2022 Phillies Post-Season Campaign Discussion

[Aquapong]

I suppose tomorrow we’re just winging it pitching wise…playing matchups. Suarez for either Sunday or hopefully game 1 of an NLCS.

Wheeler would be setup to pitch game 2 and 6 of the NLCS. Nola would be set up for game 3 and 7.

[el-pietro]

If Wheeler doesn't pitch again in this series hed be available to pitch in NLCS game 1 should they get there.

[HopeSpringsEternal]

I think they should hit one of those balls that goes out of the park. Maybe two.

Good call!

[Aquapong]

Man tomorrow is a crazy sports day.

Son’s hockey game at 10:15, Penn State at 12, Phillies at 2, son’s second game at 3:30, and Flyers at 4. Too bad one of those games couldn’t be in the evening.

[zambonir]

Thor starting tomorrow

"We'll see" Thomson says when asked whether he'll get one rotation through order or more.

[HopeSpringsEternal]

Thor starting tomorrow

Seems like the right choice, given how the Braves hit lefties (and have hit Falter).

Let's hope Syndergaard gets an extra boost from the rabid Philly phans tomorrow.

[Sabin]

But if the Phillies are winning 4-3 in the 9th inning and Ranger only went four and you already used Bellatti, Seranthony, Alvarado and Eflin (as well as Falter and Thor on Saturday) are you going to send Connor Brogdon or Kyle Gibson out there to hold back Wheeler for a start he never gets to make?

Brad may offer to lend a hand in there.

[EDmuch]

Easy choice, Brogdan..

[VoteForKalas]

I hope the game plan today is to knock Morton out of the game as early as possible and get back into that Braves bullpen.

Hopefully, we can force them to use a starter and hamstring them if it does go to Game 5

Be patient, work Morton, get on base and get a lead...

[EDmuch]

I would think it is almost certain that they plan to work Morton early as much as possible.

[zambonir]

Easy choice, Brogdan..

Over Wheeler?

(Edit, ha, well, in theory he's even available today, or for an actual short start tomorrow. That would be interesting - let him open for Suarez? But then you've got neither of them for a potential Game 1. We should have such problems!)

Rob Thomson said Zack Wheeler is available to pitch for an inning today, if needed. He also could start a potential Game 5 on short rest. Nothing decided, of course.

— Todd Zolecki ( @ToddZolecki ) October 15, 2022

[Dirk41]

It's wild that having 3 good starters is such a luxury

[zambonir]

It's also just the analytics, and the urgency/randomness of this playoff format. Closers don't often get the clinching save in a World Series anymore either.

In the Braves case they should definitely have more starters but one of them is Ian Anderson (demoted) and of course they lost Folty in recent years. And they are just straight-up using starters as relievers, as we really are too, and as the Rays, Dodgers and Astros have for years.

[EDmuch]

Z the post to which I was responding was a choice between Gibson and Brogdan.

[zambonir]

But that's not what I asked. The choice I posed was between whatever lesser reliever was available vs. Wheeler. Brogdon and Gibson were just the two guys I imagined being up (could have included Nelson too).

But if the Phillies are winning 4-3 in the 9th inning and Ranger only went four and you already used Bellatti, Seranthony, Alvarado and Eflin (as well as Falter and Thor on Saturday) are you going to send Connor Brogdon or Kyle Gibson out there to hold back Wheeler for a start he never gets to make?

The good news is if Wheeler is available today or tomorrow there is very little chance we'll see Gibson, barring long extra innings.

[EDmuch]

Well if you want to get technical the idea that there would be a fifth game start Wheeler would “never make” d or es not hold up.

[zambonir]

Game 1 of the NLCS is the game he would never start (if a reliever loses the game for us).

[bkox]

There’s buzz within the industry that Phillies hitting coach Kevin Long is emerging as a potential managerial candidate for at least one of the five openings (Royals, White Sox, Marlins, Blue Jays and Rangers).

— Mark Feinsand ( @Feinsand ) October 15, 2022

[bkox]

[nycphils]

Losing Long would be not great at all. Oh well, next year’s problem.