Articles by Rich Wilkins (406)
From NBC 10's John Clark's Twitter It's President's Day, and camp is well under way down in Clearwater. Here's some of the news I gathered up today. Mandy Housenick of the Morning Call discusses the bullpen and makes some predictions. She puts Horst, Aumont, and De Fratus on the team to break camp. I'm with […]
I've read it enough that I've kind of got to the point of being tired of it: The Phillies are done, and Amaro is a bust. In fact, even optimism is fake now. Seriously. This team is just screwed. I mean, first we heard how bad Michael Young is, then how Ben Revere has no […]
Three Phillies' system players will be on Team Canada in 2013. If you want to have a reason to watch the World Baseball Classic, and like the Phillies, you'll have some stuff to watch. Old friend Shane Victorino will be on Team USA. Then there's three Phillie system players going to play for Team Canada– […]
The 102 win Phillies signed Papelbon….. He did great too….. They won 81 games. The Nationals went bold today and signed Rafael Soriano, which has there fans and many other writers declaring them the team to beat for 2013. Seems understandable, I mean even the Philly Press is saying so now. I have a couple […]
No Cody Ross, no Nick Swisher. Happy me. No, neither guy stinks. No, I didn't want to think about them in a Phillies uniform in three years. With both off the board, neither will be here. Again, I am quite happy with that. Apparently RAJ is considering Scott Hairston now. I just don't really see […]
It's an article of faith: Ruben Amaro's worst move as GM was signing the five year, $125 million deal with Ryan Howard. It was signed at least a year earlier than needed, overpaid by no less than $5 million a year on what he could have hoped for on the open market, and ultimately signed […]
Let me just start by saying this- Raul Ibanez is not a perfect fit in Philadelphia. He's another lefty, he really isn't much of an outfielder anymore, and he's another older player. He's also an older player who would take a one year deal, just had a reasonably productive (even if not great, 19 homers […]
While all the attention has been on the Major League roster this winters, there has been plenty of action within the minors this winter. Baseball America is out with their new rankings, and they are very interesting: This year's list: 1. Jesse Biddle, lhp 2. Roman Quinn, ss 3. Tommy Joseph, c 4. Jon Pettibone, […]
The Phillies played most of the second half with Dom Brown and John Mayberry Jr. as their only full time outfielders, and went 13 games over .500 in that half. They ran out Nate Schierholtz, Laynce Nix, Juan Pierre, and some truly bad options in the third spot, and continued to win games. This by […]
Ruben Amaro surprised me today. Not only did he make a good trade (which he has done before), he also got a player that I didn't see us getting. Ben Revere is a good, young, talented player who doesn't cost much. Yes, the Phillies paid a price, but no, this is not at all a […]