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Pitching, Defense and… Not Much Else
Posted on 19 Apr 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Nobody but nobody gets excited about the standings over the first two weeks of the regular season. Anything before Memorial Day doesn’t seem to have meaning though all 162 games are supposed to count evenly. April is the honeymoon month of the long Major League season as fans are simply happy to get back to the ballpark and enjoy the sights and sounds of meaningful baseball. Weather gets warm...
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Philadelphia Phillies: The Phloundering Offense
Posted on 19 Apr 2012 by Adrian Fedkiw.
As the Pittsburgh Penguins kept ripping the back of the net in a 10-3 thrashing of the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night, a question was proposed amongst my colleagues. Can the Philadelphia Phillies score 10 or more runs in a baseball game this season? My initial response was of course, once Ryan Howard and Chase Utley come back. And then the question became, what if they don't return th...
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2012 Phillies: Bruised but Better than Ever
Posted on 25 Mar 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
The 2012 Phillies are now a mere one week away from their Citizens Bank Park debut and we’re still not sure who will show up. This team won 102 games in 2011 but bowed out in the NLDS to the eventual champion St. Louis Cardinals – marking the third straight year the Phillies have lost to the eventual champions in postseason (2010 San Francisco Giants NLCS and 2009 New York Yankees World...
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Clearwater Chaos or Signs of Spring
Posted on 10 Mar 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Working out the kinks and essentially re-learning the game of baseball seems an archaic concept in these days of 24-hour news cycles, year-round strength training and the modern multi-million dollar athlete. Bygone days of doughy, rough and tumble big leaguers struggling with medicine balls while working out in long johns and borrowed hunting caps may truly be fodder for newsreels but th...
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Hope Always Springs Eternal
Posted on 26 Feb 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
It has been 130 seasons – the longest tenure of any franchise in professional sports playing in one city, under one team name. Since 1883 the Philadelphia Phillies have started a season with hope and optimism and in those 130 seasons there have been a grand total of two championships, 7 NL pennants (with World Series losses in 1915, 1950, 1983, 1993 and 2009) as well as having the distinction...
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Phillies Spring Training Primer
Posted on 27 Jan 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard. Well in the 21st century that might be altered from “scorecard” to “Iphone or Mobile Device App” (there’s an app for that) but you get the idea. Modern MLB Free Agency is an annual frenzied flurry of activity and even the most ardent fans may have difficulty keeping up with the fluid roster of their favorite team. Gone are the days whe...
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JUAN for the Money…25 for the Show…
Posted on 27 Jan 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Well, the Phillies first move of the offseason was a huge splash – signing Jonathan Papelbon to the tune of $50 M/4 years. Ever since then there have been a succession of more obscure, lesser marquee names inking deals (Jim Thome, Dontrelle Willis, Ty Wiggington, Lance Nix). Philadelphia’s real Dream Team seems to be taking shape and will debut in the shadows of the failed Eagles 8-8 2011 s...
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Extremely Slow and Incredibly Idealistic
Posted on 17 Jan 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Pitchers and Catchers report to Phillies Spring Training in Clearwater in 5 weeks but spring seems intolerably far away. While the Phillies once made a grand splash early into Hot Stove season with Jonathan Papelbon (4 years @ $50 million) they have lulled their fans into a soporific glaze of late. Ryan Howard has been seen at the complex on crutches and the news of Placido Polanco and Hunter P...
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Your Move, Ruben
Posted on 28 Dec 2011 by Christopher Rowe.
The final week of the calendar year is typically one of the quietest weeks on the baseball calendar. At this point in the offseason, many of the marquee free agents have been signed and the waiting game for Ego Salary Requests vs. Budgetary Constraints has begun (see “JIMMY ROLLINS). General Managers and most front office denizens generally take Week 52 as a good time for rest and relaxat...
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Santa Brings True Meaning of Free Agency
Posted on 17 Dec 2011 by Christopher Rowe.
While the weather outside is supposed to be frightful, the Hot Stove Season seems to have reached its Yuletide period of rest. Several of the “big names” have splashed around in the headlines establishing the market pricing. Now teams and players alike take their wish lists to Santa Claus only to realize that jolly old Saint Nick is powerless amid the face of supply and demand. There are o...
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Winter Meetings Cascade Effect on Philadelphia Experiment
Posted on 5 Dec 2011 by Christopher Rowe.
Believers in giving one for the old ball team may disagree but logic, reason and all manner of pragmatism should permit the pedestrian Phillies fan to believe that Jimmy Rollins may not be back. In fact, it is entirely possible that the likes of Roy Oswalt, Raul Ibanez, Ross Gload, Ryan Madson and Brad Lidge have seen their last days in a Phillies uniform. While the Winter Meetings mark the on...
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Sandberg Leads Phillies Minor League Staff
Posted on 26 Nov 2011 by Christopher Rowe.
The Phillies announced Monday that manager Ryne Sandberg and his entire coaching staff will return to guide the Triple-A Lehigh Valley club again next year. There had been speculation that Sandberg was being considered for the major league managing vacancies in Boston, St. Louis and Chicago but none of those jobs would pan out for the Hall of Famer. Sandberg's staff will include Sal Rende, ente...
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