2012 Phillies Player Preview: Roy Halladay
2012 Phillies Player Preview: Roy Halladay
2012 Phillies Player Preview: Roy Halladay
Ballplayer career arcs don't get much stranger than Joe Savery's, the starter-turned-hitter-turned big league reliever.
Public relations-wise, it's been a bit of a tumultuous off-season for Phillies 3B Placido Polanco. He took a fair amount of understandable, if somewhat unfair, heat for the Phillies' playoff loss...
The Phillies opening day second baseman is perhaps the most unlikely player on the entire 25-man roster. A minor league shortstop, he's won the job through superb defense at a position which he...
Laynce Nix will absolutely set the world on fire with the Phillies this year. Now dance, damn you! Dance!
Phillies Player Preview: Cole Hamels in 2012
Ever since it became clear a few months into the 2011 season that Vance Worley was going to be sticking around for a while, the more sabermetrically inclined sectors of Phillies fandom have gone to...
Was Mayberry's 2011 season a sign of things to come, or an unsustainable fluke? The answer will affect a lot of decisions for the Phillies going forward.
Michael Martinez
2012 Phillies Player Preview: Michael Stutes
Domonic Brown, in hyper-link'd verse: a 2012 preview.
Baseball-Reference (minors) page A major component of the thrill and agony of following baseball prospects is how quickly things change. A year ago, it seemed a legitimate question whether P...
The 26 year old Bastardo turned in a season for the ages in 2011. Can he repeat that performance in 2012?
2012 Phillies Player Preview: Carlos Ruiz
So much depends upon a right patella tendon not becoming inflamed and unbearably painful. *** Player Pages: Fangraphs, Baseball Reference Poetic beauty, the Imagists believed, was in simplicity....
Continuing The Good Phight's 2012 player previews with the last man to sign a contract with the Fightins, reliever Chad Qualls.
2012 Player Preview: Ryan Howard
Player pages: Baseball-Reference, Fangraphs Considering that he was THE story of the previous winter, I guess it’s only right that Cliff Lee embodied the 2011 Phillies season. Like the team as...
2012 Phillies Player Preview: Jimmy Rollins - How much more is left in the tank?
Player pages: Fangraphs, Baseball-Reference When I told my wife one evening a few weeks back that the Phillies had signed Juan Pierre, she didn’t miss a beat. "You mean Juan F. Pierre?" Yes,...
When Pat Gillick traded prospects Adrian Cardenas and Josh Outman to the A's for Joe Blanton in July 2008, most of us here were less than thrilled. Blanton was competent, but no better than that....
Victorino, 31, enters the last year of his contract coming off the best season of his career in 2011.
Remember when Raul Ibanez began his Phillies career in the spring of 2009 and kicked off the season with several weeks of red-hot hitting? Everytime I heard someone bring up Raul on talk radio, the...
2012 Phillies player Preview: Brian Schneider
Jose Contreras: still alive and pitching for the Phillies. Possibly.
All about Herndon