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Maybe Michael Young Should Bat Leadoff to Prevent All Those GIDPs
Clearly the difference between the Phillies lineup and good isn’t as simple as another lineup shakeup. But there’s one move that can, at the very least, help them maximize what little offense they’re...
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Phillies Rally in the Ninth, Falter in Extras, Still Took Two of Three off...
Bad news: the Phillies lost to the Giants 4-3 in 10 innings on Wednesday. Good news: the Phils showed some fight, and after the dust settled, they still had taken two out of three off of the reigning...
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Michael Young Is Posting Some Silly Numbers in 2013
Let me preface this by admitting up front that I liked the addition of Michael Young to the Phillies during this offseason. The club had a hole at third base that the front office was able to fill...
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About Time: Charlie Manuel Shakes Up the Batting Order in Boston
Coming off of their tough series loss in our nation’s capital, the Phillies embark on the first part of a home-and-home of sorts against the Red Sox to close out the holiday weekend. In case you were...
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Charlie Shuffles Lineup as the DH Is No More and Michael Young Is Bereaved
This is where I write about how ridiculous it is that the NL and AL have different rules, and that the DH is stupid, but I’d be totally fine with it if it existed in both leagues, but baseball is...
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Michael Young: ‘We had a little rough stretch’
It seems a lot of fans could not even muster a proper sense of outrage after the Phillies took their latest tumble in Milwaukee over the weekend, which probably says all it needs to about where...
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Video: Michael Young Gets Thrown Out At Home Plate From 347 Feet Away
Michael Young Gets Thrown Out At Home Plate From 347 Feet Away could be the name of the video, but it could also just be a statement about Michael Young. That dude gets thrown out at home plate from...
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Jimmy Rollins and Michael Young Don’t Even Know the Rules of Baseball
The Phillies have Ben Revere on second base and no outs when Michael Young hits a shot to Reds third baseman Todd Frazier, who is playing at normal depth. On the pitch, Revere attempts to steal third...
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Report: Red Sox Interested in Trade for Michael Young, Yankees a Fit
As we get set to turn the calendar over to July, expect trade deadline discussion to intensify over the course of the next few weeks. The Phillies are still 7.5 games out of a playoff spot, and appear...
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Jimmy Rollins Faceplants Across Home Plate… For The Win!
We’re sorry to inform you, Michael Young, that your Chevrolet Player of the Game honors for 07/13/2013 have been repossessed, and hereby awarded to Jimmy Rollins for his amazing sell-out, head-first...
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Report: Everybody Loves Michael Young
We’ve already heard a report that the Red Sox might be interested in trade for Phillies’ third baseman Michael Young, and also that the Yankees could be a fit as well. Well if Ken Rosenthal is correct,...
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Matt Harvey Owns the Phillies
How did the Phillies lose two of three in a series to the Mets, you ask? It’s almost not even fair when Matt Harvey gets to pitch one of those games. Harvey has started 30 games in the Major Leagues...
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Let’s Trade Michael and Delmon Young Because I Don’t Like Them Very Much
Despite the rebuild-at-all-costs strategy supported, implicitly or explicitly, by many Phillies fans as the 2013 trade deadline approaches, I have a great deal of ambivalence about the idea of trading...
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3B Cody Asche Promoted to Phillies: What’s Next for Michael Young?
So it begins. With the Phillies mired in an ugly eight-game losing streak, and any designs on making the playoffs this season dashed along with it, the organization has promoted third-base prospect...
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Michael Young Willing to Go to Boston Who Doesn’t Really Want Him, Plus...
Let’s recap the morning of Phillies rumors for you: Michael Young is reportedly willing to be dealt to the Boston Red Sox now after it was reported yesterday that only his former Rangers would be worth...
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Is Michael Young the Worst Everyday Third Baseman in Baseball?
Well, is he? Probably not seeing as Michael Young has been playing more first base than third since the trade deadline. Okay, but apparently up until three weeks ago, Young was the worst everyday third...
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Phillies Come Back on Rockies, Walk Off on Actual Base Hit This Time
You take walk-off wins where you can get ‘em, but there’s something to the “walk off on shortstop’s second error of the ninth inning” formula that takes at least 15% of the wind out of the sails of the...
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Phillies Come From Behind, Walk It Off Again, Then Cliff Lee Falls Down
This is starting to feel like a subplot from the film Mr. 3000. T-Rex Pennebaker gets a dysfunctional Brewers locker room to rally around a chase for third place. Just that one specific part of the...
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Youth and Movement: The Phillies Traded John McDonald… Oh, and Michael Young
One of the most baffling things that happened with the Phillies this summer was their inability to move Michael Young at the trade deadline. The guy is 36, a free agent at the end of the year, and...
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A friendly reminder that both Michael and Delmon Young will be playing in the...
Hey guys! The MLB postseason started in earnest last night. (Game 163 between the Rays and Rangers doesn’t count, since you can still use it to pad your regular season stats, for reasons I will never...
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