Four Major League Baseball players were reinstated by the league on Thursday after serving year-long bans for gambling on baseball.

Phillies Get Bad News on Rumored Blockbuster Trade Candidate originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

Jesús Luzardo’s bounce-back outing vs. the Chicago Cubs proves huge for the Phillies after pitch-tipping concerns plagued prior outings.

Painter has a 5.19 ERA, 29 strikeouts, and 11 walks in 26 innings with Lehigh Valley. He has allowed five homers in six starts.

According to FanGraphs, the Phillies’ bullpen ranks 15th in baseball. However, when dissecting their 4.58 ERA further, they fall to 24th. Alvarado’s replacement, Jordan Romano, is the biggest culprit of the inflated ERA, with a 7.40 across 24.1 innings this season.

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Jesús Luzardo returned to form and Alec Bohm, Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos contributed three of the Phillies' five extra-base hits in a 7-2 win over the Cubs that the team can only hope revived an offense that's been punchless this month.

The trade deadline is still several weeks away, but it's not too early to look at some outfield bats who could be on the move.

Phillies Make $800,000 Announcement During Win Over Cubs originally appeared on Athlon Sports. As it turns out, Brandon Marsh and the Philadelphia Phillies weren’t the only ones celebrating at Citizens Bank Park on Monday night.