Phillies And Hunter Pence Agree To A One Year Contract
Phillies lock up Pence for 2012.
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Phillies lock up Pence for 2012.
The Phillies sign outfielder Juan Pierre.
Cole Hamels signed a one-year, $15 million extension that will keep him in a Phillies uniform for the 2012 season.
Left-hander Cole Hamels and the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed on a $15 million, one-year contract, avoiding arbitration.
As the baseball offseason continues to roll on, the teams that have spent the past several years chasing the Phillies in the National League East have been keeping quite busy.
The Philadelphia Phillies have hired former general manager Ed Wade as a special consultant.
The longest tenured pro athlete in Philadelphia has decided to stay.
The Phillies have acquired utilityman Ty Wigginton and cash from the Colorado Rockies in exchange for a player to be named later or cash.
Time to start blogging again! I don't make excuses, but I would love to tell you what's been going on with me since the World Series ended.
By Matthew Nadu: We've fallin' on hard times in Philadelphia. The once promising talks of the Four Aces, the ultimate Dream Team and the NBA seem like childhood fictional characters that we eventually learn are make believe, imagined as hopeful illusions to fill our voids for something bigger and better.
By Seth Everett: Jimmy Rollins, the franchise face for a decade, may have played his last game as a Phillie.
By Bill Campbell: Not only did the Phillies' scintillating season end miserably, but the future could be full of problems as well.
An all-or-nothing season in which only a World Series title would be considered a success turned out to be an abysmal failure. The Phillies didn't even make it out of the first round of the NL playoffs.
Move over St. Louis, Philadelphia has a rally squirrel of its own and it was caught on camera entering Citizens Bank Park Friday ahead of the decisive Game 5.
This evening is game three of the NLDS, with the Phillies and Cardinals all tied up at one game each, and some die-hard fans are flying out to St. Louis this morning to cheer on their Phils.
The Phillies' bats went silent after the first two innings of Sunday's loss to the Cardinals and shortstop Jimmy Rollins believes the fans did the same thing.
After a slow start, the Phillies won the all-important first game of the NLDS. But the page has turned and it's time for game two – a chance for Philadelphia to put a stranglehold on the St. Louis Cardinals.
Phillies fans are still experiencing playoff fever this morning.
A look at the best-of-five National League division series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies:
The Phillies are getting ready to start another playoff season. Are fans just as excited for this post season as they've been in previous years?
After finishing second to the New York Yankees last season, the Phillies will finish this regular season with the highest attendance in Major League Baseball.
What looked like a meaningless series just a few weeks ago has turned into quite a significant three games for the National League East rivals.
Roy Halladay, Hunter Pence and the fully loaded Philadelphia Phillies snapped their eight-game losing streak, looking playoff-ready in every way Sunday by routing the New York Mets 9-4.
Allen Craig hit two homers and drove in three runs, Chris Carpenter gave up eight hits in eight innings, and the St. Louis Cardinals improved their playoff chances with a 5-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday night.
The Phillies magic number to clinch a playoff berth remains at one. That means, of course, a win in Houston on Tuesday night or a Cardinals' loss to the Pirates in Pittsburgh, would send Philadelphia into baseball's postseason for a fifth consecutive year.
