Playing ‘A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words’ with All 25 Phillies Players

An endless numbers of words have been written about the 2012 Philadelphia Phillies because, let’s be honest, there has been plenty to write about. 

A team with World Series expectations that falls flat on its face early in the season only to recover enough to make a run at the brand-new second NL Wild Card at the end of the season? Come on. It’s a writer’s dream story. 

But there’s only so much you can actually write about each player. You can give the most accurate description in the world, but a picture is worth a thousand words. 

It’s one of life’s inevitable truths: We love words, but we relate to pictures. We can look at a player’s picture and feel his emotion in a way that words can’t describe, and some pictures just do a better job at describing a player’s season. 

So lets have a look. Here’s one picture to describe each player’s season.

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