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Phillies Sign Usually-Ignored Canadian Pitcher

Justin Klugh — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:37:21 +0000

Pete Orr has all but had a monopoly on Philadelphia-Canada Baseball Relations for a little while now, but that hasn’t stopped the Phillies from finding his successor.

“They treat everyone the same whether you’re a first-round pick or a free agent and they’ve got a pretty good number of Canadians in the system.”

-Robbie Cooper via the Windsor Star

It’s always nice to know that an organization isn’t drafting you just because they’re a shadowy corporation that is planning to kill and eat you. Not that the Phillies are doing that to Canadians, I’m just saying, it must be nice to sign a contract and not have to worry about that. (more…)

Peterson Orr: Canada’s Vlad Guerrero

Justin Klugh — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:00:52 +0000

I’m doing that thing again where I weakly profile each of the announced non-roster invitees to Phillies Spring Training. I’ve already compared Justin De Fratus to a fork, so who knows what stuff I’ll be drawing parallels to in the future! I think I see a picture of a yelping polar bear down there, so let’s see what we have on professional-every-position player Pete Orr.

Pete Orr, whose full name is shorter than most first names, actually has two middle names to make up for the space. Also his full first name is “Peterson.” So he’s actually got a museum of names. Let that be the first myth we dispel here today about Peterson Thomas Gordon Orr.

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