Hamels
No. 2 TBA
Myers (maybe)
Moyer
Kendrick/Benson

The question is, where does that No. 2 come from? Who will it be? What do we give up to get him?

I hope that is the situation, and I hope Myers straightens it out and matures for the first time in his career. When he’s on, he’s a bona-fide No. 2. So a bona-fide No. 2 to be named later + a Myers operating at optimum potential spells “possible championship,” which is what we’re playing for to begin with.

Friar: Bring on the Swindle!

as far as the rotation..AMEN! myers, hamels, moyer as 1-2-3 is SO weak. because its basically loss or no decision, win, loss or no decision when they roll out there. myers isnt even good enough to be a 3 right now. they need a strong 2 to go in there and they need it at or before the deadline or else theyre going NOWHERE. i think JA Happ and Kris Benson would help to shore up the back end of the rotation mixed in with Kendrick assuming eaton flames out. screw madson. screw condrey. condrey gets replaced by a AAA call up. madson replaced by another starter if it were me in charge. you keep 6 starters on the roster at all times. when one of them gets shelled twice in a row…boom the 6th guy comes in for a start or two. bad starts are UNACCEPTABLE in major league baseball!! youre trying to win a world championship here, not just go out and play hard. you keep durbin who can be a starter and condreys spot is taken by castro or happ or someone who can eat innings when you ask them to.

Of course you’d rather have someone more effective that Condrey for all those times when games aren’t out of control… but the Phillies main problem, in my opinion, is starting pitching… Hamels, Myers, Moyer really don’t cut it as a 1-2-3… match that up against a team like Arizona or Chicago in a short series, and you would lose that serier 90% of the time. Eaton has been alright this year, same thing with Kendrick… you can’t say that they have directly cost you many games this year… but to be a winning team, you need pitchers that can make you win games.. not just keep you in them. Our rotation will look much much different come 2nd half

I hope for a Happ and Outman call up. Romero will need a new arm by the break if he’s the only LP in the pen all year.

They need to tell Eaton that he has one strat to get straight or he’s done. That seems to motivate him….

R.J. Swindle.

Yes, he’s a junkballer. But Gillick wants another lefty, and as a LOOGY he’d be worth a shot, right? Check out his lines so far this year.

Reading: 16.2 IP, 8 H, 1 ER, 16:1 K:BB, 0.54 ERA
Lehigh Valley: 3.2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 7:0 K:BB, 0.00 ERA

go spend money and get some pitchers in here that can be effective. i favor keeping kendrick in the rotation over eaton and even over moyer. kendrick is always going to be a sinkerballer and id rather have that than have someone like moyer who gives up homeruns when he has to put it over the plate. getting ahead of myself here, because moyer has bought himself a few more starts with the way he pitched at arizona. shame about eaton, when he has command of his stuff hes a pretty decent pitcher. but he doesnt have command of his stuff very often.

will Outman get called up anytime soon to bump Condrey from the bullpen?

is Fabio Castro close to getting the call, if Happ or Outman should struggle?

also, any word on Bisenius – he’s only pitched 4 innings or so – assuming he’s hurt?

thanks you’s guys.

All of that is to say: Happ can’t be much worse. Give the kid a shot, and if we’re going to put him in the rotation, let’s try leaving him there and seeing if he can ride out the call-up struggles and start to put together quality starts by August-September.