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Posted by Tim Malcolm, Mon, December 15, 2008 04:37 PM | Comments: 60
100 Greatest Phillies, Posts
Starting Wednesday, I’ll be counting down my list of the top 100 Phillies of all-time, “The 100 Greatest Phillies.”
Each day I’ll present a new name, counting down to the finale just before Opening Day.
Keep a lookout, and start predicting who makes my list.
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Posts: 0 JMus
1. Pat Burrell
Posted: 04:43 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 EastFallowfield
Steve Jeltz!
Posted: 04:44 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 MA Phanatic
I don’t envy you coming up with this list….I’m interested to see how the current players, who’s careers have not been completed yet, stack up to the glory days players.
Posted: 04:46 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 MA Phanatic
#100 should be Billy Wagner. Earned some saves in Philly and then sucked for the Mets…who else helped the Phillies so much while wearing a different uniform?
Posted: 04:47 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 TheDipsy
1. Mike Schmidt
2. Steve Carlton
3. Robin Roberts
4. Ed Delahanty
5. Richie Ashburn
6. Del Ennis
7. Jimmy Rollins
8. Chase Utley
9. Ryan Howard
10. Curt Simmons
Was Grover Alexander a Phillie?
That wasn’t hard.
Posted: 04:50 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Ribbie3b
JAMIE MOYER IS A PHILLIE FOR 2009!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 04:54 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Kevin
I wonder if managers make the cut. If so then Charlie Manuel may have to be in there somewhere, right?
PHILLIES RESIGNED MOYER!!!!!
Posted: 04:55 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 51 R.C. Cowie
Steve Jeltz will be on this list. Just because there have been so many BAD Phillies, his perentially Mendoza-esque averages should be team tops for the last 125 years.
Posted: 05:00 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
#3. Chan Ho Park
Posted: 05:08 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Tom G
bobby molinaro at 87th…
Steve Jeltz narrowly missed the list at 102
Posted: 05:15 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
#1 Adam Eaton
Posted: 05:35 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
No love for David ‘Canseco’ Bell…?
Posted: 05:36 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 From Section 113
I wonder where Benito Santiago will fall on this list, I mean he had 1 year better than many players had careers on this team.
Posted: 05:37 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Johnson
rick schu at 9
Posted: 05:37 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RichieAllen
Yea……Moyers back….2 years…
Posted: 05:42 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RichieAllen
#4 Kiko Garcia
Posted: 05:45 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Pat
Dipsy… no Chuck Klein?
An MVP and a triple crown doesn’t crack the top ten?
Posted: 05:53 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 JohnKruksLoveChild
Sal Fasano better be on there, for the mustache ALONE.
Posted: 05:56 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Jason B
JK Love child, couldn’t agree with you more. He would be number 1 on any list involving facial hair for such a wickedly awesome Fu-manchu! Moyer is back for 2 years! That’s awesome.
Posted: 06:00 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 john of Albuquerque
Let’s not overlook Pancho Herrera, Rip Ripulski, Roger Freed, Joe Koppe, Ted Lipcio, Valmie Thomas, Harry Anderson and Bo Belinski.
Posted: 06:04 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 G.Maddox
Sixto Lezcano
Posted: 06:05 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 saj
#1 danny tartabull
#2 kim batiste
#3 joe cowley
Posted: 06:06 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 G.Maddox
Alan Knicely
Tom Hume
Posted: 06:12 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Justin
Mark Lewis, Eric Valent, Tony Baron, TOBY BORLAND, Wayne Gomes, Yorkis Perez, his brother Tomas, Ben Rivera, Mark Whitten, RON GANT
Posted: 06:40 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Doug
Jim Thome
Curt Schilling
Scott Rolen
Posted: 06:40 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Stock
#17 Todd Pratt
Posted: 06:51 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Rick
Yes, Grover Cleveland Alexander pitched for the Phillies! I believe in 1915 he pitched two games in one day and won both of them.
The story goes something like this, they had a game in the afternoon and he was just finishing cleaning up between games when the coach came over to talk to him. So the skipper asks him if he would mind pitching the second game of the double-header. His response of course was something to the sort of, “Sure, I guess so.”. The coach responds, “Great! By the way, we have a train to make in an hour and a half so make it quick!”.
He proceeded to pitch a shutout in 58 minutes! Unbelievable!
It’s pretty disconcerting that he ended up working for a flea circus after he retired for baseball.
Posted: 06:54 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 saj
the biggest debate will be which one of the abbotts makes the list – kyle or paul?
Posted: 06:55 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 matthew
how about Lenny Dykstra and John Kruk and Darren Daulton
Posted: 07:01 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Doug
Kim Bastiste, Dave Hollins, Bobby Abreu, Mike Lieberthal, Rico Brogna
Posted: 07:11 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 MA Phanatic
Anna Benson…
Posted: 07:21 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 The Dipsy
Sorry Pat. Thanks for the oversight. Put him in at 4 and drop Simmons off. Thank you.
Posted: 07:21 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Jh
TOMAS PEREZ AND TYLER HOUSTON….
Maybe Cliff Polite and Roger McDowell mixed with some Kevin Gross
VON HAYES FO SHIZZLE
Posted: 07:46 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Ryan Kotarski
Yes Burrell has to be in the top five! Eleven straight years with a club is almost unheard of these days. I’ll always remember Pat as one of the great Phills.
Posted: 07:52 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
If there’s going to be a Worst Phillies list, I fully expect Alex S. Gonzalez to easily top it. He single-handedly lost us a handful of games in less than 40 something at bats. He barely was able to .100 and was so god awful he decided to retire from the game of baseball midway through the season. Obviously the Eaton deal is worse simply because of the amount of money he’s earning, but not considering $$, Alex S. Gonzalez would top that list.
Posted: 08:07 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
My Top Ten – I’m not really ranking anyone here though Lefty definately takes the number 1 spot. Cole Hamels should be on here as well, and I left him off on the grounds that he still faces the bulk of his career. Though he’s looking good and could very well knock someone off.
1. Steve Carlton
2. Richie Ashburn
3. Mike Schmidt
4. Darren Daulton
5. Chase Utley
6. Robin Roberts
7. Lenny Dykstra
8. Pat Burrell
9. Greg Luzinski
10. Brad Lidge
Posted: 09:22 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 hamels' left hand
no love for Toby Borland? what’s a playa gotta do, yo?
Posted: 09:36 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Chutley
Greg V. really brad lidge #10? i think i can think of someone better than a guy who’s been on the team a year.
Posted: 09:50 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Jack
CAN YOU SAY RICO BROGNA?
Posted: 09:53 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 MadSon
My Top Ten looks a little like this:
1. Von “Two in the First” Hayes
2. Pat “The Bat” Burrell
3. Randy “Always” Ready
4. Jose Dejesus
5. Manny Trillo
6. Ryne “Oh what could have been” Sandberg
7. Jim Eisenreich
8. John “One Nut” Kurk
9. John Christopher Vukovich
10. Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams
Posted: 11:30 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Chutley,
Knew it would be controversial but a perfect season in save opportunites that concluded with a World Series win, deserves top ten recognition.
Posted: 11:47 PM on December 15, 2008
Posts: 0 SteveM
Nobody mentioned Von Hayes yet? Come on!
Posted: 12:04 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 MikeMc26
Turk Wendell anybody? hahha
Posted: 12:11 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Brendan
MY TOP TEN
Rod Booker
Kiko Garcia
Ramon Aviles
Floyd Youmans
Robert Person
Len Matuszak
Lance Parrish
Juan Bell
Joe Cowley
Ryan Franklin
Posted: 12:38 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Bill
#100 – Sil Campusano.
For no other reason that breaking up a Doug Drabek no-hitter in 90 or 91. Two outs in the ninth, two strikes, strokes a base-hit into left center.
Posted: 12:47 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Chutley
Greg V., Lidge isnt even top five from the team this past year. Hamels, Howard, Rollins, Utley and Burrell all beat him.
Posted: 12:53 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Brett
1. Ashburn
2. Carlton
3. Schmidt
4. Utley
5. Dykstra
6. Alexander
7. Roberts
8. Delahanty
9. Burrell
10. Rollins
I’m almost definitely forgetting some people.
Posted: 01:10 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 metsblow4show
Just a few names I haven’t heard mentioned:
Larry Bowa
Jim Bunning
Pete Rose
Chris Short
Johnny Callison
Tug McGraw
Richie Allen
Garry Maddox
Tony Taylor
Posted: 08:55 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Rick
Ed Delahanty definitely has to be in the top ten! It was unfortunate that he had to go over Niagara Falls. He apparently was one of the most promising baseball players of his time until his untimely death.
Posted: 09:50 AM on December 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Woodman
JOHNNY CALLISON in the top 25 for sure!
Posted: 11:19 AM on December 16, 2008