pacino wrote:he's seriously one of the best baserunners of all-time. you'd think that would count for something.

Nicky ‏@NickWilliams409
@_SweeneySwag Soo like we get to play on the same field again soon sweet #Phillies

Ben Lively ‏@BenLively19
Welcome my college teammate to the @Phillies can't wait to play on the same field as you again @_SweeneySwag #BuiltByUCF

Doll Is Mine wrote:

Nicky ‏@NickWilliams409
@_SweeneySwag Soo like we get to play on the same field again soon sweet #Phillies

Umm...not really.

CalvinBall wrote:Yeah really. Williams probably here next year.

CalvinBall wrote:Time is a flat circle

Doll Is Mine wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Time is a flat circle

Your penis is flat.

In 41 Eastern League games, Knapp has batted a scalding .409.
No one else in all the minor leagues has been able to match that pace over the past two months.

No player in the club's half-century history has come close.Fightin Phils batting coach Frank Cacciatore isn't surprised to see hit after hit ringing off Knapp's bat.

"It always seems that the guys who come into the cage and have the tightest routine always have the most success out on the field," said Cacciatore. "He comes in every day and goes through the same routine. No matter what (else) he's got going on that day, even if he has to catch a hundred bullpens, he finds time to come in and do his work."
Knapp's work now ranks up there with the legends of Baseballtown: Ryan Howard, Darin Ruf, Scott Rolen, Greg Luzinski, Pat Burrell.

Knapp's slugging percentage since arriving at Reading is .704, which is only the highest in all the minor leagues since late June.

Knapp, who goes 6-1, 195, isn't a big slugger like Howard or Ruf. He's got some sock, as he's shown this month. His six August homers include two in one game - one from each side of the plate - and a walk-off shot.

He looks like a guy who could hit 15 to 20 homers in the big leagues, but consistency, not power, seems to be his game. His measured stroke led him to hit safely in his first 17 Double-A games; he'll take a 16-game streak into tonight's game.

"We've seen this from him in the past," said Phillies farm director Joe Jordan. "He'd get in streaks in spring training where it was just line drive after line drive, day after day. He's got a chance to be a really, really good hitter (in the big leagues)."

With his silky motion, his mid-90s fastball, his plus curve and change-up, and a physique that is not yet fully developed, Groome is already being mentioned as a potential No. 1 overall pick in next June's draft.

"This kid was born to throw a baseball," said Dan McCoy, his coach when Groome was at Ocean County's Barnegat High as freshman and sophomore. "He looks like he's throwing batting practice, but his stuff is electric."

1 wrote:So the kid from Barnegat can really light up the gun