Reports July 19 have the Phillies signing left-hander Drew Smyly, in a move that most will see as a hopeful move to help the back-end of the rotation.
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MLB tries out experimental ideas by agreements with independent leagues. Stealing first or not is one such idea playing out now in the Atlantic League.
The Philadelphia Phillies committed almost half a billion dollars to player salaries over the winter. They may get just another rebuilding year this season.
The Philadelphia Phillies have largely been hampered by their pitching in 2018, but their supposedly intimidating offense could use some tweaking as well.
The Philadelphia Phillies have been slip-sliding away in the NL East for several weeks now, and they must answer this question now: What can be done now?
The Philadelphia Phillies pitching staff which had been merely concerning a few weeks back is now actively angering their followers.
The Phillies falling behind the Braves might be partly undone by adding Detroit lefthander Matthew Boyd, but he needs to be very carefully considered.
Loaded with expensive talent, the Philadelphia Phillies seemed to many a lock to take the NL East this season, but can that talent make that happen?
The Philadelphia Phillies pitching collapse may seem to have happened overnight, but there were rumblings that should have sent management running earlier.
Helen Callaghan and her son, Casey Candaele, are very, very probably a truly unique duo in professional baseball history.
Everybody seems to have at least a couple of ideas about the MLB attendance problem; here are two guys' notions, some old, some new.
The Philadelphia Phillies used the fourteenth round one slot in the amateur draft to take Bryson Stott, a shortstop reminiscent of a Hall of Famer.
Computers have allowed the ranking of just about anything in MLB, and since what's involved is data, the appearance of meaning is sometimes illusory.
The struggles of Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera continued on his off day off the field. He was arrested in Atlantic City in a domestic violence matter.
The Philadelphia Phillies seemed poised to firmly assert themselves as a very serious NL contender in Milwaukee. Then Brandon Woodruff took the mound.
Average MLB players are sometimes damned, but a player like Cesar Hernandez of the Phillies probably deserves a bit more credit than generally given him.
An early series match-up between the NL East-leading Phillies and the NL Central defending champion Milwaukee Brewers didn't go well for Philly fans.
The Phillies' Zach Eflin, a question mark in the Phillies rotation two weeks ago, suddenly looks more and more like an answer.
The rush to recognize early records and the like may give some fans the idea that all such computer-driven discoveries are good; Joey Gallo's might not be.
Two recent starts by Zach Eflin for the Philadelphia Phillies suggest the team may have found the third starter they've needed for six years.