Phillies Acquire Matt Stairs
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sat, August 30, 2008 09:27 AM | Comments: 50
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UPDATE (8/30 9:27 a.m.): Fabio Castro is going to Toronto. Not a prospect, probably could pitch in the majors. No big loss.
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Ken Rosenthal reported overnight the Phillies acquired Matt Stairs from the Blue Jays for a prospect not known at the moment.
Stairs, a left-handed designated hitter who can play the outfield and possibly first base, is hitting .250 with 11 home runs and 44 RBI for the Jays this season.
Hopefully this isn’t one the better prospects leaving. As it stands, Stairs is an automatic improvement on Geoff Jenkins, who is on the 15-day DL.
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Book your World Series tickets while you can!
Posted: 09:38 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 ball 4
fill thine horn with oil and go
Posted: 10:03 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
that should fill our Canadian quota
Posted: 10:05 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 ball 4
john krucks the professional hitter
Posted: 10:07 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 METS62FAN
BUT CAN HE PITCH EVERY 5?
Posted: 10:07 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
We don’t need a starting pitcher mets62fan.
Posted: 10:09 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
So this means that he’s now been on every team in the entire league, correct?
Posted: 10:15 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Gavin
Now we can rest easy that our bullpen won’t blow another lead. (Sigh or relief). This is a fat Geoff Jenkins……I cant believe they gave up Carpernter for this guy.
Posted: 11:15 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Gavin
Don’t panic, I was just joking about Carpenter, but in all seriousness if they gave up a good prospect here………….:(
Posted: 11:15 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 METS62FAN
HEY, PHIL, THAT’S WHAT U THINK! KEEP STRETCHING THAT PEN & U’LL BE EATING SOME COLD COLLAPSE STEW LEFT OVER FROM ’07. U’LL NEED 7 STRONG FROM ALL 5 OF WHAT U’VE GOT & U BETTER GIT ‘ER DONE IN 9
EXCUSE CAPSLOCK ACCOMODATING DISABILITY. THANKS…
Posted: 11:41 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 jay
greg v you joking right? you actually think a 40 year old guy is gonna help the phillies to the world series?
Posted: 11:43 AM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg
Fabio Castro is most likely to be the prospect dealt for Stairs.
Posted: 12:28 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 J-Man
I doubt he’ll be a big additon for the team because he’s 40 years old and isn’t having a good year but we really needed another lefty bat because it looks like Jenkins is out for the year.
Posted: 12:41 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 George
I immediately throw out the opinions of anyone who uses the line “git ‘er done”.
Oh, and Mets fans.
Double whammy.
I have no problem with this addition. Combine it with the rosters expanding, and the bench depth through the stretch run will be much improved. Now if we could only turn So Taguchi into a real baseball player…
Posted: 12:45 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
jenks goes down so we replace him with his own prototype???
wow FO, wow
i thought gillick wanted to go out on a high note… have fun owning seattle patty
this is one of the most pointless moves in recent history
Posted: 12:47 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
how about an arm for the famished pen? can jimmy pitch?
Posted: 12:50 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
theres still time to put jimmy on waivers.
Posted: 01:12 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 rhy
There wasn’t a better left-handed bat to trade for in all of baseball? Matt Stairs? Are you effing kidding me?
Posted: 01:19 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 rocky
I wish that I could be a front runner like the dallas cowboys fans in this city or other front runners. But being born and raise here I can’t do it so to the phillies owners please before I DIE SELL THE TEAM YOU MADE ENOUGH. you turned a 55 million purchase into 550 million isn’t that a enough.
Posted: 01:20 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 philsphan
Stairs is better than Jenkins or Taguchi. I have no problem with this. I would rather have Stairs than Mike Lamb!
Also Matt Stairs has great numbers at CBP!
Posted: 01:24 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
Yeah it is time for them to sell. Its an ideal time actually. if they held onto the teams for years an dpenny pinched the way theyve been doing that would qualify as a terrorist policy.
Posted: 01:25 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
causing harm and decades of agony to the population
Posted: 01:26 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
hahah nice geoff…
i would love for the last home games of the year NOBODY to show up…
an old fashioned boycott would show these tightwad owners to give us a championship…
i honestly wonder how much they have limited ALL of their GM’s???
if we dont make the playoffs… sell your core to revamp the farm
or draft better or something
Posted: 01:32 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
I remember when Gillick first came here he seemed really excited about building a championship team. He has gradually lost that sense of urgency and seems half in the bag alot of the time. I would bet his hands have been tied as far as big deals by the greedy owners, who are satisfied with filling the park every night.
Posted: 01:43 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
If they dont make the playoffs im all about shipping hwoard and jimmy on out. The problem with boycotts is some idiot always ruins it by going. they need to sell definitely. new ownership will likely not be as bad. so theyll bring in competent baseball people who will in turn bring in competent baseball people and theyll bring in good players, etc.
please at the very least: lets not see rich dukee anymore after this season.
Posted: 01:43 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
yeah he settle into a lazy doldrumic malaise after about one year.
Posted: 01:44 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Richie Allen
doldrumic ?
Posted: 01:52 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
hes been like half depressed and half lackadaisical
Posted: 01:56 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
the boycott idea was more of a ‘marxism’, only works in theory…
Posted: 02:15 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Richie Allen
Too bad we cant swipe Duncan from the cardinals…he’s a real pitching coach.
Posted: 02:28 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
yeah he is.
Posted: 02:30 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Lee
Buster Olney is reporting that Fabio Castro is going to the Blue Jays for Stairs… http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3559308
Posted: 03:31 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
AHAHAHAH. remember, that they did not get matt holliday and brian fuentes in that superdeal because THEY WOULDNT GIVE UP FABIO CASTRO as the final piece. liars!
Posted: 03:35 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 jays fan 4 life
you guys are gettin a real classy guy who will not only help the phils playoff run but should also help the young guys on the team in toronto he really helped the youngsters and even veterans like wells! Go stairs bring home the trophy for canada!
Posted: 04:49 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 philsphan
Geoff: That was not a true report. Eskin said that the Phillies had a trade for ROy Halladay but wouldn’t give up Castro…It was obviously false and didn’t make any sense anyway.
Posted: 05:31 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 MaineSox
If some of you had a clue, you’d realize that you need guys like Stairs for the stretch run…look what Hinske did for our Sox last year. Plus what Jays fan said, he’s a good smart lefty bat with power, great clubhouse guy, a great influence for the kids, and knows the game and what his role his..and you will all be cheering when he pinch hits a 3 run walk-off HR….and he’s a helluva hockey player, I know that first hand….
Posted: 08:36 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
matt holliday, not roy halladay
Posted: 09:32 PM on August 29, 2008
Posts: 0 nationals#1
You heard it from me first, the phils traded fabio Castro for stairs
Posted: 01:59 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 METS62FAN
PHILSPHAN, WHO DOESN’T HAVE GREA5T NUMBERS IN SBP AS U CALL IT? CBP? DOESN’T THAT STAND FOR CIGAR BOX PARK, IF NOT, IT SHOULD.
Posted: 09:52 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 Fran
actually i said it was castro yesterday
Posted: 10:23 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 ball 4
castro isnt going to be anything so why worry
Posted: 10:51 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 amanda
i’m glad its carrasco and not carrasco. this morning i read in the paper that it could be carrasco and i got worried. i’m glad its fabio. not a huge loss.
i like the addition of stairs. adds some depth to the bench and another OFer.
he was 6 HRs and 10 RBI at CBP. he was good numbers at CBP in limited at bats.
Posted: 11:11 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
Guess he really didnt have much potential. OR once someone other than rich dubee or the phillies get a hold of him, you know, real pitching coaches, that theyll turn him into a good major league pitcher. just wait and see….
im going to ny for weekend, theyd better win these two games coming up. no excuses. im will be in an uproar if they dont get their act together over the weekend.
Posted: 11:15 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
Geoff, will you be ballsy enough to wear Phillies gear in NY? And if you do, be careful young one, and keep your wits about you.
Posted: 11:55 AM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 mikemike
Amanda Those good numbers are against our starters. He will be facing real major league pitching this month. We face brewers with sheets and cc. and then santana, lets see him hit those pitchers, His hits were aginst eaton, kendrick, madson, condrey, seanez. that some really great pitching isn’t it.
Posted: 02:00 PM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 KM
I like Greg V’s comment at the top . . . “Book your world series tickets while you can.”
Yea, this Matt Stairs move will clearly put us over the top, whereas the possible trades for sabathia, holliday or manny would have not done the job. But I can’t be hard on the Phillies, because according to them, they “almost fell short trade for Sabathia(Philly.com);”"they couldn’t finalize the deal for for Holliday/Fuentes(FoxSports); and “almost made the deal for Manny(SI.com).”
Honestly, do we really believe that the Phillies were even contenders on those deals, or are the Phillies trying to blow some smoke and get people to think they are trying to better the team? Personally, I have no doubt in my mind that it is the latter.
Matt Stairs is the answer . . . but it wasn’t to the right question.
Posted: 02:16 PM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
I can’t stop writing on this blog. I can’t leave my house. All I can think about is blogging about the Phillies. Um, um, um… must blog. Phillies… must blog. I hate the Mets. I like Phillies.
Posted: 02:44 PM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 Darren Daulton
Geoff blogs so much that the J on his keyboard is missing.
Posted: 02:45 PM on August 30, 2008
Posts: 0 Johnny Escalator
LMAO – Stairs’ 2-run homer might have been the shot to put us in the World Series. Funny how things work out, eh?
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Posts: 0 Cleanse detox
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