Today, Philadelphia Daily News columnist and UmpBump favorite Paul Hagen describes the Phillies’ looming shortstop dilemma. Jimmy Rollins will be a free agent this offseason and the team has nobody lined up to replace him. Unless you count 21-year-old light-hitting Freddy Galvis as a possible replacement. Galvis is an excellent defender and was recently promoted [...]

This morning I started my day by heading first to ESPN.com, then to MLB Trade Rumors, then to Philly.com, searching for any news about a possible trade that could help the Phillies get back in the playoff hunt. Instead, I found this article by Philadelphia Daily News columnist Paul Hagen, who suggests the Phils trade [...]

Two years ago Umpbump interviewed Paul Hagen, who covers the Phillies for the Philadelphia Daily News and is a former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Now he’s back for more. I recently chatted with Hagen over email about the Phillies’ World Series victory, the team’s offseason moves and the Hall of Fame. [...]

The Philadelphia Daily News has a new Phillies beat writer. And the new writer has launched a new blog. David Murphy is a local boy who’s worked for the St. Pete Times and Myrtle Beach Sun-News, two very respectable mid-sized rags. His new blog is called High Cheese. So far, Murphy has been a prolific [...]

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Bill Conlin is at war with the blogs. And the blogs are winning. But here’s something the blogosphere has yet to unearth. In July, the Daily News asked Conlin — “a writer who has covered the game both then and now” — to reflect [...]

We thought we had a pretty good story when, earlier this week, Philadelphia Daily News baseball writer and former BWAA president Paul Hagen agreed to do an interview with our site. But it turns out we went after the wrong Daily News writer. Because when it comes to providing good copy, columnist Bill Conlin has [...]