By his own admission, Jeff Singer has taken an unlikely path to his improbable status as one of the more intriguing prospects in the Phillies minor-league system.
"The alternate route," Singer calls it.
Rowland George, the Phillies scout who signed Singer, regards the story of the left-hander pitcher from Holy Cross Academy in Delran, N.J., and Rutgers Camden University as something out of a "fairy tale."
Singer, who was signed by the Phillies in October 2015 after a stint with the now-defunct Camden Riversharks of the independent Atlantic League, made enough of an impression in his first season in the minor-league system to earn an invitation to the prestigious Arizona Fall League.