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Odds And Ends: Kendrick, Eaton, Lidge, Prospects
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sat, September 27, 2008 11:40 AM
A couple nice bits of news to feast on:
- Adam Eaton and Kyle Kendrick are not going to make the Phillies playoff roster. Kendrick, after a long talk with Rich Dubee, was informed he’ll join the Instructional League in Florida.
Good move. There is no place for Kendrick on a playoff pitching staff, and he needs to work. It’s been a rough year for Kendrick, who finished fifth in Rookie of the Year voting last season. The goal will be to get him set for the spring, and that makes the most sense. As for Eaton? Yeah, duh.
I’m guessing the Phils are going with Hamels/Myers/Moyer/Blanton/Happ/Condrey/Seanez/Eyre/Durbin/Madson/Romero/Lidge for the postseason roster. That’s if they make it.
- The Philly Baseball Writers Association of America are awarding Brad Lidge its team MVP award. Cole Hamels will get the best picher award. Jamie Moyer will get a special achievement award, and Greg Dobbs will get the “good guy” award.
Weird that they’re doing this now and not after the season. Anyway, Lidge is the team MVP in my opinion. Good choice.
- Baseball America is ranking the top-20 prospects in each league. Currently the Phils have a nice contingent among the listed: four in the Gulf Coast League rankings (Jason Knapp, Zach Collier, Anthony Hewitt, Sebastian Valle), one in the New York-Penn rankings (Travis D’Arnaud), and one in the South Atlantic rankings (Michael Taylor).
So far the 2008 draft is reaping huge rewards. Knapp had a fine season in the GCL, and right now the high-risk Collier and Hewitt are good investments. The rankings continue Monday with the Florida State League.
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September 27th, 2008 at 11:47 am
glad to see our prospects doing so well. I’ll be at today’s game.
GO PHILLIES!
September 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Are we going to play the usual ‘if he’s not up two years after being drafted he’s trash’ game with these guys?
September 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I like Kyle, but its for the best of the team. He’s still young, and has plenty of a career in front of him. He has really struggled lately, and he does need to work on a few things.
The only downside of this is it could effect his confidence. Hopefully that is not the case with Kendrick, and he could be ready to go in the rotation next April.
As for Eaton, well, uh.. he really shouldn’t even be on a major league roster in the first place.
And for Happ, I don’t know if I want him on the Playoff roster or not. The rotation should only be 3-4 guys with more off days during the playoffs. Plus, Happ as struggled coming out of the bullpen.
GO PHILLIES!!! Today’s the day! Ya gotta believe!
September 27th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
good stuff. get on that ashburn tim! i don’t like the negative vibes from the jeltz for victorino that was a mistake on your part in the first place!
September 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
There’s space for Happ on the play-off roster. The AFL assignment is a blessing in disguise for Kendrick as he’ll be the most experienced guy in the league and could donimate giving a platform the future.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Glad to hear the prospects may actually reap some rewards, and not stew away and do nothing.
Happ definitely deserves to make the playoff roster. If nothing else, he becomes the long man, if one of the pitchers gets yanked early. I have a lot of confidence in Happ, although his few relief appearances this season left a lot to be desired. Does he get consideration as the 4th starter, or does that role automatically go to Blanton?
Marlins will finish off the Mets today, and we will be celebrating the division by the 3rd inning(due to rain delay). I will probably never say this again, but GO FISH!
September 27th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Automatically Blanton, it’s not like Garland where the Angels interest is pretty much done with him eligable for FA.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
KM, I think we need to give that role to Blanton. This is what we traded for, a pitcher for October ball. When he’s on, he is as good as alot of pitchers in this league. I just hope Hamels and Myers get going. We need them.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Just looked up Blanton stats. 33 Starts. only 14 quality starts that stinks.I Don’t want to hear he is a four or five, we gave up our top prospect our seventh and fourteenth for this guy. If we don’t get a better starter for next year mets will win. or marlins.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
get out of here. blanton is a solid four or five. the phillies are EIGHT AND FOUR in his starts. they probably wouldn’t have made the playoffs without him. cardenas was realistically our fourth or fifth best prospect, outman is nothing more than a loogy, and the other guy was our fourteenth best prospect?? whoever came up with that ranking knows absolutely nothing about our system.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Unless we gave up Adam Eaton and a 6 pack for Blanton, we overpaid.
I just hope Blanton can hold teams under 5 runs to give the offense a chance to win it for him. His record was 4-0 in 13 starts, but he could have easily been 2-7 or worse.
September 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
C.J. Henry, I know we traded for Blanton for October ball, but don’t you want your best horses in the race? If your theory was what decided who got the ball, Adam Eaton would be starting because we pay him 8 mil a season. Just because we traded for the guy doesn’t make him the best man to do the job. I am not saying whether we have a better shot with Happ or Blanton, but I think it deserves serious thought from the coaching staff. We need to get our best player out there, not the guy we paid the most for, or to.