Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt provide a monumental challenge to opposing offenses; Halladay has walked something like -5 batters in his 250 innings, Hamels is no longer suffering from the bad luck that marred his 2009 campaign, and Oswalt has been as good as ever - but, more importantly, has been healthy.In the bullpen, replica Omega 4651.20.32 watch Ryan Madson and Jose Contreras have been very solid, and Brad Lidge, to my great disappointment, looks like his old self more often than not.With pitchers like those, you barely even need an offense!Between the Braves and the Phillies, you could have the best 4-man rotation in baseball, and all their last names would start with &8216;H.' Halladay, Hamels, Hanson and Hudson.Well, I think that's neat anyway.Of course, the Phils have offense in spades.
What? Because they're obnoxious like that, I guess.I don't know.They rank 11th in MLB with a .328 wOBA that's kind of artificially low; they have tons of talent up and down the lineup, but injuries have played a major part in missed time and down years from, among others, Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins.Utley has rebounded to Post an outstanding (especially for a 2B) .373 wOBA, and, along with Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth, replica Omega 323.21.40.44.01.001 watch anchors a formidable middle of the order.Carlos Ruiz, shockingly, has a .366 wOBA this season, demonstrating plate discipline and power at the bottom of the lineup that neither I nor probably Chooch himself knew that he possessed, and Raul Ibanez has been pretty much what one would expect Raul Ibanez to be - decent above-average against righties, and pretty brutal against lefties.
The Bad: While Madson and Contreras have been pretty good, do you trust them in big spots? Or Chad Durbin? Or, despite my faint praise to the contrary, Brad Lidge? Perhaps David Herndon is more to your liking? While we're at it, do you think I'm sort of inventing an argument that you can't really argue against unless said argument proceeds something like “Nuh uh!” “Yes huh!” ad infinitum? Well, you're probably right! But that's not replica Omega 4847.50.31 watch going to stop me from Adding in that Wilson Valdez, who's been filling in for Rollins, is the Phillies' answer to Orlando Cabrera, and I mean that in the most disparaging way possible.Rollins is likely to play most of the time and mitigate the damage that Valdez can cause, but lower body injuries can significantly affect how hitters are able to rotate on a pitch and drive it with authority.
