Small victories, large defeats.
The deadline to give players a contract for the following season is always fun. Names that you wouldn’t expect to be free agents are suddenly there for the signing for any team willing to give them a deal. This year is no different. Several “big” names have been nontendered by their now former teams, those […]
19 days ago | 2 reads
The tender deadline has come and gone, players have been protected from the Rule 5 draft and now the fun can begin. We know who will be free agents completely now as opposed to just those that filed once the World Series was over. It makes it that much more interesting now that we know […]
19 days ago | 1 read
The deadline to tender contracts to eligible players has passed, and the Phillies have made their decisions. Alec Bohm, Edmundo Sosa, Bryson Stott, Brandon Marsh, Jhoan Duran, Tanner Banks, and Jesús Luzardo were those tendered contracts. Michael Mercado and Daniel Robert were not tendered contracts, and are now free agents. Next up is salary negotiations […]
20 days ago | 2 reads
The Phillies are making moves today. Bringing back Stubbs is a wise move for a team that is woefully short on catching depth, especially at the level closest to the major leagues. Stubbs can serve as an emergency reserve should something catastrophic happen to whoever the starter may be. They also claimed an outfielder off […]
20 days ago | 1 read
When the Phillies acquired Gregory Soto in exchange for Matt Vierling and Nick Maton before the 2023 season, Kody Clemens was considered an afterthought. The infielder best known as “Yeah that is Roger’s kid” had only played in 56 career MLB games to that point despite turning 27 years old in 2023. But over the […]
20 days ago | 2 reads
Earlier this week, ESPN’s Jeff Passan published a large preview of the MLB offseason that touched upon many of the top storylines to keep track of over the winter. Within it, Passan added some reporting regarding the early stages of the markets for many of the top free agents, including Kyle Schwarber and J.T. Realmuto. […]
20 days ago | 1 read
It’s less than a week until Turkey Day. Why don’t they have a Phanatic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day Parade? It seems like a huge oversight. Onto the links. Phillies news The Phillies signed outfielder Bryan De La Cruz, who played a few games for the Braves last season, to a minor league contract. The […]
20 days ago | 1 read
At one point in 2023, it looked like signing Trea Turner to an eleven-year deal worth $300 million was going to be a major disaster for the Phillies. If 2023 was rock bottom, 2025 was the complete opposite. While other players on the roster like Schwarber and Sanchez succeeded loudly and publicly, Turner quietly had […]
21 days ago | 2 reads
The big news around baseball yesterday was that Major League Baseball announced its new media rights deals with multiple networks and streaming services that cover the next three seasons. Here’s a breakdown from yesterday, but we’ll give you the shorthanded version in list form here. NBCUniversal/Peacock receives: ESPN receives: Netflix receives: Get all of that? […]
21 days ago | 0 reads
Yesterday something that we’ve known about for a while was made official, that is that the Philadelphia Phillies will travel to Iowa to play the Minnesota Twins at the Field of Dreams game on August 13th, 2026. It will be the first of a three game series the Phillies will play on the road against […]
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Earlier this year, it was announced that MLB and ESPN would end their broadcast deal, ending a long broadcast partnership. As it turns out, the partnership isn’t quite over. ESPN will still have baseball on its networks moving forward…and so will NBC and Netflix. ESPN will maintain a 30-game package of national games, including the […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
In the first major move of the 2025-26 MLB Hot Stove, the Los Angeles Angels traded away right-handed power-hitting outfielder Taylor Ward to the Baltimore Orioles for injured but promising starter Grayson Rodriguez. The move should be of particular interest to the Phillies, who are reportedly monitoring the corner outfield trade market this winter in […]
22 days ago | 1 read
The Phillies were no stranger to churn on the back of their roster, especially when it came to relievers. Throughout a season, due to injuries or ineffectiveness, you’ll usually get a revolving cast of names taking up the final spot or two in the bullpen. One such pitcher was righthander Alan Rangel. Since signing with […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
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Well, it’s that time again. It’s Rule 5 season. Granted, this is not the most exciting part of the baseball calendar. But you never know. Shane Victorino was a two-time Rule 5 draftee, after all. The Phillies protected a trio of prospects from the draft by adding them to their 40-man roster: Andrew Painter, Alex […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
There was a bit of news across Major League Baseball because there were two deadlines this Tuesday. Teams had to add players to their 40-man roster or else they would be available for the rule-five draft and free agents with qualifying offers had to make a decision about whether to sign it or test the […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
Teams had to add players to their 40-man roster today lest they be exposed to other teams in the Rule 5 draft. The Phillies decided on adding three. These were the three names that we should have expected the team to add to their roster. Painter, we sort of know, is going to be in […]
23 days ago | 1 read
In news akin to finding out water is wet, Kyle Schwarber and Ranger Suarez both rejected the qualifying offer made to them by the Phillies. This was more or less expected business as both Schwarber and Suarez are expected to command multi year deals on the open market and make whatever home they choose to […]
23 days ago | 0 reads
When we begin planning for the offseason here at TGP, I will create a list of all the players that have put on the red pinstripes and we will review them. Some players get jumped on right away because our writers have thoughts about them and want to share them in written form. Bryson Stott […]
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The ballot for this year’s Hall of Fame vote was released and it’s….underwhelming. The first timers that have just joined all feel like they belong in the Hall of Very Good at first glance. There aren’t any stone cold locks left over from the previous ballots unless you are willing to turn a blind eye […]
23 days ago | 1 read
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The Hall of Fame ballot was announced today with several new candidates added to the list of players that voters can place a checkmark next to this winter. There are a few Phillies holdovers still here, including Bobby Abreu, Hunter Pence, Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins. The cases for them will be debated for another […]
24 days ago | 0 reads
Recently, Bob Nightengale published a list of major league players who could potentially be moved this offseason. It’s unclear just how available all of these players actually are, but it seems worthwhile to take a look at some of them to see if they’d be someone the Phillies should or could realistically pursue in a […]
24 days ago | 0 reads
It’s a Phillies tradition: a new outfielder at the deadline. 2022 brought Brandon Marsh and his beard, 2024 brought Austin Hays for a tenure cut untimely short by nephrological misfortune. And 2025 saw Harrison Bader take his talents from one fraternal metropolis to another. The deal got less attention at the time than the other […]
24 days ago | 2 reads
The deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 draft is Tuesday, November 18th. Any player that is eligible that the Phillies wish to protect from being selected to another team needs to be added to the 40-man roster by that date and there have been some things written about it already. Over at Fangraphs, […]
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