Well so much for late additions!

The Phillies surprised me, just days ago, I thought they were finished acquiring free agents. Ok then we got Kyle Schwarber, who I was very happy to see signed with the Phils as he is a home run hitter for sure. Ok, that was a nice add, now just late last night I see the Phils adding Nick Castellanos, which is another tremendous addition to the team. These two aren’t household names when it comes to baseball and big stars, but they are solid everyday baseball players who make it happen. Below is some stats for Nick:

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Year Age Tm G R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BA
201321DET111500000.278
201422DET1485013831411662.259
201523DET1544214033615730.255
201624DET1105411725418581.285
201725DET157731673610261014.272
201826DET1578818546523892.298
201927TOT15110017858327732.289
201927DET1005711037311372.273
201927CHC51436821016360.321
202028CIN60374911214340.225
202129CIN13895164381341003.309
9 Yr9 Yr9 Yr108654011432783516859414.278
162 162 162 1628117141525892.278
DET DET DET 8373658622083210442411.274
CIN CIN CIN 198132213493481343.284
CHC CHC CHC 51436821016360.321
AL (AL (AL (8373658622083210442411.274
NL (NL (NL (249175281703641703.292
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 3/19/2022.

Castellanos has been a catalyst of the Reds now for the past couple of years. Nick is 30 years old, born in Florida, and had a 3.2 WAR last year. He hit an amazing 10 triples for Detroit back in 2017, and that year, he also had 100 RBI. If anything, I think the signing of Castellanos and Schwarber when combined with Bryce Harper should produce a ton of offense.

It’s the Phillies 75th anniversary of having Spring Training in Clearwater Florida, here’s a post by the Phils on Twitter that tells of that:

There was an offer on the Phillies website for a special ‘monthly’ pass to get into the ballpark for every game except Opening Day and the last home game of the season for $50 a month. I looked today and couldn’t find the offer, did you get lucky and take advantage of the standing room only tickets?

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