Casper Wells

The Philadelphia Phillies have placed outfielder Casper Wells on the disabled list because of vision problems two days after he took the loss as an emergency pitcher in an 18-inning game. The Phillies purchased the contract of utility man Pete Orr on Monday from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to fill Wells' roster spot...

The Phillies have designated Delmon Young for assignment and replaced him on the roster with Casper Wells off waivers from the White Sox. Young missed the first month of the season due to injury and then batted just .261 with eight homers over 80 games for the Phillies, he was shaky in right field and the Phillies felt that it was time to give Darin Ruf an opportunity to play that position everyda