Phillies Sign Chad Durbin

The Phils are going out of their way to not improve. It's uterly amazing at this point.

My reaction upon reading this:

Phillies sign...
"Yes...yes?!"

Chad Durbin
"Noo..."

Chad Durbin....

Are you effin' kidding me?

hopefully mathieson does make his way into the rotation and maybe, if we're lucky, carlos carrasco will develop very quickly.

i have one question. does this durbin make up nicknames for himself? we don't need another real deal/durbinator.

one more thing... i think you don't give kyle kendrick enough credit. he may not be an ace, but he pitched out of his mind last year, going 10-4 with a 3.87 era. not bad for a late draft pick but, then again, ryan howard was a late round pick too.

I think Mathieson will be in the 'pen and eventually close as well. Let's face it: They're not going to re-sign Lidge, so someone will have to close.

I don't get the dedication to pitching THIS offseason. Everyone knows the market is crap, that to trade for an ace you need to give up the farm, and that the Phillies don't have the prospects to pull off a deal for a big time picture.

Why not just save the money? Why why why spend it on crap? Worst idea ever.

anyone besides adam eaton works for me

How much money is this guy going to make...my guess 3 years 24 million like Eaton and he probably wont even have to pass a physical so it should be final soon....go Phillies

"Beyond the front two that rotation is going to be pretty bad."

Hey now... Moyer's not bad for a 92 yr-old. He was the Phils' most reliable starter last season.

"Beyond the front two that rotation is going to be pretty bad."

Did everyone forget that Moyer was a 14 game winner and Kendrick went 10-4???

How is 24-16 as the #3 and 4 starters pretty bad??

Durbin will be our needed long reliever - spot starter.

I still believe the Phillies really want Benson.

Eaton can't be any worse than he was last year, and even then he went 10-10.

2008 he SHOULD do better!
lower his ERA by 1 or more and he's a 12 game winner at least with the offense we have.

Rowand had a career year in 2007 - he won't be repeating those numbers.

Victorino and the platoon of Jenkins and Werth will produce more offense than Rowand / Victorino in 2007.

and what have the Mets and Braves done to improve themselves?????

I think the Nats did the best in the division to upgrade their team, and even that may only get them a 3rd place "at best" scenerio.

"Did everyone forget that Moyer was a 14 game winner and Kendrick went 10-4???"

i'm a phillies fan and i haven't. but to be fair this is a typical phillies pitching maneuver. sign a scrub who just got cut from his team and hope for the best. you needn't look further than the durbin's for an example. they had some success with romero so maybe they think this is the way to go now. moyer and kendrick will not put up the same numbers. kendrick is not a top of the order guy, he only gets that press in philly and i think he will get hit harder next year if the increase in innings doesnt catch up to him first. moyer throws about one good game out of three or four. they need something but nothing is out there. benson on a one or two year incentive contract would help.

If Jenkins makes less that 7M and Durbin Less than 1M where does that leave the payroll. Isnt it supposed to be higher than last year??

I think that the top 4 are good enough to compete in the NL East along with the pen and the offense.

Both Durbin's (JD and Chad) are more for middle/long relief and the occasional emergency start or DL fill-in.

Every indication that I have been seeing is that the Phils are continuing to search for pitching.

Gillick is still suffering from a Freddy Garcia hangover. I have confidence in Kendrick and Moyer. Spring training may find another starter.

Moyer had an ERA of close to 6.00 from May on and Kendrick's stats say a repeat performance is very, very unlikely. So we have reason to be concerned about that starting staff. But there's no sense complaining about ownership being cheap _ there's nothing out there worth spending on. I don't understand why the people who killed Gillick for giving a three-year deal to Eaton would want to give a four-year deal to Lohse. Eaton was putrid last year, but his career numbers are still better than Lohse's, and he's only a year older.