Phillies Phodder: Year in Review 1989
This is a quick overview of the 1989 season:
Record: 59-103, last place, 50 GB
Attendance: 846,788; 10,454 per game
Runs Scored/Allowed: 560/750
It was a terrible year.
Off Season Transactions:
Here are the moves I made before the season began:
- Rule 5 picks: SS Kevin Elser, SP Mark Leiter, C Erik Pappas
- Free Agents: SS Tony Phillips (1 Year)
- Minor League FAs: RP Rich Garces, RP Darren Oliver, RP Johnny Ruffin, CL Mark Wohlers, SP Daryl Kile, OF Jeff Conine, OF Billy Ashley, 1b Greg Pirkl
- NOTE: I think by pushing the original draft back to the second season caused some players to show up as undrafted free agents in the off season.
- Traded SP Kevin Gross, 1B Von Hayes, 1B Rob Nelson, C Mark Vestandig to Houston for RP Cris Carpenter, C Tony Eusebio, OF Lou Frazier, OF Tuffy Rhodes, SS Royce Clayton
- Traded SS Rafael Ramirez to Minnesota for SP Shawn Boskie
- Traded SP Mike Maddux to Detroit for SP Allen Morlock, SP Kevin Ritz
Top Five Batters:
Here are were my 5 best batters this season.
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS wRC+WAR
3B Tony Phillips 30 154 149 566 82 167 23 6 7 47 10 13 93 101 .295 .394 .394 .788 133 4.2
C Darren Daulton 27 131 131 490 54 113 23 2 15 65 1 2 45 78 .231 .296 .378 .674 95 3.2
1B Cecil Fielder 25 151 133 505 78 130 17 0 30 75 1 0 78 137 .257 .356 .469 .826 126 2.2
SS Walt Weiss 25 123 113 454 44 115 22 0 2 37 2 4 39 59 .253 .315 .315 .629 85 1.5
CF Dave Gallagher 28 137 122 468 47 124 13 1 4 40 4 4 30 58 .265 .307 .323 .629 80 1.4
Top Five Pitchers:
Here are were my 5 best pitchers this season.
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA FIP WAR
Greg Hibbard 24 1310 0.565 31 31 0 209.1 192 58 9 57 118 2.49 3.23 4.7
Kevin Appier 21 4 14 0.222 32 29 0 183.1 184 91 15 73 149 4.47 3.56 3.2
Bruce Ruffin 25 6 12 0.333 32 32 0 179.0 190 74 7 76 100 3.72 3.61 3.0
Michael Jackson 24 5 9 0.357 62 0 25 81.1 76 25 4 25 92 2.77 2.46 1.8
David Wells 26 4 2 0.667 60 0 5 80.0 83 32 6 20 63 3.60 2.94 1.3
In-Season Transactions:
Here are the moves I made during the season.
- Traded SP Len Watts to Houston for SP Bruce Prybylinski
- Traded 2B Tom Barrett to New York Yankees for 1B Orestes Destrade, RP Alan Mills
- Traded SP Marvin Freeman to Boston for SP Tom Bolton
- Traded 1B Bill Stevenson to California for SP Dan Freed
- Traded OF Milt Thompson to Detroit for 2B Tim Leiper
- Traded 1B Bill Stevenson to California for SP Dan Freed
- Notable Draft Picks: OF Rondell White, OF Darrell Whitmore, 1B Tim Costo, 2b Kevin Jordan, C Brook Fordyce
- Free Agents: OF Tony Armas (1 year)
- Minor League FAs: RP Troy Percival, RP Ramon Ortiz, RB Rusty Meacham, RP Heatrhcliff Slocumb, SS Dickie Thon
Awards:
Here are the awards we won during the season:
- All-Stars: RP Michael Jackson