Tag: kyle schwarber
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Kyle Schwarber is Doing It Again
Kyle Schwarber has found his swing again as the Philadelphia Phillies are in second place of the NL East division. He currently leads MLB in home runs and is showing no signs of stopping.
Aaron Judge, Byron Buxton, and Munetaka Murakami trail with 15 homers and are not defiance. Schwarber and the Phillies said good bye to Rob Thomson on April 28 and ever since, went 11-2. Hitting coach Kevin Long has to be pleased.
Schwarber wanted to test the market in the off-season and so far he has made the right decision in Philadelphia’s hitter friendly ball park.
If he keeps this up, he can certainly live up to the Designated Hitter David Ortiz was to Boston and play an entire career in Philadelphia. He recently hit a Schwarbomb off former teammate Ranger Suarez and said after the game how he was like a brother during his time in Philadelphia.
Brotherly Love is the best way to describe it as Schwarber encompasses.
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Baseball is Thriving Without Bryce Harper
It is a Thursday. It is March 12 and Bryce Harper repeatedly fails to disappoint.
He is the former 1st overall pick that got fans invested and currently, now. Harper is having the worst time of his career.
He has batted 3-for-14 and hit .214 in the World Baseball Classic through 3 games. Phillies teammates Christopher Sanchez and Aaron Nola are thriving and Harper is not. This is the narrative that has stuck with Harper since the news leaked about the linked connection between Dave Dombrowski and Harper.
Dombrowski claimed early into the ‘run it back’ process that Harper was not a proven leader or elite player. It goes on.
Harper recently stated in an interview that the World Baseball Classic was not like the grand Olympics. So much for the parading of Central America and Team Italy defeating USA.
Harper risks the odds, his weak performance comes back to haunt him or, not. (We remember Mike Trout).
FOX ratings are thriving and Harper is making a complete mockery of himself. It is not too late to return to prominence, but Harper has not proven to be ‘elite’ anywhere close in the WBC.
The WBC is about defeating Team Italy’s wine glasses, Central America going haywire, and the Tokyo Dome dropping crazy. The essence of this tournament is to not appear in back-to-back interviews with Bussin’ With The Boys and say baseball is the hardest sport to play.
It is to play a simple game of baseball and have fun. It is so telling Harper is not having fun and who can blame him.
The Phillies general manager speaks out early into the process of the season, media has gone ablaze. What is interesting enough is the smirk on Harper’s face.
He needs to take a step back and now might not be the time, but very soon something has to give and humble the former 1st overall pick.
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My Appreciation for Kyle Schwarber
Kyle Schwarber agreed to a five year, $150 million deal on Tuesday and it took more than 30 days to cash in. Schwarber knew he wanted to be a Phillies player and got the job done.
Rather than sign for more money or opting for a home reunion in Cincinnati, he ensured Philadelphia was his No.1 destination to continue local sponsorships and raise his children.
My appreciation for Kyle Schwarber reaches far beyond the 300 level of the CBP right field wall. Schwarber has catapulted into an insisted clubhouse leader and due diligence to reinvigorate the Phillies, once more.
This opens the door for the Phillies to trade Bryce Harper and receive more value for their buck. The Phillies have a nice core of talent and they cannot fail in what they do.
Whether that means bringing back J.T. Realmuto or reintroducing the search for other young talent in free agency. the Phillies must not fail under a prized possession in the game of slugging percentage.
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What is Next for Phillies?
The Phillies lost their final of the 2025 MLB season 1-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Former Phil and coach Howie Kendrick without no hesitation that the Phils would swing into this series dead even, but instead the worst happened when newer reliever Orion Kerkering blew a game with the waning seconds remaining!
94 WIP, local Phillies radio station, called this a travesty and similar to Ben Simmons not dunking the ball.
It is sour, is it not.
What is worse the Phillies fall back into a scenario they have to regroup with a hopeful new GM, Preston Mattingly, the son of Don Mattingly.
Don has come up across scenarios like this, as a former head coach for the Dodgers. The Dodgers are luckily headed to their 7th NLCS with future Hall of Fame manager, Dave Roberts.
He has just done an absolute job than former interim manager, Rob Thomson.
Thomson faced the questions already last night from reporters whether his job is secure and he simply said the best he could was go check on sixty other heartbroken men that adjourned on the road, just to lose against the Dodgers.
Many questions face the Phillies but it is unfair to say jobs come down to Dave Dombrowski or Thomson at the moment.
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The Evolution of Bryce
Bryce Harper is a man of his words.
When he first began in Major League Baseball, he played smart and competitively as a younger teenage phenomenon.
Fast forward to today, Bryce suits up for the proud stand-up Philadelphia Phillies organization of baseball. If you go on YouTube, take a strong look at all the acrimony that took place til his Phillies introductory press conference.
Has Bryce lived up to the big stage and moment of the 2025 MLB World Series?
That depends on who you ask, but, Bryce has taken the Phillies by his shoulders and tried to recreate history, especially when he discusses things on his mind with the media, too.
Bryce is Bryce.
This season, he will hit, again, close to the 134 mark in 2023 and try to ring in Runs Batted In close to the same year. This very year, it was always about Bryce Harper despite what critics want to say.
People forget Kyle Schwarber low-balled himself in Boston and could have retired, then, but it was Bryce who uplifted this team from its misery. Beside, Ryan Howard was a great ball player that can still match vise versa as to what decisions have to be made by Bryce and the whole rest of the team.
Bryce and Schwarber have been a reckoning force during the offseason, that was the regular season, so, they must regroup now and all use their past attributes to recreate history.
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