too early to give up on appel. it could be he is a late bloomer. But if the deathstar believes giles can be the next billy the kid or lidge then you have to pull the execute hatch. If anything it shows you, they're still pissed at that royals game 4, so am I.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jeff Luhnow:"We consider Vince Velasquez & Mark Appel 2Major League-ready arms.In order 2get this deal done we had 2incl both those players"</p>— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/675743467058827264">December 12, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I'm thinking this may be a sign that adding a SP of some significance may be imminent. If so it may make getting Appel inning difficult, plus we have Feliz who has comparable prospect status, and better results. With Rasmus and Gomez bot FA, and no significant OF prospects, OF may be the position of bigger concern long term. Fisher probably is probably held in a similar regard prospect wise as Appel, so swapping them out isn't a huge deal with the inclusion of Arauz who is a bit of a lottery ticket. If Appel figures it out though, this could hurt, big risk.
lol. nice. i guess with VV, Appel, and Obie gone, there's now a 100% chance that another starter is added in the offseason, Kaz or otherwise. and probably another depth add on top of that.
Well, safe to say the Appel pick wasn't what they hoped it would be...and between him and Aiken, they ended up not being able to turn the sucking years into an expected projectable future ace. Ah well, Keuchel coming out of nowhere to be just that certainly makes up for a lot. And Giles still will be under control long enough to have a chance to make a sizable impact that outweighs what they may have gotten from Appel. Would have liked to see what Appel could have done in the bullpen as well though.
Hate the trade now Horrible horrible use of the chips. Horrible horrible!!!!! What the heck just happened???? So we went through a 100 + loss season for crap ... Sheer incompetence.
Swapping Appel for Fisher makes this a bad trade now? What is wrong with some of yall? I hoped Appel would eventually be an elite set up man, maybe a closer, but I trust Luhnow. Although I did want Bryant over Appel that night, but you can't win them all.
Astros basically gave up three starting pitchers that could all be In the Phillies rotation this year for a bullpen arm that "might" close or set up. ??? I'm not getting the math here. At a minimu one would think a trade with Appel as the center piece would've netted us a bigger name. Not liking this at all
These are the Phillies we are talking about, though. How often do number 1 picks pan out other than Correa?
Fire Jeff Luhnow!!!! What has he done.... Crap moves. Our anchors are still Ed Wade guys, Altuve, Springer, and Dallas.
MLB had Luhnow by the cajones for a closer, and they ripped Luhnow a new one. Everyone knew the Astros needs and they exploited it. His cocky attitude has been humbled. He was broken into by MLB. All of a sudden the talent in our minor league system is decimated.
Previously a poster put that Vince Velazquez failed his physical. Wow!!!! Is there any truth to that?
Don't respond to him, people like that live for people to argue with him Let him spew his trash and if no one responds he will go away soon
