John Kruk

With the Philadelphia Phillies regular season in the books, former Phillies first-baseman and current broadcaster, John Kruk has some more time on his hands.

Heading into the 2017 Baseball season, the Phillies have three hitters entering their mid-20's who are expected to have major roles on the team.  Tommy Joseph and Maikel Franco had 20 plus Home Runs last season while Odubel Herrera was the Phillies lone All-Star representative in 2016...

Since former Phillies outfielder Matt Stairs moved from the broadcast booth to be the Phillies hitting coach, Comcast SportsNet has been looking to fill Stairs' shoes.  The Phillies reportedly will turn to a popular former player: 1993 first baseman John Kruk...

The Phillies announced earlier this offseason that they were retaining all Major League coaches except Steve Henderson.   Henderson, who had been with the Phillies organization since 2010, served as the Major League hitting coach from the time Ryne Sandberg took the managerial helm through 2016...

Two members of the Phillies 2008 World Series team will be joining the broadcast booth this season. According to reports, Matt Stairs and Jamie Moyer will be joining Tom McCarthy in the broadcast booth for the 2014 season. The additions were first reported by Dennis Deitch... Read More ... Read More ...

AUDIO (ESPN): In clowing on the weekend’s top slop series, John Kruk concedes that fifth place in the NL East is exactly . Karl Ravech asks the white elephant question — “Yeah, so they’re probably not making the playoffs, huh...

Kind of odd that we've made it two games into a Phillies-Nationals series with next-to-no talk on Cole Hamels-on-Bryce Harper crime. (And candidness at the microphone about it.) So much for that... "If Hamels hits anyone -- especially if he hits Bryce Harper again -- five game suspension is probably gonna be about a 15-game...

Phillies' manager Charlie Manuel has used Shane Victorino all over the lineup (first, second and fifth) in the early going and will likely continue to tinker until the offense shows some signs of life.

In case you're not aware, Philadelphians are pretty averse to sabermetrics, advanced stats, complex algorithms, and anything else that undermines the end-all savvy of their "trained sports eyes." (And/or Ryan Howard) They think they know -- they'd argue that they know they know -- what they're seeing, before and better and beyond any number on any page can...