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. Not only did he get there in 13 months, but he’s had third-, fourth-, and seventh-place finishes in Cy Young voting since 2018.Drafted out of Stanford as a third baseman, Boone switched positions in double A and caught 1,095 games for the Phillies, the third-highest total in franchise history. In 10 years with the team, he won two Gold Gloves and was a three-time All-Star. He also caught the final pitch of the 1980 World Series.
Rollins had outsized talent in high school in Alameda, Calif., near Oakland, but there was one problem: He was barely 5½ feet tall. To assure the Phillies’ top evaluators wouldn’t dismiss Rollins without seeing him play, area scout Bob Poole that the shortstop was 5-foot-9. A little hyperbole went a long way toward landing the best shortstop in franchise history.Score one for the Phillies medical staff. Other teams were scared off by Hamels’ health history, notably a fractured left arm two years earlier. But Phillies team physician Michael Ciccotti was close with the surgeon who reset the broken humerus bone by inserting two rods and assured Phillies evaluators that Hamels’ arm had healed properly.
Three years before Howard broke through at Southwest Missouri State, when he was still in high school, Phillies area scout Jerry Lafferty followed a tip from a former player and went to see him. Lafferty followed Howard over the years and advocated so loudly for his prodigious power that the Phillies ran out of reasons not to draft him. Howard’s peak, while short, was a five-year stretch that ranks with any slugger in history.The question wasn’t whether Rolen could play third base in the majors.
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