Justin Klugh

Baseball Prospectus • 18th July 2024

MLB's Interleague Rivalry Used To Be Serious

Baseball Prospectus • 11th July 2024

Every Streak is a Part of History | Baseball Prospectus

Oh, it's an "honor" to be a part of history? Have you... READ history, Jose?

Baseball Prospectus • 20th June 2024

Who You Put on the Mound Matters

The Mets had Grimace. The Brevard County Manatees has Stuff the Magic Dragon.

Baseball Prospectus • 30th May 2024

Nobody Likes the Guy Who Calls Them Out

It doesn’t matter what happens next. It just matters that Ángel Hernández is gone.

Baseball Prospectus • 16th May 2024

The Dairy Daddies are Coming

Who's looking to get creamed this summer?

Billy Penn at WHYY • 5th April 2024

New Phillies City Connect jerseys officially unveiled

In 2021, Nike saw their company’s dream realized: To make even more money from MLB fans by selling them a new alternate jersey. Eight teams received what was dubbed the “City Connect” jersey, meant to portray, embody, and celebrate the history and...

Baseball Prospectus • 1st April 2024

Phillies Fans Bring Baggage to Opening Weekend

And not the kind they’ll charge you a fee to stash in a locker.

Baseball Prospectus • 28th March 2024

There Are Two Opponents on Opening Day

I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.

Baseball Prospectus • 14th March 2024

A Spring Evening with the Chicago White Sox

By observing the White Sox you necessarily change them, which is probably a good thing.

Baseball Prospectus • 7th March 2024

Larry Hisle and the Toe that Changed Baseball

The DH, long before it was a given.

Billy Penn at WHYY • 4th March 2024

The Many Springs of Scott Kingery

Scott Kingery hit a home run on Friday, his second of the Grapefruit League. It tied him with Cristian Pache and David Dahl for the Phillies’ team lead, because it is spring training. But who knows? Kingery may keep putting the bat on the ball for...

Baseball Prospectus • 22nd February 2024

Mike Trout is Going to Fight His Way Out

You see, he never ever does nothing nice and easy.

Baseball Prospectus • 14th December 2023

Unlike Tom Brady, Steve Randolph Played Major League Baseball

What did that Tom Brady guy ever do to deserve this kind of attention, anyway?

Baseball Prospectus • 1st December 2023

A Simple Request for the Hall of Fame

It's about the hat again.

Baseball Prospectus • 16th November 2023

Moving to Las Vegas is Hard, Okay?!

That’s right, it’s me; famously silent MLB owner John Fisher.

Billy Penn at WHYY • 12th November 2023

Building a Team the Dave Dombrowski Way

Phillies President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski got his start as a trade-maker in July 1988, when the Montreal Expos promoted their then-assistant general manager to GM. At 31 years old, Dombrowski would be taking over roster decisions from...

Baseball Prospectus • 9th November 2023

Where Won't Shohei Ohtani Sign?

We can't break the Ohtani news, but we can at least start the process of elimination.

Billy Penn at WHYY • 5th November 2023

What will the Phillies do at the GM meetings in Scottsdale?

The right approach, a therapist would probably tell you, is to move on. To stop shuddering when “Dancing on My Own” comes on the jukebox; to forget about the drifting pop-up that landed in a Diamondbacks glove and ended the Phillies’ season; to face...

Baseball Prospectus • 2nd November 2023

Alamazoo Jennings Celebrated All Souls Day by Dying

“His hands gave out, but his gall lasted.”

Baseball Prospectus • 24th October 2023

Requiem for a Team: Houston Astros

The Astros are gone, but they'll always be here.