Covering Phillies baseball from the majors to the minors – Established 2003
Man, the Phillies could sure use the 2019 version of Scott Kingery right about now. With Jean Segura on the IL for 10 to 12 weeks with a fractured finger that required surgery and a resurgent Nick Maton also landing on the IL with a shoulder sprain suffered while making a diving defensive play, the […]
After the first couple games of the recent home series against Buffalo, several Bisons’ relievers walked to the bullpen to the dugout and inspected the mound at Coca-Cola Park. They glanced suspiciously at the mound as the grounds crew went through their postgame routine. It turns out that the rumor was that the mound was […]
This season brought left-hander Jonathan Hennigan to Triple-A for the first time in his career. In each of his first two outings, the 27-year old struggled, allowing four earned runs in 1 2/3 innings, resulting in a 21.60 ERA. A main issue was control as Hennigan walked four with no strikeouts. Since then, Hennigan has […]
Growing up, I loved watching home run hitters like Mike Schmidt and Dave Kingman. I remember when the two engaged in a home run contest at Veterans Stadium. I was also there when Schmidt and teammate Greg Luzinski put together a friendly battle to see who could hit more home runs at a small ballpark […]
I’m that guy that never complains about how long a baseball game takes to be played. I am also that guy that truly looks at extra innings as “free baseball” and feels like he is getting away with something when there are more innings in a game. I am also an old school guy who […]
The well publicized use of the minors to test out potential rule and technology changes for baseball has been in place for a while now, but official enforcement begins today. Teams were given the first ten days – nine games – to adjust to the rules until they would really be enforced at various levels […]
In part one of the series, we looked at the more subtle off the field changes that the Phillies new farm director, Preston Mattingly, has made in the minor league system. In this part, we take a look at the things you will see on the field, throughout every level of the minors. At Lehigh […]
When Preston Mattingly was hired away from the San Diego Padres to be the Phillies director of minor league operations, he came in with a new approach that had not been seen in the organization. Now that the minor league season is underway, fans can see some of the changes on the field, while others […]
In the immortal words of David Bowie: “Ch-ch-ch-ch changes, turn and face the strange. Ch-ch changes.” Somewhere in some plush New York office, Major League Baseball has someone sitting all alone with plenty of time to think. Out of these thoughts, MLB expects to get some ideas. So, in order to justify their salary, this […]
Simon Muzziotti is the likely choice to replace outfielder Mickey Moniak on the Phillies 28-man roster barring the signing of a free agent or a deal to acquire a player with more experience. The spot opened up because of a hand injury to Moniak, who likely would have been the Opening Day center fielder when […]
