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I do believe Werth is a suitable replacement for Burrell, but then we don’t have a suitable replacement for Werth.

Frontrunner brothers… lol.

The people in the office enjoyed that one as much as I did.

Is that a spot where JA Happ could get a two-inning close?

Probably, but as you pointed out the other day, Happ will probably be needed to start on Thursday.

Which brings up another issue: for the life of me, I can’t figure out why Kendrick’s starting against the Marlins. RHB have only hit .250 off him in his career, with LHB hitting .332 — so why not hold him back to face a RHB-heavy lineup in the Brewers? Leaving Happ to throw tomorrow against a more balanced Marlins lineup, which just seems to make more sense? It would even have the added benefit of splitting up the lefties (so the Brewers wouldn’t see Happ, then Moyer, then Hamels).

Sometimes I just can’t figure this team out.

that’s why you don’t give up on jimmy rollins

where are all the blanton people who said he was a good pick up he stinks two of ten he reached the seventh innings He is a little better than eaton only because they haven’t seen him in the national league. Next year another eaton clone. Gillick why did you give up three prospect for this piece of shit and two are top prospects.

interesting comment on 610 this morning regarding the rotation. the brewers apparantly have a much better winning percentage against lefties than they do against righties. why not pitch kendrick tonight, happ tomorrow, myers on thursday, moyer on friday, hamels saturday.

that does three things, it starts two righties and two lefties against the brew crew, instead of 3 left and one right. it also starts myers off for that series, which we all know is a big series. and it matches myers with sheets, which also makes sense.

thoughts?

Dude, you cant just grit your teeth and hope stairs and jenkins produce. stairs is signed through next year, so is jenkins. but stairs is signed cheaply, jenkins is not. jenkins has to go. hes horrible. if hes on this team next year ill flip.

you need to unload jenkins and get a decent replacement. stairs and golson are your bench outfielders. burrell moves to first. howard gets traded.

watch the cubs come back down to earth a bit here. sitll, blanton is a 4th or 5th starter. thats all.

i think blanton will be fine next year. hes not mentally tough enough to get thrown into a pennant race. he also seems to have one good year then one bad then a good then a bad. hes due for a good next year

Blanton dominated one game. Throwing 7 scoreless while only giving up like 2 hits – though it was against Pittsburgh. Plus, no offense for 12 innings combined with Vic getting doubled off first to end the game, we still lost the game anyways.

Key there though – “it was against Pittsburgh”

HAHAH ‘frontrunner brothers’ – gold.
950 ESPN is calling mets fans and heckling them! hahah
‘You’re a mets fan? well i just wanted to let you know that you dont have to clear out your calender for october because you’re gonna choke again!’
wow 950 destroys 610…
moving myers to face off against sheets is easily the right move to make, i’ll take him over cole-bert in a game 1 for the playoffs (getting too far ahead of myself?)

I’d take Myers over any pitcher in the NL right now other than Sabathia.

If Myers pitches this well next year he will be in the Cy Young talks. He is just disgusting now, and I hope he is this good next year.

agreed with the 1-2 punch myers/hamels (in that order).
if we can snag a plus pitcher this offseason (plus meaning non-blanton/eaton) then for once in the past decade our pitching will be the focus…
imagine if we kept lohse? if our jewish FO would have ponied up
no offense jews, my mom converted, barucha ta

Geoff… please, STOP about the god damn trainers.. WTF are you even talking about??

Golson should in no way be part of a platoon next year, if they do that, they’ll waste him like they did Michael Bourn… Let Golson continue to develop in the minors for another year or two. How anyone would want Burrell over Howard for the same amount of money is beyond me at this point.. Burrell started the year GREAT and has steadily declined since then. replacing Howard with Burrell at 1st will in no way help this team.

I’m a big fan of Myers pitching when he is normally scheduled to pitch instead of moving him back a day to face Sheets… You gotta beat everyteam that you play, starting with these next two games against the Marlins.. Volstad was NASTY last time we faced them, and Nolasco threw what Bill James called the “2nd best pitching performance of the year” with his CP- shutout, 2 hits, 1 BB, 11 strikeouts vs. the Giants last month.

You have NO IDEA what you get from Kendrick tonight, so if we lose tonight, we’ll need that strong performance from Myers to win the series… one game at a time, and you don’t start going crazy with pitchers yet because you still have a bunch of series to go

Myers has great stuff. Always has. Up til now, his mental makeup was the question. Hopefully, he is maturing into a major league stud pitcher. Let’s remember that a guy like Curt Schilling didn’t really start to pitch well until he approached 30 years old.

Where is your source that the Phils turned down AJ Burnett for Golson, Geoff. I missed that one.

Phils need to sweep this series going into the Brewers series!

putting together a great team (either at deadline or offseason) is a daunting task. however, look at two other philly teams who have turned it around quickly – flyers/sixers. the phils are on the cusp here, we dont need an overhaul, just a few pieces really. FO didn’t get it done, i dont know if its laziness, greed, or whatever. we still have a shot with what we have but if we did get a consistent 3 then we’d be up on the mets by at least 4 games right now.

Where can we all read about the nixed deal for Burnett? He has a pretty good contract right.. if he pitches shitty, he would stay on for next year too at like $12 M… or if he pitched well, he would have opted-out to go sign somewhere else for a ton of money. Ours fans wouldn’t have flipped out at all if that happend..

Golson is like 23 years old, and got called up because he’s fast… and thats it… and if you’re right, and he’s going to STRIKE OUT A COUPLE HUNDRED MORE TIMES… wouldn’t we rather that be at Reading or Allentown, not here in big leagues??

it was openly reported by ken rosenthal, go find it yourself.

for golson, up here, as a 5th outfielder, you WORK him into the lineup and use his tools. you get him at bats and let him grow into being a professional. you GET HIS CONFIDENCE UP. then when he goes and STRIKES OUT A FEW HUNDRED MORE TIMES, nobody will want him up here anymore and teams wont want to have him in a trade. nice strategy there.

kendrick flamed out. he has to go retool himself i think. JA Happ has much more upside.

Kendrick has a 9.14 ERA in his last 5 starts. Tonight’s game (weather permitting) is his moment of truth with Happ on standby if needed. Will Kendrick be more aggressive as pitching coach, Rich Dubee demanded? Will he pitch to contact or be too fine? Will he mix in more his change-up to go with his sinker/fastball? Stay tune for tonight.

Associated Press

July 28, 2008 at 6:42 PM EDT

TORONTO — Pitcher A.J. Burnett will be sticking with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Asked whether the Blue Jays would deal Burnett before Thursday’s trade deadline, general manager J.P. Ricciardi was emphatic.

“He’s not going anywhere,” Ricciardi said before Burnett pitched Monday against Tampa Bay.

Burnett is in the third year of a five-year, $55 million contract. He can opt out of the deal after this season.

Burnett took an 11-9 record and 4.73 ERA into his start against the Rays. The righty won a career-high 12 games with Florida in 2002 and matched that total in 2005.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080728.wsptburnett28/BNStory/GlobeSports

right… but the Phillies didn’t NIX a trade for Burnett because they wouldn’t give up Golson..

They wouldn’t give up Carrasco or Marson, and everyone else was fair game. the early reports that the Blue Jays would do a deal involving Jason Donald and Greg Golson weren’t true, which is why a deal wouldn’t get done

and Burnett’s deal is so bad that no team wanted to get him mid-season because if he did well, he’s leave.. and if he did crappy, you were stuck with his contract for next year..

and the guy that makes those fake grilled hot dogs in the upper deck. they suck. they need to promote whosever idea it was to start dollar dog night.