Joe Blanton News

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

The seven players from the Oakland Athletics' organization currently playing in this year's Arizona Fall League have a lot in common.

Charley Kerfeld will finally be receiving his World Series ring. It was 22 years ago as a young relief pitcher for the Houston Astros that Kerfeld came tantalizingly close to winning a World Series ring.

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.

Ruben Amaro Jr. 's No. 1 objective is re-signing Jamie Moyer . "If we re-sign Moyer, likely we'll turn our attention to something else," Amaro said.

With the exception of a couple of bad acquisitions in pitchers Freddy Garcia and Adam Eaton, former Phillies General Manager Pat Gillick is the ultimate genius for bringing on board Jamie Moyer, Brad Lidge ...

Oakland owner Lew Wolff came to call Billy Beane "Chicken Little" because his general manager had a global view of the world economy and saw some of what was coming.

All along, since the August day when he was traded to the Phillies, Scott Eyre said he had no need for another multiyear deal when his contract expired after the season.

As my friend Dave Murphy continues to improve his tan at the General Managers' Meetings in Cali -- provided you can get a tan by sitting beneath a chandelier in an opulent hotel lobby for 6 or 7 hours a day -- ...

CC Sabathia? Too expensive. Manny Ramirez to the Phillies? Almost laughable. Such were two of the earliest declarations from Ruben Amaro, the Phillies' new general manager in title, but their old one in ...

DANA POINT, Calif. - In his third full day as a major league general manager, Ruben Amaro Jr.

The curse of William Penn is officially lifted!A If anyone wasn't sure about that, Joe Blanton's home run was absolute proof, that Comcast's putting William Penn up in the sky in June of 2007 was indeed the ...

US/World Summary --- Two Students Killed At Arkansas College -- Two students have been shot to death at the University of Central Arkansas.

When Ryan Howard hit a three-run homer to left field, you started to believe. When Joe Blanton hit a home run a couple of sections over, you knew.

"I have a lot of respect for umpires and I don't try to do their jobs, I really don't," Maddon said, who did not make an issue of the smudge after the game.

When Joe Blanton pitched six strong innings and smacked a home run to help the Phillies beat the Rays in Game 4 of the World Series Sunday night, Greg Shelton, Blanton's high school coach, was among his biggest ...

Listen to postgame remarks from Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, pitchers Joe Blanton and Ryan Madson, second baseman Chase Utley and rightfielder Jayson Wertth after the Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 10-2, ...

It was a gamble to let Game 5 venture past the fifth inning in a driving rain. Conditions were miserable, and eventually the foul weather prevailed.

Former Kentucky standout Joe Blanton became the first Wildcat pitcher to win a game in the World Series, tossing six innings and hitting a home run in a 10-2 Philadelphia Phillies win over the Tampa Bay Rays in ...

Police sa9 one person has been killed and two wounded in a shooting at the Universit9 of Central Arkansas.