Philadelphia Phillies outfielder, Nick Castellanos, is off to a very rough start to the 2024 season.
The right-handed hitting Castellanos, who turned 32 in March, is in his third season with the Phillies.
In 2022, Castellanos signed a five-year contract with the Phillies, worth $100 million. He is making $20 million this year. He will make $20 million in each of 2025, and 2026.
Castellanos normally hits 6th in the Phillies lineup, a spot with plenty of RBI opportunities in the powerful Phillies batting order.
As play ended May 8, Castellanos was hitting .207, with three doubles, a triple, and two home runs in 152 plate appearances. He has struck out 38 times.
The power isn’t there yet this year.
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About Nick Castellanos:
Nick Castellanos was a Supplemental 1st round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft.
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A shortstop at Archbishop McCarthy High School, Castellanos signed with the Tigers knowing they wanted to covert him to third base. He was signed out of Archbishop McCarthy High School in Southwest Ranches, Florida.
Elderly Phillies fan ‘scammed out of $50,000’ by man pretending to be shortstop Trea Turner
- Turner wasn’t actually involved in the case, rather a man pretended to be him
- The woman realized that she was being scammed after sending $50,000
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An elderly woman in Pennsylvania was scammed out of $50,000 by someone who was impersonating Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner.
The 70-year-old woman, who did not give her name to reporters, says someone used the shortstop’s status among Phillies fans to prey on her.
This woman from Towamencin Township, Pennsylvania lives with Parkinson’s disease.
‘I was gullible, I believed him,’ the woman said. ‘I should’ve known better but, I just, I overlooked it.’
According to WTXF in Philadelphia, it all started when the woman defended Turner from criticism on Facebook back in 2023.
A Pennsylvania woman says she had $50,000 stolen by a man claiming to be Trea Turner
The 70-year-old, who did not give her name, says the anonymous online scammer claimed he was in marriage trouble and needed the money to try to keep things on the hush
That led to a man, who claimed to be the shortstop, contacting her. Eventually, he began harassing her.
‘He was relentless, but he’s convincing, he’s repeating things that I knew Trea Turner did on the ball field,’ she said. ‘He kept harping on it for about three weeks so finally I said, ‘Alright, what do you want?’
That’s when the man pretending to be Turner said that he wasn’t getting along with his wife and he ‘needed help with various properties’ to keep things quiet, she told WTXF.
The woman began sending him payments – which totaled up to $50,000 in funds across multiple different accounts before she stopped.
Local police ‘are investigating the scam and working closely with federal partners,’ WTXF says. They believe that this was operated by someone ‘outside of the country’ and don’t have any local suspects.
Fortunately, the woman was able to get some of her money back, but is largely focused on sharing her story to prevent this from happening to others.
‘He was so convincing, I’m thinking I’m not stupid, but he got me, I just want to warn people, be careful of this,’ the woman said. ‘We’re still financially fine. He did not ruin us. He didn’t win.’
A Phillies spokesperson told WTXF that they couldn’t comment on the situation due to it being an active criminal investigation.
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