After signing a six-year contract with the Phillies, infielder Scott Kingery has apparently been assigned a new number as he begins in Major League career.
After wearing number 80 during spring training, Kingery changed his Twitter handle to include the number four. With Andres Blanco’s departure this offseason the number was readily available, and matches with a player who’s already started to build a legacy in Philadelphia.
Number four doesn’t hold any historical value in Phillies history, with Blanco, Pete Orr, John McDonald, Dane Sardinha, Eric Bruntlett, Russell Branyan, Pete LaForest, and the infamous Lenny Dykstra. Certainly, none of those names is held in the highest esteem in Phillies history.