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Phillies second sacker Chase Utley looks free and easy fielding grounders on the half field adjacent to Bright House Field on Tuesday February 12, 2013. (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

CLEARWATER, FLA.–Team Canada and Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Pete Orr (below) of Richmond Hill, Ont. Ca. takes grounders on the Phillies half field adjacent to their spring training stadium today.  Orr will be leaving Clearwater on March 3, 2013 to join his Canadian teammates in Arizona prior to pool play for the World Baseball Classic.  Chase Utley also was taking infield.

Pete Orr (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

Phillies center fielder Ben Revere plays log toss with himself with a ball from another from

Ben Revere (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

another sport at the team’s Carpenter Complex.  According to some Revere says it uses his whole arm throwing the football.  Former major league pitching coach Tom House of the Texas Rangers used to do the same having pitchers playing catch with a football during spring training. House was in the bullpen on April 8th, 1974, an historic day at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium.  Al Downing served up Hank Aaron’s historic 715th home run which broke Babe Ruth’s Record. Tom House caught the ball.

Cliif Lee throws long toss (Eddie Michels Photo)

Phillies catchers Eric Kratz (left) and Carlos Ruiz (right) leave the field at the Carpenter Complex after a session of long toss today. Kratz will shoulder the catching duties at the start of the 2013 season as Ruiz finishes serving his 25-game suspension for banned substances. (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

Phillies RHP Kyle Kendrick plays long toss today at the team’s Carpenter Complex. It was rumored but not confirmed that with the first scheduled pitchers and catchers workouts to begin on Wednesday the players had a golf outing scheduled Tuesday afternoon. (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)