That Balls Outta Here » high-a http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:38:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Julio Rodriguez is Totally Worth Getting All Excited About http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/11/07/julio-rodriguez-is-totally-worth-getting-all-excited-about/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/11/07/julio-rodriguez-is-totally-worth-getting-all-excited-about/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:46:06 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=7317 With all this talk of the Phillies signing 40+ and 30+ gentlemen, you may have forgotten what it was like to read about people with their whole lives ahead of them.  Thankfully, Seedlings to Stars has continued its listing of the 100 best prospects in the game, and the Phillies seem to have registered another one in RHP Julio Rodriguez.

The important question about Julio Rodriguez is, “Will we default to calling him J-Rod?”  The nicknames for people with this last name have been somewhat limited in the past few years, so its looking pretty grim for old J-Rod.  Unless he does something truly distinct before his call-up, and earns a moniker worthy of remembering like some of the others in contemporary Philadelphia history, like “Rauuuuuuuuuuulll” and the word “Fuck” in another language. (more…)

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