There is a lot about the game of baseball that Phillies outfield prospect Dylan Cozens still needs to learn, a fact he readily embraces. Cozens does have one thing figured out, though.
"I got to see how cool it is to have a good year, and I realized that if I hit 40 home runs every year, life's going to be pretty good," said Cozens, who did, in fact, hit 40 homers for Double A Reading in 2016, winning the Joe Bauman Award as the most prolific home-run hitter in the minor leagues.
Cozens broke Darin Ruf's record of 38 home runs at Reading, set in 2012, and it was Ruf who broke Ryan Howard's record of 37 homers at Reading, set in 2004.