Articles by Rich Wilkins (406)
I'll be the first guy to tell you that I'm not a huge A.J. Burnett fan. Some of it is general 2009 anger (how the hell did our line-up not beat him in Game 2?), and some of it is the general thought that A.J. Burnett annoyed me when he came up with Florida. Let's […]
A few days back, I did a mock-up Phillies roster, and at the time I had some creative thoughts. Right now, I don't. Following a read-up on the Phillies Caravan Banquet in the Lehigh Valley, and what the front office types had to say, I think this roster will look how you expect, which is […]
You've probably never heard of Yenier Bello. He's a Cuban baseball player who defected from Cuba so he could play Major League Baseball. He plays catcher, he's 28 years old, and he's not too bad. He hit .273, with 13 homers, in 2011 (his last season in Cuba), and they play slightly more than half […]
In just a few weeks, the Phillies will start arriving in Clearwater. In years gone by, picking the roster has been easy, and it still is for some guys. The 25 man roster will have some of the regulars of recent years, but the depth isn't there anymore. The 2014 spring training camp will have […]
Philliedelphia Photo Adam Morgan will miss most of 2014. If you're the average fan, you may not know much about him, but he was the Phillies #2 rated pitching prospect before the 2013 season. He partially tore his rotator cuff, pitched poorly with it for a bit, then missed a large chunk of the season […]
He had to wait far too long. There are things that are debatable, and things that aren't. Morality, fairness, and opinion are all debatable things. What you can't debate are things like championships, stats, and past awards, as they are done, and they are final. Barry Bonds did win seven MVPs. Tom Glavine did win […]
He should be good, right? Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. So we're at the end of 2013, mercifully for Phillies fans. We had to put up with a second straight dud of a team, and now a nearly universally panned off-season. In a little over a month, some players will start showing up in Clearwater, […]
Ruben Amaro is getting killed for a lackluster off-season, and well, it's well deserved. A team that went 73-89 last year has signed Marlon Byrd and Wil Nieves, re-signed Carlos Ruiz, and traded for Brad Lincoln. It's nothing to get excited over. No one is mistaking these moves as the kind of moves that take […]
You remember these guys? They're not here.Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. In 2007, Fausto Carmona, now known as Roberto Hernandez, was a better starting pitcher than Cliff Lee. It would seem fitting that the Phillies of 2014 would sign a guy seven years removed from his best stuff, on what is increasingly looking like a […]
Strasburg vs. Utley Well, it's that time again. It's Winter Meetings Time, and the Phillies, who have been relatively quiet this winter, are probably going to do something. Coming out of these meetings, most fans will know whether or not the Phillies intend to try and contend in 2014 or not. Regardless of whether you […]