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nm344
Keeping Chooch for 5 million next season is the biggest bargain in baseball
bigpat
Evan Longoria who’s being paid in food stamps says hi.
Clayton Wilson
Here we go again. Saw a Braves fan earlier who said that Chipper’s option for 2012 was the biggest bargain in baseball.
I really hate his nickname. He’s one of the better catchers in baseball, but he’s not gonna keep this up at all. It’ll be a bargain, not anywhere close to being the biggest though.
CommissionerBart
It certainly could be worse for the Phillies, notwithstanding the fact that their mnors system isn’t overflowing with talent, but it still isn’t a pretty immediate future. Even if a good number of the players cited above return, it won’t be cheap and the current makeup of the team isn’t where they want to be anyway. One good thing for the Phils though…..Hamels almost surely drove down the value of his future contract by completely turning off the Nats to playing a role in the bidding and driving up Hamels’ price considerably as the Nats have done with many other players–whether they signed them or not, their offers caused bidders to go substantially higher. Neither Rizzo nor Davey Johnson has any interest in seeing Hamels in the Nats clubhouse. Had Hamels not acted like a punkish buffoon, the Nats SURELY would have intentionally driven up Hamels price to disadvantage the Phillies–and might have even gone after him and traded some of their other very young pitching talent for a 2b or cf.
Guest 4596
ehh i doubt it. mainly cuz nobody would actually believe we’re legitimately pursuing him…adding another front-line starter is the least of our off-season needs
Clayton Wilson
Is throwing $127M at Ichiro #1? You guys could seriously use some more right-fielders that can pass for center-fielders in a pinch.
Ryan
I read this post very quickly, but are you suggesting that the first year eligible relievers could be non-tendered? I mean I know Amaro has a disdain for youth, but it would be an embarrassment if Bastardo were non tendered. The only pitchers on the Phillies with lower WHIPs and higher K/9’s than Bastardo are Papelbon and Lee.
Also, I know Schneider has done alright so far this year, I think bringing him back would be a mistake. He does not hit much anymore, and he does not throw out enough runners like he used to when he was probably one of the best in the game.
Why has Pence’s name not been brought up in trade? If the Phillies are sellers at the deadline, wouldn’t it make more sense to trade a guy with another year of control versus a guy like Victorino who would be a rental? Remember there is no more draft compensation for rentals, and because of that, the returns will probably be much lower going forward. Pence could be traded, the receiving team could get comp’d when he doesn’t sign, and thus the Phils get more value in return.
Rudy Kevak
As crappy as it sounds, the Phillies need to try to sign Hamels to an extension then go to Arte Moreno and say: “We’ll give you Hamels for Trumbo, Ernesto Fieri and Ervin Santana.