PHILLY (Loosely Related to The Philadelphia Phillies)

pjhawks said:

The Juggler said:

in simplest terms-

stat 2014 career
era 2.46 3.27
games started 30 33
IP 204 223
whip 1.148 1.142
hr/9 .6 1
hits/9 7.7 8
bb/9 2.6 2.3
so/9 8.7 8.9


argument can be made that '14 or '11 was his best year....but overall, this is who cole hamels is: one of the best pitchers in the league. most of us have been aware of this for years.

i would say a difference of almost a full point on his era (0.81) is a fairly big difference from this year to career. wouldn't you?

and again if you consider the era after May it is a humongous difference compared to his career era. he has never had a 4th month stretch in his career that approached June-September of this year.

and when did i ever say he wasn't one of the best pitchers in the league? this year he was one of the top 3, most years he has been in the 7-10 range.

re: era, I acknowledged that from the start when I said that is why you can make the argument that '14 or '11 has been his best year.

makes no sense to not take the season as a whole. i'm sure he had similar stretches in 2011. it also makes no sense to cherry pick one stat and ignore, literally, every other stat imaginable. par for the course with you, though.



hey, welcome to the cole hamels appreciation train! you're only about 7 years late.

pjhawks said:

The Juggler said:

pjhawks said:

The Juggler said:

in simplest terms-

stat 2014 career
era 2.46 3.27
games started 30 33
IP 204 223
whip 1.148 1.142
hr/9 .6 1
hits/9 7.7 8
bb/9 2.6 2.3
so/9 8.7 8.9


argument can be made that '14 or '11 was his best year....but overall, this is who cole hamels is: one of the best pitchers in the league. most of us have been aware of this for years.

i would say a difference of almost a full point on his era (0.81) is a fairly big difference from this year to career. wouldn't you?

and again if you consider the era after May it is a humongous difference compared to his career era. he has never had a 4th month stretch in his career that approached June-September of this year.

and when did i ever say he wasn't one of the best pitchers in the league? this year he was one of the top 3, most years he has been in the 7-10 range.

re: era, I acknowledged that from the start when I said that is why you can make the argument that '14 or '11 has been his best year.

makes no sense to not take the season as a whole. i'm sure he had similar stretches in 2011. it also makes no sense to cherry pick one stat and ignore, literally, every other stat imaginable. par for the course with you, though.



hey, welcome to the cole hamels appreciation train! you're only about 7 years late.

i've always appreciated Cole. not sure how calling a guy very good is considered not appreciating him.

edit: no one in almost 50 years for this franchise has had a longer streak of giving up 3 earned runs of less than Cole's 26 game steak this year. considering he started 30 games i would say yea that is better than previous seasons.

yeah, nobody but you is surprised by that stat. he's one of the best pitcher's in the game. has been for a while.

and yeah, everyone agrees on this past year being better than previous seasons for him. no doubt.


have a feeling this town will never fully appreciate hamels until he's gone....which might happen this offseason.

monty pushed out/middleton making move to be majority owner?
http://www.thegoodphight.com/2014/10/2/6896865/report-phillies-making-major-changes-at-the-top

well, take with a grain of salt, but if true--we could finally be seeing major changes very soon

hope this means they make a run for that cuban dude

Jearlpam0925 said:

The Juggler said:

hope this means they make a run for that cuban dude

Now of course they're denying all the power moves. But one can hope.

As for the Cuban - I am going to get my hopes up. It makes too much sense. Even at over $100M it would be a sensible deal. Suffice to say, I will be very disappointed if they don't sign Tomas.

yeah he's only 24 or so right?

tomas
tomas
tomas
!

give us something to get excited about goddammit

pjhawks said:

not sure what to believe here. While I think it's totally plausible Middleton is trying to take over I tend not to believe much of anything Howard Eskin says.

when it comes to big stories like this, he's usually right more than wrong though.

I thought I read he was older than 24. I don't remember where though.

Cliffy6745 said:

Neil Young tomorrow at the Academy Of Music. Fucking a, cant wait.

wish I was going to that....damn it

only time I saw him was 10 years ago, maybe more, when his greendale album came out and he spent the whole show playing that album from start to finish. it was not what I was hoping for. but god bless him for doing whatever the hell he wants to do.