Phillies get Jamie Moyer

The Phillies made a move for a starting pitcher! Moyer is a 43 year old veteran who has played for the Mariners, Orioles, Cardinals, Rangers, and Cubs. He was traded for two minor league pitchers. He is originally from Sellersville, PA. and went to St. Joseph's University. This year Moyer is 6-12 with a 4.39 ERA. He has a career ERA above 4, which is not nice. But it is an improvement over what we have now.

Here's what we gave up:
Andrew Barb - 21 year old RHP for the Lakewood team (A). Stats for the season - 6 - 2 2.23 ERA 18 SV 60.2 Innings 38 Games
Andrew Baldwin - RHP for Clearwater (High A).
Season stats - 8-8 4.04 ERA in 20 Starts and 147 innings.

I don't think either of these guys appear to be anything spectacular and Moyer is obviously just a quick fix for this year.

So here's current order of the rotation starting tomorrow -
Randy Wolf, LHP (1-0, 4.35)
Jon Lieber, RHP (5-9, 5.10)
Jamie Moyer, LHP (6-12, 4.39)
Brett Myers, RHP (8-6, 4.40)
Cole Hamels, LHP (6-6, 4.40)

That's a pretty fair rotation on paper. I won't say good, but decent. Brett Myers needs to get his act together. Wolf needs to find his arm again. Lieber and Moyer need to be consistent decent veterans and Hamels needs to continue to grow. There are chances for this year.

Here is the Phillies site news about the Moyer trade.

Let me just finish this post by saying I think Moyer will be good. He's a veteran pitcher that these kids can learn from. He does give up too many home runs which will be bad in Philly, but with solid run support he should be fine. He is an AL pitcher and in case no one has realized the AL just flat out has better hitters. So now it will obviously be easier this time around for Moyer to face the easier NL teams. Also, he will be facing many guys for the first time, the advantage of that will definately be his.