Articles by Rich Wilkins (406)
Saturday at the ballpark, for me at least, was a great, great day. When Jimmy Rollins came up in September of 2000, it was the start of my junior year of high school. I'm 31 now, and in between, Jimmy, along with Chase, Ryan, Cole, Chooch, and others, gave us the best era of Phillies […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. Well, the Phillies are still bad, even after the joy of this weekend's Rollins' record wore off. The Phillies are 29-38, good enough for last in the NL East, but just 6.5 games back. You could make a solid argument for as many as 22 or 23 of the 25 […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. The Phillies went 5-2 in a week where they went to Atlanta and St. Louis. They've went 9-4 over the last two weeks. They're back to just five games out in the brutally awful NL East, and six in the Wild Card race. In short, they're alive enough to warrant […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. Back in Spring Training, when people were bashing Jimmy Rollins for saying he won't allow a trade (before he reaches certain milestone, and the team would be out of it), I defended him. Ten-and-five rights are a collectively bargained right of a baseball player. You have to make it ten […]
Hey guys! It's the crew- three outfielders who are all negative WAR players! And they're on a plane, after getting swept for four games with the Braves! And…. and…. they're all smiling! I'm not saying players should sulk and cry after a bad series, but maybe there's a little more to be said in this […]
Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr. The Phillies hit the halfway point at 36-45 on the season. That's not good. Now they're 36-46, and eight games out of first. The truth is, 2014 is not going to end well for the Phillies. Whatever hope you got from them sweeping Atlanta last week, that should be gone […]
Wikipedia Commons Photo My friend Frank Klose makes a quite intelligent musing about David Montgomery and ticket sales: The reason that I am writing is that I was a full season ticket holder from 2008-2013. 2014 is the first year I did not renew my full-season plan. The reason is not one that you might […]
Well, the Phillies stink. We all know that, but I continue to mention it daily so that those that are not accepting reality have it sink in eventually. This means the Phillies, with a $189 million payroll, should be sellers and not buyers at this deadline. If they are sellers, what can they get though? […]
If Ruben and Co. are telling the truth, get ready for a lot more bad ball. So the Oakland A's decided to go all in a few days ago, and pull a mega-trade with the Cubs. They went ahead and traded for Cubs' ace Jeff Samardzija and solid starter Jason Hammel, two of the names […]
At 37-51, the Phillies are on a runaway train to nowhere, and ain't coming back. That's not promising for the future. The system is actually kinda barren in the minors too, which is also not too promising. That doesn't mean there's nothing to watch, or no one to watch though. By position, here's what I'm […]