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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Injuries… 

Vicente Padilla and David Bell have apparently sustained injuries this spring:

-Bell is in Dallas having his bad back checked out. David Bell injured is hardly new news for us: he missed 77 games in 2003 and 19 last year. Despite his injury-plauged career the Bill James Handbook rated him just a “medium” injury risk.

If Bell goes down for some (or most) of the season the Phillies lineup will look very different: Utley will probably move up to bat sixth in Bell’s slot. Placido Polanco, the Phillies multi-million dollar utility man, will probably move over to third base (where he played in 2002 after he was dealt for Scott Rolen). While Bell has been rated a strong defensive third baseman, Polanco is probably superior and might even represent an upgrade on Bell at the plate:

2004:
Bell: .363 OBP / .458 SLG / .167 ISO
Polanco: .345 OBP / .441 SLG / .143 ISO

Keep those numbers in mind with the fact that Bell had a career year in ’04 and Polanco hit poorly. Here are the Bill James numbers:

Bell: .325 OBP / .402 SLG / .145 ISO
Polanco: .335 OBP / .427 SLG / .132 ISO

-Padilla: the loss of Padilla is very troubling. Apparently he won’t be able to pitch in the Phillies first series of the year against the Nats. We were all hoping for a big season from Padilla, a groundball pitcher who probably would have been the best No. 2 behind we ace Jon Lieber. Let’s hope this injury is one he’ll return from shortly.

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