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Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland is leaving Philadelphia, he announced.

@zberm.bsky.social was on it.

5️⃣0️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.

With 2 more triples, Trea Turner's career total will reach 5️⃣0️⃣.
 
He'll be the 12th player in MLB history with all these by age 33:

✅ 50 triples
✅ 300 steals
✅ 150 HRs
 
The last player to do that?

Jimmy Rollins

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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...

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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...

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

List of all baseball managers in the major leagues | Baseball-Reference.com | Baseball-Reference.com Check out the list of all the Baseball Managers in various major leagues on Baseball-Reference.com

5️⃣1️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.
 
With 5️⃣1️⃣ more wins Rob Thomson will have 418 for his career, including the postseason.

That will tie Larry Bowa's career total (incl. 81 with the 1987-88 Padres), for 175th most all-time:

www.baseball-reference.com/managers/

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5️⃣2️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.

With the Phils' 5️⃣2️⃣nd game, Rob Thomson will move ahead of Terry Francona for 11th most games managed in franchise history.

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Player Batting Season & Career Stats Finder - Baseball | Stathead Find single seasons, combined seasons data for players with most home runs in single season, combined seasons, career and more. Get all of this data on Stathead and create your own leaderboard.

There have been 9 Cuban-born position players who have played for the #Phillies:
 
www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...
 
2 Tonys................ 41.9 bWAR

other 7 combined. 4.3 bWAR

5️⃣3️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.

If Adolis Garcia gets 5️⃣3️⃣ Extra Base Hits this year, it will be a new single-season high for a Phillie born in Cuba.

He had 47 last year, 52 the year before.

Cuban-born Phillies: www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

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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.

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

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.

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Aside from this little bit of trivia, Ferguson is more known for:

- his nickname of "Death to Flying Things", apparently a reference to his slick fielding

- being the game's first switch hitter

Player Batting Season & Career Stats Finder - Baseball | Stathead Find single seasons, combined seasons data for players with most home runs in single season, combined seasons, career and more. Get all of this data on Stathead and create your own leaderboard.

Bob was the original "Wheeze Kid", 100 years before the NL champions of 1983.

They wouldn't have another starter that old for 21 more years -- William "Kid" Gleason in 1904-06.

Only 6 Phillies 38 and older played enough to qualify for a batting title:

www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

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.

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Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

5️⃣5️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.

When Bryce Harper reaches 5️⃣5️⃣ Extra Base Hits, he will have 843 and move into the top 100 all-time.

baseball-reference.com/leaders/XBH_...

This assumes he doesn't pass McCutchen (45 ahead) or Arenado (8 ahead) before then.

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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...

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Team Pitching Season Stats Finder - Baseball | Stathead Find single seasons, combined seasons data for player with most strikeouts in single or combined seasons and more. Get all of this data on Stathead and create your own leaderboard.

5️⃣6️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.
 
With the 5️⃣6️⃣th walk issued by their pitchers, the Phillies will become only the 2nd team in MLB history to walk 68,000 batters.
 
(the Cubs are at 69,056)

www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

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Other 5️⃣7️⃣'s...

✅ 3 HRs as a 3B will give Bohm 57 there -- 7th most by a #Phillies 3B

✅ 11 HRs in the 2nd spot will make it 57 for Turner -- 3rd most in that spot

✅ 23 more HRs in the 5th spot by Realmuto will make it 57 there -- 2nd behind only Burrell

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5️⃣7️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.

Kyle Schwarber hit 56 HRs in 2025. If he hits 5️⃣7️⃣ this year, he'll pass Chuck Klein for 5th most in Phils history.

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Longest active affiliations in the Minor Leagues Throughout the history of Minor League Baseball, shifting affiliations, locations and team names have been commonplace. Nonetheless, hallmarks of consistency can be found. This article highlights the ...

A working link:

www.mlb.com/news/longest...

6️⃣0️⃣ days until #Phillies Opening Day.

This will be the 6️⃣0️⃣th year of Reading's affiliation with the Phillies:

✅ tied for the longest affiliation in MLB (with the Tigers and Lakeland)

mlb.com/news/longest-a…

(the 59th season, due to 2020)

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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.

How so?

19 days until Phillies pitchers and catchers report.