A Challenge

[Angelsjunky]

Name as many Phillies as you can without looking. Now I must admit that my baseball knowledge is greatly reduced from 10+ years ago, but I couldn't think of a single one. When I looked at the team page I recognized about a dozen names, including one ex-Angel, but I couldn't name before looking.

This speaks both to my reduced baseball knowledge, but also...well, the Phillies. Must suck to be a phan.

[tdawg87]

Howie Kendrick 

All the other assholes 

[Lou]

Howie Kendrick! (Just learned this 3 days ago)

Darren Daulton

Scott Rolen 

[Lou]

Looking at their roast of position players, I've heard of two

Howie and Daniel Nava 

[ettin]

Howie Kendrick, Tommy Joseph, Maikel Franco, J.P. Crawford (? not sure about this one), Tommy Pham, Randal Grichuk, Aaron Nola, Pat Neshek ... I must admit though that I recently looked at their depth chart for the Trade Deadline series so it is kind of cheating before the fact.

[JustATroutFan]

Actually, I do keep up with how Altherr is doing. Have to admit that it would be awesome to see a German baseball player succeeding in MLB. He is playing great ball all year long! And Howie is also on the Phillies. And Benoit.

[Angelsjunky]

I'm surprised no one has said Mike Schmidt yet (Ralston's uncle?).

Darren Daulton for the win. That 1993 club was so much fun.

[Chuck]

Steve Carlton. Bad ass southpaw and of course Mike Schmidt. 

Von Hayes was a pretty good ball player for them too. 

[tdawg87]

John Kruk

[CanadianHalo]

Could buy really, really low on Franco right now

[totdprods]

7 minutes ago, CanadianHalo said:

Could buy really, really low on Franco right now

Odubel Herrera is interesting too. And Cesar Hernandez.

[DMVol]

34 minutes ago, totdprods said:

....And Cesar Hernandez.

I thought of him because he was on our shopping list last winter...

[fan_since79]

Johnny Callison, Jim Bunning, Chris Short, Richie Allen, Tony Taylor, Cookie Rojas, Bobby Wine, Tony Gonzalez, Wes Covington, Clay Dalrymple.

I did that from memory. My 1964 Phillies. On their way to the World Series until the collapse in late September.

 

 

[Dtwncbad]

Tug McGroin

[greginpsca]

29 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Johnny Callison, Jim Bunning, Chris Short, Richie Allen, Tony Taylor, Cookie Rojas, Bobby Wine, Tony Gonzalez, Wes Covington, Clay Dalrymple.

I did that from memory. My 1964 Phillies. On their way to the World Series until the collapse in late September.

 

 

You forgot that Gene Mauch was their manager.

[CanadianHalo]

1 hour ago, totdprods said:

Odubel Herrera is interesting too. And Cesar Hernandez.

I could be wrong but I think I heard that Herrera has been benched once or twice because he's doing whatever he wants to do on the base path? 

But yeah, all 3 would for sure be worth kicking the tires on if the Phillies are basically giving them away

[totdprods]

7 minutes ago, CanadianHalo said:

I could be wrong but I think I heard that Herrera has been benched once or twice because he's doing whatever he wants to do on the base path? 

But yeah, all 3 would for sure be worth kicking the tires on if the Phillies are basically giving them away

Wouldn't surprise me. He's been really disappointing this year but he was a Rule V pick originally if I recall and stuck right off the bat, so he was rushed. Phils signed him to an extension early on so he's under contract for awhile, but at an affordable amount. They have chingos of OF prospects to play with so he may be someone they'd part with, and he'd fit well as a Maybin-esque type player in LF.

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, Dtwncbad said:

Tug McGroin

Isn't that Huston Street's nickname. 

[Troll Daddy]

[Angel Oracle]

Harry Kalas

[TroutAdell]

10 hours ago, ettin said:

Howie Kendrick, Tommy Joseph, Maikel Franco, J.P. Crawford (? not sure about this one), Tommy Pham, Randal Grichuk, Aaron Nola, Pat Neshek ... I must admit though that I recently looked at their depth chart for the Trade Deadline series so it is kind of cheating before the fact.

Pham and Grichuk are Cardinals. Nice try!!

[ettin]

13 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

Pham and Grichuk are Cardinals.

 

9 minutes ago, TroutTrumbo said:

Pham and Grichuk are Cardinals. Nice try!!

Oops.... it's those damn uniforms and team colors that are too close when I envisioned them in my head, ha!

[Taylor]

Woah, I just looked up Howie and saw that he's hitting .349/.409/.476. Granted, it's in limited AB (he's been sidelined with a hamstring injury ... no shocker there).

[Lou]

Rico Brogna 

Omar Daal 

[Angel Oracle]

Willie Montanez

Former Halos farmhand 1B, who had one game appearance for the Halos at age 18 in 1966, and then eventually became NL ROTY runner-up for the Phillies in 1971.