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sdsuphilip
Would expect Pirates to go to Taillon before Glasnow.
And far from surprising Cueto’s deal looks like a big bargain, people had way too much recency bias when discussing him in the offseason.
baseballfan 3
Agreed. Taillon is ready now. Super 2 is the only thing holding him back. Glasnow still needs to work on his changeup.
Don’t sleep on Kuhl and his miniscule era. Williams and Brault could help too. They have a dynamite AAA rotation.
theo2016
Braults the only one with upside out of that second group you mentioned. None of them have an out pitch. You can succeed in the minors without one but in the majors you need one once they have seen enough of you. Brault has a nice change though.
jimmyz
Kuhl’s slider is much better this year and he’s starting to use it as an out pitch which has greatly helped him as he can get guys out with two strikes as opposed to always relying on trying to get a grounder with his sinker. I expect Kuhl and Taillon come up in June with Glasnow coming up after the all star break sometime.
bravesfan 7
The Rockies?
Logan10braves
No, it’s the Red Sox you idiot. (I’m kidding. I know it hurts.)
Brixton
Send out/DFA:
Ryan Howard
Manny Burriss
Elvis Araujo
Adam Morgan
Call up:
Cam Perkins (.307 BA, .841 OPS, 4 HR, 16 RBI at AAA)
Taylor Featherston (.285 BA, .789 OPS, 5 HR, 13 RBI at AAA)
Zach Eflin (7-0, 2.81 ERA at AAA)
Mario Hollands (1.69 ERA on rehab assignment)
Hope they can help the team someway better than the other 4, and wait for Williams, Crawford, Knapp, Thompson and Alfaro to come up.
Jorge Soler Powered
None of those call-ups would do much better than the guys you suggest they replace. The Phillies have been playing way over their talent so far. They are about to get swept by a real team, and haven’t even put up a fight.
jleve618
They look almost as bad as the cubs in the nlcs last year.
statlr
Which means what, aside from your level of snarkiness. Do you mean to imply that the Phillies are a really great team as the Cubs were and are just running into a hot team on a buzz saw, or that the Cubs were a really crappy team playing a million miles over the head for 4 months and showed how bad they were when a mediocre team (as the Cubs apparently are) sweeps them aside like a worn out chew toy?
halos101
Rip jleve618
A'sfaninUK
In Johnny Cueto’s 8 QS (out of 10 GS) this year, 3 were against SD, 2 against Arizona, 1 against Colorado, Milwakuee and the Dodgers (who roughed him up in his other start).
No one is noticing him because he has played pretty much all bad teams and the Dodgers. What a dumb article to read.
Brixton
Arizona and Colorado are both excellent offensive teams. 4th and 5th in team BA, 5th and 6th in runs scores, 5th and 6th in OPS. Milwakuee is middle of the pack as well.
theo2016
The 3 San Diego is pretty huge tho. But he is in the n.l. west and all those teams get to gave them a lot.
Brixton
You can’t discredit a guy for beating up on the bad teams. He has a 3.51 ERA against everyone else,
McGlynn
What a dumb comment to read. Just because a team is bad doesn’t mean their offense isn’t. 6/9 of his quality starts have been against decent offensive teams, and in the 2/3 that have been against SD, he went CG Shutout, which is impressive no matter what mlb team is out there.
Selkies
Say whatever you want about Philly’s talent level right now but when they get the kids off the farm, look out.
philliesrule
70 wins for phillies?