1982 Philadelphia Phillies

After two seasons of making the post-season, the great Phillies teams of the late '70s/early '80s were starting to break up here. They would have one more run in 1983.

Julio Franco made his debut with this team, but like Ryne Sandberg the year before, the Phillies traded away a future all-star 2nd basemen after only having a cup of coffee with the Phillies.

MVP/Cy Young
I have a feeling if I had been doing this format and making these checklists going back to 1975, the same two would get the nod for the Phillies MVP and Cy Young: Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton. Both are no brainer selections for 1982. Mike Schmidt led the '82 Phillies in Home Runs and OBP by a mile. He also led in RBIs and runs scored to go with a .280 batting average. He was also 2nd on the team in stolen bases. Steve Carlton with 23 wins was 10 ahead of anyone else on this Phillies squad. He also nearly doubled the next Phillie pitcher in strikeouts and had a 3.10 ERA. He actually won the 1982 NL Cy Young award.

Jim over at the Phillies Room recently had a blog entry on this Mike Schmidt card. In 1982, Topps used a similar pose on at least 9 different cards or stickers issued in 1982.

Rookie Card of the Year
There was only one Phillie rookie card issued in 1982, so Luis Aguayo gets this by default. He had a nice little career as a reserve infielder for the Phillies through 1988 and wrapped up his career with the '89 Indians. Must've been a good gloveman as he never hit double digits in home runs, except for when he got 12 in 1987 and ended his career with a .236 batting average.

Most Interesting Non-Topps card
There are no players from the Donruss or Fleer sets that weren't in the Topps set for the Phillies, so I will look at two cards I posted on the checklist under unwanted cards. Both Donruss and Fleer issued a card titled "Phillies Finest" (shouldn't that be Phillies Phinest, maybe?). But they had a different group of players on each one. The Donruss version had Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose posing on a card that looked similar to those cards that you could get by mailing in wrappers to the Topps company. The Fleer version had Mike Schmidt, Lonnie Smith, and Steve Carlton holding up an award with their face on the plaque. Not sure what the award was for though, as I can't find any award that all three would've won for 1980 (remember these pictures were taken in 1981) that was even similar.

Starters

__	TT	29	C	Bo Diaz	PHI
__	TO	780	1B	Pete Rose	PHI
__	TO	220	2B	Manny Trillo	PHI
__	TO	100	3B	Mike Schmidt	PHI
__	TT	27	SS	Ivan de Jesus	PHI
__	TO	680	LF	Gary Matthews	PHI
__	TO	20	CF	Garry Maddox	PHI
__	TO	389	RF	George Vukovich	PHI
__	TT	28	OF	Bob Dernier	PHI

Starting Pitchers

__	TO	480	SP	Steve Carlton	PHI
__	TT	59	SP	Mike Krukow	PHI
__	TO	544	SP	Larry Christenson	PHI
__	TO	317	SP	Dick Ruthven	PHI
__	TO	416	SP	Marty Bystrom	PHI

Relief Pitchers

__	TO	581	CL	Ron Reed	PHI
__	TT	73	RP	Sid Monge	PHI
__	TT	32	RP	Ed Farmer	PHI

Other Players

__	TO	53	OF	Greg Gross	PHI
__			C	Ozzie Virgil
__	TT	100	RF	Bill Robinson	PHI
__	TO	352	RF	Dick Davis	PHI
__	TO	449	IF	Luis Aguayo	PHI
__			CI	Len Matuszek
__	TO	218	UT	Dave Roberts	HOU
__			IF	Julio Franco
__			PH	Bob Molinaro
__	TO	713	UT	Del Unser	PHI
__			1B	Willie Montanez
__			RF	Alejandro Sanchez
__	TO	250	RP	Tug McGraw	PHI
__			RP	Porfi Altamirano
__	TO	285	RP	Sparky Lyle	PHI
__	TO	647	RP	Warren Brusstar	PHI
__			SP	John Denny
__	TO	131	RP	Stan Bahnsen	MON
__			RP	Jerry Reed
__			RP	Jay Baller

Manager/Coaches

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Pat Corrales