Phillies Not Interested In Lohse

Loshe to the Mets
Sosa/Scho to DET for Inge?

I say its Billy Beane time. They need an innings eater, particularly if they peddle Blanton.

im thinking if theres a point in the Jays signing him....adds depth, which is always good when burnett is in your rotation. But even though 4 million is cheap, I just see him sucking in the AL East, so why not just start a young guy?

I'm willing to bet that several teams will have serious regrets about not signing this guy to low dollar one year contract. Several teams are going with very young rotations or major injury question marks. $4m is a pretty cheap insurance policy just in case things don't go well.

Wow, this guy is just begging for the mets to sign him, come on Omar this is another chance for you to come off as a genius. El Duque hasnt even thrown the ball this spring, This would be a huge addition. This adds much needed depth to a Mets team who is in need of some.

good point twin guy. ive been saying all along this guy just isnt any good. why would you want him blocking your young pitchers. keep in mind i am a cardinals fan saying this. i like the lohse to the As idea. they need someone to pitch the first half while the kids are developing and they can flip him at the deadline for more youth. makes perfect sense to me.

as a Reds fan watching Loshe for the past couple of years, I can say he's pretty horrifying. i would avoid watching to games on TV because it was always just a matter of time before the wheels fell off. The problem here seems to be Lohse's expectation that, just because he's got good raw stuff, he deserves millions of dollars. In reality, he's had plenty of chances to put it all together and has failed miserably.

Those who think teams should look at him will really regret it once you seem him out there in your team's uniform, giving up walk after walk and home run after home run.

The plain and simple truth is just that Lohse isn't worth 4 million dollars.

Just guessing from watching him during the Twins days, but I think it's the magic trifecta of being a head case on the mound, an absolute d-bag in the clubhouse and a Borass client. Just a guess.

"maximumpotential: Why on earth would the Mets take Brandon Inge?"

To fill in for Delgado, platoon with Church, and cover for Alou when he's on the DL. However, there's a Sosa/Thames rumor going around, makes more sense.

this thing works best when people discuss what other people say. if you just respond to the topic you are just talking to yourself. how about some of you guys reading what the others have posted and go from there instead of just talking.

"They're blowing smoke. The official line from the Gillick front office is often disinterest right up until the player signs. They said the same thing while offering Mike Lowell 4/50 and feigned disinterest in Feliz until about 36 hours before his signing was announced. Not sure why, but it seems to be how they do things - seems like it would be simpler to say "we're always considering our options" and leave it at that."

For a guy that they've been supposedly having negotiations with all along and now he's practically begging for any team in the league to sign him to a 1 yr 4MM deal ??? That smells awfully bad to me... I don't think Gillick, Arbuckle, and Amaro are blowing smoke because he was pretty reliable down the stretch last year almost ( dare I say it) good... He showed alot of potential and I think it says alot that no team has shown interest in him... There's definately something else going on behind the scenes...

Lohse from what I've seen and read throws too hard, which sounds crazy, but if you throw more naturally you get more movement and I've heard that his pitches are ridiculously flat because of the exaggerated arm movement. He would probably be well served to ease off his pitches a little bit and change up his arm angle.

I will say it until the day I die. There were two players as of a week ago that were under 30 and still available on the free agent market: Corey Patterson and Kyle Lohse who were both Boras clients. If Lohse walks into camp on a minor league deal than Boras' career as an agent is over. I'd love to see that smug smile traded in for a frown of disappointment. What a c*ck-sucking son-uva-b*tch, Boras deserves this and for all the odor of collusion that hangs in the air, there is no way that I can fain a loathing of it's smell. Lohse is a patsy for this game of financial chicken they are playing with Boras, but they must feel it is necessary. I know I do! Boras will either strike back with unrealistic prices for all of his star players next year or he'll be out of the game. I think all of his big name players will leave for other agents!

The only other reason why Lohse would not get a deal is because of the original request of 5 years and 60 million dollars. If you call up and ask for the price of an item and they tell you that it'll be $XXX.XX and then they call you and the new price is XX.XX, you are going to be like what the hell kind of quality is this product really?! I mean you can't go from 5 years and 60 million dollars to 1 year and 4-6 million and not think that every GM on the planet won't run from you whenever you make a proposal. Boras has a history of waiting by the phone for the team to call and if he's making the calls than they are going to be super gun shy. If he's waiting for them to call, I hope he has a good book nearby his desk!

If this is true, I think it comes down to a matter of pride for the Phillies organization. Why would they decline a 1-year $4 mil contract when, as quoted from Phillies.com, "The Phillies offered him 3 years and $21 million over the winter"? Either that, or someone actually decided to check out the guy's career stats after that offer was refused.
My question is why would ANY team, including a 10-and-under girls team, offer this guy any amount of money to suck as badly as he does? He flat out sucks, and for once, I'm glad the Phils have taken the cheap route and signed Benson and the Durbins. No way I'd want to be stuck with Lohse's sorry ass until the 2011 season.
Omar, sign him!! I'd love to sit back and watch the Phils, Braves, Marlins and even the Nats mash him every 5th game.