Phillies Offseason Talk

ice grillin you · January 05, 2006, 10:46:47 AM

i agree...80 wins would be an accomplishment

BigEd76 · January 05, 2006, 11:56:41 AM

QuoteTelling the world how glad I am that you won't be a part of the 2006 Mariners cost me $15. It's the best purchase I've ever made.

PoopyfaceMcGee · January 05, 2006, 12:25:24 PM

This guy freaking stinks.

stillupfront · January 05, 2006, 12:28:28 PM

This farging guy has been in the top ten in losses 3 consecutive years!

Geowhizzer · January 05, 2006, 12:34:21 PM

The guy has been #1, #5 and #9 in HR allowed the past three years, with half his games in SAFECO FIELD (390 ft. LF power alley). He could give up 50+ in CBP.

stillupfront · January 05, 2006, 12:37:15 PM

Quote from: MDS on January 04, 2006, 09:30:48 PM
He will be traded for a bag of balls and some rectal cream, because thats what he's worth. Screw his high on base percentage.

Should we also screw the 25-30 homers, 100+ RBI's, 30+ steals, 100+ walks, 100+ runs? How many other Major League players put up those kind of numbers?

You're an ass, sonny.

LBIggle · January 05, 2006, 04:52:45 PM

why did we seriously just sign that scrub. so now we have a #2 two #3's and a #7 pitcher.

LBIggle · January 05, 2006, 05:01:43 PM

and i retract my previous pipedream of us making post season play. lets here it for another 80 win season!! lets go flyers..

MDS · January 05, 2006, 05:06:00 PM

After careful review of the stats, I have proclaimed this to be an awful signing. Sure it won't be that big of a deal if he flames up and is cast away by May, but we could be in for a few bad weeks of pitching from this scrub. He sucks. By thank god its a one year deal.

PoopyfaceMcGee · January 05, 2006, 05:25:43 PM

He's making $2.6 million. 2.6 freaking million dollars.

That's about 40 times more than at least 90% of the people on this board.

LBIggle · January 05, 2006, 06:34:25 PM

i would be more then happy to suck at baseball for half that.

PoopyfaceMcGee · January 05, 2006, 06:54:32 PM

Quote from: L-ong-B-each-I-ggle on January 05, 2006, 06:34:25 PM
i would be more then happy to suck at baseball for half that.

Half that? I'd take 1/10th of it.

PhillyPhreak54 · January 05, 2006, 09:00:09 PM

Meh.

I said in the offseason thread that I would like them to give this dude a look. It's a 1-year deal so if he does eat ass then he's gone.

But if he does turn it around then it is a good signing.

What this tells me is that they do not want to put Madson in the rotation because they would not be able to fill his set-up role.

The kids will still have a shot at a spot in the rotation.

If you all recall Gillick said that he wanted "several guys to fight it out" for rotation spots. So he is assembling bodies to compete.

Rome · January 05, 2006, 09:49:43 PM

Wouldn't it be refreshing, though, if he was assembling bodies who had actually won consistently at the Major League level?

This move is just more tightfisted horseshtein from the Phillies and I'm sick of it.

PoopyfaceMcGee · January 06, 2006, 08:20:09 AM

Quote from: Jerome99RIP on January 05, 2006, 09:49:43 PM
This move is just more tightfisted horseshtein from the Phillies and I'm sick of it.

Gillick has no choice but to be tight-fisted, because of all the money locked up in dumb contracts by Wade.

Their payroll will still be top-5 this year, and Gillick is doing a good job of not getting them in trouble for next year and beyond, when he'll actually be able to make the moves HE wants to make with the budget.