Again, Mike Adams is dominant
The Phillies invested $12 million in Mike Adams and the spring has only reinforced the reasoning behind their decision. Adams made quick work Monday of three Pirates.
Again, Mike Adams is dominant
Matt Gelb, Inquirer Staff Writer
BRADENTON, Fla. — The Phillies invested $12 million in Mike Adams and the spring has only reinforced the reasoning behind their decision. Adams made quick work Monday of three Pirates, including a strikeout looking on a nasty slider.
Adams, appearing in his second Grapefruit League game, has shown zero issues stemming from offseason surgery to remove a rib and correct thoracic outlet syndrome.
"Everything has come along the way I expected and hoped," Adams said. "It feels like my arm strength is getting better every outing."
Many Phillies officials have gushed about Adams' work this spring. Charlie Manuel summed it up.
"Adams really looks sharp," Manuel said. "He's close to being ready."
Because of the long spring, Adams will replace some game appearances with bullpen sessions. There is no sense, he said, in racking up the innings.
EXTRA BASES. The lone hit Monday by Pittsburgh was a first-inning double by Travis Snider. Ryan Howard might have had a play with a quicker reaction. ... John Lannan was effective in three innings, even when he was forced to linger in the dugout while the Phillies scored. "It's good to practice that now and keep the legs going," Lannan said. "It was good to have that long rest. It was difficult but something you have to adjust to." ... The Phillies scored three runs on bases-loaded walks.
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how dare I prove my objectivity by showing that I don't criticize the 5 to 10% of moves that Rube makes that are necessary or make some sense (fyi, i was also in the forefront defending the re-signing of Hamels at top price)— warbiscuit- No dopey actually you posted that Cole will not resign, he is going to LA. Remember you said he sees where the team is heading and doesn't want to hitch his wagon to RAJ. Remember tooly? — DogBiscuitthedope
- dogthedope's 2012 highlights: "Blanton and Kendrick are 2 of the best starters in baseball ... Wigginton is better than Pujols and Fielder .... Herndon is a future closer and should be offered a long-term deal.... Millard Filmore trails only Jimmy Carter as this country's best president ...Rick Schu was actually better than Mike Schmidt... who was Ted Williams? ... Cal Ripken had only marginal talent ...North Korea's president is a wonderful administrator... "— warbiscuit
- Re-post special: "note to "thedope" --you've failed for the thousandth time to dissuade me and others from posting reasoned opinion and substantiation explicating why Ruben Amaro is a failure and needs to be replaced ...
but keep trying if you get off so much by doing it..unfortunately I do not care to come up with a new response each time so will cut and paste and re-post these responses"— warbiscuit - Hey dopey who were you gonna sign this off season, please tell us. Upon, Bourne, Victorino, Spann! Please dazzle us EL stool sample — DogBiscuitthedope
- Reasoned opinion, I finally am at a lose for words. Wait no I'm not, you're a moronic idiot — DogBiscuitthedope
- And you want us to believer that your heart actually beats.— oakmontleo
- Dopey Dog is at it again? Can't wait until Michael Martinez has a two-hit game this Spring. The dope can then tell us how brilliant Ruin Tomorrow Jr. is ... LOL. If Adams can cme close to the Adams of old and give us a Madson-type 8th inning guy, that will be huge for the Phils. They will need Pap to be better than he was in 2012, though.— Copper34
- You mean Pap who was an All Star with only 4 blown saves (2nd in the league) and 38 saves (2nd in the league) in spite of the fact of not having a quality setup man? You mean that PaP? Another genius with the baseball IQ of a flea — DogBiscuitthedope
- oh. excuse me. i was looking for the philly.com site to read the phillies posts but seems i've clicked on to the tourette's society forum by mistake. sorry. btw, dogbiscuit, there's a fascinating vid entitled 'three men with tourette's go on holiday'. might want to check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtCUYUBOnzk— bubba church & granny hamner
- Good call on remembering Hamels was supposed to abandon ship and head to LA. Wow.— Grazman
If you hate the GM and the Manager and most of the players .... then ... wait for it ... you are NOT a Phillies fan.
Sorry.— zubzub- All Polanco did was bat .298 his first year with the Phillies, .277 his second, won a gold glove, made an all star team and helped the club win two division titles. Terrible signing. Moyer, after the resigning went 21-19 and helped the team to two division titles. Another terrible signing. Ibanez batted about .270, averaged 23 home runs and over 80 rbi, made an all star team and helped the team to three division titles. Just an awful signing. As for Howard, the book is still out but since the extension he has had a 7 homer, 23 rbi month in 2010, a 33 hr 116 rbi full season and last year's 56 rbi in 71 games. Oh, and Papelbon? 38 saves in 42 chances, a .278 opponents on base percentage and an all star appearance. It's possible to debate the wisdom of any free agent signings. But calling any of those moves terrible is just being ridiculous.— RadioJoe1470
- Sounds like the kind of lift the Phillies need. I hate to get negative on a positive story w/ all the PapelB talk but IMO, Pap was not good last year despite a bunch of saves. He got hit around in a bunch of games in "non save" situations because the game was tied. But this Adams sounds good and if Pap can improve on last year that would be nice.— neff
- Are there actual positive remarks on these boards? Is hell ready to freeze over? Lets see 1) Adams a good sign by RAJ 2) Howard having a very good spring 3) Utley back in the line up 4) MYoung's bat warming up this spring 5) Lannan pitched 3 effective innings 6) Brown having a good spring. Oh my, the electrons on the internet are buzzing happily.— drhoffman
