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Marcus Hayes: Underappreciated ace Zack Wheeler: Best starter in baseball? Most important Phillies player?

The Phillies faced their biggest game in recent memory Sunday night. The visiting Cardinals sat just ahead of them in the playoff race, and they’d split the first two games of the weekend series.

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Phillies’ Bryce Harper offers no date for return but vows he will play again this season

PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper returned to the Phillies clubhouse Tuesday and channeled his inner Terminator.

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Red-hot Phillies sweep Brewers for seventh straight victory

MILWAUKEE — It’s been a week since Dave Dombrowski woke up, went for a jog, and decided to fire Joe Girardi.

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Marcus Hayes: Dave Dombrowski exterminates Phillies’ dysfunction

PHILADELPHIA — When the Phillies got rid of Joe Girardi before breakfast on Friday morning, they found themselves. They scored 26 runs in three games, their second-highest run total in three straight games this season. Except this time they did it without their starting second baseman, their starting shortstop, and…

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Joe Girardi struggled to trust the Phillies’ young players. Will Rob Thomson be any different?

Part of the problem with rebuilding a team primarily through free agency is that it tends to leave a shortfall in homegrown talent. And because the expectation to win grows in lockstep with a skyrocketing payroll, it can be difficult to show patience with the few young players who are…

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Bill Madden: Joe Girardi couldn’t manage his way out of the mess in Philly

NEW YORK — For two former Yankees managers, the month of May wrought contrasting fortunes, leaving Buck Showalter sitting pretty in first place with the largest lead on June 1 of any Mets team in history — at the same time, Joe Girardi’s seat got hotter and hotter until Friday…

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Phillies rout Angels, 10-0, and hit five homers in interim manager Rob Thomson’s first game

PHILADELPHIA — Bryson Stott stutter-stepped across home plate. He gave a two-handed high-five two Alec Bohm and elbow-bashed with Kyle Schwarber. Then, as Stott walked down into the dugout, he was met by Rhys Hoskins, arms aloft and jumping up and down.

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Marcus Hayes: Phillies fire Sleepy Joe Girardi as desperation mounts for a playoff run

PHILADELPHIA — When the Phillies finally fired Sleepy Joe Girardi just 51 painful games into a dying 2022 season, it sent a message to the public that sloppy, stupid baseball no longer will be tolerated at Citizens Bank Park.

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Phillies fire Joe Girardi; Rob Thomson named interim manager

PHILADELPHIA — In a desperate attempt to turn around the season, the Phillies fired manager Joe Girardi on Friday, the team announced.

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Marcus Hayes: Phillies manager Joe Girardi might live to see another series, but why?

PHILADELPHIA — On the eve of the most important game as Phillies manager, Joe Girardi lost his best all-around player for three months to a fractured finger. Seventy minutes before the game, he lost the reigning MVP as a late scratch due to forearm soreness in a right arm that…

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Rhys Hoskins, J.T. Realmuto deliver big hits in Phillies’ 7-3 victory over the Braves

ATLANTA — A few hours before the Phillies played Monday night at Truist Park, Dave Dombrowski went up to infielder Johan Camargo and congratulated him on being presented with a 2021 World Series ring by the Atlanta Braves.

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Marcus Hayes: Lame-duck Phillies manager Joe Girardi has the hottest seat in baseball

TAMPA, Fla. — After a flurry of offseason activity, the Phillies have one more move to make:

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David Murphy: Bryson Stott belongs in the majors. The Phillies had no choice but to find out if he is a star.

There was only one acceptable answer. Credit the Phillies for realizing it. There are plenty of scenarios that would have offered Dave Dombrowski and John Middleton an opportunity to talk themselves out of including the organization’s top hitting prospect on the opening-day roster. In a lot of those situations, the…

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Marcus Hayes: The Phillies ruined Scott Kingery. They’d better be careful with Bryson Stott.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Bryson Stott’s a comer. Let’s hope the Phillies learn from their mistakes.

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Scott Lauber: Edge in Nick Castellanos’ game was there as a teen when he was cut from Bryce Harper’s national team

CLEARWATER, Fla. — If Nick Castellanos plays with an edge — and it really isn’t open to interpretation, no matter what the new Phillies slugger said in his spirited introductory news conference here this week — then it probably took root in a manager’s office 14 years ago.

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Nick Castellanos hopes to experience with Phillies what has been missing in his career: Winning

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Nick Castellanos, after meeting the media for the first time as a Philadelphia Phillie, walked away from the podium on Wednesday afternoon and locked eyes with Karie Dombrowski, wife of president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski.

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Marcus Hayes: ‘Stupid Money’ Phillies owner John Middleton gets smart and lives up to his word. Finally.

Before we bend knee at the shrine of John Middleton, let’s reflect on why we’re here.

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Kyle Schwarber agreed to deal with Phillies and an hour later his wife went into labor: ‘The best day of my life’

CLEARWATER, Fla. — It was a busy 48 hours for Kyle Schwarber. The free-agent outfielder reached a four-year, $79 million deal with the Phillies last Tuesday at around 10:30 p.m., and nearly an hour later, his wife, Paige, went into labor and had to be rushed to the hospital. He…

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Phillies and Nick Castellanos agree to $100 million deal, as John Middleton clears the luxury-tax threshold

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Move over, Steve Cohen. There’s another big spender in the National League East.

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Phillies talking about signing Nick Castellanos: source

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A few days after reaching an agreement with Kyle Schwarber, the Phillies are considering a free-agent slugger double-down with Nick Castellanos.

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Marcus Hayes: Odúbel Herrera re-signs (yuck). Zack Wheeler might be hurt (yikes). Same old Phillies (sigh)

The local nine this weekend added two meh players with domestic violence violations in their past, including the least popular player since Scott Rolen. They opened camp with lots of money to spend but with no new talent. And they discovered that their horse might be so lame that he’s…

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Source: Phillies agree to deal to bring back Odúbel Herrera

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A year ago, the Phillies gave Odúbel Herrera a chance to be the opening day center fielder.

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Phillies aren’t rushing Zack Wheeler; Zach Eflin on track to be ready for start of season

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Phillies right-hander Zack Wheeler didn’t just lead his team in innings pitched last season, he led the majors in innings pitched, with 213⅓. His performance over that span nearly won him the Cy Young Award: three complete games, two shutouts, a 2.78 ERA and 247 strikeouts.

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