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Phillies roster set for Opening Day

Eric Schwartz — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:37:27 +0000

Baseball officially begins tonight with the Yankees taking on the Red Sox on ESPN as the schedule makers have done their best to make sure fans will be sick of the rivalry by mid-June.

As for Philadelphia baseball — well that’s about to take off as well.
The Phillies open up the season Monday afternoon with a 1:05 start against the Washington Nationals.

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Phillies name Jamie Moyer #5 starter

Eric Schwartz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:28:57 +0000

The old man gets the nod.

The Phillies officially named Jamie Moyer the team’s fifth starter today.

Bellow is an excerpt from philly.com

“We think it’s the right way to go,” (pitching coach Rich) Dubee said. “Jamie proved that he’s healthy. That was the biggest question coming into spring training, how he’d come back from the surgeries. He’s throwing the ball well. He’s functioning well. And again, this guy has a tremendous track record of being a winning pitcher.”

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Did the Phillies improve their roster?

Eric Schwartz — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:29:40 +0000

With Pitchers and catchers having reported to Clearwater, Fla., Spring Training is officially underway.

The Phillies, who are coming off of consecutive trips to the World Series, return much of the same core from the previous two years with newcomers, Roy Halladay, Placido Polanco and Danys Baez now on as additional reinforcements. There will be plenty of debate about how the team’s offseason will affect the team this season. The biggest question is did the team improve?

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Phillies pitchers and catchers report

Eric Schwartz — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:44:38 +0000

Roy Halladay is there.So is Cole Hamels.

J.A. Happ? Check

Brad Lidge? Check.

The pitchers and catchers have arrived at Clearwater, Fla., one day earlier than tomorrow’s mandatory date.

According to philly.com every pitcher has reported except for Jamie Moyer and Jose Contreras. (There’s an old persons joke just begging to be inserted with that).

So good news baseball fans; despite the snow that appeared outside our windows today, baseball is ready to get going again.

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Phillies purchase Lidge insurance

Eric Schwartz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:07:20 +0000

He isn’t Placido Palonco and he certainly isn’t Roy Halladay. Maybe that’s why the Philadelphia Phillies signing of Danys Baez has gone so under the radar. We’ll that and the whole “Eagles-Cowboys thing.”

Despite the lack of recognition of the move, it was just what the Phillies needed.

While he is not coming off one of his best years – a 4-6 record with a 4.02 ERA with the Orioles – Baez comes with a truck-load of closing experience.

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Post Party Blues

Joseph Birmingham — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:03:39 +0000

The past two nights the Phillies are looking like a team that gave it’s all to clinch the division and are not all that concerned about home field advantage for the championship series. With the exception of another towering homerun by Howard in the bottom of the first (his 44th) the Phillies offense was flat. Joe Blanton looked equally flat as he allowed 5 runs in 6 plus innings and never seemed to be on top of his delivery.

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J.C. Romero to miss postseason

Eric Schwartz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:16:32 +0000

If there was any question of whether or not J.A. Happ would pitch out of the bullpen in the postseason, today’s news should erase it.

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel announced that left-hander J.C. Romero has not recovered from his strained forearm injury and will need another month until he is fit to pitch.

That means the Phillies will enter the postseason without one of its biggest bullpen pieces last year, and most consistent left-hander.

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Wagner Anyone?

BigGreek24 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:38:05 +0000

I was listening to Jody MacDonald and Rob Dibble on XM this afternoon, and the subject of closers came up. The name Billy Wagner was brought up because he is due to be activated by the Mets this weekend after not pitching since late last season. Their point was that although his salary is $10.5 million, most of the season is gone and the Mets would probably pick up most of what was left just to get something for him. … Finish Reading