I think they should look at the “prices” of Webb (yes, I know he’s injured. He hasn’t had a set-back for over a month and a half now and should be back in a couple of weeks), Harang, and Cook.

We know a trade is coming…hopefully it won’t be a deal like the one for Blanton — too much given up.

I wouldn’t put much, if any, stock in what — “insert expert here” — says about any minor league rankings. The fact is the Phils have a lot of players that other teams would love to have. The Phils Pharm (to me) is stronger than most…but don’t put much stock into that either!

On a side note — the Mets just traded for Lance Broadway (White Sox), I guess they like pitchers with high ERA’s!?

Hamels
Greinke/Sheets
Blanton
Haap
Moyer

or Haap goes back to the minors for more tuning.

If we can’t get him back pitching, I’d be happy to get a legit No.2 starter (like Bedard) on board. I agree with Don… we can’t afford to have crappy pitching while having an amazing lineup. This is our championship window and it can’t go to waste. As long as we don’t give them our superstars (which we don’t even know who they are), we’ll be more than fine.

Forget about going deep in the playoffs with Hamels and “four others.”

When Kendrick was brought up, he had a total of 81 innings pitched over 12 starts in AA.. at that point he had a 3.21 ERA (nice), 82 hits (bad), but the difference maker was that he was throwing STRIKES… only 18 walks vs. 50 Strikeouts.

He was called up because he was a “ground-ball” pitcher, who could throw strikes.. turns out he had some Gold Glove defense behind him, and it worked out well his first year in Philadelphia.

The problem is that he started relying too much on his sinker.. Major League Hitters adjusted to him and started pounding him… he was afraid to throw strikes, and last year his stats balooned:

155 Innings: 195 hits 57 walks!, 68 Stikeouts, 5.49 ERA

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as Kendrick was never a guy with great “stuff” it seems like his best stuff wasn’t a match against MLB hitting.. now he’s trying to learn new pitches, and throw strikes again, but as his ceiling was never that high to begin with, many think we’ve already seen the best Kyle Kendrick can offer (2007)

This lineup is one of the best lineups (over the past few years as a cope group) in baseball for the past 6-7 years and could become legendary. DONT WASTE IT. We have good young arms who ARE prospects, but not sure things. Obviously, Drabek or Bastardo you really dont want to trade, same with the outfielders. but you have a lot of good PROSPECTS – good young arms who other teams will like. you CAN trade them for a proven starter who can help us return to glory.

You have to get a frontline guy – period.

You’ll have kept your prospects, who may or may not be great.. (Jeff Franceour was once Sports Illustrated’s cover after being called-up, he was labeled as THE NATURAL) .. so you really never know

OR..
We trade some of these young “MAYBES” for a pitcher who can help us right now.. while we have arguably some of the greatest position players to ever wear a Phillies uniform. (Rollins, Utley, Howard)..

I say go for it now while its got a better chance of working out.
BUT.. earlier this morning, I was leaning towards keeping every prospect too..

its a tough call

However, we would have to give up more than the 2 good draft picks they would net from another team if they held on to him all yr.

However let’s say we give up 3 prospects for him, we would certainly net 2 prospects back when a team signs him and gives us 2 extra draft picks. So that is something to think about.

But would he be a type A Free Agent or a Type B? Plus we have been linked to him in the past. It all seems like a good fit.

Now why can’t they do that with one of their highly tauted prospects, whom most likely has more potential and stuff than KK will ever have?

Why go the wait and see route with pitchers who are presumably better then KK was ever?

Anyone want to shed some light..