Happy Birthday Josh Phelps
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Josh Phelps turns 43 today.
Phelps was one of the
Blue Jays catchers of the future who didn’t turn out to be a catcher. Josh was #36 on the Baseball America top 100 prospects before the 2002 season.
He was terrific coming up through our minor league system. In 2001 he hit .292/.406/.562 with 31 home runs in 136 games with the Double-A
Tennessee Smokies. 2002 he hit .292/.380/.658 with 24 home runs in 70 games at Triple-A
Syracuse. We thought we had someone who could slug in the middle of the order with another of our catchers of the future,
Carlos Delgado.
After getting one at-bat in 2000 and 12 at-bats in 2001 (without getting a hit), the Jays called up in June of 2002. He didn’t hit his first home run until his 14th game, but he would finish the game with 15 home runs and a .309/.352/.562 line in 83 games, playing DH. On August 29th, he hit two home runs of
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