Below is a list of the 20 countries of birth (per baseball reference) for all players who have homered in #Phillies history.   Name the players from each country who have hit the most career HRs with the Phils. Their Phillies tenure and HR total are shown.   __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

Justin Crawford will be in his age 22 season, and Andrew Painter in his age 23 season.   Arbitrary cut-offs here, but these are all the seasons in #Phillies history when they've had multiple players who: ✅ were 23 or younger ✅ produced 2+ WAR (@baseball-reference.com) _ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

Bryce Harper’s #Phillies postseasons: 2022 - of 87 hitters with 10+ PAs: 6th highest OPS 2023 - of 75 with 10+ PAs: 7th highest OPS 2024 - of 89 with 10+ PAs: 4th highest OPS 2025 - of 103 with 10+ PAs: 58th in OPS   2025 link: www.fangraphs.com/leaders/majo...   __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

For most of 2025, Bryce Harper hit behind Schwarber, and he saw the fewest strikes of anyone in MLB. But from April 11th through June 5th, Schwarber hit behind Harper in all 50 games. Over that time, Harper STILL saw the fewest strikes in MLB.   __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social #Phillies

Fun fact: Bryce Harper in 2015 was the ✅ 4th youngest MVP in MLB history ✅ youngest ever to be voted unanimously 1) Vida Blue-1971: 22 yrs & 64 days 2) Johnny Bench-1970: 22 & 298 3) Stan Musial-1943: 22 & 316 4) Bryce Harper-2015: 22 & 353* Cal Ripken Jr.-1983: 23 & 39 *unanimous

Over the last 3 years, Bohm has had less power, but a higher average, and overall has been almost exactly today’s typical 4 hitter: Average cleanup hitter: .249/.320/.432 ➡️ .752 OPS, 107 wRC+ 
Bohm overall: .280/.330/.433 ➡️ .763 OPS, 108 wRC+ www.fangraphs.com/leaders/majo...

Cole Hamels and Jim Salisbury are back, Taryn Hatcher is out as NBC Sports Philadelphia increases the number of spring training games it'll air. www.inquirer.com/phillies/phi...

An all-new Dirty Inning tells the tale of Steve Susdorf, who played outfield or third base or something. And back in 2013, he wasn't doing great! @nocartridge.bsky.social @justinklugh.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/dirty-...

My seasonal affective disorder isn’t actually weather related it’s Baseball Season related

Looks like Pancho Herrera may have retired top 5 Hurst, Camilli, Luderus, Bouche Harper likely to end up top 5 in Three position RF, 1B, DH

Cut4 had an article on some of those "Others" www.mlb.com/cut4/the-mos...

With Spring Training starting up in two states, Florida and Arizona, below is a graphical history of how we got here. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

4️⃣0️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day. When Bryce Harper plays 4️⃣0️⃣ more games at first base, for the first time he'll have more games at 1B with the Phils than in the outfield. Currently: 347 in the OF 308 at 1B 198 at DH __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

With Spring Training starting up in Florida and Arizona, below is a graphical history of how we got here. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

Mike Garafolo: The #Dolphins are hiring Kevin Patullo as their pass-game coordinator, sources say. The #Eagles retained Patullo after making a change at OC but gave him the opportunity to search for another gig. He heads to Miami to join Jeff Hafley’s coaching staff alongside OC Bobby Slowik.

With Spring Training starting up in Florida and Arizona, below is a graphical history of how we got here. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

There have been many really good seasons by teenagers in MLB history. But only one player had 50 extra base hits in a season where their season age was 19 or under. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

There have been many really good seasons by teenagers in MLB history. But only one player had 50 extra base hits in a season where their season age was 19 or under. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

Ronald Acuña Jr. on stage during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance via u/playalisticadillac

51 yards of total offense for the Patriots in the first half. Second-fewest for a team in the Super Bowl this century. Only the Chiefs (23 yards) against the Eagles last year had fewer.

791 #Phillies have homered in the franchise's history. With a stable roster recently, only 3 new hitters have been added to that list in each of the last 2 years. The last time they've had back to back years with so few additions to the HR list? 111 years ago. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

@cdnbaseballhof.bsky.social fyi

Hilarious

Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland is leaving Philadelphia, he announced. @zberm.bsky.social was on it.

When the 2026 season ends, Justin Crawford will be 22 years and 257 days old.   If he gets say 500+ plate appearances, he'll be the first #Phillies OF to play that much by that age, since Greg Luzinski 53 years ago.   Full list: www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

When the 2026 season ends, Justin Crawford will be 22 years and 257 days old.   If he gets say 500+ plate appearances, he'll be the first #Phillies OF to play that much by that age, since Greg Luzinski 53 years ago.   Full list: www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... _ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

Every other league’s attempt at an All-Star game is further proof that MLB’s is the only one worth actually having.

Additionally, Devers has an excellent eye, with the 11th-best zone-ooz swing rate last year, while Arraez had the 2nd-worst. Just weird profiles individually, and the juxtaposition is mostly very different, except they're both tops at making the same contact OOZ as they do in-zone.

I'm very amused by the Luis Arraez - Rafael Devers right side of the infield for the Giants. Minimum 550 PAs (yes, cherry-picking) they are #1 and #2 last year in the smallest difference between in-zone and out-of-zone contact rate. But Arraez was #1 in zone contact while Devers was dead last.

5️⃣4️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day. When the Phillies win their 5️⃣4️⃣th game, assuming Rob Thomson is still at the helm he'll become the 6th manager in franchise history with 400+ regular season wins. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

When Bake McBride hit a home run during the 1980 World Series, the Veterans Stadium scoreboard called it a "Baked Tater."

Happy Bob Ferguson Day! Born 181 years ago today (1845), Ferguson was the first person ever born who would go on to play for the #Phillies. Nearing the end of a long career, he manned 2B for the Phillies in their inaugural season of 1883. @thegoodphight.bsky.social @mattalbertson.bsky.social

Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

Schmidty and Jay, circa '77-78

Spring Training '79

Fun fact: If/when Schwarber hits 13 HRs this year, and Harper hits 21, #Phillies will be the 2nd team in history (1st in NL history) with 12+ players having hit 200+ HRs for them.   The Yankees (18) are the only other one. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

I just got an advance copy of @justinklugh.bsky.social’s new book. The first line says: “At the New York World’s Fair in 1939, you could buy a hot dog for 10 cents and a tongue sandwich for 15.” Needless to say, I am excited to read this book.

19 days until Phillies pitchers and catchers report.

So Chase Utley Hall of Fame by 2028 at the latest? I think Jimmy Rollins gets in by veterans committee Cole Hamels with a very good debut Bobby Abreu is trending up but running out of time

I don’t know if this makes it feel any better

@mattwinkelman.bsky.social Matt, is Francisco Renteria the son of Edgar?

Most of top 10 has been guessed, but not the top 3... 1. TBD 2. TBD 3. TBD (same as #5) 4. Billy Hamilton 2016 5. TBD (same as #3) 6. Juan Pierre 2007 7. Michael Bourn 2009 8. Michael Bourn 2011 9. Carl Crawford 2010 10. Billy Hamilton 2015

Examining the Phillies future payroll as they try to sign Bo Bichette From @johnstolnis.bsky.social www.thegoodphight.com/phillies-ana...

Added links to international signing previews and rankings from around the web and will be adding Phillies signings as they get announced. philliesminorthoughts.com/phillies-202...

if we add in postseason numbers Bryce's Phillies HRs surpass DC 191-189

#Phillies Opening Day is 7️⃣1️⃣ days away. When the Phillies get win # 7️⃣1️⃣, assuming Rob Thomson is still at the helm he'll pass Jim Fregosi for 5th most total wins (incl. postseason) in Phils history. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

🧵1) Some #Phillies fans like to see more power at 3B than Alec Bohm has shown so far. The charts below show two measures of power for 3B since 2002 (when positional splits are available), compared to all non-pitchers (position players). __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

MLB's free agent market, a 🧵... 1) 30 of MLB's top 50 free agents have signed so far: 4 of them accepted qualifying offers 26 signed new contracts The 26 new contract have been signed on average for 84% of the total value that @mlbtraderumors predicted. __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

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