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Friday, February 19, 2010

Spring Training: Wise on "The Catch."

Quiet for most of the morning in the clubhouse - we'll hear from Roy Halladay in a press conference later today. The Phils held a pitchers' meeting around 9 a.m., which left the room barren.

Among the dozen or so who were still in the clubhouse included a few guys who checked in Friday: shortstop prospect Freddy Galvis, pinch-hitter extraordinaire Ross Gload, Wilson Valdez and veteran outfielder DeWayne Wise.

Wise, on a minor league contract, is one of a handful of established major leaguers in camp hoping to impress and win a big league job. You may remember him, though, as the guy who made what is arguably one of the greatest catches in major league history while with the White Sox last year.

Entering the game as a reserve outfielder in the ninth inning, Wise preserved Mark Buerhle's perfect game last year with a wall-scaling grab. I asked him if he got to keep anything to remember that moment.

"Mark got me a really big, expensive paiting of me making the catch, it shows it in three different pictures. It's real nice," Wise said. "My glove went to the Hall of Fame, which is another good thing about it."

Don't you think that glove might still be of some use?

"Yeah I know," Wise said, laughing. "But it's cool."

Wise hit .225 in 84 games with Chicago. Even if he doesn't make the club, he might be good inventory at Triple-A, since the Phils kind of lacked a guy who could both run and play above-average defense last year off the bench... well at least until Ben Francisco arrived in late July.

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