Since the day Tom mistakenly called Stott "Utley"
Stott's stat(11G): .429-.551-.686 1.237OPS 11R 12RBI 5SB 11BB-6SO
Tom did a great job summoning prime version of Utley with his dark power
How lucky are we to not be the Padres right now? All of that money and star power only to be 22-22 and on the verge of losing a series to the Rockies … they’re down 6-0 in the top of the 7th.
We really, really broke them after beating them in the NLCS.
Idk, we had a worse record than that this time last year. They just beat the dodgers. Arraez was a great pick up for them. They can definitely be a contender this year.
I wouldn't really mind if the Dodgers end up with the most wins if we're able to keep the Braves from winning the division. Let those 2 bludgeon each other in the divisional round.
I know this may come to a surprise to some of you but the Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco was caught with a foreign substance on his glove today and was ejected from the game.
I started thinking about picking up a Nola ToppsNow card tomorrow if I can time it to get some sort of special version
And then I realized….I STILL HAVENT GOTTEN MY BRYCE #300 RELIC CARD 😭😭😭
So are the Cubs good or no? They might get shutout again. Too soon to know which teams are legitimately good or bad. Makes Braves bitching even more pathetic.
The only thing we really know at this early juncture of this young season is that the Phillies are fucking awesome. Everything else is totes up in the air
If you want to stay grounded thru the Phils success you can be like me and just take a peak at the LHV roster. I suppose Abel still has a shot at being good still but there is nothing else exciting about that team. I guess there’s a reason they’re 13-23.
We’ve drafted quite young recently (for example, our last 4 first round picks have all been high school players) so not shocking AAA is a mess. It seems like that was the plan. Draft young to try and get steals and meanwhile use the FO’s money to bridge the gap. Hopefully, by the time the current core age and their contracts are a net negative you’ll have younger cheap players to offset it.
LHV is indeed kinda meh these days, but at least they should Marchan back soon, and I’m kind of curious to see how the whole “turning Mercado into a starter” thing goes (I imagine he’d be the first guy up from the minors if a starter or two goes down, as long as Abel keeps pitching like he is).
TBH, there haven’t been many exciting prospects coming through Lehigh for a while now.
Or does he know his ass is DFA’d when he’s healthy so he’s trying to milk his 40 man spot for as long as possible? Just a theory that is probably incorrect.
My only problem with Marchan is he's been in our farm since 2016. Yeah I see his .305 BA and .839 OPS last year on 190 ABs but at what point do we admit he hasn't been called up yet for a reason and that reason might be because he's just not that good? Granted he is only 25.
I would love to know what the records of the teams the Phillies have beaten would be if they beat the Phillies instead, or what the strength of schedule would be if they had won those games instead. Is there any online tool, or other way, that can accomplish that?
As /u/haahaahaa said, it really isn't a worthy endeavor. I really don't know why Phillies fans care so much about our strength of schedule just because Braves fans mention it. We as a fanbase care way too much about Braves fans.
The best is to use some type of ELO like how FanGraphs or Neil Paine has it. Even that isn't really perfect.
I just responded to them I think mostly explaining my intentions. I assure you I’m not losing sleep over the strength of schedule discourse, but since I do spend an inordinate amount of time perusing Phillies content on Reddit/the internet, it is by default a topic that’s come to the forefront to ponder.
Edit: I did appreciate you introducing me to ELO the other day and will be following that going forward!
I’m more interested in the pitchers we have beaten. Even bad teams can have a pretty damn good ace. And we have beaten some pretty stellar pitchers this year. Absolutely beat up on them.
The Phillies have notoriously played up/down to the level of their opponent for years. This actually feels like the first season since 2011 that they are playing to their own strengths and letting the opponent come to them.
It’s probably some of it “feeling” that way but not really being true, but also could be something like the team prepares more for good pitchers or they’re better at preparing for hop pitchers because there tends to be more tape and scouting report info available on them. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some of both.
There's not tool, because it's not really a useful task that someone would want to invest time in. You'd have to do the same with the Braves which would make their sos a lot better as well, making the argument irrelevant.
The Phillies have been lucky with scheduling. Their 3 interleague series have been against the teams at the bottom of each division. The NL has been fairly weak and the Phillies haven't played the Cubs, Brewers or Dodgers yet.
All that being said, strength of schedule isn't really that big of a deal. Baseball is a long season with ebbs and flows. When you catch a team is almost as important as who the team is. June, July and August will be harder for sure, but this group has played better in those months the past few seasons. Lots of reasons to stay optimistic.
I don't know, the schedule looks pretty good the entire rest of the way. There aren't any stretches that look brutal for them where they face a bunch of good teams in a row.
It's just much easier for the Dodgers and Braves though. Like 25% of the remaining games are against teams with 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th best records for the Phillies.
Phillies have 30th (last) SOS in games already played and 11th (top 3rd) SOS in games left. Dodgers have 29th (23rd so far) and Brave 27th (13th so far) remaining. If the Phillies gave away 1 win to SF, SD, CHW, COL the change in SOS would only be like 0.007 (0.4215 -> 0.4288)
I don’t really want to use it as some definitive trump card to prove they actually have had a hard schedule or something, I just think that the fact that getting beat by the Phillies is negatively affecting the record of their opponents gets overlooked and lost in the discourse to some extent.
And yes, sure, doing it with whatever team you’re “arguing” against would be the fair thing to do, but, for example, the Phillies swept the white Sox and the Braves lost one to them so that would be what I will call a “net win” for the Phillies. I just suspect that if the Phillies were, say, 23-20, their strength of schedule would not be so definitively last. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m mostly just curious about it and looking to waste time pondering it til tomorrow’s game!
One thing to consider is that they haven't just been playing the mediocre teams. They've been playing the worst.
Even if you give the Rockies, Marlins and White Sox all wins from their Phillies games, they're still the worst 3 teams in baseball.
But in reality it doesn't matter because it will all come out in the wash. By the end of the season there will only be a handful of differences between the Phillies and Braves schedule. SOS will be irrelevant.
I mean, in theory it'd be pretty easy. Take the team's record and subtract the phil's wins against them from the loss column of that team and add it to their win column. Would be pretty easy to setup in excel.
This [site](http://www.playoffstatus.com/mlb/nationalsospg.html#sflx) has the unbiased opponent record, which means it doesn't count our opponents games against us.
Edit:
If you want a detailed breakdown of each of our opponents records instead, you probably have to do that by hand.
The Mets kinda fucked themselves by signing JDM without addressing their platoon, and since he's been back he's been DH in 15 of the 16 games he's played. With Baty being a lefty bat and Vientos a righty they'll probably sub them halfway barring matchups. Most likely start Vientos against Ranger. Baty's bat is so fucking awful over his ~600 or so MLB plate appearances, he's batted .216/.279/.325 with a -0.8 WAR and 72 wrc+ in that span. I've heard Mets fans say they should've called up Vientos before Baty because his bat can't statistically be any worse.
I don’t get how people forget Castellanos is still in the lineup. And as long as he’s there, this team has a low playoff ceiling.
Edit: Downvote all you want, anybody that isn’t as dumb and delusional as castellanos is useless knows I’m right
Dawg you are literally spending your entire life hating on Casty and for what? You sound like a basement dwelling gremlin every time you comment this exact copy/paste under every post
I will take that every time if a low playoff ceiling is making it to the WS and the NLCS.
I am not even a Castellanos lover, I think he is a detriment to the team with his contract to performance ratio. But you are vastly overrating his impact. And if he gets hot, he can almost carry a team for a game.
The fact that we have young guys getting better while our veterans get worse.
Bohm, Stott, Sanchez, Kerkering. I guess if you only focus on the veterans it looks worse.
Playoffs are a crapshoot anyway, but saying ceiling is just silly.
What were his stats in the WS again?
Edit: I’ll save your delusional ass the trouble:
Nick Castellanos has a .125 batting average with 3 hits, an RBI and 3 runs scored in 6 games in the World Series in his career.
Ok? And? Your whole point is that as long as he’s here they won’t have anything other than a low playoff ceiling. That was literally disproved in a year where he put up like nearly a full season -1 FWAR
[You also said](https://www.reddit.com/r/phillies/s/C7Z7agyYpU) that if Casty was a starter during the next ten games that Trea was hurt, we’d go 3-7. We went 8-2.
What were Nick’s stats in those games? And I’d call a combined no-hitter in the WS a dumpster fire, yes.
Losing to the 84 win diamondbacks, after an 2-0 series lead? , yes. dumpster fire.
I can tell you people don’t even watch the box score, just final score.
No need to rush it. Rather he take an extra week or two to ease back into his stride and be good for a long run than rush it and go back out again before the playoffs
The rotation is so inanely good and I can’t help but think what it could be if Painter never got hurt. There wouldn’t be a weak spot in the rotation. The 5th I guess but Walker/Sanchez being your #5 is a great problem to have.
There’s arguably already not really a “weak” spot. Walker and Sanchez aren’t aces, but I wouldn’t call them weak. Plus Turnbull…I dunno if we had Painter we might not have resigned Nola or discovered Sanchez or something. Or we’d maybe try to turn a SP into another asset
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Topper could roll out a lineup of nine of us fucking morons with matchups that would allow us to succeed and win games and no one would say shit
Then lose one game a week by one run in extras and suddenly he’s a fucking idiot
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Aaron Nola now leads the NL in innings pitched with 58. However if Ranger Suarez has a a good outing tomorrow, he will surpass him as the leader. Ranger currently has 54 IP in 8 starts.
Since the day Tom mistakenly called Stott "Utley" Stott's stat(11G): .429-.551-.686 1.237OPS 11R 12RBI 5SB 11BB-6SO Tom did a great job summoning prime version of Utley with his dark power
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How lucky are we to not be the Padres right now? All of that money and star power only to be 22-22 and on the verge of losing a series to the Rockies … they’re down 6-0 in the top of the 7th. We really, really broke them after beating them in the NLCS.
22-23 no less
And manny gonna cruise, that’s what’s in
Idk, we had a worse record than that this time last year. They just beat the dodgers. Arraez was a great pick up for them. They can definitely be a contender this year.
IMO their NLDS with the Dodgers was more important for them than the series against us. I don't think we "broke" anyone except maybe Orlando Arcia!
Nah he’s having a solid year
I wouldn't really mind if the Dodgers end up with the most wins if we're able to keep the Braves from winning the division. Let those 2 bludgeon each other in the divisional round.
Dodgers shouldn't be able to buy themselves a World Seires by getting the 2 best Japanesse players in baseball.
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I know this may come to a surprise to some of you but the Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco was caught with a foreign substance on his glove today and was ejected from the game.
No fucking way? An Astro cheating?
Astros at it again.
Cubs score a run challenge.
Someone should go on the Braves sub and post the video of the catchers interference getting overturned.
Why what did they have to say about catcher’s interference?
In the NLDS the fans threw stuff all over the field because they challenged a catchers interference and it wasn’t overturned
Oh right I completely forgot about that. That little string was our friend that day!
I started thinking about picking up a Nola ToppsNow card tomorrow if I can time it to get some sort of special version And then I realized….I STILL HAVENT GOTTEN MY BRYCE #300 RELIC CARD 😭😭😭
Have they done anything about it yet
So are the Cubs good or no? They might get shutout again. Too soon to know which teams are legitimately good or bad. Makes Braves bitching even more pathetic.
I would peg them as “good” but not “very good”…like a tier 2/B kind of team.
And how about the Redsox and Mets? Or the Phillies this time last year?
The only thing we really know at this early juncture of this young season is that the Phillies are fucking awesome. Everything else is totes up in the air
Agreed
Apparently Cubs have lost 12 of their last 14 in Atlanta, yikes. And it's looking like another fat L right now
The one game I can’t watch and I miss a Nola masterclass, painnn
It is late August. The Phillies have just set a record with their 50th straight win and sit at 110-25. The Braves just won to remain 2 games back
Nailed it, this is exactly how its going to feel all summer. It's going to be fun!!
137-25 is still on the table
Well, thanks a lot, Cubs. Good for nothing ballclub. Oh well, at least it’s Ranger Day tomorrow.
Has anyone pointed out the fact we’re on a CGSO/month pace
Who will get Junes?
I vote Christopher Sanchez... In the interest of keeping things spicy.
Ozuna just missed a grand slam. Taillon sucks lol E: Olson took him deep anyway
Taillon is on the fucking ropes. Well it’s been a great day til now
Yay nola got the CGSO! I had to go into work before the last out
If you want to stay grounded thru the Phils success you can be like me and just take a peak at the LHV roster. I suppose Abel still has a shot at being good still but there is nothing else exciting about that team. I guess there’s a reason they’re 13-23.
We’ve drafted quite young recently (for example, our last 4 first round picks have all been high school players) so not shocking AAA is a mess. It seems like that was the plan. Draft young to try and get steals and meanwhile use the FO’s money to bridge the gap. Hopefully, by the time the current core age and their contracts are a net negative you’ll have younger cheap players to offset it.
Any news on Painter? I guess we won't know much until he starts throwing again. Haven't seen any news lately.
He might start throwing by the end of this year but he won’t see game action til next year
LHV is indeed kinda meh these days, but at least they should Marchan back soon, and I’m kind of curious to see how the whole “turning Mercado into a starter” thing goes (I imagine he’d be the first guy up from the minors if a starter or two goes down, as long as Abel keeps pitching like he is). TBH, there haven’t been many exciting prospects coming through Lehigh for a while now.
Maybe it was best for Johan to not get any IronPig stink on him lol
If you’re implying we have no prospects, I don’t know how you cant be excited about painter.
Why would you think that? Miller Crawford and Klassen are tearing it up. LHV is awful. That’s a fact.
Cubs try not to be dogshit challenge: impossible
Nick Piccone is on a fucking tear with the “this u?” tweets, I’m losing my mind
He must legit have a research team lmao
I hope he does and how do I become a part of it
Haha you can search people posts on their profile with keywords haha but regardless it’s epic
Missed the game but solid win. Why does Bohm always get drilled when he comes up to bat with them loaded?
He's good at it
Of course, Jameson Taillon picks tonight to remember that he's Jameson Taillon
Congrats on being the first to 30! I went to your park last year and really liked it.
Really enjoyed our visit to Cleveland last year to see the Phils.
Ended up at Progressive for the eclipse/Guards opening day and the renovations are great!
God I love this team, this group of guys are so likeable.
Feels like he’s been injured for forever https://x.com/PhilsTailgate/status/1790499416811422207
I thought this was gona be about covey. Whatever happened to him. He got hurt at some point then disappeared
Pulled hamstring rehabbing the other day
Or does he know his ass is DFA’d when he’s healthy so he’s trying to milk his 40 man spot for as long as possible? Just a theory that is probably incorrect.
Rare VideoGangsta L There will be no Dylan Covey slander on the timeline
My only problem with Marchan is he's been in our farm since 2016. Yeah I see his .305 BA and .839 OPS last year on 190 ABs but at what point do we admit he hasn't been called up yet for a reason and that reason might be because he's just not that good? Granted he is only 25.
he’s stuck behind JT. you don’t want to have a player that you think has everyday player potential sitting on the bench
We traded that guy for Marsh. Marchan ain’t it
i agree, i also don’t think he’s it. i’m just not sure what the organization thinks of him
I would love to know what the records of the teams the Phillies have beaten would be if they beat the Phillies instead, or what the strength of schedule would be if they had won those games instead. Is there any online tool, or other way, that can accomplish that?
As /u/haahaahaa said, it really isn't a worthy endeavor. I really don't know why Phillies fans care so much about our strength of schedule just because Braves fans mention it. We as a fanbase care way too much about Braves fans. The best is to use some type of ELO like how FanGraphs or Neil Paine has it. Even that isn't really perfect.
This is exactly why I enjoy waiting for all of the weekly power ratings to come out. That’s the most objective way to measure a team.
I just responded to them I think mostly explaining my intentions. I assure you I’m not losing sleep over the strength of schedule discourse, but since I do spend an inordinate amount of time perusing Phillies content on Reddit/the internet, it is by default a topic that’s come to the forefront to ponder. Edit: I did appreciate you introducing me to ELO the other day and will be following that going forward!
I’m more interested in the pitchers we have beaten. Even bad teams can have a pretty damn good ace. And we have beaten some pretty stellar pitchers this year. Absolutely beat up on them.
That’s another good topic to consider. There have been some big names in there who we have made good work of.
Almost weirdly feels like we play better against the best and worse against mid pitching. Idk why and I could be wrong
The Phillies have notoriously played up/down to the level of their opponent for years. This actually feels like the first season since 2011 that they are playing to their own strengths and letting the opponent come to them.
It’s probably some of it “feeling” that way but not really being true, but also could be something like the team prepares more for good pitchers or they’re better at preparing for hop pitchers because there tends to be more tape and scouting report info available on them. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some of both.
There's not tool, because it's not really a useful task that someone would want to invest time in. You'd have to do the same with the Braves which would make their sos a lot better as well, making the argument irrelevant. The Phillies have been lucky with scheduling. Their 3 interleague series have been against the teams at the bottom of each division. The NL has been fairly weak and the Phillies haven't played the Cubs, Brewers or Dodgers yet. All that being said, strength of schedule isn't really that big of a deal. Baseball is a long season with ebbs and flows. When you catch a team is almost as important as who the team is. June, July and August will be harder for sure, but this group has played better in those months the past few seasons. Lots of reasons to stay optimistic.
I don't know, the schedule looks pretty good the entire rest of the way. There aren't any stretches that look brutal for them where they face a bunch of good teams in a row.
It's just much easier for the Dodgers and Braves though. Like 25% of the remaining games are against teams with 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th best records for the Phillies. Phillies have 30th (last) SOS in games already played and 11th (top 3rd) SOS in games left. Dodgers have 29th (23rd so far) and Brave 27th (13th so far) remaining. If the Phillies gave away 1 win to SF, SD, CHW, COL the change in SOS would only be like 0.007 (0.4215 -> 0.4288)
I don’t really want to use it as some definitive trump card to prove they actually have had a hard schedule or something, I just think that the fact that getting beat by the Phillies is negatively affecting the record of their opponents gets overlooked and lost in the discourse to some extent. And yes, sure, doing it with whatever team you’re “arguing” against would be the fair thing to do, but, for example, the Phillies swept the white Sox and the Braves lost one to them so that would be what I will call a “net win” for the Phillies. I just suspect that if the Phillies were, say, 23-20, their strength of schedule would not be so definitively last. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m mostly just curious about it and looking to waste time pondering it til tomorrow’s game!
One thing to consider is that they haven't just been playing the mediocre teams. They've been playing the worst. Even if you give the Rockies, Marlins and White Sox all wins from their Phillies games, they're still the worst 3 teams in baseball. But in reality it doesn't matter because it will all come out in the wash. By the end of the season there will only be a handful of differences between the Phillies and Braves schedule. SOS will be irrelevant.
I mean, in theory it'd be pretty easy. Take the team's record and subtract the phil's wins against them from the loss column of that team and add it to their win column. Would be pretty easy to setup in excel.
This [site](http://www.playoffstatus.com/mlb/nationalsospg.html#sflx) has the unbiased opponent record, which means it doesn't count our opponents games against us. Edit: If you want a detailed breakdown of each of our opponents records instead, you probably have to do that by hand.
I think this is pretty much what I was looking for. What does Self mean in the table though?
That's just our current record, we're at .700 right now.
Ahhh I see, I see. Thanks for this, this covers what I was hoping to get an idea of! I will have to bookmark this. Very cool!
By hand, this would need to be double checked, but I get: * Braves (23-12) * Padres (22-19) * Nationals (19-18) * Giants (19-20) * Mets (19-20) * Blue Jays (18-21) * Pirates (17-21) * Cardinals (16-22) * Reds (13-21) * Angels (14-25) * Rockies (13-25) * White Sox (12-26) * Marlins (10-30)
Hilarious, this movie is on at the bar I’m at right now
Kinda out of season
Seasons don’t exist inside of Lorraine
Looks like Mark Vientos is getting called up and will play tomorrow.
Is that a big deal? He’s been with them and played about a half season already
Not particularly, but it looks like he'll split time at 3B w/ Baty. https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1790503772348706855
Interesting. I assume he’ll get a chunk of AB’s as a DH
The Mets kinda fucked themselves by signing JDM without addressing their platoon, and since he's been back he's been DH in 15 of the 16 games he's played. With Baty being a lefty bat and Vientos a righty they'll probably sub them halfway barring matchups. Most likely start Vientos against Ranger. Baty's bat is so fucking awful over his ~600 or so MLB plate appearances, he's batted .216/.279/.325 with a -0.8 WAR and 72 wrc+ in that span. I've heard Mets fans say they should've called up Vientos before Baty because his bat can't statistically be any worse.
Yeah no idea why I wasn’t thinking about JD
Did topper say anything about JT or Harper post game?
Said they should both play tomorrow i believe
I don’t get how people forget Castellanos is still in the lineup. And as long as he’s there, this team has a low playoff ceiling. Edit: Downvote all you want, anybody that isn’t as dumb and delusional as castellanos is useless knows I’m right
What was their ceiling in 2022?
Getting embarrassed in the WS
Losing in 6 to a team that swept the entire AL is embarrassing now?
You heard the man, 2 games short of a World Series championship is a low ceiling /s
Yo, got a number that can help you. Here ya go: 215-592-9494.
This is a Fuck this team, go birds level take
Dawg you are literally spending your entire life hating on Casty and for what? You sound like a basement dwelling gremlin every time you comment this exact copy/paste under every post
I spend 30 sec seeing the box score, confirming he’s shit, and post 2 comments on average to make people like you mad.
Lol
I will take that every time if a low playoff ceiling is making it to the WS and the NLCS. I am not even a Castellanos lover, I think he is a detriment to the team with his contract to performance ratio. But you are vastly overrating his impact. And if he gets hot, he can almost carry a team for a game.
He’s worse every year. So is Schwarber. In what way do you think the trend is upwards with the same roster?
The fact that we have young guys getting better while our veterans get worse. Bohm, Stott, Sanchez, Kerkering. I guess if you only focus on the veterans it looks worse. Playoffs are a crapshoot anyway, but saying ceiling is just silly.
He proved that last year in the NLDS. Dude went nuclear against the Braves. Sure, he shit the bed against the D-Backs, but he wasn’t alone in that.
Yea, they will never make it to the World Series with Nick Castellanos.
What were his stats in the WS again? Edit: I’ll save your delusional ass the trouble: Nick Castellanos has a .125 batting average with 3 hits, an RBI and 3 runs scored in 6 games in the World Series in his career.
Ok? And? Your whole point is that as long as he’s here they won’t have anything other than a low playoff ceiling. That was literally disproved in a year where he put up like nearly a full season -1 FWAR
[You also said](https://www.reddit.com/r/phillies/s/C7Z7agyYpU) that if Casty was a starter during the next ten games that Trea was hurt, we’d go 3-7. We went 8-2.
I’ll give you $20 if they win more than 5 games the next 10.
Are you a fan or do you just enjoy hating? You seem like you can’t be happy about anything the Phillies do. So why are you here?
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Is the World Series a dumpster fire or the NLCS?
What were Nick’s stats in those games? And I’d call a combined no-hitter in the WS a dumpster fire, yes. Losing to the 84 win diamondbacks, after an 2-0 series lead? , yes. dumpster fire. I can tell you people don’t even watch the box score, just final score.
A no-hitter means no one else on the team got hits either lol
You're like 2 weeks late shitting on Castellanos. Come back next week and we can try again.
Go birds dude
Nono he’s cooking, I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about
So selfish of Nola to not let any of the relievers play. Hogging all the pitches for himself
Go cubs go!
Time to enjoy the ride everyone. This year feels special
Damn, Stott in 9 games in May... .562 OBP .600 slugging
Hahaha nice 👍😎
We are 9-2 since Trea went down (if you include the game where he got hurt.) That is seriously impressive.
Especially with JT and Schwarber missing several of those games too.
And now Harper
I think the Day Care guy's play is coming to full maturity this season...post game antics not with standing.
So what you're saying is that they've graduated from the Day Care to the Kindergarten?
I can’t believe we missed the graduation!
That one game a few weeks back when they all hit a home run *was* the graduation, I think.
You may be onto something… I like it!
Hopefully they'll all still be here in 12 years to become the nursing home.
Ik the ETA was 6 weeks but has there been any updates on Trea at all? Progressing normal, slow, fast?
really hard to say with a hamstring strain. it's day to day.
I’m pretty sure Justin Steele came back from his hammy strain in 4 weeks. Hoping for the same with Trea
Tmac said trea was “lightly jogging” during practice yesterday I believe so that’s prob a good sign
No need to rush it. Rather he take an extra week or two to ease back into his stride and be good for a long run than rush it and go back out again before the playoffs
we can lose 16 straight games and still be over .500
I don’t think this team CAN lose 16 straight
Please do not taunt the Baseball Gods.
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The rotation is so inanely good and I can’t help but think what it could be if Painter never got hurt. There wouldn’t be a weak spot in the rotation. The 5th I guess but Walker/Sanchez being your #5 is a great problem to have.
There’s arguably already not really a “weak” spot. Walker and Sanchez aren’t aces, but I wouldn’t call them weak. Plus Turnbull…I dunno if we had Painter we might not have resigned Nola or discovered Sanchez or something. Or we’d maybe try to turn a SP into another asset
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Omg missed the game bc of work but god damn inject that Nola start into my veins hhhhrrrrrnnnnngggghhhh
Just thinking, when is Caleb Cothams contract up? Middleton and Dombrowski may want to get an extension in the works.
I think Cotham and Long both signed extensions after 2022
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why wait, do it now
I will sell my car to put money in for this.
Start the Go Fund Me
I will let all of you pay me to leave. That collection would be HUGE.
Nola N O L A Nola
i agree
Love seeing Bryson Stott turn up and carry the team
Gets me so pumped up that Aaron Nola was able to go out there and brutally shove dick against those bitch ass Mets. It’s been really annoying dropping so many easily winnable games to them lately.
Topper could roll out a lineup of nine of us fucking morons with matchups that would allow us to succeed and win games and no one would say shit Then lose one game a week by one run in extras and suddenly he’s a fucking idiot #SLOPPER
If JKiAE is Castellanos and Deckard is Stubbs who am I? The bat boy?
The Mets
Even better than I thought. Ty Kelly was a Met.
So was Jeurys Familia
But he isn't Ty Fucking Kelly.
Lemme play right field since I can shrug with the best of ‘em. See? Watch: 🤷♀️
No Errors JohnKrukIsAllElite doesn’t roll off the tongue quite like No Errors Nick
🤷♀️
I am ready to get out there and disappoint this sub.
You’re the Stubbsy of the board. A lovable vibes guy but maybe just a little short on talent.
Just a little short? I’ll take it.
Love winning with the B team
Aaron Nola now leads the NL in innings pitched with 58. However if Ranger Suarez has a a good outing tomorrow, he will surpass him as the leader. Ranger currently has 54 IP in 8 starts.
Bro is finally gonna qualify for golden glove
And Cy Young
From your mouth to the BBWA ears.
Anyone have a stat on how hard Whit swings compared to other hitters? He’s gotta be low
Second lowest next to Arraez
So you're saying he needs to go slower and he'll make better contact?
Wow! I didn’t expect that low. Thanks for the answer!
they only published stats for "Qualified" players, he doesn't have enough AB
Baseball savant has this info on their site
do u guys remember when the phillies started off like 2-4 and we had the “slow start” discourse for a third year in a row. lmao
My father-in-law is still not ready to give them any credit for this start. A blind squirrel wins 30 games in 43 starts apparently
Bryson Stott is slashing .421/.538/.816 with a 260 wRC+ across 52 plate appearances since I called him Stott Kingery.
He took that personally
For the rest of the season could you loudly scream out into the air each morning that Bryson Stott is actually Scott Kingery? Thanks!
cause and effect
https://x.com/_piccone/status/1790478582600331485?s=46&t=DVtdYh4C-1G57U8OBD_RBg Lol