CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Zack Wheeler's spring with the Phillies couldn’t have gone any better.

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Phillies right-hander Daniel Robert is out of the hospital and feeling OK following a cardiac event on Sunday morning at BayCare Ballpark. Robert, 31, collapsed on the pitcher’s mound next to the half-field following his first bullpen session since October, when he suffered a cardiac event during

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Believe it or not, there are plenty of new faces on the Phillies’ 2026 Opening Day roster. In fact, there are 11 players who weren’t on the 2025 season-opening roster, including six new relievers, one starter, two outfielders and two bench bats.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Cristopher Sánchez is one of baseball’s best pitchers, and the Phillies believe he will be one of the best for years to come. They will pay him like it, too. The Phillies announced on Sunday morning that they have signed Sánchez to a new six-year contract that

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies’ Opening Day roster is coming into focus. Manager Rob Thomson said on Friday that right-hander Andrew Painter made the team. No surprise there. Painter (MLB Pipeline's No. 28 overall prospect) was a near lock to make the 26-man roster entering camp. He will make his

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Gage Wood knows. Philly is different. Wood smiled on Saturday afternoon at BayCare Ballpark, remembering how Phillies fans DM’d him on Instagram in the minutes, days and weeks after the Phils selected him with the 25th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. Wood was a hard-throwing

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Andrew Painter entered Phillies camp last month as a lock to make the Opening Day roster. The Phillies made it official on Friday. Phils manager Rob Thomson announced his starting pitchers for the season’s first five games. Cristopher Sánchez, Aaron Nola and Jesús Luzardo will start the

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Cristopher Sánchez couldn’t have imagined an honor like this a few years ago. Major League Baseball announced on Friday that Sánchez will be the Phillies’ Opening Day starter next Thursday against Texas at Citizens Bank Park. It was the worst-kept secret in Phillies camp. Sánchez had earned

The Phillies and Rangers hope to meet again in late October, but for now they’ve got Opening Day. It will be the first time they will play each other on Opening Day since 2014, when they met at old Globe Life Park. (It will be only the second time they’ve

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies’ top three prospects could make splashes this season in Philadelphia. Justin Crawford (PHI No. 3, MLB No. 53) is a lock to be the Opening Day center fielder. Andrew Painter (PHI No. 2, MLB No. 28) is a lock to make the rotation. Aidan Miller

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Cole Hamels' eyes lit up on Friday, when he heard So Taguchi was at BayCare Ballpark. Taguchi was a member of the Phillies’ 2008 World Series championship team, playing 88 games in the regular season and four in the postseason. He played six more games for the

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Bryce Harper is as hungry as ever. He spent the past couple of weeks playing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. He had a blast, he said. He capped the tournament by crushing a dramatic game-tying two-run home run with two outs in the eighth

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Dante Nori got back to his regular job on Wednesday at Carpenter Complex. He played in a Minor League game against Blue Jays prospects on Ashburn Field. There were more prospects than fans in the stands. In the bottom of the ninth, Nori flied out to left-center

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies opened Spring Training last month with a few questions about the rotation. So far, they like the answers they’ve gotten. Phillies right-hander Zack Wheeler threw a two-inning live BP on Wednesday morning inside a mostly empty BayCare Ballpark. It was his second live BP of

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Italy made a promise to Aaron Nola before he accepted its invitation to join its baseball team in the World Baseball Classic. Pitch, and at the very least you will eat and drink well. “We had some good [chicken] parmigiana over there, and some good wine,” Nola

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Adolis García is a big man with big power and an even bigger truck. “It’s like a monster truck,” he said recently. He wants to bring it all to Philly this summer.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Orion Kerkering will be cutting it close to make the Phillies’ Opening Day roster. But he took a significant step Tuesday afternoon in a Minor League game at Carpenter Complex. It was Kerkering’s first game of the spring after suffering a Grade 1 right hamstring strain early

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Johan Rojas had been in Phillies camp this spring, playing in Grapefruit League games and practicing with teammates, while the past couple weeks awaiting word about his future with the club. On Monday night, Major League Baseball announced that Rojas has been suspended for 80 games without

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Jesús Luzardo hinted a couple weeks ago that he might parachute into the World Baseball Classic and pitch for Venezuela, if the team reached the semifinals or championship. It would’ve meant a lot. Luzardo was born in Peru, but his family is from Venezuela.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – The few Phillies fans lucky enough to be at BayCare Ballpark on Saturday morning watched Zack Wheeler take his latest step toward his return to the rotation. Wheeler threw a live batting practice session.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Phillies pitching coach Caleb Cotham appreciates Andrew Painter's “high aptitude” for pitching. Cotham knows that nobody is going to be perfect all the time. Sometimes a pitcher has to grind to survive.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Cristopher Sánchez heard the names Albert Pujols, Pedro Martínez and Nelson Cruz and glanced at his left arm. He shook his head. “Goosebumps,” he said via an interpreter.