Schilling Open To Phillies

Schilling to the Phillies would be a great move.

For baseball fans it would be really neat to see Schilling in a Phillies uniform and Glavine rejoining with the Braves. Great ways to end amazing careers.

That would be awesome to see Schilling and Glavine back in the NL East battling each other.

I'd just be fired up to watch that possible Atlanta staff. It really could be something like:

Hudson/Smoltz/Hampton/Glavine/Jo Jo Reyes, with another good starter or reliever very possibly acquired for Renteria.

That would have the possibility of being a pretty damn solid staff actually.

Are the Cubs on his short list? I can see him wanting to be the pc that brought a championship to a long suffering franchise ( much like he was in Boston). Maybe the cubs move one of their young starters ( marshall,gallagher or veal) as part of a trade for a leadoff guy ( figgins?) or ss ( tejada?). Can't complain about a rotation of Zambrano/schilling/lily/hill/marquis - might produce 4 15 game winners

"Hudson/Smoltz/Hampton/Glavine/Jo Jo Reyes, with another good starter or reliever very possibly acquired for Renteria. "

Where is Chuck James?

I dont know, Glavine is solid, but dont expect him to post anything under a 4.25 and a 1.40 whip next year if he goes back to atlanta (or NY for that matter). It has gotten to a point where the NL East just knows him, flat out. He is solid, but there are days when he just flat out doesnt have anything, and will get rocked. Everybody talks about how adding Glavine to the Braves rotation would somehow make them invincible or something. I would have no problem with Tom going to Atlanta. I would have no problem facing him 5 times a year. You know what he is going to do and with the right approach you can hit him. He will come inside sometimes, but not much. I just dont think it would be smart for the Braves to pay him 12 mil or something. It could be a nice story, but it could also leave a very sour taste in the mouths of Atlanta Braves fans if he isnt good. This would obviously not be the optimum way for Glavine to depart MLB. Glavine is solid I guess, but he usually either gets hit very hard or not at all. He throws a million pitches because he nibbles around the strikezone and never gives in (which is sometimes infuriating.). Glavine can be the most frustrating pitcher to watch, or he can go out and throw a gem. I personally dont care what Glavine does, I am just warning people not to expect the old Glavine if and when he goes back to Atlanta.

Nothing that Schilling has said would indicate that his options are Boston/Philadelphia or retire. This guy still wants to pitch.

"Hudson/Smoltz/Hampton/Glavine/Jo Jo Reyes"

Id be more excited to see Hamels/Schilling/Myers/Kendrick/Moyer but Im guessing signing Shilling would keep Myers in the pen and the list is not nearly as good with Eaton´s name on it.

Larson101: Im with you on Glavine not going back to the Braves. I hope he retires because Id rather die than watch another Moyer vs. Glavine match up.

Curt Schilling is not going to the Hall Of Fame.

"Curt Schilling is not going to the Hall Of Fame."

You're definitely wrong about that one. He's a hall of famer right now. Even without 1 more ring, and another years worth of stats.

Um, Schilling's numbers/accomplishments are nowhere near Glavine's. Start at the 300 wins as a LHP and the 2 CY Youngs and work down from there.

Smoltz is a different story, and is no lock for the HoF either. But he at least has a CY and the 3 years as a dominant closer with 150 saves on his record.

Saves are a worthless statistic.

Seriously check the numbers he's better than both of them. It's not his fault he pitched at the same time as Clemens, Randy Johnson, and Pedro. He's a hall of famer. I didn't believe it till I looked back in June.

"Either way, at about 13MM on a 1 year deal he'll definitely find a bevy of suitors."

It's only 1 team that can nail him down for 1 year, 13 million though. Theo is definitely offering him arbitration. Unless he has some metric to judge worth to his franchise that no-one else can figure out, he has to offer him arbitration. He offered Graffanino arbitration. Unless another team comes with more money, or more years there is no way he doesn't take a 1 yr/ 13 million dollar deal to stay with Boston.

You can say some of the same things about Schilling, he is a cltch, gutty, post season performer, a horse, your right. I just dont see how anybody that watches baseball can say Smoltz is not a HOF.