Phillies Opening Day starter Brett Myers has been optioned to the minors. He is now a proud member of the Phillies AAA-affiliate, Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
Myers was a lowly 3-9 for The Fightin’s this year, having given up 115 hits in just over 101 innings while posting an unimpressive 2-to-1 K/BB ratio. He also gave up an MLB-worst 24 home runs. Three more than his closet competition, Paul Byrd. (Some people in Philly are actually open to the idea of trading for him, too. I’ll pass.)
Myers, however, is being extremely cooperative with the whole thing. Under MLB rules, a player with 5 or more years of service time has the right to reject any demotion to the minors. His compliance was praised by GM Pat Gillick,
“I can’t say enough about Brett’s willingness to accept this assignment,” Gillick said. “He understood and is eager to get back on track again. He’s struggling right now, but he is a quality Major League pitcher who we are going to need in the second half of the season.”
Brett will take the hill on Wednesday night at Coca-Cola Park in Lehigh when the mighty Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees roll into town. His replacement in the Phillies rotation has yet to be named.
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July 1st, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I would think that he would take that assignment. That way he still gets paid his money. If he goes out on the market he doesn’t get paid nearly as much he would even in AAA. And we can’t trade him either. So Brett, get your shit together… We would actually be okay with you hamming it up in AAA and posting huge numbers.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Good thing Pat didn’t catch him while he was eating. He’d be shitting Hawaiin(Hawai’in?) shirts for a week.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
let the Shawn Chacon rumors begin
July 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Are we about to witness the dawn of the Happ-sburg Empire?
/Sorry, everyone
July 1st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
And the jokes keep Happ-ening….
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
I wonder who would prevail in a Brett Myers-Anna Benson fight. I think Brett would get a few good jabs in, but Anna ultimately would light Myers on fire.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
R.J. Swindle has been called up
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080702&content_id=3047045&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
“Three more than his closet competition, Paul Byrd.”
I’d make some kind of joke about the closet, but given the events of this weekend, I wouldn’t want to be suspended.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 am
ESS: Close your danged HTML tags, dang it!
teh_joe: I can already imagine the Daily News headline after his first victory:
“YOU’VE BEEN SWINDLED.”
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 am
I don’t know what other people think, but watching the newcasts tonight and seeing Brett pitch in the throwback style uniforms made him look very imposing. Brett is a huge guy, and with the old style baseball pants just below the knee, showing off the socks, Brett looks like a giant. I think he should always where his pants like tonight and give himself the advantage of size that Randy Johnson has always used throughout his career.