Brandon Phillips Is Still Playing Independent League Baseball and Just Entered the Race for Bat Flip of the Year

Remember Brandon Phillips? Yeah, the three-time MLB All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner Brandon Phillips. That guy.

Well he's apparently still playing independent league baseball for the Lexington Legends, where he's launching homers and bat flipping to the moon. He doesn't even let the bat get off his back before he discards it 30 feet down the third base line. That's how you pimp a home run off some poor guy just trying to keep his dream of playing professional baseball alive. Don't bring that slop in there if you have any aspirations of playing affiliated ball.

It appears Phillips became part of the ownership group for the Legends last week, so I don't know if he's playing in some exhibition games or what exactly the deal is, but I want him to become a player-owner and keep taking these guys deep. Let them know what a big leaguer looks like.

Whatever the deal is with Phillips and Lexington, he's clearly still got it. I hope we get to see some even more ridiculous bat flips in the near future. How long could an MLB All-Star keep putting up good numbers in an independent league? Until they're 45? 50? I want to find out.

Thank God Phillips never played for Tony La Russa, though. He'd have given that poor old man a stroke.