There’s electricity in the air around Philadelphia. Just ask Ben Franklin, who is famous for inventing electricity right here in Philly. This current electricity is coming up from Florida as the Phillies leave Clearwater and come home for opening opening day on Friday. Get it? Current…electricity….fuck you.
There are mixed emotions about this team. In January, everyone figured we’d go undefeated because this team is obviously the best fuckin team in the world of all time. But then shit started to go wrong in the health department. All of a sudden, Jayson Werth’s bearded departure to Washington began to hurt a little more. Now we’re at a point where we need Ben Francisco to be the new Jayson Werth. And guess what, I think he is.
Because I care, I’ve compiled the stats for the first 5 seasons of Werth and Francisco’s careers. If trends mean anything, then these are promising numbers. Peek the stats.
First 5 seasons
The numbers are pretty damn close. It’s like they’re the same god damn person. I’m pretty confident Ben will wind up in the 5 hole behind Howard, and ding at least 20 kabooms this year. Obviously, Werth is an all around better 5 tool baseball player, but people forget that he was just some guy before batting behind Howard in this monster Phillies lineup.
So let’s not get all nervous about shit just yet. There’s gonna be a lot of Francisco Tees being worn around Philly by June, I can feel it in my balls. And we still have the best rotation in history. So if you can’t stop crying about Utley’s knee, just remember that Francisco is due for a break out year.
PS – Latin chicks love the Ben.
TonyTwotoes says at March 29, 2011 at 3:13 pm
You are without a sliver of doubt the world’s stupidest person if you draw any conclusions from that data set, other than realizing that you are in fact the world’s stupidest person.
TonyTwotoes says at March 29, 2011 at 3:14 pm
If you want to say that Ben Francisco can be a nice bit player, fine. The only people who think he was anything more are running the Washington Nationals.
TonyTwotoes says at March 29, 2011 at 3:16 pm
And by he I mean Werth.
yahtzee26 says at March 29, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Ben Francisco has been as good as an oft-injured Werth? Werth was a first round stud pick. I’m not saying Ben can’t step up this year, his ceiling is just way lower.
tee24 says at March 29, 2011 at 3:59 pm
they both suck, congrats
kale says at March 29, 2011 at 5:00 pm
The only difference is that Werth went a few years with a misdiagnosed injury and put up numbers that match Francisco’s healthy numbers.
I’m not hating on Disco Ben, but to compare him to Werth as equals is just silly. That said, I don’t think that Werth is going to have a good year at all, while Ben should have a better than expected year. I wouldn’t get too over hyped yet though.
k1dd0 says at March 29, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Utley is hurt, youre completely left handed throughout your line up and you signed a 33 year old pitcher for a 6 year deal who has chronic back problems you are FUCKED cant wait.
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