#Joe Girardi

MLB odds series for our Phillies Diamondbacks prediction and pick. Ranger Suarez gets the call for the Phillies, while Madison Bumgarner starts for the Diamondbacks. Ranger Suarez missed a few weeks at the start of July. He returned to the Philadelphia rotation on July 16. His ERA at the time was 4.33. He was having an ordinary season, much like…

The Philadelphia Phillies will take on the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night. It's time to continue our MLB odds series and make a Phillies-Brewers prediction and pick. The Phillies have been one of the most disappointing teams in all of baseball this season. Expectations were sky-high for them as they entered the year, but they've only managed to…

The New Year, Volume 2023 is upon us, and that means a dual occasion to reflect upon our misfires of the year prior and look forward to our derelictions of the year to come. As it turns out, this grim ritual of inventory can also be applied to the clubs that play This, Our Baseball. The Royal We shall now do such a thing. Resolution: At least…

It's late December, and you know what that means. My peers across the media industry are proudly sharing their favorite stories of the past year, an often self-indulgent practice I'm allowed to poke fun at because I've definitely done it myself. But as I looked back at the words and sentences I put together in 2022, it occurred to me I have been…

After an All-Star break festooned with nostalgia, home runs, and bullpen dominance, the MLB schedule restarts Thursday, with some 70 games remaining for each team. So before the second half begins, let's dive into the top 10 story lines to monitor between now and October-because there's a whole lot of baseball left, and just as much drama on the…

Two division foes will meet on the diamond Tuesday for the second game of this series as the Miami Marlins will square off with the Philadelphia Phillies. It is time to check out our MLB odds series, where our Marlins-Phillies prediction and pick will be unveiled for all sports bettors to see. At 27-32, the Marlins are desperate to work their way…

The Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants will finish their weekend series in San Francisco on Sunday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Phillies-Giants prediction and pick, laid out below. The Phillies are 73-60, third place in the NL East, but holding on to the final NL Wild…

It sounds more like the name of a movie or a book - Waiting for Godot, Waiting for Guffman, Waiting to Begin - but for now, it remains central to this impressive, fascinating and oddly puzzling Blue Jays season. The Jays have found themselves in the standings right about where they were expected to be - among the best teams in baseball. And they've…

Two years of going for it and another with the best intentions - if not the all-in financial expenditures - led the Texas Rangers to a point of no return last season. By June, the decision was made that the Rangers would be rebuilding, and 2019 will be more of the same from the team that won back-to-back American League West titles in 2015-16. And…

Oh, boy! Farewell to the days of the Philadelphia Phillies squeaking away with a 1-0 victory. The Phillies starting lineup suddenly looks like one of the best in baseball. Do they have holes? Sure. But the addition of Nick Castellanos after already adding Kyle Schwarber turns them from a frumpy teen into a princess - or maybe something a little…

Philadelphia came back in its series opener in Milwaukee yesterday to win its fifth game in a row. The Phillies will send Aaron Nola to the mound while the Brewers respond with Adrian Houser in game two - a matchup our picks expect to be the difference. The Philadelphia Phillies won their fifth game in a row with a comeback victory against the…

Have you ever seen a team fire its manager or coach and get jealous? That happened to me this morning when I saw the news that the Philadelphia Phillies had fired Joe Girardi. It wasn't a decision that came as a surprise, as anybody who had read the tea leaves could see there was a strong possibility. The Phillies spent a lot of money to compete…

The Philadelphia Phillies will host the Los Angeles Angels in the first game of their series in the National League East versus American League West matchup from Citizens Bank Park on Friday night. The weather is expected to be mildly humid with a 0% chance of rain and 5.8 miles per hour winds. The Los Angeles Angels are coming off of a 1 run loss…

Good afternoon everyone, it's Chris Bengel back in the saddle with you. When it comes to baseball, I'm happier than Tom Fornelli is. That's because I've been able to enjoy watching my Philadelphia Phillies again, since they have actually been playing well of late. It was clear that a change was needed and the front office made the right move by…

The 2022 Major League Baseball regular season and playoffs have come to a close and that means it's time for the 2022 World Series. Let's dive into the 2022 postseason schedule and the latest MLB playoffs bracket. Bookmark this page for updates on predictions, the schedule and the bracket for the 2022 MLB playoffs. Our projected 2022 MLB postseason…

The Philadelphia Phillies might actually do it. They might finally end their playoff appearance drought, the longest in the National League. It's hard to believe that 2011 was over a decade ago and that the Phillies have struggled so much since then. But with the Golden Era way back in the rearview mirror, it's time to look forward. At the end of…

The Philadelphia Phillies made waves last week when they dismissed manager Joe Girardi after a 22-29 start that had Philadelphia on pace to miss the postseason for the 11th straight season. The move to replace Girardi with Rob Thomson has paid immediate dividends as the Phils are 6-0 since the move and are -145 favorites to make it 7-for-7 on…

MLB odds series for our Orioles Royals prediction and pick. Jordan Lyles gets the ball for the Orioles, while Kris Bubic takes the bump for the Royals. Jordan Lyles has a 4.50 ERA. He has given up at least three runs in each of his last six starts, and he has allowed at last four runs in four of those six starts. In those six outings, Lyles has…

The Philadelphia Phillies will be home to face the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday in the second game of a three-game set. The Giants took the first game in 10 innings 5-4, courtesy of a go-ahead Curt Casali home run. San Francisco is now 26-21 on the year, half a game out of a wild card spot. For Philadelphia, they now find themselves seven games…

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Padres have steamrolled two 100+ win teams this season Phillies just knocked out defending champion Atlanta Philadelphia won season series 5-4 Both the San Diego Padres and the Philadelphia Phillies have the talent to make it to the World Series, but that doesn't mean their respective appearances in the NLCS series…

The ALCS begins and the NLCS continues on Wednesday, as Game 2 of Phillies/Padres takes place this afternoon and Game 1 of Yankees/Astros rounds out the evening. The Padres suddenly find themselves in a precarious spot after losing Game 1 and everybody knows how the Yankees are up against it given their travel schedule and the condensed schedule. I…

Being a good manager is more than just knowing when to go to your bullpen in a tight spot or when to put on that hit-and-run play in the seventh inning. That is certainly part of the job, but it's also about building and maintaining relationships. It's about pulling the right strings when injuries inevitably strike. It's having the skills to take…

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The Angels relieved manager Joe Maddon of his duties Tuesday afternoon. Phil Nevin takes over as interim manager. The firing is the second in less than a week in major league baseball, with the Phillies dismissing Joe Girardi last Friday. The Phillies promptly went on to sweep the Angels, including a dramatic come-from-behind win Sunday night. I…

With the Philadelphia Phillies set to start the MLB Playoffs festivities with their NL Wild Card round series vs. the St. Louis Cardinals, that means it's time to release some predictions. The Phillies, who finished the regular season at 87-75, came a long way from the first half of the year, when they fired ex-manager Joe Girardi after a 22-29…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Bryce Harper stepped off the team bus after it pulled up outside Citizens Bank Park and posed with fans for selfies - including a little kid who dressed like the Phillies slugger - and waved goodbye to the small party of fans. With that, Harper walked away and into the offseason, one that could include surgery. Harper's need to…

Xander Bogaerts made perhaps the easiest decision of his career on Monday afternoon, when he officially opted out of his team-friendly contract with the Red Sox to become a free agent for the first time. Bogaerts, 30, has been the most productive offensive shortstop in baseball for the last five years. Since 2018, his.880 OPS is clear and away the…

If not for the extended playoffs, the Philadelphia Phillies would have had their season come to an end with the regular season. However, they made it to Game 6 of the World Series before falling to the Houston Astros. Even with all the success, the Phillies will have a different look next year, with almost a quarter of their roster hitting free…

The Philadelphia Phillies are not the same team from a month ago. The personnel didn't change; the players, coaching staff, and front office are identical. But they're somehow a different club anyway. How exactly did that happen? They've morphed from a team that fired its manager in June and finished the regular season 87-75 - losing eight of its…

Imagine traveling back to May 2022 and getting a Mets fan, a Braves fan, and a Phillies fan into a room and telling the Phillies fan they would be the last team standing in the NL East. After the Mets and Braves fans stopped laughing, the Phillies fan would probably take a swing for getting their hopes up. Somehow, someway, that's the exact…

A fresh set of odds have been released for the next White Sox manager and there is another shake-up at the top. Former St. Louis Cardinals manager and current Padres third base coach Mike Shildt is the latest betting favorite, according to SportsBetting.ag. The change comes not long after USA Today's Bob Nightengale listed Shildt as one of the…

A shock in the baseball world this season has been the Philadelphia Phillies. After starting 22-29 on the season, Philadelphia fired head coach Joe Girardi, and it was all up from there. In their first game after Girardi's departure, the Phillies dominated the Angels. Now, they're in a 2-2 series battle with the Houston Astros in the World…

PHILADELPHIA - That was an emphatic performance, huh? In the first World Series game in Philadelphia since 2009, the Phillies wowed their home fans with an onslaught of home runs, clubbing five homers off Astros starter Lance McCullers, Jr. and making him the first pitcher in World Series history to allow that many longballs in a game. It started…

The Philadelphia Phillies weren't assembled to small-ball teams to death. Yes, they can put together hit parades with the best of them, but this is a team constructed to hit dingers - and hit dingers they did on Tuesday night. In a game delayed a day by rain, the Phillies, back in the World Series for the first time since, well, only 2009, tuned…

The Astros are the best-run franchise in baseball. Since 2017 only the Dodgers have won more games, and no one has been their league champion more often than the Astros. And that is despite a payroll $70-80 million less than the Yankees or Dodgers in 2022. The Yankees all screamed, "We Want Houston." What fools. What hubris. No one can believe that…

NEW YORK -- The final on-field action of the Yankees' 2022 season occurred at 12:08 a.m. ET on Monday, as Aaron Judge tapped a Ryan Pressly slider back to the pitcher. The Astros' celebration of an American League Championship Series sweep began even before the ball reached first base. Judge ran the play out, then watched for a few seconds as he…

When the World Series opens on Friday at Minute Maid Park, Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker will be making history. At age 73, Baker will become the oldest manager to reach the Fall Classic. If the Astros pull off the World Series victory against the underdog Philadelphia Phillies, Baker also will achieve the distinction of being the oldest…

Welcome to the real October. The World Series begins on Friday, October 28 in Houston, where the first two games will be played, then three in Philadelphia, then the final two games (if necessary) back in Houston. The 2022 World Series is set between the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies. Both teams had incredible seasons, but had…

The Houston Astros will enter the World Series with a nine-game winning streak including their 7-0 record in the postseason. With the playoffs added in, they've won 113 games this season and figure to be the common-sense choice to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. Since the start of the 2017 season the Astros lead the American…

Kyle Schwarber had just hit a home run in his first plate appearance as a member of the Phillies, and Francisville's Matt Maslanka was texting with a friend. "They're gonna be the team to beat," his friend texted, and it was time to get a World Series bet down while the odds were long. So Maslanka logged on to his FanDuel account and put $20 on the…

Could Joe Maddon find his way back to Florida and manage a fourth different Major League Baseball club? Maddon was installed as a 4-1 favorite by SportsBetting.ag to become the next manager of the Miami Marlins now that the team has parted ways with Don Mattingly. Mattingly will not return to Miami following a fourth-place finish in the National…

ATLANTA (WPVI) -- Nick Castellanos had already carried quite a load with his bat. When the Philadelphia Phillies needed his glove in the ninth inning, he didn't let them down. Castellanos drove in three runs and made a potentially game-saving catch, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies over the reigning World Series champion Atlanta Braves 7-6 in the…

ATLANTA - Six months ago, on April 11, Alec Bohm made three throwing errors in the span of three innings, got booed by the home crowd, and was caught on camera telling a teammate how much he hates playing in Philadelphia. Yet somehow that wasn't his low point. Looking back, Bohm figures the next few days were worse. He got benched by Joe Girardi,…

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Once, this was a quiet town come early fall. But the tides of the Schuylkill River glimmer blood red at night now. The shimmer of the reflected lights from Boathouse Row and Center City bespeak a Red October. They mean Phillie red reigns supreme, and they mean Cardinal blood has been spilt. Brave blood runs the same red, it turns…

In the days since the White Sox and Tony La Russa announced the Hall of Fame manager would not return for a third season with the White Sox, the rumors have been swirling regarding who will be the next White Sox manager. While Ozzie Guillen and Bruce Bochy have both been popular names among betting circles, according to Bob Nightengale of USA…

ST. LOUIS - It was a season where teams were either really, really good, or were really, really bad. There were four 100-victory teams this season, tying a major-league record. There were four 100-loss teams, also tying a major-league record. The expanded postseason took the drama of races, but if not for the third wild-card spot, the Philadelphia…

Who in the world would have envisioned this? One full week-plus into October there were still two managers with "interim" tags who awoke on Friday not fearing the guillotine. Rather, the two were as frisky as fillies and as happy as larks. Or should we say more precisely, they were as frisky as Phillies, and their fans, as Philadelphia's own Rob…

Who's ready for some more playoff action? Game two of this NL Wild Card series continues as the Philadelphia Phillies will square off with the St. Louis Cardinals in the "Rome of the West". Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Phillies-Cardinals prediction and pick will be revealed. Meeting seven times throughout the course of the regular…

The Chicago White Sox' 2022 season concluded with an abysmal 10-1 loss to the Minnesota Twins. It was a fitting ending in a few ways. First and foremost, the South Siders were abysmal all season. Taking shellackings from below-average teams was a common theme throughout the campaign. And, to add to that, the Sox were below average themselves…

Just one day after the first set of betting odds were released, there's already a new favorite sitting atop the list for next White Sox manager. The site Sports Betting (SportsBetting.ag) released their latest odds for who would be the next White Sox manager, and leading the list was none other than Ozzie Guillen. The former skipper replaces Bochy,…