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