Gabe Kapler ventured to Reading Monday night and polished off a 20-ounce ribeye.
“Medium rare,” the Phillies manager said. “Great steak.”
But dinner was not Kapler’s lone takeaway from his trip to Berks County. He watched double-A Reading and marveled at Serthantony Dominguez, a righthanded reliever who seems destined to reach the majors this season. The manager’s steak was great, but he said Dominguez was “sensational.”
“He definitely has the talent. He definitely has the demeanor,” Kapler said when asked if Dominguez could contribute this season in Philadelphia. “One of the things I mentioned as I was watching him was as we went out for mound visits, this is a guy that’s completely composed and in some ways similar to the way that Scott Kingery’s heartbeat is.