Phillies will add weapons to enclosure, professions or no trades – NBC Sports Philadelphia
CHICAGO – Some weapons in lifts go to the phillies in the coming weeks, one that the organization hopes to provide them with great help for the rest of the season, the other which will just become a rental for the rest of the regular season.
The recently acquired traillon David Robertson presented another round on Tuesday for the Lehigh Valley iron pigs and his work was very pleasant towards manager Rob Thomson.
“Well. A sleeve. Nine throws. Abandoned a base,” said Thomason. “The speed was 90 and over. Did not touch 91. I launched strikes. He will come on Friday. He wants to do it (back to back). It could be a little early. It accumulates.”
Robertson was signed by the Phillies on July 20 after sitting at the start of the season to be with his wife and children, thinking that if the right opportunity arose, he could always go back. The 40 -year -old man obtained that the itching and the phillies were more than happy to make him join the team for his third pass.
The other lifter is the left -hander Jose Alvarado, who was suspended on May 18 after being tested positive for a drug improving performance. He is eligible to join the team on August 18, which could be a huge boost for the club. But its ineligibility for the after-season is a huge loss for phillies. The organization remained in contact with Alvarado, which is back in Venezuela. The plans for him on his return will be a little in the air.
“I think that when he comes back for the first time, you could see how he launches the ball, what type of command and this kind of thing,” said Thomson. “So maybe you start it in a lower lever effect (situations). If it’s really good, you start to move it to the end of the game.”
Kepler gets closer?
After Tuesday’s victory against the White Sox, Thomson spoke about the Max Kepler lucky lightner in the match when he hit a few balls very well, only to be captured for withdrawals. “It will seem contradictory, but he takes his head out and stays in the middle of the field,” he said. “He takes his head out and ends his swing. Short long, but you want to call him. But his swing is much better.”
Whether the phillies get a big bat before the 18 -hour commercial deadline on Thursday, they will simply need more offensively to Kepler, which signed a one -year contract and 10 million dollars during the offseason. Before Wednesday’s match, Kepler had an average of the stick of .203 in 305 in bats with 11 circuits and 33 products produced.
Range notes
The trade deadline influences a lot of strange things in baseball, such as players exchanged in the middle of a double-header to a team they play (see Terranthony Dominguez) or players from start to the last moment.
The White Sox had to start the right of the right -hander Adrian House on Wednesday, but it was raised in favor of the left -hander Tyler Alexander. The Phillies had their alignment published in the clubhouse, then killed it, then put it back without changes, which means that the heavy left range of Thomson would face Alexandre. Reasoning?
“I’m going to stay with that because I don’t know how long this guy will go,” said Thomson. “He was a starter in the past, but he did not have several sleeves. He reached three rounds in the last month and he just launched the other evening.”
