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Another Phillies note: Jim Salisbury’s nightly report of the GM meetings is up at CSNphilly and he’s reporting the Phillies had dialog with BJ Upton’s agent.
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Personally, I like a lot of our prospects, specifically, Roman Quinn, Carlos Tocci, Tommy Joseph, Cody Asche, Jesse Biddle, Maikel Franco, Tyson Gillies, Zach Collier, Ethan Martin, Trevor May, and Jonathan Pettibone. I think all of these guys can at least contribute something at the big league level whether as a bench bat, reliever, or starting caliber players. I think there’s a lot of depth in our farm system and I’d be leery of depleting it unless it’s for the right player (Justin Upton, Chase Headley, etc).
I’d really like to see them address Center Field via Free Agency. If we have to give up the draft pick, so be it. I like BJ Upton, I like Michael Bourn, and I think either guy would be an upgrade over Shane Victorino/John Mayberry Jr last year.
The only position I feel that trading for would make sense is Third Base since there’s really only Kevin Youkilis out there on the free agent market.
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seeing the inevitability that JJ will be gone. I wonder what kind of package they are looking for. I dont know if this is too greedy, but an example of what I want would be at least Mike Olt, Martin Perez, and Barret Loux from Texas
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The idea of a rotation of Strasburg, Gio, Greinke, Zimm, Detwiler is pretty scary..
If Rizzo could pull of getting Greinke and Upton, I’d consider it an extremely successful off-season.. I do not want to see Bourn in CF for the Nationals next year, guys who rely on speed don’t tend to have career seasons after 30, and it’s not as if he had a WOW season in a contract year.