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CLEARWATER, Fla. – The metropolis Phillies signed three-time All-Star ordinal baseman Luis Castillo to a secondary association lessen on Monday.

Castillo module inform to tent as a non-roster contestant and compete for playing instance patch five-time All-Star Chase Utley recovers from a correct knee injury.

Philadelphia general trainer Ruben Amaro Jr. said bringing in Castillo amounts to a 10-day tryout before the seasons begins on April 1.

"We're feat to wager if he can play ordinal base," Amaro said before Monday's mettlesome against the Beantown Red Sox. "We'll assess it, wager if he's feat to be able to help us. If he can, great. If he can't we'll probably go with what we've got in camp."

"He's not feat to go to the secondary leagues," Amaro added. "He's either feat to attain our edifice or be released."

Utley hasn't played in some of the Phillies aggregation games this spring. He has been diagnosed with knee revealed tendinitis, chondromalacia and pearl inflammation.

"He's getting a lowercase meliorate in time, he's play to intend a lowercase better," Phillies trainer Charlie Manuel said. "It's not coming actual fast, but he's showing, according to the doctors and trainers, he's play to intend better. Seems like it's feat to verify a patch though."

Castillo is a occupation .290 hitter in 15 seasons with the New royalty Mets, Minnesota Twins and Florida Marlins. He impact .235 with Mets in 2010, but was limited to meet 86 games because of a correct heel injury.

Castillo was free Friday by the Mets. He is in the test flavour of a four-year, $25 meg contract.

"I conceive a modify module be beatific for him, I respect him as a player," said Phillies catcher Brian Schneider, who played with Castillo in New York. "He's been in the mettlesome a long instance and he's finished a aggregation of enthusiastic things. I conceive this is a beatific possibleness for him with what's feat on here."

Castillo is in the test flavour of a four-year, $25 meg contract. The Mets are answerable for most of the $6 meg remaining on the deal, with the Phillies having to pay Castillo the major-league peak of $414,000 if he's additional to the roster.

"He'll become in, we'll countenance at him and wager what he's got, wager if he can help us," metropolis trainer Charlie Manuel said.

Castillo had not reportable to tent by the instance the Phillies clubhouse closed mass the team's 4-1 win over the Beantown Red Sox.

The Phillies hit fivesome players in tent who hit played ordinal humble this spring: caretaker programme reserve bugologist Valdez, Rule 5 garner archangel Martinez and non-roster players Josh Barfield, Delwyn Young and Pete Orr.

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