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The Phillies have reportedly agreed to terms with veteran closer Francisco Rodriguez.

According to a report, the New York Mets checked in with the Phillies about the availability of second baseman Cesar Hernandez.

Embed from Getty Images   When former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow worked out for Major League scouts, the Phillies were one of 28 teams who showed up to watch him play.  Tebow was trying out to sign with a team as an offensive player and not a pitcher, despite using his arm in the National Football […]

Embed from Getty Images   The Phillies got another quality start from young starter Zach Eflin.  Making his seventh Major League start, Eflin went six innings, allowing just three earned runs.   With some support from the Phillies offense, Eflin could have won.   However, Mets starter Jacob deGrom got in the way as the Phillies fell to […]

15 hits, 13 runs…that's what it took for the Phillies to win their 49th game of the season and get a head start on the second half of the season. Although Kyle Kendrick surrendered six earned runs through 5 2/3 innings his offense gave him enough run support to give him his ninth win of […]

After a much needed break this week due to the All-Star Game, the Phillies (48-48) will look to prove that they can be buyers this come July 31st and make a push for a postseason spot. After finishing with a extremely dissapointing 81-81 record last season, the Phillies – now with new assets in Michael […]

The best policy in life is to pick your friends and family instead of those who are more deserving.  I'm sure that all of us have not gotten a job we were better qualifed for so that someone could hire their relative.  Heck, "The Office" made an entire episode about how ridiculous that is.   But […]

This is good news/bad news.   Generally, I am not a fan of what the home run derby can do to someone's swing, as we witnessed in Bobby Abreu's Home Run Derby championship.   Abreu won the 2005 derby hitting an unprecedented 24 home runs in the first round.    Abreu had 18 home runs […]

The Phillies are lucky for Kevin Frandsen. Seriously. While we writers were at the Reading Phillies game last night, our phones blew up with ESPN score updates alerting us that the Phillies had blown a 7-1 lead by letting the Mets tie it 7-7. Astonished, we all believed that the Mets would take the lead […]