Jonathan Papelbon

The non-waiver trade deadline is only about six week away and already rumors are swirling. Will the Phillies be buyers or sellers? (Listen to ESPN.com Sr. Baseball writer Jayson Stark on the Sports Bash with Mike Gill) Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr...

PHILADELPHIA—It felt a little premature. Save for two pitches, solo home runs in the second and fifth, Phillies starter Jonathan Pettibone was going strong in his big league debut. And after getting Andrew McCutchen to ground out for the first out of the sixth, the 22-year-old right-hander was at only 83 pitches, more than enough to get two more outs...

Phillies 2, Braves 0 Phillies (1-2), Braves (1-2) WP: Lee (1-0 LP: Medlen (0-1) SV: Papelbon (1) Last year, it took Cliff Lee four and a half months to get in the win column. This time around, it took just one night and eight scoreless innings – the stuff of propping up struggling pitching staffs – for wins No...

To date, Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon has a 81.00 ERA this spring. That's the dent a six-hit, five-run, two-out first game like Papelbon's Monday against the Tiger can do to you. Still, even if it's an eye-grab, it doesn't really matter -- even though it will likely persist throughout Cactus League ball...

Phillies free agent acquisition Mike Adams has already been throwing in Clearwater and is on schedule for spring training following surgery in October to correct his Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. He probably won't pitch until the second week of the Grapefruit League schedule, but that was something the Phillies knew when they signed Adams this off-season...

FORT MYERS, Fla. --Philadelphia Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon, who was part of the Boston Red Sox team from 2005-11, said Saturday that he and numerous other Red Sox players were regularly injected with Toradol, a legal anti-inflammatory drug whose use has become increasingly controversial in sports...

The off-season as thus far been under-whelming, to say the least. Not that Michael Young and Mike Adams aren't solid additions, but who knows if an offer was ever really made to Josh Hamilton and now the Phillies appear to be chasing guys who are not nearly as good as the guy they traded away back in the summer.

Jonathan Papelbon doesn’t buy it. No matter the thought that formally designating a set-up man is crucial to a bullpen’s success, for how it creates roles and sets expectations that players — especially relief guys — can cozy up to, Papelbon isn’t even listening.

Escape. Not that the Phillies didn't deserve to win 3-1 over the Marlins Wednesday. They did. But between costly errors and a lights-out pitching performance from Josh Johnson, that was the vibe this game assumed. They easily could've lost...

Staring down a three-run hole as early as the third inning in the latter part of Sunday's day/night doubleheader, the Phillies (69-71) strung together six runs over three innings for a 7-4 winner over the Rockies (56-83).