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Raising Questions
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Week In Review: NL East Looking Scary
With the official start of Spring Training a little more than 50 days away excitement levels are high in Philly and other...
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What Did The Phillies Spend More Than 156 Million Dollars On?
Prior to the ratification of the 2006 Collective Bargaining Agreement, all major league teams had to abide by the 60/40 rule; that...
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Week In Review: To hit or not to hit
This is not raising the red flag, just merely raising awareness. It’s almost one fourth of the way into the 2011 Major...
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Utley Receives Cortisone Shot; Panic Time?
If you weren’t worried before about Chase Utley’s lingering patellar tendinitis, well, this may change your mind. Jim Salisbury of CSN Philly...
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Howard's Power Revisited
Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting post up today on his blog, wherein he drops some quotes from Ryan...
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Expectations for Cole's Next Contract
Cole Hamels enters the 2011 season as the youngest of the heralded Phillies starting rotation, having just turned 27 this past December....
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Utley or Cano?
Thursday, Bill Baer of Crashburn Alley responded to a quote from an article at Beyond the Box Score comparing Chase Utley and...
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Could Milledge Have a Lastings Impression?
As the Phillies move closer and closer to Spring Training there is still some uncertainty about which direction the outfield will go....
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Offseason Icebreakers, Vol. 2: The Unbeatable Team
In order to alleviate the boredom of the offseason–the NFL and regular season ice hockey being inadequate as diversions–I’ll be posting icebreaker...
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Here And Gone: Phillies History In The Rule 5 Draft
Johnny Gray was selected as the Phillies first ever Rule 5 draftee two years after its inauguration during the 1957 off-season. Gray...
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Possible Playoff Expansion Leaves More Questions Than Answers
Major League Baseball is always the last professional sports organization to make a progressive move for the betterment of the game. When...
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Is Chase Utley Really Declining?
Spurred by Bill Baer’s Wednesday post on Baseball Analytics discussing Ryan Howard’s apparent decline, I started thinking about whether Chase Utley may...
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4.5K31How Did We Get Here?: The Evolution of the Phillies Fan
When I was a young kid, maybe eight or nine years old, I attended a Southern Baptist church in South Jersey that...
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2.8K70Rooting for the Name on the Back of the Jersey
I can’t say this is always true, but I’d wager that most baseball fans, whether they’re five years old or 55 years...
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5.3K75The Sins of the General Manager and the Perils of the Dead Bench
“…I the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and...
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