Dubee says Halladay's bullpen was fabulous
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Dubee says Halladay's bullpen was fabulous
Bob Brookover, Inquirer Baseball Columnist
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Rich Dubee summed up Roy Halladay's bullpen session Thursday morning with three words.
"It went fine," the Phillies pitching coach said after he watched the righthander's 39-pitch workout at Bright House Field.
Dubee seemed perplexed that anyone would ask about Halladay, but the concern is real and extends beyond the Phillies' organization.
One scout who has watched Halladay in a couple of Grapefruit League games said his concern stems from the fact that he has often seen Halladay at his best even at this relatively early stage of spring training. He is seeing something much different this March.
Halladay, 35, insisted he felt physically fine after surrendering seven runs on six hits and four walks in a Tuesday outing against Detroit. That's why Dubee said no one should be overly concerned about the veteran righthander's ability to still pitch.
"I was concerned with the (lack of) outs," Dubee said. "I wasn't concerned with his health."
The scout who watched Halladay said if the righthander had some health issues that would at least explain his lack of velocity, which sat between 84 and 88 m.p.h. according to the various radar guns flashed during the game against the Tigers.
Dubee provided plenty of instruction to Halladay during Thursday's bullpen session, who only needed to hear the words "keep doing what you're doing" during his first two seasons with the Phillies.
"We do that all the time," Dubee said. "It went very, very well. The bullpen was fabulous."
Perhaps, but plenty of scouts still figure to be on hand here Sunday when Halladay makes his next scheduled start against the Baltimore Orioles and, as always, the hitters will provide the most telling feedback.
If Dubee won't give you the radar guns speeed ("uh, we forgot the gun in Philly"), then he's lying.— fmMD- 4.49 era last year -- 43rd out of 47 NL starters -- is just "fine"— warbiscuit
- Look - he's not just fine and the fans who watched the games last year know it. We had hoped that it was a health related issue that has been resolved. The GM should have known better (and probably did). But, they can't tell the truth b/c they wouldn't sell as many tickets. The same backhanded nonsense was pulled last Spring, when the organization pretended that Utley and Howard were healthy. Only after the tickets were sold did they tell the truth and put those guys on the shelf. This organization is slimy. And they have the slimiest of the slimes at the helm -- Ruin Tomorrow Jr.— Copper34
- Seriously, don't you have some teenage vampire fan-fiction to write? The histrionics and conspiracy theories you float. One minute you accuse your whipping-boy Amaro as being incompetent to the point of not being able to manage his way out of a paper bag; then you concoct and float speculations of massive cover-ups to sell tickets. The entire baseball watching universe saw Howard blow out his Achilles on the last pitch of the Phillies 2010 season, how did they "pretend" he was 100% when he missed the entire first half of the season on the DL? Next up from Cooper, the Apollo missions were fabricated by the unholy alignment of Stanley Kubrick and Pink Floyd. — Special Agent Fox Mulder
- Doobee doobee dooooo - da da da da....Frankie says that time may be up for Doc....— bigdaddyG
- He's smoking his name.— Steve Jeltz
I'll say it here and now, that this smells of the Andrew Bynum fiasco and coverup all over again. From the initial reports that he looked Fantastic! during the first few days of camp, to getting shelled by the Detroit scrubs and throwing with the intensity and speed of a Jamie Moyer back to the Fabulous! and Intense! bullpen session today. Can anyone down there file a frinckin' honest report? Or are the fans expected to buy the season and game package tickets to find out? To paraphrase one Nancy Pelosi, who upon being asked about what is in the Obama Health Care Plan: "Well, you have to pass the bill in order to find out what is in it"!- The Great Douchbee has spoken!— Phillip Phan
- We have to buy the tickets to see how good the product is.— Phillip Phan
- The proven liar Dubious Dubee, when saying the bullpen was "fabulous", forces one to ask - is he lying again?
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— Quixote II - In fairness to Dubee, it's probably hard to focus on the truth when your ace's dead arm has you soiling your shorts.— dasher
- Hamels Lee Kendrick Lannan Cook?
Loshe?
Let' see what they do.
— jerseyshorefan - Bring back that Toilet Cloud, the one they shipped out this week. He'll get them out if he learns out how to tease the hitter.
In the meantime,trade Howard, and put Utley on first.— Lew Klein - Well he didn't give up a hit or a run during the session! What more do you people want?!?— justacarpenter
