeing cozens get some reps at first during the offseason.

Some caller on the pregame show yesterday compared KILLIN DOZENS to a young Ryan Klesko, which Proefrock said was a solid comp

Then he said Hoskins and some other chode were our Mo Vaughn and Jeff Bagwell

I'll take Bagwell.

i'd start bangin the nl dh drum now so we can play boaf bagwell and mo vaughn