With Jeanmar Gomez tied for the league lead in Saves with 16 while the Phillies Bullpen has a combined 3.09 ERA on the season, the success of Philadelphia's Baseball club has been predicated in part on the Bullpen's ability to finish off wins...
The back end of the Phillies bullpen has been a pleasant surprise as Closer Jeanmarr Gomez leads Major League Baseball in Games Finished with a 2.70 ERA while Setup Man Hector Neris leads MLB in Games Pitched with a 1.04 ERA. CSN Philly Phillies Analyst Ricky Bottalico on Thursday's The Sports Bash explained the success of Gomez and Neris this season:
"They're pretty legit, you know Gomez is
The Phillies saw their pitching depth further disrupted on Saturday afternoon, when they announced that reliever Dalier Hinojosa has been placed on the 15-day disabled list. Hinojosa took a sharp liner to his pitching hand on Thursday evening against the Washington Nationals and was relieved by Elvis Araujo...
The Phillies received some disappointing news in their bullpen today, as reliever Daniel Stumpf was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball for a violation of the joint drug agreement. Stumpf was taken as a Rule 5 pick by the Phillies this offseason from the Kansas City Royals and made his Major League Debut on Opening Day...
Every week we take your questions and put them into our mailbag. You can send them to me on Twitter at @FrankKlose973 and I will discuss them on The Sports Bash with Mike Gill on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
Do you see the front office trying to improve the bullpen...
Phillippe Aumont believes that he fixed a mechanical flaw in his delivery, which led to the poor results and inconsistency he experienced in 2013.
Aumont walked almost a batter per inning in the minors last season, but the Phillies still believe the 25-year old hurler can be a part of the bullpen, there's hope that the 11th-overall pick in the 2007 draft will eventually figure it out...
It's unlikely to be their last addition to the bullpen this offseason, but the Phillies have made their first, signing right-hander Shawn Camp to a minor-league deal, according to John Heyman of CBS Sports.
Camp, 38, was pretty poor last season for the Cubs, punching a 7...
If it were up to him, he said, Chad Durbin might take the first half of the first month to tune up.
Of the regular season, that is.
“If I could, it would just be smarter to throw bullpens every day for the first week or two of April,” he said last Wednesday, and not just because of his results so far...