Years ago, we heard of a kid in Reading chucking baseballs at 100 m.p.h. With a team at the pro level that couldn't keep up with the Marlins, it was alarmingly hopeful to imagine someone in our largely decried farm system being worthy of praise. But there was Ken "100 Miles" Giles, weakly formed rhyming nickname at all, crushing Eastern League hitters with triple digit velocity.
The Phillies managed to hang onto the phenom, and on June 12, 2014, he made his debut for a 27-36 Phillies squad in desperate need of something to get psyched about.