Phillies - A Fan’s View

Twenty seven year old free agent RHP Nicholas Padilla has signed a minor league contract with the Phillies.  He was the 2015 13th round...

The Arizona Fall League : The Phillies group is playing for the Glendale Desert Dogs. The league all-star game was played last night, RHP...

Twenty three year old RHP Alex McFarlane was selected by the Phillies in the fourth round of the 2022 draft from the University of Miami....

The 2024 Premiere 12 tournament will be played from 11/9 to 11/14.  “The tournament begins with two groups of six teams each playing in...

A couple of new hurlers joined High Performance Camp today in Clearwater as RH Mick Abel and RH Moises Chace were on hand.  Mick stopped...

Fourth in a series of off-season Phillies minor league articles - previously I wrote about players who will be free agents. That was...

High Performance Camp - Clearwater For the past three days my baseball buddy Jim Peyton and I have ventured to the complex each morning...

The Arizona Fall League : The Phillies group is playing for the Glendale Desert Dogs.  Infielder Otto Kemp is 9 for 29 (.310) with 4 home...

Haven’t written anything for a bit as have been up in PA visiting and planning our potential move. We’ve enjoyed very nice weather this...

Second in the series - players “on the cusp” of major league contributions - broken down into two parts - pitchers and position players....

Mr. Dombrowski and Mr. Thomson held their season ending press conference this past week - both stated the need to be receptive to...

The Arizona Fall League : The Phillies contingent is playing for the Glendale Desert Dogs. Infielder Otto Kemp was 2 for 4 in last...

The Arizona Fall League : Infielder Otto Kemp hit two home runs for Glendale in last night’s game and posted four RBIs - he played 3B...

I will be writing an off-season series of articles on the Phillies minor league players - not as detailed as in years past but hopefully...

We continue to recover from the latest hurricane here in the Tampa Bay area and the Florida west coast in general - three big storms in a...

The Phillies have announced their playoff roster for the NLDS series against the Mets.  They are carrying 14 position players and 12...

I will continue to write off-season articles on the Phillies minor league players - not as detailed as in years past but hopefully will...

I did a review of the regular season ending rosters (28 man rosters) of the twelve playoff teams to reflect the makeup.  Of the 336...

An eight foot storm surge slammed Clearwater Beach along the gulf coast line as part of Hurricane Helene - a lot of devastation to...