Day after day, week after week, the sun rises and sets. And somewhere in between, Odubel Herrera reaches base.
It has been this way now for 41 games — four at the end of last season, 37 at the beginning of this one. Only three players in Phillies history have had longer on-base streaks than Herrera, and two — Mike Schmidt and Chuck Klein — are in the Hall of Fame.
But Jorge Velandia has seen this from Herrera before.
Velandia was the general manager of La Guaira, a winter ball team in Venezuela, when Herrera played for him in 2014.