Rise and Phight: 6/14/2023

Good times last night for the Phillies, pounding out 20 hits against a really good Diamondbacks team. There is always the fear that when a team has that much offense in one night, they go stale for the next few days, but it seems that a lot of the team’s big bats are heating up right now, meaning they could stay hot for a while. We’ll just have to wait and see.

On to the links.

Phillies news:

• Rhys Hoskins being back in the team’s dugout has helped them out a great deal, maybe even saving their season?
• This is a really interesting story about Zack Wheeler, a guy you really don’t hear much about beyond the mound.

MLB news:

• Baseball is coming to Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2024 as the Giants and Cardinals will play the next version of the Field of Dreams game there.
• The arms race in the team’s upper levels looks like it’s about to get slowed down a little bit by MLB.
• Two California legislators introduced the Moneyball Act, a way of scoring political points of trying to get money for the cities who might lose MLB teams.
• Speaking of which, the Nevada Senate passed a bill to give money to the Athletics should they move there, a large hurdle for Oakland if they want to move.