Otto Kemp spent 2½ months in the major leagues this summer with the Phillies before getting the call into manager Rob Thomson’s office that no one wants.

The soon-to-be 26-year-old was sent back down last month to the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs. It is the most undesirable news a major-league player can get.

Anyone who has met Kemp knows he is a quality human being, so the California native has handled it all in typical Kemp fashion.

“My biggest priorities are to get my work in and try to win a baseball game,” he said. “I try to stick to my roots here. I don’t want to be the guy who comes back and complains about everything and brings everybody down.

“A lot of guys have gone through this. It motivates you. I know what I’m capable of and what it’s like up there.”

Kemp has done well

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