2021 Phillies Major League Regular Season Discussion

[andyb]

JT back. De Los Santos optioned to AAA. Quinn and Joyce would be eligible tomorrow. They are still carrying Marchan and Kingery. So if they need 2 moves tomorrow those are probably the easy ones.

https://twitter.com/ToddZolecki/status/1393311610471686147

Note JT is DHing tonight. So I guess optioning Marchan is dependent on JT being able to play defense.

[zambonir]

Who knows. Right now Odubel is going good and even if he cools you might keep him over Joyce while letting Haseley work his way back in slowly. It's a given he will still be streaky.

We can only hope that a month from now Kingery and Haseley have both looked really good in AAA and there are decisions to be made. And that the 40-man spot is still hard to come by (i.e. no injuries) at that point.

Hard not to think the JT thing really was a scam.

[Taudawg]

Odubel's exit velocity is better than 2016-2017, not quite to 2015 levels but improving. All offensive numbers actually treading in the right direction - https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/odubel-herrera-546318?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb Sprint speed at 27.8 is in 73.5 percentile for league, and also better than 2016 when he was an All-Star.

Glad to see Haseley back!

[Philsmania]

Haseley's return may mean that Joyce isn't long for the organization.

[flyers19rw]

Good news. My hope is that people will just let him be with what and why he left. Let’s see him get back into ball and be what many hoped that he could be when he was a first round draft pick. Go get ‘em Haze!

[julio]

Hard not to think the JT thing really was a scam.

Not clear. That was my first reaction... but if the MLB COVID protocols require that anybody with any symptoms must go through the protocol... well, there will be lots of times when a player has a low-grade fever - from a cold, a stomach virus, etc., etc. We all go through that, and the season, plus spring training and (we can hope) post-season, is 8+ months long. People will turn up with random bugs - and if every random fever requires following the COVID protocol, then guys are going to be on the IL for one or two days - and won’t count as on the 40-man while they’re on the IL.

Yes, it presents opportunities for cheating; given HIPAA, teams cannot legally provide the kind of documentation/evidence that media or fans might want. But I suspect that most of the time, these short-term IL stints will be legitimate (within the requirements of the COVID protocol).

[bkox]

This is the 3rd time the Phillies had a player slightly injured who then ended up on the COVID IL for one day. First was Didi. Next day was Quinn after he had tweaked an ankle and now JT.

[Lucky_Beagle]

Doesn't this cost the team additional salary every day a player is on the DL and is replaced by another player who will now earn a major league salary? For a team up against the salary cap every day could have implications in the ability to take on salary in a trade.

[zambonir]

Yes to each of the last three posts. Absolutely players have go to on the IL for flu or cold-like symptoms, and absolutely it is interesting that the last three players to do so all had other injuries.

And it could run up salary a little but not as much as if you put a player on the 60-day DL. Most teams probably budget for both things now.

Speaking of,Romero probably opens a space on the 40, but fingers crossed on that for now.

[donaldorc]

I saw him pitch in DC on Thursday. He was bringin' it pretty well.

[bkox]

Phillies shortstop Didi Gregorius, who's missed three straight games with a sore right elbow, is having trouble swinging a bat. https://t.co/k7hgZqSz53

— NBC Sports Philadelphia ( @NBCSPhilly ) May 16, 2021

[zambonir]

Just get him on the IL and let him heal. Defensive struggles may have subsided somewhat but Torreyes-level offense for the past two weeks (which is also when this injury started), arguably even the past month.

[bkox]

Joe Girardi: Harper's right shoulder soreness came on tonight. Realmuto reaggravated left wrist. Both are day to day, though Girardi said, "I'm not sure about tomorrow for either one of them." #Phillies

— Scott Lauber ( @ScottLauber ) May 16, 2021

So tomorrow we could have Didi, Bryce and JT all unavailable. Meaning a 2 man bench of Marchan and Kingery.

[zambonir]

Time for somebody to run a fever of 98.9.

At least it's a DH game. I gotta think they'll IL Didi though it's not certain they can call up anybody other Moniak tomorrow.

[flyers19rw]

The amount of strikeouts with this club is awful. Second only to TBR in the game. If they were getting power along with these Ks, that would be one thing but it isn’t the case.

[Austinfan]

Vinnie's a pretty good hitter, not sure about the other pitchers.

[bkox]

Joe Girardi is in no mood to discuss his conversation/confrontation with Jean Segura in the dugout. "It's a bench conversation meant for the bench." Is it resolved or not? "That's my job." Asked follow ups, he said, "Next question."

— Todd Zolecki ( @ToddZolecki ) May 16, 2021

[flyers19rw]

With Seager breaking his hand, the Dodgers could use a MIF. Segura would fit their needs.

[andyb]

Lux did come up mainly as a shortstop. If McKinstry is healthy I don't see them making any major move immediately. It is not as if Seager was there for his defense anyway.

[bkox]

With the Dodgers multi positional magic, they could put Pujols there and somehow have it work out