Phillies - A Fan’s View

Your Go-To Phillies Baseball Source

Phillies - A Fan's View is a daily view of Phillies activities and heavily focused on the Minor Leagues. I live in the Clearwater area and am able to report on baseball activities at the Complex from an unique perspective ... a personal view.

Steve Potter

16 hours ago
1 min

1/15/2021 : International Signing Day

Today marks the start of the 2020-2021 international signing period ... delayed from last July. The Phillies have an allocation of $4.7 ...

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Steve Potter

17 hours ago
1 min

1/15/2021 : Winter League Recap

Australia : Josh Tols threw two scoreless innings for Melbourne yesterday in their 4-3 victory over Canberra. The lefty reliever allowed...

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Steve Potter

a day ago
2 min

1/14/2021 : News and Notes

Minor League Player Development Licenses ( PDL) : Per Baseball America PDL’s were sent on Monday to the 120 minor league teams invited to...

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Steve Potter

a day ago
1 min

1/14/2021 : Phillies to sign RHP Archie Bradley

Reports are that former DBacks and Reds high velocity reliever Archie Bradley has agreed to a one year $ 6 million contract with the Phil...

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Steve Potter

2 days ago
2 min

1/14/2021 : Winter League Recap

Australia : Hub play began in Adelaide with the Giants playing a game apiece against Brisbane and Perth. In game one vs Brisbane the Adel...

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Steve Potter

3 days ago
1 min

1/12/2021 : Phillies sign RHP Aneurys Zabala

Back in November I went on a search mission to find minor league free agent pitchers who displayed big arm potential. One of those pitch...

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Steve Potter

4 days ago
7 min

1/12/2021 : Pushing the Needle - The Big Arms - Part Three

Third in a series on “Big Arms” in the Phillies system. If ya missed part one here are the links to the first two parts ... https://www....

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Steve Potter

4 days ago
1 min

1/11/2021 : Major League Coaching Staff

In addition to below Bobby Meacham returns as a coaching assistant

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Steve Potter

5 days ago
1 min

1/10/2021 : Winter League Recap

Australia : LHP Josh Tols posted his second win of the season on Saturday by pitching 1 2/3 scoreless innings vs Canberra. He allowed on...

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Steve Potter

Jan 8
4 min

1/8/2021 : Pushing the Needle - The Big Arms - Part Two

Second in a series on “Big Arms” in the Phillies system. If ya missed part one here is the link ... https://www.philliesbaseballfan.com/...

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Steve Potter

Jan 8
1 min

1/8/2021 : Minor League Coaching Addition

A Phillies - A Fan’s View welcome to Tyler Anderson as a new minor league Pitching Coach in the Phillies organization. Mr. Anderson is...

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Steve Potter

Jan 7
1 min

1/7/2021 - Winter League Recap

Recapping 1/6/21 game action. Australia: Rixon Wingrove hit a walk off three run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to lead Adela...

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Steve Potter

Jan 6
1 min

1/6/2021 - Winter League Recap

Recapping 1/5/21 game action. Australia: LHP Taylor Lehman started game one of a doubleheader for Adelaide vs Perth. The lefty battled c...

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Steve Potter

Jan 5
1 min

1/5/2021 : Ex Phillies RHP Drew Anderson signs new deal

RHP Drew Anderson has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. He was with the Phillies organization from 2012 thru 2019 a...

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Steve Potter

Jan 5
6 min

1/5/2021 : Pushing the Needle - The Big Arms

The velocity ( or speed as we called it back in the day 🤓) of pitches has always been a fascination of followers of the game. Hitting a...

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Steve Potter

Jan 5
1 min

1/4/2021 - Winter League Recap - Australia

Adelaide 6 Brisbane 1 ( seven innings ) The Adelaide Giants opened Australian Baseball League play in Brisbane versus the Bandits with an...

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Steve Potter

Jan 4
1 min

1/3/2021 : “Life in The Minors” book coming this spring !

The Fifth Annual Phillies Minor League Digest ... this one a historical edition that details the Phillies Minor Leagues from the first af...

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Steve Potter

Jan 3
2 min

1/3/2021 : Winter League Update

Australian League : The Adelaide Giants will open their season tomorrow ( 1/4/21 ) in Brisbane as they will play in a hub location with P...

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Steve Potter

Dec 29, 2020
3 min

12/29/2020 : A Milestone Day & other notes

Today is my 61st birthday ... a milestone event 😂. I consider any birthday from this one going forward a milestone considering the year...

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Steve Potter

Dec 26, 2020
4 min

12/26/2020 : Minor League Update

The 2021 minor league official league groupings and schedules won’t likely be out till mid to late January however all teams have announc...

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