The first two games of the Phils-Blue Jays interleague series brought into focus two of the Phillies smaller, under-the-radar free agent signings of the winter of 2007. And there were a lot of those signings that offseason.

A day after Jayson Werth's home run theatrics produced a win, the unexpected power prowess of former Opening Day catcher Rod Barajas produced a loss.

A quick tally of GM Pat Gillick's moves that year produces a mixed bag of results.

Werth - a hit.
Barajas - a miss.

Greg Dobbs - a hit.
Adam Eaton - a miss.

Wes Helms - miss.

I may be miscalculating, but that looks like more misses than hits. Then again, Gillick made some shrewd in-season moves, most notably the additions of Tadahito Iguchi and Kyle Lohse.

It's probably too early to rule the 2008 offseason moves as hits or misses just yet. Brad Lidge appears to be a hit, Geoff Jenkins a miss -- but it's only 6 weeks in, so perhaps we should let both of those, along with Pedro Feliz and Chad Durbin, play out some more.

If we could predict one miss at the moment, the folks in the press box would cast an optimistic vote to today's weather forecast. The radar at weather.com isn't looking very pretty at the moment, so we could be in for a "hit" - and thus, a long, rain delay-filled day.

Then again, the sun just sneaked through for a second. We're not doing any anti-Indian rain dances, but we'd sure like a "miss" on a get-away day.

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So the Archive Files has been abandoned again for a couple three days. Terrible.

At least I don't abandon my dog. Priorities, people.

Above are the links for the last two game stories. Here is your fill of daily notebooks - on a proud papa in town to see his homer-happy son Saturday and Ryan Howard dodging fans' boos as he works his way out of his season-long slump.


And in the weekly Sunday notes column: the importance of getting Brett Myers right, contract comparisons for Ryan Howard and Cole Hamels, a double-dose of trivia and more...

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The Sunday YouTube Clip of the Week

Yes, you thought the feature was gone for good. Well, thanks to Jimmy Rollins' new walk-up music - which definitely gets credit for humor and originality (nothing worse than hearing the same song for 6 months straight), the YouTube Clip of the Week is back!

Here is the inspiration for the NL MVP's new song of choice:



You wonder if Jimmy is trying to hook himself up with A) free auto insurance or B) free auto insurance and a spot in a national ad campaign for the Cavemen/Gecko insurance company.