This team is the definition of insanity. They have the same problems year after year after year. Unreliable bullpen and inability to consistently put the ball in play at the plate.
Since June 1 best record in baseball. LFGM! What a fun and unexpected season this has turned out to be. Where is Howie, is he still on the board?!
Nothing like the plays of Wine and Rojas.
Almost seemed like the Mets knew what the relievers were going to throw. Uncanny.
Well, they are very familiar with each other. It would help to not throw Lindor multiple fastballs in the strike zone also.
Realmuto was O for 11 in the series. Marsh, Rojas, and Hays can go. They provide little to nothing at the plate.
Hoffman looked like a deer in the headlights all series. He didn’t even come close to resembling the guy he was in the regular season. The moment looked too big for him. Plus, Alvarado couldn’t be trusted, so that left them with a very small amount of relievers to use.
So why wasn’t Sanchez used? It was do or die. Thomson, IMO, does not have the managerial skills to figure this out. His pitching subs and lineups were baffling at times. Also no ability to drill into his hitters head to try not to swing at pitches out of the zone. Teams just throw low pitches to the outside and they get automatic swings from the Phillies undisciplined hitters.
Not a Phils fan but in his defense I have heard Thomson say frequently during the season that the players needed to stop swinging at pitches outside the zone. Everybody wants to be the hero on Sports Center.
Realmuto is not tradable. They locked him up long term for big catcher money. They knew the drill when signing many of these guys at 30-plus. That may be catching up with them. No pun intended.
And they have minimal salary flexibility after all these Dombrowski star signings.
I don’t expect them to trade him. He’s still one of the best catchers in the league. For that reason though, you expect more of him at the plate.
At 34 and at a position of notorious physical demands, I think we may be seeing that Realmuto will bring less to the table offensively as he ages. This is to be expected and a bigger question is whether/when we'll see similar decline from Harper, Schwarber and Turner?
That's correct. They couldn't turn it off and on like a light switch because that means all or nothing. They should have thought of it as being more like a rheostat. At least try to crank it up a little bit. 50% maybe. That's better than what they were doing.
