{"id":162,"date":"2008-07-17T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T21:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-07-18T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:38:13","slug":"the-phils-looking-for-starting-pitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Looking for Starting Pitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the time of year when baseball fans are constantly checking various websites in hopes of finding news that their team just landed CC Sabathia or Rich Harden.\u00a0 Well, unfortunately for the Phillies, both of those guys have already been traded–and, to make matters worse, traded to NL contenders.\u00a0 Regardless of the fact that the only two bonafied top-of-the-rotation guys that are available have already been moved, the Phillies still seem willing to make a move for starting pitching.\u00a0 And, if you ask me, this is a\u00a0good thing because this staff may <\/em>eek out the division again, but almost certainly cannot win the pennant.<\/p>\n

To preface this, I just want to say that I do not understand why there has not been more talk about Roy Halladay on the market.\u00a0 It seems that Toronto is going nowhere and Halladay is not that young and certainly not cheap.\u00a0 Plus, the price tag that he would command in this pitching-starved enviromment around ML baseball and its wide-open races has to be astronomical.\u00a0 If I were the Phillies, I would back up the truck for a Halladay, but that is a conversation that seems moot right now because Toronto seems to be refusing to move him.<\/p>\n

So, where does that lead us?\u00a0 There are four\u00a0names that most often come up as “available” for the Phillies, from what I can tell (in reverse order of who I would like to see in a Phillie uniform):<\/p>\n