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10-18-2013 AFL Update

8. Arizona Fall League, Asche, Cody, Collier, Zach, Joseph, Tommy

More than a week into the AFL season, and Cody Ashce continues to rake.  It’s like he’s back in Clearwater with those numbers. 

Anyway, here’s a link to all the stat lines for all of the Phils minor leaguers in off-season leagues.  Good place to go check in on Freddy Galvis and Darin Ruf and Tyson Gillies, among others.  Just ignore Justin Friend’s 27.00 ERA.  Give him a full year, and it’ll come down to 0.27.  Trust me.

Also of note, the AFL guys have new photos.  Which means one important thing: Kyle Simon’s mustache. Continue reading 10-18-2013 AFL Update →

General Discussion – Week of 10-15-2012

Weekly Discussion

Here’s a fresh general discussion for everyone.  I know there’s not much going on other than AFL and the MLB Playoffs, so go ahead and talk about, I don’t know, apples and oranges.  Are they mentioned in the same breath so often that now they’re grouped together, perhaps devaluing the notion of “apples and oranges”.

Or you could talk about baseball.  MLB playoffs I guess.

10-12-2013 AFL Update

8. Arizona Fall League, Asche, Cody, Collier, Zach, Joseph, Tommy

After a couple games, you can see that all of the Phillies prospects have played.  Cody Asche had a nice game in there.  Kyle Simon didn’t really have a great one last night.  Which is a mild understatement.  Come to think of it, calling that a mild understatement is a mild understatement.  And so forth.

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Arizona Fall League Kicks Off Today

8. Arizona Fall League, Asche, Cody, Collier, Zach, Joseph, Tommy

As most of you know, seven Phillies minor leaguers will participate in the Arizona Fall League this year as members of the Peoria Javelinas.  The list includes four Reading relievers, and three interesting position players: C Tommy Joseph, 3B Cody Asche, OF Zach Collier, LHP Jay Johnson and RHPs Colby Shreve, Tyler Knigge and Kyle Simon.

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General Discussion – Week of 9-16-2012

Weekly Discussion

Houston is the problem.

Did I just blow your mind?

General Discussion – Week of 9-10-2012

Weekly Discussion

Phils creeping back into the playoff discussion. Every loss from here on out is a killer, though. They went 8-2 in their last 10. They’d have to go 9-2 in their next 11, and then 9-2 again in their last 11, to get to 87-75, a reasonable guess on where the last wildcard will be. And then also St. Louis has to be no better than .500, and LA no better than 3 over .500 (12-9), and Pittsburgh no better than 5 over .500 (14-9).  And Milwaukee can’t be better than the Phils or maybe can’t even equal them or a tie-breaker goes into place and I am not even looking that up until the last weekend.

Remember that recent year the Eagles snuck into the playoffs on the last weekend because about 4 other things broke their way.  That has to happen like 800 times between now and the end of the year. 

Ok, that’s an overestimate.

Box Score Recap 9-9-2012

Box Score Recap

Reading finishes out their season with a loss in the EL playoffs.  Good run for them.  It’s been a fun season folks…I’ll be back with you for AFL updates once they get going.

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Box Score Recap 9-7-2012

Box Score Recap

Reading falls again – down 2-1 in the series now.  Ethan Martin struck out 11 over 7.2 IP.  Cody Asche had 2 doubles, but a costly error that helped lead to 2 runs in the 8th.

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Box Score Recap 9-6-2012

Box Score Recap

Just the Reading playoff game, which all fell apart on Colby Shreve in the top of the ninth.  Trevor May and Kyle Simon took care of business for 8 innings. Reading scored its one run in the first on a single by Darin Ruf and an error in the outfield that allowed Tyson Gillies to score. 

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Box Score Recap 9-5-2012

Box Score Recap

Reading with a win in game one of their 5 game series versus Trenton. Fox, Joseph and Castro all went deep, and Hyatt, Knigge and Friend held Trenton to 2 runs on 7 hits.

Last game of the for Williamsport. Cutters finish with a nice start from Jeb Stefan, 1ER, on 3H, 0BB and 6K over 5IP.

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