This Is Gonna Suck: 2016 Phillies Season Thread

[Don Ho]

What is so cool about AT&T is the energy from the crowd.  Here comes in a team 13 games out of first having an absolutely horrible month but the last two games were like playoff games for those fans.  They go ape shtein on every hit, run, good defensive play, etc.  It's like that every game there since they opened that place.

[QB Eagles]

A Philadelphia Phillies minor league pitcher suffered a potentially career-threatening eye injury in a freak training accident in the Class A Florida State League late last week, his agent confirmed to ESPN.com Monday.

Clearwater Threshers pitcher Matt Imhof, the Phillies' second-round pick in the 2014 MLB first-year player draft, suffered a "significant injury to his right eye'' during postgame arm care band work, agent Adam Karon said.

Imhof, 22, was taking part in a routine stretching regimen after a game at Brevard County when a piece of equipment malfunctioned and he was struck in the right eye, a baseball source told ESPN.com. Imhof has undergone surgery and is likely to need further procedures, the source said.

Imhof, a 6-foot, 5-inch left-hander out of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, received a signing bonus of $1,187,900 from the Phillies as the 47th overall pick in 2014. He has struggled with his control in professional ball and recently begun transitioning from the starting rotation to the bullpen.

MLB.com ranked Imhof as the Phillies' No. 19 prospect in 2015, but did not include him among the team's top 30 prospects in its 2016 rankings.

Only shocker with this happening to the Sillies was that the player wasn't Crawford or Williams.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Well Williams was benched again tonight for managerial reasons

So there's that

[MDS]

its either because he slammed his helmet or didnt work the count enough

i get doing it the first time around but hes not 16 anymore.

[PhillyPhreak54]

He's not in the lineup again tonight

[Geowhizzer]

Reason is not running out a grounder.

[Rome]

He was just keepin it real and shtein. 

[smeags]

He was just keepin it real and shtein.

jimmaaaaaay

[Geowhizzer]

This may be the most stupid team (baseball-wise) in major league history.

[MDS]

geo with the #hotsportstake

coming in LUKEWARMISH

[Geowhizzer]

Eickhoff dancing in and out of trouble the last few innings.  Or the Diamondbacks are just choking in RBI situations.

[Don Ho]

Franco swings at the worst pitch I've ever seen for strike 3 with the bases loaded, clearly ball 4 that would have plated the go ahead run.  Of course Choke has a great AB and draws the walk.  The universe is strange.  We Win!

[SD]

This may be the most stupid team (baseball-wise) in major league history.

Definitely the worst baserunning team in the history of the MLB

[smeags]

80 ?

[MDS]

phils want lance mccullers in the giles trade....didnt get him. instead got VV and this cat

Mark Appel had surgery today to remove a bone spur from his right elbow. His season is over. Expected to be ready for spring training.

also moniak 1-4 in his gcl debut