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https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=15172&position=SS FG would argue that Anderson has significantly improved on the defensive side...which is strange, because it seems his offense has been the stronger side overall.

On the other hand, Candelario has really regressed at the big league level.

Goins and Jay hitting 2 and 4 tonight? Just wow. 45 year old Bobby Abreu would be a better option than half our hitters...just was enshrined in the Phillies’ Hall of Fame, 2470 career hits.

Velasquez certainly wasn’t in LF...or an aging Zach Greinke, who has an 883 ops in roughly 50 at bats this season.

https://www.fangraphs.com/graphs.aspx?playerid=16137&position=P&pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2017&end=2019&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FA&ymin=&ymax=

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=13338&position=C His offense has improve for three consecutive years and defense has worsened...that said, there’s no guarantee McCann will even be a 1.5 fWAR catcher when he was net negative his four prior seasons in Detroit, or that Colome can sustain this level of success.

Rodon’s velocity was down noticeably...that was after the shoulder injury.

Nothing is a piece of cake for the White Six this decade...that’s like the kiss of death.

If Glasnow and Snell were both healthy they would have had a good shot at the WC...looks like near misses two consecutive years. Not so easy on fans when you do everything perfectly almost and then still have to deal with NY and Boston’s unlimited resources.

That’s not so easy to pull off when he’s been buried in Medellin for 26 years...

He got hurt running to first...? Not another Achilles like Burger...hamstring, knee or ankle?

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Well, Fulmer and Ruiz pitched well. 5th time Phillies eventually lost when they were just a strike away from ending the game. Killed by those two innings leaving the bases loaded. Timmy and Eloy got some hits...desperately needed that not to go 4-17 since the All Star Break. Entertaining ending, but punch for PHA.

Haseley has to pitch next...two way All American at UVA

You can’t expect a pitcher can just go out there and easily throw someone out from 300-325 feet...

Both of Abreu’s big hits tonight came on 77 and 75 mph pitches.... Velasquez is having an incredible performance out there.

Why is Garcia not stealing?

Phillies’ fans pissed...

Not like a wild pitch would be unexpected from Cordero...that pitch didn’t hit the Kingery, Harper would have scored.

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=4892&position=3B He's already had a better season this year than his last three and is still just 30...will be 31 next year. If nobody needs a 3-3.5 fWAR (based on him finishing the sane way he’s played four month) third baseman, something is trrribly wrong with the industry.

At least they have Anderson and Jimenez higher up in the lineup...nobody else matters, other than McCann (maybe).

There goes all of our hopes of signing a Venezuelan player...better bring Ozzie back to repair the damage and pacify Gregster in case Abreu isn’t on the team in 2020. Otherwise, we’ll be hearing a lot about parking and concession pricing.

Shouldn’t we now be working Blaze Jordan into it...like the Tanking for Beer tagline? Gettin’ lit (up) for Blaze?

It’s definitely going to get play in the Royals’ clubhouse, but ex KC players never do well for the Sox anyway so maybe that will scare them away.

One might even be a Hall of a Fame weirdo. Except we haven’t heard a peep about Sale causing even a whiff of a problem in Boston. LaRoche and Eaton, well those are different stories...but Eaton’s reputation was already checkered before he arrived.