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It has been a relatively quiet month as the Phillies try to tweak their World Series championship roster.

By RANDY MILLER Bucks County Courier Times Every day this past baseball season, Chase Utley showed up to the ballpark early for treatment on a right hip problem that was hidden from the public for months.

His agent coming out of high school was Casey Close. But as far as comparisons to Ryan Howard go, you can pretty much stop there.

The Phillies began the week with a list of goals that looked something like this: Re-sign lefthander Jamie Moyer.

Bruntlett, Donald to be stopgaps : GM Ruben Amaro Jr. said he does not expect to go outside of the organization for help at second base, amid news Chase Utley needs hip surgery that could keep him out until ...

Utley will have surgery next week to repair any bone or cartilage damage he may have in his right hip.

If there is one overriding lesson Ruben Amaro Jr. took from his three-year apprenticeship under general manager Pat Gillick, it is probably the value of patience.

After the Fall Classic win comes Autumn Glory for the Phillies and their fans. Weeks after capturing the 2008 World Series, earning the first baseball title in Philadelphia since 1980, the Phillies have ...

A little after 9 a.m., Ruben Amaro Jr. walked up a spiral staircase, down a carpeted hallway, through a marble-floored lobby, and out into the California sunshine.

Jake Peavy probably will be traded by the San Diego Padres before baseball's winter meetings next month.

The 2009 Phillies will be spared the front-office agony of the 1982 Phillies . . . When manager Dallas Green learned that new president and CEO Bill Giles had no plans to offer him the general manager job, he ...

Jake Peavy probably will be traded by the San Diego Padres before the winter meetings next month.

In 2005, with the home fans going crazy at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Brad Lidge was one out away from clinching the National League pennant.

For a team like this, it had to be a guy like Pedro Feliz. Feliz lost his full-time starting job at third base because of spotty hitting.

Tug McGraw raised his arms toward the heavens after he recorded the final out in the 1980 World Series.

This was exactly how Pat Burrell wanted to finish the picture. With a different stroke.

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Game 5 of the World Series resumed after a two-day weather delay, and both the Rays and Phillies avoided any lingering effect.

The Internet can be a repository for all kinds of misguided thinkers. Consider the website firepatgillick.com The site, presumably created by a Philadelphia Phillies fan, or fans, was established the same day ...

What a difference a day makes.The power-outage questions Sunday before the fourth game of the World Series centered on the middle of the Tampa Bay lineup — Carlos Peña and Evan Longoria — and ...