Hernandez
Santana
Williams
Hoskins
Altherr
Franco
Knapp
Crawford
Nola


Kingery and Herrera benched again

round 2

Hernandez and Santana should not be on this team - Hernandez should have been traded for a starting pitcher already

Hopefully Santana doesn't fall off too hard

looking like a mid-season fire sale candidate and we're 4 games in lmao

Barely more than 2% of the MLB season is completed, and you guys are already pulling your hair out asking for heads to be chopped.

I think we need to pump the brakes just a tad bit.

the phillies have been trash for half a decade, nobody is pulling their hair out because they suck

it just doesn't even seem like there is a plan for the future like there was with the 76ers

this season is important to show 2019 FA Class that we're decent and can compete, but it's a shit show out here

This post was edited by Embiid on Apr 4 2018 02:28pm

The Phillies aren't in a bad position at all, I think you're overreacting a bit.

Before the season, people were considering them a darkhorse playoff sleeper pick who could definitely go .500+ and a team on the rise with a nice future. Now they have a rough start to the season and all hope is lost and we need to burn the entire organization to the ground?

I mean come on, there's going to be a major learning curve when you have a rookie MLB Manager who his entire managerial experience before this season consisted of 139 games at Class A Greenville Drive in the Red Sox farm system in 2007.


I'm not saying he will work out, I'm not saying he won't work out, I mean shit he could be the next Chip Kelly for all I know. All I'm saying is we gotta chill, it's wayyyy too early to get the torches out. Talk to me about 30 or 40 games and then i'll consider jumping in the riot.

Nice future, exactly, except we're not putting any of those future pieces to succeed thus far.

Odubel got a nice extension, benched. Kingery future 2B, benched. JP Crawford, benched and then brought in randomly in blow games, Rhys Hoskins future 1B playing in LF. Can't decide which Catcher is defensively worse in Knapp and Alfaro.

We're playing quasi-veterans with a rookie manager. .500 was the expectation but now it seems like that's a success, that's pretty sad.

And when we're talking about Rookie Manager, i'm not sure where this guy even came from, but he never managed at any competitive level before in his life, I don't think he's even managed a baseball team period.

If we're playing .250 ball 40 games later, oh god, there goes any hopes of getting Machado/Harper. This is the season where we're supposed to see a lot of improvements but none of that is happening and once again, no direction what so ever.

Not playing your best player? Taking a pitcher out that is cruising and then blowing it?
Calling for a pitching change with no one warming up?

this isn't learning curve shit.. this is just idiotic managing. Even rice isnt wearing the goggles

Maybe I'm just so used to watching Rollins and Utley being automatic turning DP's, but you don't get that type of teamwork if you keep rotating 2B/SS/3B every other game

and shit I think we've been tanking for 5 years, rebuilding in like 4.5 of them and all we have to show for it is Sixto Sanchez and he didn't even come from the draft.

edit: and there it is, catcher can't execute a simple pitch-out and throw out. 2 more runs come after. this is just awful baseball.

Not gonna get on him for using Hutchinson here, but he's probably the 2nd worst bullpen arm we have tied with Thompson. Brought him in during a 2-2 game....

Don't take this as me being pessimistic. After the Eagles won the superbowl, I don't really even care what happens for the most part. But when you're doing dumb shit every game, it's frustrating and disrespectful to the people watching.

This post was edited by Embiid on Apr 4 2018 03:11pm