More Call-Ups: Walrond, Cervenak, Tracy
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Tue, September 02, 2008 02:36 PM | Comments: 24
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Kevin Roberts of the Courier Post reports the Phillies have added three call-ups to their active roster, now at 32.
Welcome pitcher Les Walrond and infielders Mike Cervenak and Andy Tracy back to Philadelphia.
Walrond had a 7.11 ERA in a few appearances for the Phils earlier this season. Cervenak had an RBI single during his short stay, and Tracy got very little playing time. No word yet on other potential call-ups, including Jason Donald and Carlos Carrasco.
Posts: 0 KM
We didn’t learn our lesson with Walrond yet?
They brought up Golson and Marson, why not bring up Carrasco and Donald?
Posted: 02:40 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris
I heard Gillick talking about how they won’t bring up Carrasco. He wouldn’t be in the rotation becuase Happ is next in line, and they don’t want him in the ‘pen. They probably will bring up Donald though. And with walrond, he probably won’t get into games that are within 5 runs either way.
Posted: 03:10 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 philsphan
Donald will get called up soon, once they make room for him. I don’t think we’ll see Carrasco, they will probably shut him down for the season.
I hope that we see Carpenter and even Swindle and Bisenius return to the big league club. We might as well use the extra roster space.
Posted: 03:12 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris
Doubtful on Carpenter. He’s still far away from the Majors and they don’t want to ruin him like Gavin Floyd. I would love to see Bisenius though.
Posted: 03:17 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
walrond is just an insurance lefty situational guy. he was good against lefties when he was up, the problem was they were trying to use him for entire innings. these are three good call ups.
Posted: 03:25 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 fred
I wouldn’t call them good, but it can never be bad having extra bodies. Just people to throw innings in toilet time and pinch hit in extra innings games instead of having to use a pitcher. Probably a good call not getting Carrasco up, i fear he’d be more like Floyd than Carpenter. He really didn’t do anytihng special at double A this year.
Posted: 03:31 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Justin
Bisensius probably won’t get called up as they’re sending him the Arizona Fall League no sense in having him throw too many innings, specially when his abilities will be on full display along with other prospects.
Posted: 03:34 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris
Well you can’t say Carrasco didn’t do anything special. In July, hitters batted .167 against him. Shows what he can do. He’ll be in our rotation next year most likely.
Posted: 03:36 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Fred
AA hitters batted .167 against him – that’s a lot different than the big boys.
Posted: 03:39 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris
Still it’s a step closer to AAA and then the majors. He will be fine in AAA next year. He can get guys out effectively.
Posted: 03:50 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 mikemike
How about those recent callups. Reminds me of when we called up schmidlt,luzinski,bowa. The same kind of quality. THOSE CHEAP BAS%%%.OWNERS.
Posted: 03:54 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Jim D.
Just what charlie needs more lousy options that he’ll insist on using.
Posted: 04:45 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Richie Allen
I agree with a lot of you when you say bring in Happ to start instaed of Kendrick…Walrond looked ok as a situational lefty..
Dont know if any of the others can help..
Do you really want to throw them into pressure games when were only 2 games out?
Posted: 04:50 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 concerned phils fan
myers vs pelfrey
moyer vs martinez
kendrick vs santana
were screwed!!
Posted: 05:17 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris
When is that? This weekend. Hamels is pitching against Santana
Posted: 05:42 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 concerned phils fan
o yea didnt dubee say he was switching it
Posted: 05:45 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 metroploitans in first
it doesnt matter concerned, ur still going to be shut down
Posted: 05:47 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris
Dawg your hype. The mets can’t shut us down. Remeber they tried last year but gave up a 7 game lead with 17 games left to play
Posted: 05:50 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 J-Man
Rich Dubee said they are considering moving Hamels up to pitch the game Kendrick is supposed to pitch against the Mets…They most likely will now seeing that Kendrick sucks.
Posted: 06:09 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Bruce
concerned phils and Chris~ regarding Hamels and his next assignment, a more accurate picture given in team report:
“Two weeks ago, the Phillies chose to give Hamels an extra day of rest rather than leaving him on his normal turn to face the rival Mets. This time, though, pitching coach Rich Dubee seemed to be in favor of using Hamels against the Mets.
But Hamels will start Tuesday night against the Nationals, and Dubee said his performance may determine if he pitches Sunday in New York or is held until Monday against the Marlins at Citizens Bank Park.
“If he has an easy go and doesn’t have to push it too far, we’ll think about it,” Dubee said. “We’ve got five days. We’ll see how he feels. You’d like to go with your horse every five days, if possible. But, again, we have to find out where he is physically.”
Posted: 06:16 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
I wonder if Hamels will want to pitch that day, given his comments after his last start against the Cubs. He said all these innings have taken a toll on his body, and that 105-110 pitches is pushing the envelope this time of year, so he might want the extra days rest.
Posted: 06:20 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Fred
Sounds to me like Hamels doesn’t want to face the Mets. You would hope your competitive number 1 pitcher would welcome the opportunity to shut down the division leading Mets. Isn’t that what a no. 1 does?
Posted: 06:50 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil Thadelphia
We’ve got a pool going to see how many references to “last year” Phillies fans can squeeze into this blog between now and the end of the season. I picked 92,834,982,374…. I’m gonna win!
Posted: 07:22 PM on September 2, 2008
Posts: 0 nationals#1
Carrasco related: his last start at lehigh valley he pitched 6.2 innings, gave up 3 hits, no earned runs and had 9 k’s
Posted: 08:06 PM on September 2, 2008