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Charlie Manuel finished sixth in the voting for NL Manager of the Year. Sixth?
Moving on, here’s the rates some free agents who could fill the Phils need at third base tallied hits, walks, doubles and triples, home runs and extra-base hits per 100 plate appearances for their last ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Chone Figgins
Joe Crede
Mark DeRosa
Charlie Manuel
Pedro Feliz
Continuing with the numbers from the last post, for the eight Phillies regulars, here’s how often they got hits or walks, singles or walks or extra-base hits or walks per 100 plate appearances in 2009:
H or BB
1B or BB
XBH or BB
Howard
35.1
22.9
...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Jimmy Rollins
Ryan Howard
Pedro Feliz
Raul Ibanez
Tyler Walker
Quick — when Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Pedro Feliz, Raul Ibanez and Jayson Werth came to the plate in 2009, who was the most likely to get a hit?
Wrong. Okay, I’m guessing. But if you answered Pedro Feliz you’re way better at this than I am. Feliz got hits in a higher ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Pedro Feliz
Chase Utley
Ryan Howard
Raul Ibanez
Jayson Werth
For each of the eight offensive positions, here’s the Phillies team OPS at the position, the rank of that OPS in the NL this year, the NL average for the season, the team’s OPS rank in the NL in 2008 and the ‘09 OPS for the position over the NL average OPS for the position as ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Fernando Rodney
Brad Lidge
Jayson Werth
Raul Ibanez
Ryan Howard
The Playoff Start Log is updated and I think it says a lot about what went wrong for the Phillies in the World Series. In 2008 the Phils won it all, getting five quality starts in five World Series games. After Lee allowed one run in nine innings in game one of the NLDS against the Rockies this ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Andy Pettitte
Pedro Feliz
Joe Blanton
Pedro Martinez
Cliff Lee
In their defense, it would have been tough to start him after he said he couldn’t wait for the season to be over after game three.
Phillies lose the World Series four games to two as the Yankees take game six, 7-3. More tomorrow.
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Through five games of the World Series, the Yankees have outscored the Phillies by a run, 25-24.
Here’s how the Yankees pitching for the World Series so far compares to their pitching in the regular season:
NYY, All pitchers
ERA
Ratio
H/9
...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Pedro Martinez
Joe Blanton
J.A. Happ
The Yankees went down fighting in game five and the Phillies lived to fight another day. Just barely, though. The Phils took an 8-2 lead into the top of the eighth, but things got real close real fast. The Yankees scored three in the top of the eighth and brought the tying run to the plate ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Derek Jeter
Chase Utley
Alex Rodriguez
Ryan Howard
Johnny Damon
The Phillies have had some problems that not many people would have expected this World Series. They’ve hit seven home runs and had a total of zero men on base when they did. Howard and Ibanez have combined to go 6-for-33 without a walk or a home run and struck out 19 times. Four of their ...
MLB
Brad Lidge
Philadelphia Phillies
Cole Hamels
Alex Rodriguez
Chase Utley
Ryan Howard
Things looked really good for the Phillies for the first two innings of game three last night. The Phils were up 3-0 after two and pounding away at Yankees starter Andy Pettitte. Pettitte had thrown 51 pitches for a Yankee team that had three games in three days and a bullpen just about ...
MLB
Cole Hamels
Philadelphia Phillies
Andy Pettitte
Alex Rodriguez
Nick Swisher
Chase Utley
Cole Hamels faces lefty Andy Pettitte in game three.
The 37-year-old Pettitte made 32 starts for the Yankees this season, going 14-8 with a 4.16 ERA and a 1.38 ratio. Righties hit 249/331/386 against him and lefties 282/321/409. Like Burnett, same-side hitters hit for a higher average ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Andy Pettitte
Cole Hamels
Raul Ibanez
Alex Rodriguez
Joe Blanton
Vizzini is the guy in Princess Bride who is best known for his list of classic blunders that’s headed up by never getting involved in a land war in Asia. With an assist to Grady Little, it may be time for him to add never letting Pedro Martinez stay in a playoff game to pitch to Hideki ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Yankee Stadium
A.J. Burnett
Pedro Martinez
Alex Rodriguez
Mark Teixeira
Pedro Martinez faces righty AJ Burnett tonight in game two of the World Series.
Burnett went 13-9 with a 4.04 ERA and a 1.40 ratio in 33 starts for the Yankees this season. The righty was much better against lefties than he was against righties. Lefties hit just 217/310/343 against him while ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
A.J. Burnett
Pedro Martinez
Jimmy Rollins
Matt Stairs
Alex Rodriguez
Quite a show for the Phils and Cliff Lee last night as a relaxed-looking Phillies team jumped out to a 1-0 lead on the Yankees in the World Series. How good was Lee? Well, Utley hit two home runs before the end of the sixth and that inning ended with the Phils up 2-0 and there’s nobody ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Roy Halladay
C.C. Sabathia
Chase Utley
Alex Rodriguez
Derek Jeter
It’s a little late for any of us to ask the Phillies to play like champions. They’ve been doing that for a while now — they are champions and nothing can ever take that away from this core of outstanding players. But the World Series starts tonight and with it the chance for ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
C.C. Sabathia
Cliff Lee
Alex Rodriguez
Derek Jeter
Jimmy Rollins
Four switch-hitters seem likely to get a lot of at-bats for the Yankees in the World Series. Here’s a look at what Jorge Posada, Mark Teixeira, Melky Cabrera and Nick Swisher have done against left and right-handed pitching in 2009 and over their careers as switch-hitters:
...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
Jorge Posada
Nick Swisher
Mark Teixeira
Melky Cabrera
Miguel Cairo
Here’s the number of runs allowed by the Phils and Yankees for 2009 and how that compares with the other teams in the leagues they played in and with all 30 MLB teams combined:
Runs allowed
RA/G
League
Rank
MLB Rank
NYY
753
4.65
6
14
...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
C.C. Sabathia
Andy Pettitte
Cliff Lee
Pedro Martinez
Cole Hamels
The Yankees can hit. The Phillies can hit too, but there’s little question that the Bronx Bombers were the better offense of the two this year and the best-hitting team in baseball during the regular season.
Here’s the runs scored for the Phillies and Yankees for the season and ...
MLB
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Jorge Posada
Derek Jeter
Mark Teixeira
Raul Ibanez
I’m not sure you want to spend a whole lot of time looking for evidence from this season that the Phillies are better than the New York Yankees. The Yankees won 103 games in a league widely believed to have a higher level of play than the National League. Beyond that, even during their ...
