Lehigh Valley won on a walkoff wild pitch, Tim Kennelly pitched a scoreless ninth in the Reading loss, and Aaron Altherr drew a walk-off base on balls in the 11th in Lakewood.
In normal, not weird baseball results, a good night from Adam Morgan, (he was due for one). 6 shutout innings, 3 hits, 1 walk, 7 Ks.
With the beginning of July we are now over half of the way through the 2012 VSL season. It has been a strange season for the Phillies entry who have dominated the league going 28-14. The team has a 2.41 ERA overall and a .779 OPS. They are in first place by 1.5 games. With all that, however, it is difficult to determine whether the team has any real prospects. The offense is certainly young, though the best performances have come from older players. The pitching has dominated though also led by strong performances from the older players. In spite of these dominant performances it is very possible that the Phillies have a better group of older players than the other teams in the 4-team league.
First half is over. Second half would have to be as good as the first half was bad to get to .500. And I wasn’t even a math major.
Per Ben Badler at BA, the Phils have signed Jose Pujols, who Badler called #20 in International FA market. “Philadelphia has signed Dominican corner outfielder Jose Pujols for $540,000. Pujols, 16, has tremendous righthanded power and bat speed from his lanky 6-foot-4, 175-pound frame.”
Seeing Badler also reporting Phils signed 16-year old catcher Deivi Grullon. Commenters below have info on him already, but Badler called him the 15th best Intl. prospect last week.
Altherr’s stats are actually looking pretty good this year. Ks remain pretty bad, but walks are near 8.5%, better for him. 20/26 stealing bases. He’s still a nice prospect, IMO.
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