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Maikel Franco heads to Clearwater in hopes of playing for the Phillies by season's end

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It would have been very easy for Maikel Franco to simply call it a season and set his sights on winter ball in the Dominican Republic. But the Phillies third baseman does not want to make the above image the last sight of his 2015 career. Thus, Franco continues on, with the hope of playing for the Phillies again in 2015.

Kevin Cooney of the Bucks County Courier Times reports:

Maikel Franco packed his bats away in a bag Wednesday.