This is a guy that won 22 games last season. Let me repeat. He won 22 games last season. That is phenominal. The reigning AL Cy Young will absolutely dominate in the National League.
His Phillies career sure got off to a good start.
Lee pitched no-hit ball for 5 1/3 innings. He ended up throwing an outstanding game, allowing only one run on a sac fly and four hits while throwing a complete game.
Wow, what a start.
Lee was 7-9 with the Cleveland Indians, but his won/loss record is not indicitive of how he has pitched.
Coming into tonight's game, Lee had an ERA of 3.14. Not much run support in Cleveland. Lee will not have that problem in Philadelphia.
Leading up to the trade deadline, Halladay had been the main name on the block. Halladay has been all Phillies fans have thought about for the past few weeks. However, Toronto was asking for too much and the Phillies were not going to bite.
Instead of waiting, the Phils turned their attention to Lee and came away with a steal of a trade. The Phillies did not give up any of the prospects Toronto wanted for Halladay, thus holding on to their top pitching and hitting prospects, as well as JA Happ.
Make no mistake - Lee will have a huge impact with the Phillies.
Forget about Halladay, we still got ourselves another ace.
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