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Phillies shuffle arms again

POSTED: Sunday, June 14, 2009, 11:09 AM

Paul Hagen

The Phillies continued to shuffle arms in their injury depleted bullpen, optioning lefthander Sergio Escalona back to Triple A Lehigh Valley and selecting the contract of righthander Tyler Walker from the IronPigs.

Walker is 2-1 with a 1.40 earned run average in 15 relief appearances in Triple A. He has struck out 20 and walked three in 19.1 innings pitched.

Escalona was called up Saturday and allowed two runs and three hits in two innings of the Phillies' 11-6 loss to the Red Sox.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:57 AM, 06/14/2009

makes sense

— GoPhilsGo

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:01 PM, 06/14/2009

looks like in the current environment if a called-up guy doesn't do the job immediately, he gets a ticket on the first bus back down. excellent. management of the past gave guys way too much leash.

— skipintro

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:04 PM, 06/14/2009

Tyler Walker has always been a great Triple A pitcher...

— 2headedboy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:17 PM, 06/14/2009

Escalona is good too! He gives up his first major league runs, and gets sent back? Why not Tasch?

— Greg V.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:25 PM, 06/14/2009

when is the "failed experiment" of Taschner going to end. I was at last nights' game and I said when Charlie put him in we'd give up the chance at the game. he should have put Escalona in in the 5th and then with his shutout inning we'd put more pressure on Daiske, instead we gave up another 3 and the game was basically over. DFA taschner NOW.

— visionbrkr

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:31 PM, 06/14/2009

Agree, Taschner has been horrible since he got here. How did anyone thing a cast-off from a team with a bad staff was going to succeed??? Made no sense then, and is not working now. Need to trade him for a few bats or send him to A ball.

— bark

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:06 PM, 06/14/2009

It sounds like they're going to call up a minor league reliever with options and a fresh arm until they can make a deal for a more permanent solution. Escalona looked a lot better than Taschner and Kendrick, but most likely he wouldn't have been available today. I, too, was at last night's game and knew that Taschner would give back runs. Beside being lefthanded, what special quality does he possess? He doesn't throw particularly hard, he doesn't have great control, he doesn't have an outstanding breaking ball or gimmick pitch, he doesn't even throw from a weird angle, like some of those sidearm scrubs who manage to stick around for years without much talent. I'm lefthanded, a few months younger than Moyer, and I can occasionally stun a batter with my knuckleball. Call me up for a game!

— frankenslade

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:43 PM, 06/14/2009

the reason Kendrick-Escalona-Walker roller coaster happened this weekend has much less to do with performance and much more to do with availability to pitch today...

— TheLon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:43 PM, 06/14/2009

The whole thing with Koplove is a shame.

— Downie27

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:29 PM, 06/14/2009

Hey bark-- Dont forget that Romero, Eyre,Condrey were also cast0offs from other teams-- But to your point, this one [Taschner]is an obvious failure-- a trade seems iminent now!

— heaterman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:37 PM, 06/14/2009

Whats the story with Koplove Downie? I don't think I know

— heaterman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:29 PM, 06/14/2009

they give up on there young arms quickly, WHY is Taschner still there, they've cornered the market on backup 36 year old catchers, DID NOT give John Mayberry much of a chance, put Bruntlett in for defense in the outfield and he misplays a ball, for all the talk about Lidge's problems, anyone else notice that Dobbs and Bruntlett give you next to nothing, coming off the bench???

— dfrancis1958

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:30 PM, 06/14/2009

Yea, I hope that guy that told me I had no baseball sense because I said he sucked last week comes back on this board, what a dope! We all knew Trashner sucked. He might have passed off as being OK in non-pressure situations, but when the game is on the line he blows it because he blows. I love the Walker move, he has actually had success in the majors in the past, who knows maybe he can stick around for a little.

— robm0202

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:32 PM, 06/14/2009

heaterman, what happened with Koplove was he had an option in his contract that he could opt out after June 1st if he wasn't on the major league roster and he wasn't so he opted out and I believe he's with Pittsburgh now.

— robm0202