With the 4 PM trade deadline less than 4 hours away, it looks like the Phillies are standing pat while the Marlins are looking to be major players in the trade market.
The Marlins are reportedly working on a 3-team deal with Boston and Pittsburgh that would net them Manny Ramirez.
The Phillies are nowhere close to landing a reliever as trade talks broke down the other day with the Royals for Ron Mahay, a 37 year-old reliever with a 1.75 ERA on the season.
Truth be told the Phillies need to land a superstar like Matt Holliday to really make any trade worthwhile. Otherwise, they're going to have to catch lightning in a bottle to make it to the World Series, which isn't impossible. See the 2006 Cardinals for proof of that.
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Phils top the Nats
Once again last night the Phillies took care of business against a team they should be doing it against in the Nationals.
Jamie Moyer settled down after a rough first inning when he gave up 3 runs, to go six innings and allow no runs the rest of the way.
Chase Utley had another dinger last night and it looks like that hip injury might not be so bad after all.
What was particularly impressive is that the Phillies' offense did so well against Tim Redding who owned them in his first two starts this season. He came in with a 0.00 ERA against the Fightins in two starts. And, last night he got lit up for 7 runs in 4 innings.
The Phils will send Kendrick to the hill tonight in an attempt at the sweep at 7:10. He goes up against Tim Lannan.
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