 Yesterday at exactly 4:00 PM eastern standard time, the MLB ended team's ability to make non-waiver trades. However, just because the trade deadline had come and go, didn't mean that they would stop their effort to move players around in order to create a more perfect, championship ready team. They would move froward today by moving backwards, releasing relief pitcher Danys Baez, who w...
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 In a 162 game season, not every single game matters as far as records go, however, a loss on any given night may totally smash a team's confidence, sending them on a losing spiral, possibly not recovering for weeks. With their first series loss in more than a month, it seemed very possible that the Phillies, a team known for being streaky in the past (looking especially at last year's ...
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 Pitching wins championships. It's something that every general manager in the MLB knows, and it's the reason that the San Fransisco Giants were World Series champions last year. However, a good pitching staff by itself isn't good enough to win games, because after all, you can't win if you can't score. This year's Philadelphia Phillies obviously have the pitching to win games, a...
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 Philadelphia, REJOICE! Ruben Amaro, the magician, the legend, the greatest GM of all time, has done it again. Ed Wade, quite possibly the least intelligent man to ever be associated with Major League Baseball (that includes Chris Wheeler and Nyjer Morgan) agreed to a trade that sent All-Star outfielder Hunter Pence, along with cash, to Philadelphia for prospects Jarred Cosart, Jon Singleton and Jo...
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 By: Greg Frank
This coming Sunday, July 31, 2011, is expected to be a verybusy day around Major League Baseball as the trade deadline gets closer secondby second. On that same Sunday, thePhillies and Pittsburgh Pirates will wrap up a 3-game series inPhiladelphia. In years past, thePhillies have been seen as buyers at the deadline looking for one last piece tobetter their roster heading...
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 Coming into the game with a five game winning streak andsix wins in their last seven games, the IronPigs (62-44) seemed to haveeverything going for them against the Pawtucket RedSox (59-47). The 'Pigsstarted the all-too-familiar Scott Mathieson (0-1, 2.85 ERA) against Matt Fox(6-4, 4.82) in what would turn out to be an old fashioned pitcher's duel. Bothstarters went six innings, each giving up one...
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