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Hop Onto The Valentino Pascucci Bandwagon

Some interesting reading for the morning:

Phil Sheridan takes a closer look at our favorite player: Valentino Pascucci. The 6’6″, 230 pound Italian-American with Philadelphia ties (his wife is a native) won’t make the Big League club (unless a whole lot of unfortunate events occur), but yesterday he pummeled a pitch into right field, showing his considerable power (34 HR for the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes last season).

Pascucci is probably eighth or ninth on the outfield depth chart (he can play right field) and behind a few others on the first base chart, but who knows, if Pete LaForest (for the trees) can play meaningful baseball in Philadelphia, so could Valentino.

Sheridan suggests Pascucci would be embraced in Philadelphia. Obviously.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.