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Jaypers

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.......but is playing for Reading. Nice to see they want him to get some more playing time before the AFL.

He seems to be out of sorts, though. 0-3, 3 K's. :cry:
 

HoustonTeams4Me

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Yeah, this was in his weekly blog a week & a half ago (the news that he wasn't thrilled about heading back to Reading, but he knew he needed to work out the "kink's"); though I'm glad you posted it as I would have never known (I thought they ended up shutting him down until winter ball).

Oh & JP, I thought he didn't make the AFL roster's? :D
 

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HoustonTeams4Me said:
Oh & JP, I thought he didn't make the AFL roster's? :D

After doing some searching, I see you're right.

He could be a CALLUP, though! Look at the last sentence. :mrgreen:


“He’s healthy and luckily he played long enough in Double-A this year to play in the playoffs,” Steve Noworyta, Philadelphia’s director of minor league operations told CSNPhilly.com. “That’s a big one right there, a big bat to be in that lineup. That’s a big plus for them in Reading. Now that he’s healthy and he played the majority of his time there, they [minor league baseball] allowed us to let him play there.”

Taylor was named as the Eastern League’s rookie of the year this season after hitting .333 with 15 homers, 65 RBIs and a .408 OBP at Reading. Taylor, who was the runner-up in the league’s MVP voting behind Akron’s Carlos Santana, was bumped up to Lehigh Valley in mid-July and hit .282 with five homers and 19 RBIs before straining an oblique muscle in Buffalo on Aug. 15.

He went on the DL a week later and, after rehabbing the last several weeks in Florida, was proclaimed fit for active duty this week by Philadelphia’s medical staff. A strong showing in the Eastern League playoffs might earn Taylor a shot with the parent club over the final two weeks of the regular season, according to Noworyta.
 

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Jaypers said:
HoustonTeams4Me said:
Oh & JP, I thought he didn't make the AFL roster's? :D

After doing some searching, I see you're right.

He could be a CALLUP, though! Look at the last sentence. :mrgreen:


“He’s healthy and luckily he played long enough in Double-A this year to play in the playoffs,” Steve Noworyta, Philadelphia’s director of minor league operations told CSNPhilly.com. “That’s a big one right there, a big bat to be in that lineup. That’s a big plus for them in Reading. Now that he’s healthy and he played the majority of his time there, they [minor league baseball] allowed us to let him play there.”

Taylor was named as the Eastern League’s rookie of the year this season after hitting .333 with 15 homers, 65 RBIs and a .408 OBP at Reading. Taylor, who was the runner-up in the league’s MVP voting behind Akron’s Carlos Santana, was bumped up to Lehigh Valley in mid-July and hit .282 with five homers and 19 RBIs before straining an oblique muscle in Buffalo on Aug. 15.

He went on the DL a week later and, after rehabbing the last several weeks in Florida, was proclaimed fit for active duty this week by Philadelphia’s medical staff. A strong showing in the Eastern League playoffs might earn Taylor a shot with the parent club over the final two weeks of the regular season, according to Noworyta.

We need a "drooly-smiley"! :lol:
 

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