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How Badly Will Injuries Affect Philly?
Advertisements What has been a great season for the Philadelphia Phillies took a turn Thursday as Bryce Harper limped off the field at the end of a 7-4 loss to the Marlins…just an inning after Kyle Schwarber left the game with groin tightness. Their impact is impossible to ignore on a team with some quality players, but only one who
Read more2023 Division Series: Phillies vs. Braves
Advertisements Good news for the Phillies: they beat Miami even with designated hitter Bryce Harper hitting .169 and neither he nor Nick Castellanos had a home run. Bad news: Castellanos is a .194 career postseason hitter (fun fact: Castellanos ended the season with no errors in right field). Schwarber hit 47 home runs to lead the club and nine players
Read moreN.L. East Prediction: Philadelphia Phillies
Even with a hideous bullpen ERA and the 12 blown saves that went with it, Philadelphia still managed to finish just two games below .500 which is kind of amazing.
Read more2020 MLB Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
Offensively they have a few weapons that are capable of mass destruction… or of jamming when you need them most.
Read moreSure Harper And Machado Got More Money But The Rockies And Nolan Arenado Won The Off Season
How good is the Rockies’ signing of Nolan Arenado? The best player out of the big three to sign this week did the right thing by himself, his team and their fans.
Read moreReds Win Big In Trade With L.A. And It Could Get Worse For The Dodgers.
Sure the Dodgers cleared room for Bryce Harper. But is Harper going to L.A. the best thing for the Dodgers? For Harper? For Major League Baseball?
Read moreNL East: Buy, Sell or Does It Matter Since Washington’s Sleep Wal….Wait. What?
Advertisements So, somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 games ago, one wag (that’s old-timer for smart-alec punk) dismissed the entire National League East except Washington, who was guaranteed to “sleep walk through the division.” Little problem with that. Washington has been asleep alright, but not winning at any particularly rapid pace and has been far behind just about everyone in
Read moreHardball Theatre: Party Crashers
Keith Good’s weekly(ish) One Act, an SNL-meets-MLB look at the week in baseball. This week, Detroit and St. Louis are surprised to find they’re not invited to the 2016 Playoff party.
Read moreBaseball’s Almost Out of Crazy, And That’s Bad
Alex Rodriguez’s retirement marks the end of baseball’s funnest era: the days of the swashbuckling ballplayer who lived out his personal life on the back pages.
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