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Check out this excerpt about long ago Phillies manager Pat Moran from an upcoming book about Baseball Managers from Hardball Times . Author Chris Jaffe write that Moran “might be the most underrated manager in baseball history”.
Moran coached the 1915 Phillies , who won their ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
Friday is the beginning of the free agent season, and the Phillies look like they are going to sit back and watch things take shape.
Based on the limited options for affordable third basemen, it will be interesting to see if the decision to not pick up Pedro Feliz’s option. I’m ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
Pedro Feliz
Pedro Martinez
Mark DeRosa
Instead of giving my amateur opinion on who I think will play 3rd base in 2010 for the Phils, I’ve been working on some other site enhancements that I hope will add some value for folks who swing by. For the record, I really have no clue who the Phillies are going to sign to play third, ...
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Pedro Feliz
The Phillies’ offseason is already in full-swing with the dispatching of Brett Myers to parts unknown and the decision to decline the 2010 option on Pedro Feliz.
But before we completely close the book on 2009, there’s more to discuss. Let’s start with the best and worst ...
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C.C. Sabathia
New York Yankees
I am fully recovered from the World Series loss. The healing process began far before the last out in Game 6. When the Phils were down 7-1 in the bottom of the fifth, I had already resigned myself to the fact that the Phillies were not winning this thing. Even Ryan ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Perhaps it was surprising only in how quickly it happened, and how emphatically.
Less than 48 hours after the Phillies 2009 campaign ended with a 7-3 loss to the Yankees in Game 6 of the World Series, the Brett Myers era was over.
Jim Salisbury reported that Myers had been informed that ...
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Brett Myers
Philadelphia Phillies
It didn’t come crashing down on the Phillies tonight in a flash.
No, if you were watching Pedro closely enough, you could see this one coming from the first inning. Pedro’s velocity was too low for him to fool anyone and his pitches didn’t have the movement on them that a ...
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Pedro Martinez
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Mark Teixeira
Whoever says that baseball is a boring sport has never watched October/November baseball. And they definitely have never tuned in to a Phillies game.
The Phillies won Game 5 of the World Series with an 8-6 win that shouldn’t have been nearly that close. Cliff Lee wasn’t as ...
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New York Yankees
It will go down as one of the worst losses in Phillies history, given the time and place. We won’t ever forget this one. It will haunt us.
The Phillies came within 1 strike of heading to the bottom of the ninth with a tie game and Phil Coke on the mound for the Yankees.
The ...
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Brad Lidge
Johnny Damon
Mark Teixeira
Pedro Feliz
I turned to my Dad in the late innings last night as we shook excess rain off of our ponchos from Sect. 420.
“It’s hard to believe that on the one-year anniversary of the parade, Cole gets booed on his way off the mound”.
Jason Weitzel at Beerleaguer wrote that last ...
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Cole Hamels
Jimmy, Vic, Chase, Ryan: 1 for 13.
Game, set, match.
The unpredictable AJ Burnett didn’t bring bad AJ with him tonight. He also didn’t bring good AJ to Yankee Stadium. He brought practically unhittable AJ to the park with impressive results in a game the Yankees had to win.
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A.J. Burnett
New York Yankees
Pedro Martinez
Jayson Werth
Some thoughts after soaking in the Phillies Game 1 spanking of the New York Yankees:
1. Close your eyes and imagine for a minute that the Phillies do not trade for Cliff Lee before the deadline. Where does this trade rank all-time? Lee is such a perfect fit on this team because, like his ...
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Yankee Stadium
New York Yankees
Cliff Lee
This past week has been a bitch. First pitch can’t get here any quicker.
Everyone is picking against the Phillies. Hell, even Jayson Stark is picking the Yankees, and he probably has a book deal lined up if he is wrong.
The Phillies are the more seasoned playoff team; the defending ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
Jayson Stark
New York Yankees
I am trying to avoid too many previews about the World Series leading up to Game 1. I don’t need to read which team 30 different idiots at ESPN think is going to win and in how many games. Most of the analysis is generally homerism by each team’s metro papers, who don’t want ...
