07/08 Phillies Offseason Thread

[BigEd76]

HOLY ISH


BRAD LIDGE and Eric Bruntlett for Geary, Bourn and Costanzo 

[Geowhizzer]

HOLY ISH


BRAD LIDGE and Eric Bruntlett for Geary, Bourn and Costanzo 

Is that real, or rumor?  Didn't find anything on the Phils' website.

[SD_Eagle5]

HOLY ISH


BRAD LIDGE and Eric Bruntlett for Geary, Bourn and Costanzo 

I thought you were joking at first. Link
Guess Lidge becomes the closer, now re-sign Romero and move Myers back into the rotation.

[BigEd76]

It's on FOXSports.com and ESPN.com too

Lidge is the new closer, but he's a free agent after the 2008 season

Bruntlett takes Nunez's spot as backup IF/OF

Myers returns to the rotation

Gordon is the setup guy

In Houston, Bourn will start in CF and lead off, moving Pence to RF.  Wade gets his reliever, and Costanzo is Costanzo (see the last few pages)

[MDS]

GREAT trade.

Bourn sucks, yea its just me, but getting anything of value for him is gold.
Gas Can? Who cares.
Costanzo probably won't pan out, but who cares.

Lidge, Gordon, Madson, Mathieson and hopefully Romero is a good veteran bullpen.

Hamels, Myers, Kendrick, Moyer, Eaton is an average rotation. Still room for improvement there.

[Geowhizzer]

It's on FOXSports.com and ESPN.com too

Lidge is the new closer, but he's a free agent after the 2008 season

Bruntlett takes Nunez's spot as backup IF/OF

Myers returns to the rotation

Gordon is the setup guy

In Houston, Bourn will start in CF and lead off, moving Pence to RF.  Wade gets his reliever, and Costanzo is Costanzo (see the last few pages)

Then I agree:  Holy crap!

Thing with Lidge is that he seems to be prone to prolonged slumps.  Is he perhaps too mentally soft to play in Philly - and especially in the little league field known as Citizens Bank Park?

If the Phils get good Lidge = 

If the Phils get 5.00+ and lots of homers = 

Lastly, so much for Costanzo being the 3B of the future.  They had better damn well get one now.

[BigEd76]

Jayson Stark loves the trade and thinks the Phils got a good closer for basically a speed guy.  He also says the Phils may go after Geoff Jenkins to platoon in RF if they don't re-sign Rowand...

[SD_Eagle5]

I was iffy on this trade then I remembered Ed Wade was the Astros new GM and now I'm all for it.

[MDS]

Costanzo was never going to pan out into anything, anyway. He is still years away from producing at 3B, so it's back to the drawing board on that one.

Bruntlett is a versatile player. He can essentially play every position except first and catcher. So that's good news considering how often Uncle Cholly gets a brain cramp. His defense at third probably isn't as good as Nunez's, but we'll wait and see what the Phillies do there.

A big plus is that he is close to a .300 hitter as a PH over the last few years (11 for 37 with 6 k's). Really doesn't have any power, not all that patient, but he's pretty good against RHP.

All in all, not a bad guy to get spell Rollins and Utley every now and then.

[Sgt PSN]

Thing with Lidge is that he seems to be prone to prolonged slumps.  Is he perhaps too mentally soft to play in Philly - and especially in the little league field known as Citizens Bank Park?

If the Phils get good Lidge = 

If the Phils get 5.00+ and lots of homers = 

That's my concern also.  Dude had some serious consistancy issues last year and had the closer job taken away from him for a little while.  But when he's on, he's almost unhittable. 

[ice grillin you]

lidge is gonna be a total bust here....he wont be a gas can in that park hell be a refinery...plus hes not exactly the most stable guy mentally...a couple pop ups into the flower bed and he will implode

but at least this gets myers back in the rotatgion where he belongs

[PhillyGirl]

^^^^^^

lolololol

Figures.

Does anyone else think this means they make a push to re-sign Rowand now?

[ice grillin you]

what would this move have to do with rowand...unless the rumored numbers are way off rowand is long gone

victorino in center

werth platoon in right

[BigEd76]

ig, other than the almost impossible moves of getting A-Rod, Santana or Cabrera, what the hell is going to make you happy with this team?

[ice grillin you]

myers going back to the rotation