PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies manager Rob Thomson finally provided some clarity on Saturday afternoon about the club’s starting rotation plans moving forward. Spencer Turnbull (2-0, 1.67 ERA) is expected to move to the bullpen to serve as the team's long reliever beginning on Sunday. Cristopher Sánchez will remain in the rotation,

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies made a deep run in each of the past two postseasons despite at least one star player missing a significant chunk of the regular season. Now, they’ll look to do so for a third straight year. Trea Turner is expected to miss approximately six weeks with

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PHILADELPHIA -- Trea Turner made a play that perhaps only he could make. One of baseball’s fastest players scored from second base on a passed ball in the fourth inning of Friday night’s 4-3 victory over the Giants at Citizens Bank Park. It proved to be the winning run, but

One down, five (and change) to go. With April comfortably in the rearview mirror, it's time to hand out the first round of monthly awards for the 2024 Major League Baseball season. Here are the eight stars -- household names and new phenoms alike -- receiving honors for their performance

ANAHEIM -- Zack Wheeler is winning even when he doesn’t feel his best. His teammates wonder what it looks like when he does. Wheeler grinded through five innings in the Phillies’ 2-1 victory over the Angels at Angel Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, helping Philadelphia finish a 7-3 road trip to

Pitchers are meant to be ahead of hitters. Sluggers need at-bats to get into the rhythm of the season, and that takes time. Or at least that’s how the popular belief goes. But some Minor League hitters are proving they don’t need time at all to come flying out of

ANAHEIM -- The Phillies are considering something unusual to keep Spencer Turnbull’s arm in the rotation. Turnbull is 2-0 with a 1.67 ERA in six starts this season, which is the ninth-lowest ERA out of 82 qualified pitchers. But now that Taijuan Walker is back from the injured list, the

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

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Phillies Charities, Inc., the charitable arm of the Philadelphia Phillies, proudly announced tonight that it is making a $1 million donation to Project HOME, the Philadelphia-based non-profit which has served as a national leader in providing comprehensive and effective services to persons experiencing chronic homelessness. The announcement was made this

ANAHEIM -- Nick Castellanos barreled the baseball, raised his right arm into the air and pointed to the right-field seats in the distance. He did this in one motion before he left the batter’s box. “Just excited,” Castellanos said, smiling.

For former big leaguer Jayson Werth, owning a competitive racehorse is a lot like playing in the Majors -- with one big exception. “I never stressed out, I never worried about one [baseball] game as long as I lived,” Werth said Wednesday in an appearance on MLB Network. “Coming into

Whenever a Draft list is updated for the first time since December, there are bound to be a lot of changes up and down the rankings. This year's new Draft Top 150 takes that to an extreme, speaking to the volatility and uncertainty of the class outside of the top

April is in the books, but there’s still plenty of baseball left to be played this season, and you can follow all the action on MLB.TV for a new reduced price. MLB.TV’s All Teams Yearly package, which enables you to stream every out-of-market game, live or on demand, on your

ANAHEIM -- Seranthony Domínguez almost wiggled out of it. He had runners on second and third with two outs in the seventh inning in Monday night’s 6-5 loss to the Angels at Angel Stadium. He got Taylor Ward to 0-2. He needed just one good pitch to keep the game

There's a longtime scout who likes to say, "The Draft is hard." The 2014 Draft was very hard. It's just one of three Drafts where the No. 1 overall pick finished his career without reaching the Majors, and the only one where neither of the top two selections made it.

SAN DIEGO -- Taijuan Walker’s right shoulder passed its first test of 2024. His reflexes? Grade them A-plus. Walker tossed 6 1/3 innings in his season debut as the Phillies completed a three-game sweep of the Padres with an 8-6 victory on Sunday afternoon at Petco Park. The right-hander, who

SAN DIEGO -- Something had to give. Phillies starter Ranger Suárez was riding a 25-inning scoreless streak. Padres starter Dylan Cease had won three straight starts and had posted four straight quality starts. Turns out the Phillies had a tiebreaker streak. Alec Bohm extended his hitting streak to 11 games

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SAN DIEGO -- The Phillies hammered five home runs Friday night, so they had plenty of opportunity to perfect their dugout celebrations. No doubt, they put a bit of extra zest into the one for Nick Castellanos.