My Top 100 Phillies of All Time

Brad Lidge Celebrates the 2008 WS Title

My Top 100Phillies List Top 100 Phillies of All Time Revised List
Rank	Phils Player		Phils WAR	Career WAR
1	Mike Schmidt		106.5	106.5
2	Robin Roberts		69.7
3	Steve Carlton		64.6
4	Ed Delahanty		60.8
5	Pete Alexander		60.3	117
6	Chase Utley		58.2
7	Richie Ashburn		57.2
8	Sherry Magee		47.9
9	Bobby Abreu		47
10	Jimmy Rollins		42
11	Johnny Callison		39.5
12	Curt Schilling		36.8	81
13	Roy Thomas		36.5
14	Billy Hamilton		36.3
15	Dick Allen		35.5
16	Chuck Klein		34.9
17	Cole Hamels		33.8
18	Del Ennis		33.7
19	Chris Short		32.2
20	Jim Bunning		31.4
21	Gavvy Cravath		31.1
22	Sam Thompson		30.7
23	Cy Williams		30.3
24	Scott Rolen		29.2	70
25	Jack Clements		28.9
26	Garry Maddox		28.9
27	Charlie Buffinton		27.3
28	Von Hayes		27
29	John Titus		25.9
30	Lenny Dykstra		25.6
31	Charlie Ferguson		25.5
32	Curt Simmons		24.4	42.7
32	Tony Gonzalez		24.4
34	Willie Jones		24.3
35	Tully Sparks		24
36	Shane Victorino		23.4
37	Al Orth		23.4	44.1
38	Darren Daulton		22.3
39	Dan Casey		21.9
39	Elmer Flick		21.6
41	Cliff Lee		21.5
42	Larry Bowa		21.4
43	Fred Luderus		19.8
44	Granny Hamner		19.2
45	Greg Luzinski		19.1
46	Ryan Howard		18.8
47	Kid Gleason		18.7
48	Carlos Chooch Ruiz		18.5
48	Earl Moore		18.5
50	John Kruk		18.4
51	George McQuillan		18.3
52	Nap Lajoie		17.6	107
53	Tony Taylor		17.6
54	Andy Seminick		17.4
55	Roy Halladay		17.1
55	Stan Lopata		17.1
57	Pat Burrell		16.7
57	Eppa Rixey		16.7
59	Jimmy Ring		16.4
60	Spud Davis		16.2
61	Placido Polanco		15.8
61	Jayson Werth		15.8
61	Curt Davis		15.8
61	Jack Taylor		15.8
65	Phil Collins		15.5
65	Mike Lieberthal		15.5
67	Dode Paskert		15.3
68	Clay Dalrymple		15.2
69	Dave Bancroft		15
70	Red Donahue		14.7
70	Ben Sanders		14.7
72	Pinky Whitney		14.5
73	Bill Duggleby		14.3
73	Syl Johnson		14.3
75	Jim Fogarty		14.2
76	Gus Weyhing		14.1
77	Hal Carlson		14
78	Mickey Doolin		13.9
79	John Denny		13.7
80	Lave Cross		13.5
80	Kevin Gross		13.5
80	Erskine Mayer		13.5
83	Ray Benge		13.4
84	Lee Meadows		13
84	Juan Samuel		13
86	Dutch Leonard		12.9
86	Bob Boone		12.9
	Woody Fryman		12.6	31.7
	Dolph Camilli		12.5	44
88	Bake McBride		12.2	22.6
	Don Hurst		12.1	12.1
89	Lefty O'Doul		12	27
90	Randy Wolf		11.8
91	Terry Mulholland		11.7
	Jim Lonborg		11.7
93	Ken Heintzelman		11.4
93	Larry Jackson		11.4
95	Schoolboy Rowe		11.3
96	Rick Wise		11.2
97	Turk Farrell		11.1
98	Shane Rawley		10.6
99	Claude Passeau		10.4
100	Tom Seaton		9.9
101	Brett Myers		9.7
101	Tug McGraw		9.7
103	Ron Reed		9.5
104	Chick Fraser		9.4
105	Bob Miller		9.4
106	Kid Carsey		9.3
107	Jim Konstanty		9.3
108	Larry Christenson		9.1
109	Jay Johnstone		9
110	Ryan Madsen		8.9
111	Ron Northey		8.6
112	Johnny Moore		8
113	Jim Thome		7.8	67.8
	Dick Ruthven		7.7
114	Eddie Waitkus		5.9
115	George Wood		4.5
116	Steve Bedrosian		4.2
117	Pete Rose		3.6	80.1
118	Billy Wagner		3.4	23.6
119	Antonio Bastardo		2.6
120	Jose Mesa		1.9

Some Ideas on Baseball and Their Playoffs

Some Ideas on Baseball and Their Playoffs

1)  Let's have a DH in all of baseball or none of baseball.

It seems silly to think that since 1973, the AL and NL have been playing under two separate sets of rules.  

The time has come, since Commissioner Bud Selig is leaving, for the NL to adopt the DH, or for the AL to abandon it.

At this point, the best move is probably for the NL to adopt it.  

Fans look down at Forbes Field from the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 1960 World Series.  Games took around Two Hours back then.  Now they take closer to Four Hours.

2)  Let's have another team in each league

It's nice that Bud Selig thought it would be a good idea to move the Houston Astros to the American League, but in the past forty years, the Milwaukee Brewers have shifted from the American League to the National League, and the Astros from the National League to the American League, so the net difference is "zero".  

The entire reason that Milwaukee moved in the first place was to keep the number of teams in each league even, so that interleague play would not be constant.  

They should simply add one expansion team to each league, making sixteen teams, and then split the teams into four divisions of four teams in each league.  Leading to the next point.

3)  Let's have more playoff teams and more playoffs

Assuming we do what we said above, we could have four division winners.  After that, it would be appropriate to have four wildcard teams in each league play as well.  

Next, the first round and every round of the playoffs should really be seven games.  Just like hockey and basketball.  

A lot of cities go years without seeing playoff baseball.  By having 1/2 the teams in the playoffs each year, the fans won't have to wait as long to get into the playoffs.  

Babe Ruth and George Herbert Walker Bush, later President of the United States (1989-1993), then a Yale First Baseman

4)  Shorten the Games

Pitchers today can't finish nine inning games anymore, leading to 12 and 13 man staffs and super specialist relievers.

A simple solution is to do what high schools do--limit the game to seven innings.  

Radical, but think about it--most baseball games today are lasting well over three hours, and with all the bullpen changes, sometimes longer.

A seven inning game means more complete games, and if the bullpen is needed, only one or two guys will be needed.

It means getting back to a ten man pitching staff and a 15 man hitting roster.  

5) Shorten the Regular Season and Lengthen the Playoffs

Obviously the season is now way, way too long.  Athletes are getting hurt, they are trying all manner of illegal substances to last the season, and it's all out of control.

The obvious answer is to cut down the regular season, and by a lot.

Baseball should shoot for a 130 game regular season, to start in mid April and end in mid-September.  The math is easy:

12 games against your 3 division foes = 36

6 games against your 12 non-division but in league foes = 72

3 games against each of 8 teams in two divisions in the other league = 24 (meaning you cycle through the other league every two years and do home and away every two years)

That makes for a very well-balanced 130 game schedule.  It's about the number of games they play in Japan.  If you add to this 8 teams in the playoffs, then you would have potentially 7-7-7-7 or as many as 28 playoff games in the post season, including the World Series.

But the entire total would only be 158 games total.  

And the ratings for the post-season would be much higher than for the regular season.  

6) Total Revenue Sharing and a Hard Salary Cap

Baseball will never be fully healthy until the owners agree to full and total revenue sharing between all of the clubs of any and tv revenues, and have all tv contracts negotiated by the league office. The MLB Network has to have control of all of this, and there should be no local advantage to being the team from LA, NY or Chicago.  All the money should go into a central pot, and the TV revenue shared equally.  

Likewise the players have to agree to a Hard Salary Cap fixed at a percentage of what the owners earn each year in the CBA.  

People like Scott Boras are making way too much money, and now people like the agents in the Caribbean representing 12 year olds, as well as Japanese baseball teams, have become free riders demanding negotiating rights, from owners who have no sense of what they are doing.

This has led to the bankruptcy of the Dodgers, to name but one team, as well as of the Mets, to name another.  

It all needs to be fixed.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Baseball needs to create a product that moves more quickly, gets done more quickly, has a shorter regular season, has more postseason, is fairer to all fans, has more opportunities for all teams to get into the postseason, does not overpay athletes or owners, and is a better product overall.

One other important notion would be for the American champion to play internationally against the winners of the Mexican and Japanese Leagues.  A shorter season would allow this, and more players would be interested in the World Baseball Classic then.

Carlos Beltran Belongs in the HOF

Carlos Beltran Belongs in the Hall of Fame

The question arises as Carlos Beltran, a switch-hitting CF who has converted to RF late in his career, has hit yet another post-season HR in the playoffs.  

Beltran has always been a five tool player, hit, hit for average, hit for power, speed, defense, and good arm.  

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/jaws_CF.shtml

The above citation is to JAWS, which is the Jaffe WAR Score System, developed to provide a bright line test of what a Hall of Famer is.  

The concept is simple--take a players best seven seasons of Wins Above Replacement--WAR, and then compare those to the Jaffe WAR Score of the other Hall of Famers, at that position.

Once you do that, you can establish leaders, an average JAWS score for HOFers for that position, and then you can see clearly if a player deserves in or out.  

If you see where Beltran ranks on the JAWS list of Centerfielders, it's remarkable.  The list goes:

1) Willie Mays

2) Ty Cobb

3) Tris Speaker

4)  Mickey Mantle

5) Ken Griffey Jr.

6) Joe DiMaggio

7) Duke Snider

8) Carlos Beltran

Beltran is still playing, and is still productive, so his JAWS score, his career accomplishments, his postseason accomplishments, and so forth, will just keep increasing.  

Recognize what we are saying here--that Carlos Beltran is one of the eight best Centerfielders of all time.  Richie Ashburn and Andre Dawson rank behind Beltran, and both were enshrined. Billy Hamilton, a 19th century legend who is in the HOF, has a lower JAWS score than Beltran. 

Beltran didn't just hit--he was a remarkable fielder, he could steal, he could advance the extra base, he was a switch-hitter, he could throw, and he still does many of those things.  And he still can hit very, very well.  

He belongs in the Hall of Fame, when the time comes.   

The MLB Baseball Playoffs 2013

THE MLB BASEBALL PLAYOFFS 2013

Well, it's that time again--well, baseball, having played too many games, now will play too many playoff games.  

Brad Lidge & Chooch Ruiz Celebrate the Phillies Winning the 2008 World Series

1) I made my picks on FB.  

2)  I picked Rays over Rangers.  Got that one right.

3)  I picked Rays over Indians.  Got that one right.  

4)  I picked Pirates over Reds.  Got that one right.

So far, three for three (1.000 batting average).  

5)  NLDS - Cards over Pirates, Dodgers over Braves.  

6)  ALDS - Bosox over Rays, Tigers over As.

7)  NLCS - Dodgers over Cards.

8)  ALCS - Bosox over Tigers.

9) World Series - Dodgers over Bosox.  

The Sheer Joy of Winning - 2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies

If you are wondering, the Brooklyn Dodgers faced off against the Boston Red Sox in 1916. The Red Sox won.  Some guy named George Herman Ruth had an ERA+ of 158 over league that year.  23-12, over 320 IP, 230 H allowed, 170 K (in an age when no one struck out) and zero HR allowed.  For good measure, the Babe hit 3 HR and had an OPS+ of 121 over league as a hitter.  So Babe Ruth, as a pitcher, hit more home runs than he allowed in 1916.

The Shoe is on the other Foot this year. Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball, and he can pitch, field and hit.  Any comparisons to Sandy Koufax, bring them on.  There is no one on the Red Sox remotely as good as Kershaw.

Thems' my picks.  

Arthur John Kyriazis Google Blog - If Flying on the Ground is Wrong....: The Sayings of Kung Fu, the First Season

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The Sayings of Kung Fu, the First Season

This blog has has more than 3,250 hits on wordpress since it was originally published @ 4 1/2 years ago.  By far the most popular post ever on any of our blogs, so here's an encore presentation.  

功夫 - Gong Fu or Kung Fu

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The Sayings of Kung Fu, the First Season

December 1, 2008

The Late David Carradine in Kung Fu as Kwai Chan Cain

From the Crane, we learn grace and self-control.
The Snake teaches us suppleness and rhythmic endurance.
The Praying Mantis teaches us speed and patience.
And from the Tiger, we learn tenacity and power.
And from the Dragon, we learn to ride the wind.
All creatures, the low and the high, are one with nature.
If we have the wisdom to learn, all may teach us their virtues.
Is it good to seek the past? If a man dwells on the past, then he robs the present; but if a man ignores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past.
When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave.
You must walk the rice paper without leaving any marks. This will signify that you can walk without making any sounds.
The outer strength, the strength of the body, withers with age. The inner strength, the Chi, remains and grows stronger with age.
The right of vengeance belongs to no man.
A Shaolin priest can walk through walls.
A man cannot live his whole life in fear. To hide such feelings is to increase them 1000 times.
If you tell a man he is less than a man often enough, he will come to believe it.
All life is sacred. I would not take pleasure in the death of any man.
Fear is the enemy. He who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.
To hate is like drinking salt water; it only makes the thirst worse.
I have seen the silkworm; it spins a thread that it may be seen. Hate is the thread and the tomb you weave; it will not save you from your suffering.
The mind and the body and the spirit are one. When the body expresses the desires of the mind and the spirit, the body is in tune with nature, the act is pure and there is no shame. Love is harmony.
Each journey begins and also ends. Life is such a journey, yet it is full of journeys within which begin and end.
Seek always peace. To endanger one, endangers all. In such times, the soul must be the warrior. The soul sees always. What the soul sees cannot be denied.
Discipline your body that you may find greater strength. Be one with all that is without one’s self.
Where the tiger and the man are one, there is no fear, there is no danger.

the Late David Carradine in Kung Fu

Part II
I have three treasures which I hold and keep: the first is mercy, for from mercy comes courage; the second is frugality, from which comes generosity to others; the third is humility, for from it comes leadership.
How shall I hold these treasures, Master? In memory?
Not in memory, but in your deeds.
Peace lies not in the world but in the man who walks the peaceful path.
To reach perfection a man must develop equally compassion and wisdom.
Shall I treat every man the same? Yet the flower beneath the water knows not the sun. Other men, not knowing me, will find me hard to understand.
As far as possible, be on good terms with all. Accept the ways of others; respect first your own.
Look beneath the surface of the pool to see its depths.
Rock crushes scissors. Paper covers rock. Scissors cuts the paper. Each in turn conquers the other; there is no stronger or weaker. This is the harmony of nature.

David Carradine, Quentin Tarantino. In 2005 the late David Carradine received best supporting actor nod for his kung fu work in "Kill Bill Part 2".

The late David Carradine as Bill (really Kwai Chan Cain) in Kill Bill 2. Tour de Force performance.

Part III
Ten million living things have as many different worlds. Do not see yourself as the center of the universe, wise and good and beautiful. Seek, rather, wisdom and goodness and beauty, that you may honor them everywhere.
A man may tell himself many things, but is a man’s universe made only of himself?
If a man hurts me and I punish him, perhaps he will not hurt another.
And if you do nothing?
He will believe he may do as he wishes.
Perhaps. Or perhaps he will learn that some men receive injury but return kindness.
If you sow rice, you will grow rice. If you sow fear, you will grow fear.

Kwai Chan Cain as Bill finds his bride in Kill Bill Vol 2

THE SAYINGS OF KUNG FU THE FIRST SEASON STARRING DAVID CARRADINE CLASSIC TV SERIES AVAILABLE ON DVD

Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo with her deadly Hanzo samurai sword in "Kill Bill Vol. 2" featuring the late David Carradine

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   February 16, 2012 at 18:01 eReblogged this on THE SOPHIST: TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION and commented:
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   May 3, 2013 at 05:27 eHello friends, its fantastic piece of writing on the topic of tutoringand completely defined, keep it up all the time.
   

    

    

    

    

    

    

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   • pedrofeliz3b Says:

     
     June 7, 2013 at 08:31 eactually, those were the sayings of Kung Fu, from the first season of the show back in the early 1970s, but thanks anyway.
     

      

      

      

      

      

      

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