NL East

NBC Sports Philadelphia Phillies Insider Jim Salisbury joined Rich Quinones on Wednesday and discussed the Phillies being in the hunt for a postseason birth 91 games into the 2018 season

Tragedy struck the baseball world today.  Miami Marlins ace pitcher Jose Fernandez has tragically died.   Fernandez, 24 years old, died in a boating accident off the Miami Beach coast along with three others, according to many published sources...

Heading into play Saturday night the Phillies record stands at 57-66 which projects them to finish the season with 75 wins; that would be a 12 win increase over the 2015 season.  While this has been a rebuilding year for the Phillies, the youth movement has shown promise...

Just two days till Opening Day. Check out our picks for the playoffs and eventual World Series champs.

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For Philly fans out there who think the national media despises their teams, a word from the Twitter feed of one Jon Paul Morosi: (Listen to National Baseball writer Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports.com talk about the Phillies and Braves on the Sports Bash)...

Phillies (58-67) vs. Washington Nationals (77-47) The people who back Davey Johnson's Mike Rizzo's someone's decision to plunk Stephen Strasburg from the rotation cite the Nationals youth and depth and promise to be really good for a really long time...

AUDIO (CSN Philly): With the Phillies officially reeling -- Sunday's 4-3 loss to the Braves capped their fourth series sweep this season, their 10th in their last 11 and 25th since June 1, sent them into the All-Star break with their worst record (37-50) since 1997 (when they were 24-61) and with their deepest NL East hole (14 games) since 2002 (then 16 back) -- Charlie Manuel says he's out of

Ken Rosenthal likes to drum up hysteria in Philly. And yeah, this proved perfect timing So, with the Phils the sole holders of last place in the NL East and trailing division-leading Washington

Maybe it's deference. (After all, he did spend his last two years covering the Phillies.) Maybe it's deflection. (If it went down this way, I can't imagine Braves players would be all that receptive of his questions in each of their three blowout losses...