2009 Phillies Offseason Thread

[smeags]

i know but i just found it laughable that amaro got ranked 19th among the active gm's in the league.

[PhillyGirl]

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/Mathieson_among_first_cuts.html

Cuts.

Aumont.

[Sgt PSN]

i'll at least give the phils credit for having the gumption to admit that the highly touted prospect they got in the lee trade isn't ready to face big league hitters yet.  if it were the eagles running the show, they'd still be spinning articles about how great he looks and how wonderful they are for getting him, blah blah blah.  and then they'd keep in him the roster through the first several rounds of cuts before sending him down just to make it look like he's closer to being ready than he really is.  hell, they'd probably just add him to the 25 man roster.

i still hate the lee trade but thinking about how the eagles would handle something like that makes me hate them even more. 

[mpmcgraw]

This isn't even worth commenting on.  He is still stretching his arm back out from being a reliever last year and even if he wasn't he still hasn't logged enough innings in the minors to even be close to considered ready.  It really doesn't say anything about him one way or the other.  Christ. 

[SunMo]

biggest non story ever

[PhillyPhreak54]

I'd say the bigger story is Mathieson being among the first round. He was catching a lot of pub because of how well he was throwing and the two TJ's, etc.

[MDS]

see that actually makes sense

aumont was never gonna make the squad

[mpmcgraw]

I wonder if PG misunderstood the word cut in this context.  Seems plausible.

[Sgt PSN]

no, i don't think she misunderstood anything at all but was pointing out how the prized prospect from the lee trade isn't even grapefruit league material. 

[MDS]

they have to trim the roster down and theres no point in keeping a guy who isnt going to make the roster and isnt going to get attention or work around. after the first couple of weeks of st the focus really becomes getting guys in game shape and setting the roster. aumont doesnt factor into that.

[Sgt PSN]

while i agree overall with your post, the phils were pimping this dude pretty hard since picking him up and even though no one thought he'd made the opening day roster, i think that some probably expected him to get a little more work in spring training rather than go back to the minors after the first round of cuts.

[mpmcgraw]

the only people who would expect that know little about how spring training works or baseball in general

[PhillyGirl]

the only people who would expect that know little about how spring training works or baseball in general

You're right, I'm too dumb to understand it.

more mothers voted republican in 04 than like ever because they bought the karl rove line and felt Bush made them safe.  they were essentially the difference in the 04 election.  why am I talking about this?  I don't know.  I'm generally incoherent.

[mpmcgraw]

women were the reason Bush won.  every other group voted in the way they are expected too, but soccer moms voted Bush.  THE END

[MDS]

jesus freaks also voted in extremely high numbers but instigate a 6 year old argument when you were still in elementary school.