A 38 year old utility infielder by trade has thrived in the absence of an All-Star caliber regular. Juan Castro has filled in admirably for Jimmy Rollins thus far, batting a cool .400 through the first 4 games of J-Roll's DL stint. As a lifetime .231 hitter, it's highly doubtful that Castro continues this torrid pace and challenges Ted Williams modern day batting average. However, he's almost outperformed his predecessor Eric Bruntlett. Castro 15:6 ab/rbi, Bruntlett 105:7. Yeah, Bruntlett sucked.Warm Gushy Feelings:
Is it gay if I'm dreaming of Roy Halladay feeding me grapes in a cabana on the beach, with intermittent giggles, and suntan lotion involved in an unnamed manner? If so, I'm totally homo! Seriously though, Doc is amazing. 3 games started, 3 wins, 1.13 ERA, 24 ip (avg 8 ip per start). Enough said.
OhNO He Didn't:
It seems the Phillies celebrate every heritage at the Brick Cit House nowadays. Irish, Asian-Pacific, African-American, White Anglo Saxon Protestant, Latin, Mongolian, Norwegian, Peruvian, Gay...you name it, they celebrate it. Way to be multi-cultural. Now even Angelina Jolie's adopted rugrats and Apolo Ohno have a place to kick it.
Tonight:
Grand Pappy Moyer, he of a 13-4 record and 2.93 ERA against the Marlins, gets the ball in hopes of notching career victory #260. He's also looking for his first career homerun, so we can all cross our fingers for that.
7 comments:
People say Moyer wants to hit 300 wins. And that is admirable, but he'd need to continue playing for four seasons for good enough teams to hit 10 wins each - who thinks he has that in him?
Aaron "Fence Face" Rowand broke more bones in his face yesterday when he stopped a Vincente Padilla fastball with his face. Now on DL, I hope he heals ok
2/5 of our rotation sucks. KK and Moyer are just bad.
So... how do we fix our rotation?
Cole Hamels is untouchable, for the sole sake of hoping he puts together a string of good games and we trade him/he improves (LOL)
J.A. Happ is good. He's at least not self-destructing yet.
Joe Blanton has always been solid. When he returns hopefully he will be solid again.
Moyer didn't pitch poorly exactly, he "settled down". I want him gone, but he's not the biggest concern.
Kyle Kendrick sucks and needs to get off this team and any affiliates as soon as possible.
BUT - what can we trade for a good starting pitcher at this point? Or do we wait it out for the offseason and sign someone.
Moyer sucks
Kendrick sucks
Come back soon Joe b!
Dr. Steve- the answer is easy, sign Pedro.
Pedro would be an improvement. He would only blow the game in the fourth or fifth instead of the first.
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