PSUPhilliesPhan wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:Most have said Christian Yelich, Brett Gardner, Steve Finley before PEDs.....maybe Jacoby Ellsbury or Johnny Damon?

Charlie in a radio interview said defense like Steve Finley and Jim Edmonds (13 gold gloves between them) in center and bat reminded him of Utley Good call etched Chaos

Also, mentioned people told him Yelich.

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joe table wrote:Ed is a deserving HOFer but these threads are some of his best work every year. Sincere ty for putting in the work, doubt there is a better since resource re: phils picks/signings than this

pacino wrote:it is amazing he somehow doesn't get paid for this. others would've spun it off into a website, then latched onto a bigger website to get paid more and been a twitter asshat along the way

ed, though, he's a real gem

He played for Concordia in Portland for a season after high school. He got a few innings, but nothing special. He would play a season of summer ball in 2014 as kind of “one last ride,” he thought.

"At that point, I thought I was walking away forever."

His parents had moved to the Las Vegas area. He wanted to be near them so he moved to Nevada, getting a job at the MGM Grand hotel.

"I was just trying to make money, trying to have a career."

His dad, former Camas baseball coach Joe Hallead, found a high school job in the Vegas. Joe was coaching summer ball in 2015 when a coach from the College of Southern Nevada showed up, asking Joe if he had any players who might consider playing ball at CSN.

Sure, there were a couple of high school athletes, Joe said. But he added another person to the list: His son.

"I ended up getting this crazy opportunity to just try out for this team."

He had a week to prepare. He had not thrown for seven or eight months. Yet on that tryout, Hallead was consistently hitting 87 to 90 mph on the radar gun.

"They decided to take a chance on me."

No scholarship. Just a walk-on pitcher. But a chance.

By fall ball, the combination of quality coaching and an athlete grateful for another shot led to Hallead hitting 93 mph.

"I knew this is what I wanted to do."

By spring, he was a set-up guy in the bullpen before earning a few starts by the end of the season. His fastball reached 96 mph.

His statistics do not jump off the page, but his frame and his arm strength show a potential that the Phillies were interested in developing.

Hallead was sitting at home Saturday when he got a text from a college teammate telling him congratulations.

"For what?"

“I looked on Twitter. I thought I was dreaming. This is a joke, right?”

He called Joe Hallead.

“Dad, I think I just got drafted.”

Then he got a call from the scout who recommended Tyler to the Phillies.

“He said, ‘You have a lot of upside. Just make sure you work hard.’ That’s when it finally began to sink in.”

Hallead did have two more years of college eligibility, but he said he felt he had to go pro now.

He signed Wednesday morning in Clearwater, Fla., and then had his first organized workout as a professional baseball player.

“This is something I’ve wanted to do my entire life. You never know when another opportunity like this will happen again.”

Especially true for someone who said thought he was done with baseball after the summer of 2014.

ReadingPhilly wrote:Yikes

BigEd76 wrote:The Gowdy one seems way too high when Wentz only got $3M

Squire wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:The Gowdy one seems way too high when Wentz only got $3M

I agree with this too.

I'm somewhat skeptical because I think the local Philly reporting on the draft and the draft system is pretty bad.

RP: Jim Salisbury, a well connected Philly writer, says Moniak is getting $6.5-7M and Gowdy is getting $4.5M. The Gowdy number can’t be true, can it?
Klaw: I doubt those numbers are true, sorry.