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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
The shot assemblage is mourning the nonaccomplishment of 1 of their own.
Corey Phelan, a left-handed pitcher successful the Phillies' insignificant league, has died aft a conflict with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Phelan's squad announced the quality of his tragic passing successful connection shared connected Oct. 13. He was conscionable 20 years old.
"The Phillies household is highly saddened by the tragic passing of Corey Phelan," the connection read. "Corey's affirmative beingness and selflessness influenced everyone astir him. While helium was incredibly passionate astir the crippled of baseball, his emotion for his household and his beardown religion superseded everything else. We widen our deepest condolences to his family, arsenic good arsenic his teammates and unit who were by his side, providing affectional enactment passim the people of his courageous conflict with cancer."
The Phillies signed the New York autochthonal arsenic an undrafted escaped cause retired of precocious schoolhouse successful 2020.
This past April, Phelan shared that helium was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma aft doctors recovered a nine-inch wide successful his chest. Amid his treatment, helium was capable to sojourn the Phillies clubhouse successful Citi Field, arsenic they were successful municipality to look the Mets.
"It was awesome," Phelan said of the nighttime successful May, per MLB. "I can't enactment into words however awesome it was. Every clip I tin ticker them connected TV, depending connected what transmission they are playing on, I ticker them, and I basal for them each game. I emotion watching them play. They bring my spirits up."
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The team's manager of subordinate development, Preston Mattingly, besides shared a fewer words honoring Phelan's bequest pursuing quality of his passing.
"Corey is and ever volition beryllium a peculiar person," his connection read. "His grin lit up a country and everyone who came into interaction with him cherished the interaction. His representation volition unrecorded on, particularly with the Phillies organization."
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