Polanco, Utley, Pence, Dom Brown

No Hutch tomorrow?

LOL @ how bad the Phillies lineup is without Utley and Howard.

You're forgetting Pence. Its not that bad of a lineup as people make it out to be.

Yeah Pence is the biggest piece missing. And you really only need 3 runs/game when you're running out Halladay/Lee/Hamels.

anyone know if Romero is allowed to throw more than an inning today? Seems every other team lets their starters get 2 innings of work in. I read where Alvarez followed up his start by throwing in the bullpen, why not let them work to live batters in a 2nd inning? crafty Farrell?

Nice to see they got the A line-up at the top today, not many interesting pitchers going today though.

Why do we play the Pirates so much in spring. I think the majority of spring should be played in your division. Anyway I hope someone finds a way to listen to the game today. I would love to listen to it at the gym.

...who cares?

This is the first round through for them, maybe they're trying to conserve the younger arms a bit, plus they have lots of guys they want to see.

I'm not so against the idea, I bet next time through these guys go 2

I think it would be detrimental to play your own division often, the teams know each other enough already.

It probably has to do with how close the stadiums are to each other, though.