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Phillies Announce Amaro As New GM
In a news conference this morning, the Phillies announced Ruben Amaro Jr. as their new GM. He received a three-year contract. He beat out player development exec Mike Arbuckle, who resigned. On the docket for Amaro: ten potential arbitration cases and key free agents like Pat Burrell and Jamie Moyer.
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Arbuckle deserved the job. Losing him will be devastating. Hopefully Amaro just won't do anything: just sign core players to long-term deals and keep the young talent.
Posted by: baxter | November 03, 2008 at 10:21 AM
The local Philadelphia sports personality Howard Eskin reported last night on TV that the Phillies attempted before the deadline to trade Howard to the Dodgers in exchange for James Loney and "middling" prospects. Sounds absurd.
Tim, do you know anything about that?
Posted by: mkdelucas | November 03, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Eskin's "rumors" are always completely and utterly false...he knows nothing about baseball and has no sources with the team.
Posted by: ae | November 03, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Eskin is also quite anti-Phillies franchise so him trying to cause controversy while they're on top wouldn't be shocking.
Of course, he's also a baseball idiot, so there's a chance Clayton Kershaw would qualify as a "middling prospect" in his mind.
Of course, of course, if the Phillies were actually as close to getting Holliday as rumored, the report as stated could have been a way of balancing salary for 2008 and 2009. Howard was still looking horrific around the deadline so him for Loney isn't really that absurd.
Posted by: Not Joe Morgan | November 03, 2008 at 11:06 AM
It should be noted that Gillick will be remaining with the team. ( at least for now)
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081103&content_id=3661056&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi
Posted by: pb | November 03, 2008 at 01:26 PM