[John Clark] The Phillies bullpen had the fifth worst ERA in a playoff series in baseball history.
October 11, 2024
[John Clark] The Phillies bullpen had the fifth worst ERA in a playoff series in baseball history.
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I know this is a hot take but I think that makes it harder to win the series.
yet this ERA is still 15 lower than our starting rotation’s ERA last year vs. arizona
Bullpen has always been an issue for them with Kimbrel blowing it last year et al
This is so crazy because it’s an alright bullpen. Not good not bad.
Have they fired their coaches yet?
You really can’t predict baseball
Phillies bullpen was really good all year, and then just imploded in the postseason
There was an article in The Athletic last month about how in the wild-card era, there have only been three teams that played .500 or worse in the second half of the season who went on to make the World Series. The playoffs might be random but it’s very rare for teams to play poorly for two and a half months and then turn it on to win series against two or three really good teams in a row. The Phillies only had a .500 record during the second half this year so it wasn’t very surprising that they went one and done in the playoffs.
They always had guys on the basepaths. The Phillies bullpen only pitched two 1-2-3 innings that whole series.
It’s unfortunate but I don’t think it’s really a reflection of the overall quality of the bullpen. They did incredible during the regular season. Baseball can be weird. The offense dying hurt us worse.
The spirit of Kimbrel remains
Bryce Harper is a terrible relief pitcher.
Yes but Grimace
Eh. They also couldn’t hit and put far too much pressure on the pitchers. Team loss.
That’s what they get for not playing the Braves this year. We spoiled them in 2022 and 2023.
everybody’s taking about the collapse of our offense and our bullpen and trying to figure out what the issue is.
the issue is that we didn’t play the braves.
I thought they were great
You just got owned by international Latin pop star Jose Candelita Iglesias
LMAO
I mean it was probably a very small sample size but still funny they just all blew up lol
Almost hard to believe that number is real with how dominant these guys were during the season. How the hell is that even possible? Like, these guys all had impressive numbers during the season. I get the playoffs are amplified pressure and certain guys are going to fold, but literally all of them…
Phillies Bullpen COD: Metsmania & Small Balled to Death.
I knew the Phillies defense with the Mets Offensive style would cause some problems for the Bullpen but I never expected it to go this horribly awry. They have to retool the lineup and stat but they can’t with that Turner Contract which might become the Phillies Version of Bobby Bonilla and Tobias Harris.
Thank you. I will use this for years to come in my bitching.
Phillies had the 4th highest salary in MLB right behind the Dodgers
Hilarious to me the narrative is that the Dodgers buy their wins but no one says that about the Phillies, it’s a big reason Dodgers haters give for rooting against them, but the Phillies dumped almost as much money on their team and you haven’t heard anyone on tv talking about how much money they spent on this team just for them to lose like bozos
Not sure why managers are afraid to make meaningful adjustments every post season.
You can clearly tell the bullpen rotation was off, why not run multiple starters… in an elimination game.
As a Mariners fan I’ll tell you that having a top pitching rotation isn’t the end all be all
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37 comments
I know this is a hot take but I think that makes it harder to win the series.
yet this ERA is still 15 lower than our starting rotation’s ERA last year vs. arizona
Bullpen has always been an issue for them with Kimbrel blowing it last year et al
This is so crazy because it’s an alright bullpen. Not good not bad.
Have they fired their coaches yet?
You really can’t predict baseball
Phillies bullpen was really good all year, and then just imploded in the postseason
There was an article in The Athletic last month about how in the wild-card era, there have only been three teams that played .500 or worse in the second half of the season who went on to make the World Series. The playoffs might be random but it’s very rare for teams to play poorly for two and a half months and then turn it on to win series against two or three really good teams in a row. The Phillies only had a .500 record during the second half this year so it wasn’t very surprising that they went one and done in the playoffs.
They always had guys on the basepaths. The Phillies bullpen only pitched two 1-2-3 innings that whole series.
It’s unfortunate but I don’t think it’s really a reflection of the overall quality of the bullpen. They did incredible during the regular season. Baseball can be weird. The offense dying hurt us worse.
The spirit of Kimbrel remains
Bryce Harper is a terrible relief pitcher.
Yes but Grimace
Eh. They also couldn’t hit and put far too much pressure on the pitchers. Team loss.
That’s what they get for not playing the Braves this year. We spoiled them in 2022 and 2023.
everybody’s taking about the collapse of our offense and our bullpen and trying to figure out what the issue is.
the issue is that we didn’t play the braves.
I thought they were great
You just got owned by international Latin pop star Jose Candelita Iglesias
LMAO
I mean it was probably a very small sample size but still funny they just all blew up lol
Almost hard to believe that number is real with how dominant these guys were during the season. How the hell is that even possible? Like, these guys all had impressive numbers during the season. I get the playoffs are amplified pressure and certain guys are going to fold, but literally all of them…
Phillies Bullpen COD: Metsmania & Small Balled to Death.
I knew the Phillies defense with the Mets Offensive style would cause some problems for the Bullpen but I never expected it to go this horribly awry. They have to retool the lineup and stat but they can’t with that Turner Contract which might become the Phillies Version of Bobby Bonilla and Tobias Harris.
Thank you. I will use this for years to come in my bitching.
Phillies had the 4th highest salary in MLB right behind the Dodgers
Hilarious to me the narrative is that the Dodgers buy their wins but no one says that about the Phillies, it’s a big reason Dodgers haters give for rooting against them, but the Phillies dumped almost as much money on their team and you haven’t heard anyone on tv talking about how much money they spent on this team just for them to lose like bozos
Not sure why managers are afraid to make meaningful adjustments every post season.
You can clearly tell the bullpen rotation was off, why not run multiple starters… in an elimination game.
As a Mariners fan I’ll tell you that having a top pitching rotation isn’t the end all be all
Ah, Mr Met…
https://imgur.com/a/dIqfQpn
I mean true, but they had to face the best team in the MLB right now. Who have also been eating bullpens for breakfast for the past month or two
And in the 3 losses the offense scored 5 runs total. Not a great combination.
It all makes sense now
Sucks to suck
The Grimace did them dirty. The Phanatic was not up to the task.
GOOD
This pleases the Brave
Maybe it wasn’t just Seranthony, Kimbrel and Soto who sucked. It’s just the entire bullpen forgets how to pitch on the playoffs
Damn
Because they had former Rockies pictures in their pen?
Yanks blank