Phillies draft Yorktown High School graduate known for strike outs and fastballs

Phillies draft Yorktown High School graduate known for strike outs and fastballs

The Philadelphia Phillies selected a Yorktown High School graduate in the sixth round of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft this week. James Tallon, a 2022 Yorktown graduate, was an ace starting pitcher for the Patriots in high school. He then spent three years at Duke University, where he continued his pitching career as a

Phillies draft two pitchers from same small Division II college: ‘I don’t know if there was something in the water down there’

Tyler Bowen was one of two players the Phillies drafted out of Division II Lander. (Hailey Franklin/Lander University) The campus of Lander University sits in Greenwood, S.C., about an hour-and-15-minute drive from all the more notable landmarks in the area. It takes an hour and 15 minutes to get from the small public school to Greenville, S.C., or Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia. A few minutes longer to get to Clemson University. Closer…