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Posted By: john/z28jd

Phillies currently have Brien Taylor reincarnated in Cole Hamels.I saw him in 2003 dominate in single-A as a 19 year old lefty,averaging almost 2 K's per inning in the 4 games i went to,threw 6 perfect innings once,a 7 inning 2 hitter with 13 k's and the other 2 games were real good too.I think one was 6 innings,11 K's if i remember correct.

Anyway last year he had an arm injury after 4 games(in which he was 1-0 1.13 era 24 k's in 16 innings),rehabbed all off-season and then last month got into a fight outside a bar and broke his pitching hand.He wont be pitching again till about the time the season starts and will probably start at high-A once hes healthy.There was talks of him being a major leaguer by this september and a regular starter by 2006 now hes being compared to Taylor