Well, I offically wasted $100 last offseason as the Phillies have updated the public as to uniform numbers. As we told you before, Mike Adams worked a deal with Antonio Bastardo to get #37 after initially grabbing 16. Here are some changes and notable numbers:
On the Major League Side:
- Mike Adams gets #37
- Antonio Bastardo will take #59. There aren't any possible 2014 free agent acquisitions that would take it away from him, are there?
- John Lannan will wear #27, vacated by Placido Polanco
- Delmon Young will wear #3; interesting he did not take his #21, since it's available
- Chad Durbin could not wrestle #37 away from both Bastardo AND Adams, so he gets #45
- Rule 5 draftee Ender Inciarte gets a reliever's #43
On the coaching staff:
- Juan Samuel gets his #8 back. He never looked right in anything else, did he?
- Wally Joyner will take #21, which he wore for the California Angels during his All-Star Rookie year
- Ryne Sandberg gets his Hall of Fame #23
- Rod Nichols is the first to don Brad Lidge's #54 since Lidge's departure
- Steve Henderson will wear #5
On the Minor League Side:
- Aaron Cook gets #29
- Rodrigo Lopez could not get his accustomed 31 or 13 so he gets #16
- Humberto Quintero will don #12
- Yuniesky Betancourt will do his best Jim Thome impression with #25
- Josh Fields gets #24 in the spirit of former Phillies third baseman Ty Wigginton
