Howard For Pujols

Okay, so if you haven’t heard, there is a rumor from an “inside” source in the Phillies organization that there have been front office talks about trying to trade Ryan Howard for Albert Pujols. These talks are rumored to only be only taking place in the Phillies front office,  and they apparently haven’t approached the [...]

Philadelphia Phillies Top Ten Prospects 2010

1) Dominick Brown-OF The seemingly lone survivor of the 2 big trades of the last year for Philly. …I would think that he’ll be ready for sure in 2011, and potentially at some point in 2010. He’s got all the talent in the world to be a very good major league player. 2) Phillipe Aumont-SP [...]

2010 MLB Off-Season Review: NL East

Atlanta Braves Key losses- Javier Vasquez, Kelly Johnson, Rafael Soriano, Mike Gonzalez, Garrett Anderson, Adam LaRoche Key additions- Billy Wagner, Melky Cabrera, Troy Glaus, Takashi Saito Off-season grade- B Justification- I feel they upgraded the bullpen with the addition of Wagner and Saito. The Vasquez deal seems like a salary dump, but they got a [...]

Players on the Market in 2010

The 2009-10 off-season has been a rather dry market. There have been very few heads popping headlines, other than the expected Roy Halladay trade, the re-signing of Matt Holliday and John Lackey joining Red Sox Nation. So will the 2010-11 off-season give us more stories? There are a few more bigger names becoming free agents, [...]

Roy Halladay Gone to Philly! Seattle Jumps into the Mix and Snags Cliff Lee!

Holy Smokes- after reports saying John Lackey is close to signing with Boston, Seattle wastes no time in jumping into the biggest blockbuster of the offseason less far and works out a 3 team deal with Philly and Toronto to get Cliff Lee. Roy Halladay is finally on his way to Philly, and Toronto likely [...]

Looked Over? Offense Outweighing Defensive Performance

Outside of some questionable Gold Gloves winners I have no major problems with the winners of the post-season awards. There was a slight problem I had with the voting however. I noticed that both Chase Utley and Ben Zobrist finished 8th in the voting for their respective leagues. These two were arguably the 2nd best [...]

Saito to the Braves and Polanco signs with Philly

Takashi Saito signed a 1 year deal today with the Atlanta Braves as they continue to remake their bullpen. The terms weren’t disclosed but my sources tell me it was around 2.5 million with incentives. I thought this was a better deal than the Wagner deal as Saito pitched pretty well last year in Boston. [...]

World Series Preview: Phillies vs Yankees

With the World Series set, it’s time to break down all of the positions to see who has the upper hand in the 2009 fall classic. Catcher Phillies: Carlos Ruiz. Carlos Ruiz is your prototypical defensive catcher whom you don’t really care about offensively, as long as he calls a good game for your pitching [...]