Noah Song's military status change went through earlier this week, allowing the 25-year-old pitcher to show up at Phillies' spring training in Clearwater.
It’s a situation nobody expected and suddenly one of the most interesting of camp.
“I was training on the P8-Poseidon, helping with a mission there. It’s one of the navy’s big wings,” he said. “If you can imagine a Boeing 737, that’s the air frame that it is. They just stripped out all the general aviation components, including seats and everything, and added on mission equipment like sensors and things we need to utilize.”
The organization will be protective of Song to avoid injury as best as they can after his long layoff. There’s a possibility he appears in Grapefruit League games, manager Rob Thomson said, but that’s still a ways away. “It felt rough,” he said, “felt like I was learning how to walk again. I tried to play catch as much as I could, but the navy is a full-time job so I wasn’t going to sacrifice anything that I had as far as being competent or proficient in my job.
Beyond the challenge of getting Song up to speed, the Phillies face the challenge of keeping him on their active roster all season . Hard to do with a guy who’s never pitched above rookie ball and hasn’t pitched competitively since Gabe Kapler was managing the Phillies. “A lot of this has come quickly,” Dombrowski said. “We’ve been interested, we’ve been in contact, but we really had no control over the date he was given.
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