Ok, we’re slowly getting through the winter season, and although there is plenty of time left for that season, suddenly on the calendar, it’s showing that we’re less than a month until Spring Training. That’s the great news! But, what have the Phillies done so far in this offseason? As we all know, the GM and President duo of Matt […]
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The Mets made news today, Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco added to the Metsies for 2021. Ok, Lindor will make an impact, but will Carrasco? On paper, if he is still the Carlos Carrasco that the Phillies handed over to the Indians many years ago, maybe. Carrasco was 3-4 last year for the Indians. He’s going to be 34 years […]
Well the good news is the Phillies have a team President that knows a thing or two about fixing up a team’s needs. The Phils went out on a three-team trade and ended up with Jose Alvarado from the Tampa Bay Rays, who it seems have had a fire sale of sorts trading a Cy Young Award winning pitcher in […]
Count me as excited that the Phillies have went out and hired Dave Dombrowski as the new President of Baseball Operations. I think he’ll do a wonderful job in this role. He’s turned around a Boston Red Sox team and also has a winning Florida Marlins team to his credit. He knows a bit about winning baseball. Embed from Getty […]
One of the things that happen eventually in baseball is a change in upper management. This is very much in full swing with the Phillies ‘again’. We’ve been patient in the many years of a rebuild, the years seemed to fly by so fast but here we are looking forward to the next season of 2021 and we’re going to […]
It’s one of the biggest scaling back operations that the MLB has undertaken in a long while. I was talking about this very subject today on The Baseball Talk Radio Show podcast that I do with my good friend, Gary Mack, the host of a long time running Mets themed podcast called Mets Musings. I’ll post a link to that […]
I still think the MLB should do a much better job of marketing the pinnacle of the baseball season, The World Series. All too often it’s just like an afterthought, there’s very little hoopla built up around the series like the NFL does for Super Bowls. Did the Super Bowl always have it this way? Of course not, it started […]
It’s been a little while, but here’s the latest edition from Phillies Talk Podcast with Rich Baxter and Matt Veasey, make sure you stop over to PhilliesBell.com and check out Matt’s site!
We’ve seen this before, the statue stealers, the attempt to change history, the stupidity that exists in the reasoning of such things. Well, there is more. This is probably a story you didn’t read about, as I haven’t until it was recently brought to my attention by a colleague of mine. Did you even know there was a baseball commissioner’s […]
The 2020 World Series is being played in a neutral location for the first time ever. It’s a novel approach to a Covid-19 world in 2020. Is it something that should be thought about for the future? Sort of like a Super Bowl type of situation? The MLB in my opinion does very little to drum up excitement for Series […]
What happened to the Phillies sizzle? That swagger that they showed in Spring Training I, in March when they looked like they would run the table in 2020. The Phillies unbelievably could have still had to chance to make the playoffs yesterday with a win in Tampa over the Rays. The Phils couldn’t get a win. That’s been the problem […]
The past week for the Phillies started off really badly, the Phils had 3 straight losses to the Marlins, yes, that Miami team that hasn’t done much in the past several years. The Phils managed to lose the doubleheader on Sunday and then Monday’s game. This ended an awful 7-game series with the Marlins and it showed for the Phillies […]
More than half the MLB will make the playoffs in 2020, a move that will draw more interest in the post season for more teams. The way the Phillies have been playing lately, combined with the way the Braves starting rotation is starting to come apart is signalling that the Phils will be among the playoff teams when they start […]
The Phillies find a way to keep winning, and it’s starting to show in their record, with the win last night, they are now 2 games over the .500 mark. The best that this team has been all season just occurred on September 1st when they were 1-game over .500. The new high mark comes with the 3-0 victory last […]
Embed from Getty Images Spencer Howard was what the Phillies anticipated from him being able to do last night for this Phillies team. He took the ball and earned his first win of his Phillies career. He pitched 5.0 innings and gave up 2.0 R in the ballgame. Embed from Getty ImagesHoping both Hoskins and Harper can get hot at […]