Grotewold wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:Supposedly he's a right handed power-hitting outfielder. 17

Danny Knobler wrote:Phillies sign yet another old guy

JFLNYC wrote:You don't walk out of Germany.

Grotewold wrote:

smitty wrote:Young has only played 70 innings in RF but is -5 already in Dewan's system.

Can someone explain this to me? Yesterday was the first instance of a ball he should have gotten to, that I've seen. And he's had some tough catches at the wall and strong throws

In any case, looks like he's gonna need to start hitting to hold Ruf off

He will join the organization after finishing school in the spring of 2014. Kamara is currently playing for the farm team of the Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg in the second division in Germany.

Julsan Kamara goes to the Philadelphia Phillies
The eighth athlete of the sports boarding Regensburg signed professional contract

Just two weeks after the MLB debut of Donald Lutz, the sports boarding Regensburg can announce the next success message. Julsan Kamara signed on Monday in the presence of his mother Julia Rajkovic-Kamara a 7-year professional contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. About the signing bonus that each player gets at a contract signing, was not disclosed.

The 17-year-old youngster with the ideal dimensions of 1.91 meters and 95 kilograms changed in September 2011 to the sports boarding Regensburg and was previously in the perspective of the squad in bookbinding Legionaries of 2 Bundesliga used. The students of Regensburg Werner-von-Siemens Gymnasium will remain for the time being but the bookbinder and get Legionnaires start until after graduation in May 2014 his professional career in the United States. "The Phillies rely on the good work of the sports boarding school, but they wanted to secure the rights to Julsan early," said school director Martin Brunner.

"To be professional baseball has always been my biggest dream," said Kamara Julsan looking forward to the new challenge. "I'm the sports boarding Regensburg very grateful for the support over the last two years that my dream is now possible. Of course I know that I am in the U.S. only at the beginning of a professional career and must try to assert myself. "Julsan Kamara is by Rodney Gessmann (2006), Ludwig Glaser (2007), Donald Lutz (2007), Mike Bolsenbroek (2008) Jakub Sladek (2008), Max Kepler (2009) and Daniel Thieben (2011) has become the eighth athlete of the sports boarding Regensburg, who has accepted a professional contract.

Three of them are currently living her dream of a professional career. The end of April has managed the former player Donald Lutz Regensburg boarding school trained in Germany, the first player to jump from Double-A team of the Cincinnati Reds in the Major League. Max Kepler, who for the record sum of $ 800,000 transferred to the Minnesota Twins in 2009, is expected to start Rapids kernel for single-A Cedar team after recovering from elbow injury. Daniel Thieben will contest his second year in the rookie team of the Seattle Mariners.

In the picture: boarding ladder Martin Brunner, Julia Rajkovic-Kamara Kamara Julsan and Claudio Scerrato, European representative of the Philadelphia Phillies (Photo: Stefan Müller).

Woody wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:You don't walk out of Germany.

YOU MARCH

Woody wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:You don't walk out of Germany.

YOU MARCH

Rockinghorse wrote:Biddle's from Germantown, he can help the kid acclimate

She fed me meat to sustain my life