Not a joke— Nearly two years in the making, I’m excited to announce I wrote a new book with @JackFritzWIP. It’s about the teams, players, moments (and mascots) that helped forge our love affair with the Fightin’ Phils. Check it out at ringthebellbook.com and in book stores May 27 ⚾️

#Phillies Bryce Harper has batted with two outs and no one on base 68 times this season, including at least once in 49 games—both most in baseball. This is a direct result of batting your best hitter third in the lineup, which is a massive mistake so many teams continue to make.

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The Phillies are 23-7 against the San Diego Padres since “That’s What’s In” came out!

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Playing in Philly is like playing a postseason game everywhere else…even when it's just a regular-season game. That’s how fun it is! @Phillies #mlbontbs

Nolan Ryan, career: 324 W | 5,714 K | 3.19 ERA Scherzer & deGrom, combined: 322 W | 5,428 K | 3.07 ERA

7pm ET: #Phillies, #Eagles talk and much more as author @76pack visits@pressboxguys ... plus a chat with Shoot Basketballs Not People founder Garry Williams, who will be the #HopeSymposium keynote speaker June 10-11 in Philly. Watch via our YT channel: youtube.com/live/PQ4FouDTubw

Impact plate appearances—those in which a player can give his team a lead or at least tie the ballgame—per-team, per-season, since 2022 (implementation of the Universal DH): Total Impact plate appearances: - Batting 1st: 312.5 ( 9.05%) - Batting 3rd: 286.6 After first time through lineup: - Batting 1st: 178.2 ( 11.16%) - Batting 3rd: 160.3 After second time through lineup: - Batting 1st: 106.5 ( 10.63%) - Batting 3rd: 96.2 7th inning or later: - Batting 1st: 56.8 ( 4.75%) - Batting 3rd: 54.2 9th inning or later: - Batting 1st: 20.7 ( 5.77%) - Batting 3rd: 19.5 Potential lead changing plate appearances—those in which a player can give his team—per-team, per-season, since 2022 (implementation of the Universal DH): Total PLC plate appearances: - Batting 1st: 224.7 ( 10.25%) - Batting 3rd: 203.8 After first time through lineup: - Batting 1st: 102.3 ( 13.64%) - Batting 3rd: 90.0 After second time through lineup: - Batting 1st: 55.9 ( 10.29%) - Batting 3rd: 50.7 7th inning or later: - Batting 1st: 29.2 ( 2.31%) - Batting 3rd: 28.6 9th inning or later: - Batting 1st: 11.7 ( 3.84%) - Batting 3rd: 11.3 Add to this the fact that the leadoff spot is 15.2% more likely to have an opportunity to make the final out of a ballgame, and there is not a single situation in which a team is better off by hitting their best hitter third. Stop batting your best hitter third. Stop treating the lineup like a line segment... it is operates best as a circle.

Kyle Schwarber: - leads the Majors with 17 homers - has gone yard 6 times in his last 5 games - is very, very good 🫡

MVP? 🤔

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I thought NY was a great sports town. I guess not anymore.

The Phillies team offensive rankings since Don Mattingly took over: AVG: 1st (.275) HR: 2nd (19 HR) SLG: 2nd (.470)

#Phillies Bryce Harper leads all of baseball with 38 plate appearances with two outs and no one on base, averaging exactly once-per-game. This is a direct result of batting your best hitter third in the lineup, which is a massive mistake that so many teams continue to make.

Ryan and I saw this coming…

Captain Elmer J. Gedeon of the U.S. Army Air Forces was KIA in Saint-Pol, France 82 years ago today, on April 20, 1944. He and Harry O’Neill are the lone major leaguers to lose their lives during WWII. He had just three career hits, but a Hall of Famer in our book... literally.

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Hey guys if anyone is looking for a great read on the beach this spring or summer I can highly recommend Ring the Bell by @76pack & my @JackFritzWIP to get you through what looks to be a difficult Phillies season at ringthebellbook.com

Just because I tagged him, and because you shared this with me (albeit indirectly). I will make a recommendation to you! I cannot recommend Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X series with any higher praise. I am actually someone who long despised anything even close to fiction. I had no intention of ever reading his work just because I was so disconnected from that community, and for that reason I was actually completely unaware of his incredible success. Gregg happens to be a diehard baseball fan, and to my good fortune, he reached out nearly a decade ago when I published my first book. He asked if I'd be interested in a book swap—given he is a Red Sox fan, he probably just wanted to read the incredible foreword that @ChickenMan3010 put together for @76pack and me! Hahaha. When he sent me a copy of the original years ago, I was dumbfounded just checking out the cover. International Bestseller? Who the fook is this guy? That alone typically wound not have been enough to make me dive in on "fiction," but I believe I owe it to anyone to read their work if they do me the kindness of sending it my way. So, I gave it a shot. He changed my entire view on that world. I actually have a difficult time even calling his work "fiction" because the only parts coming from his imagination are the story and the legacy. Everything else feels remarkably real. He is so well-studied in every aspect of the technically-proficient, black-ops "deniable" operative lifestyle that Evan Smoak lives. I spent five years in the Marine Corps as an Intelligence Analyst and a Weapons and Tactics Instructor, but I can say with confidence, Gregg dwarfs my tatical, technical, and even military knowledge. I hammered through the first book in less than a week, then hit each sequel in order. I finished the second in under three days, and the fourth or fifth (sorry, Gregg, the transitions are seamless and I honestly cannot remember which) in a single day. Gregg has opened a new world to me, and for that, I am grateful. But for the friendship we have developed, at first through baseball, and for considering me among the privileged few to receive an advanced copy with each new release every year, I am forever grateful. Great writer, better dude, loves well vodka.