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Ryan 35
Um Ruben, not being able to take a chance on Roberto Hernandez because you got Carlos Beltran isn’t a bad situation to be in….. Food for thought.
robertp
I get what he’s saying… clearly he needs to fill a number of roster spots so he can’t go all in on one guy but you have to question some of the guys he has “taken a chance on”. And Byrd is a major overpay for someone viewed as a reserve or “role player” at this point in his career.
Ryan 35
Yeah, I agree. I get his point, just the examples he gives us as support (Byrd, Hernandez) don’t really help his case.
John Donovan
How is Byrd a role player or reserve at this point in his career? He was a solid All-Star caliber starter last season.
East Coast Bias
But do you think he will sustain that level of production for the next two years? The contract covers his next two years, not the previous year.
Personally, I don’t think he will be a reserve player, but I also don’t see him repeating last year’s season as well.
Phillyfan425
He doesn’t have to replicate his 2013 season to be worth the deal. He just has to fall in line with his career numbers (as a regular). If you take 2013 and 2012 as outliers (his best and worst years) and go back to when he was a regular (2007-2011), he’s averaged a .290/.350/.440 line with 45 XBH a season. He’s also produced a 2.8 WAR (per season) over that time line. It’s the same kind of risk they took with MY (from an offensive standpoint). Difference is, Marlon isn’t an out-of-position, rapidly declining defender who’s dWAR will cancel out his oWAR.
John Donovan
You are always paying for past production, that’s how sports contracts work. Otherwise Pujols would have never gotten his contract for 10 years. Do you really think ANYONE in baseball thinks Pujols is going to be worth $25 million when he is 41? No, but that was the cost to get him to leave St. Louis and go to the Angels.
Players and more specifically agents are not unwise. There is a reason players have a career year in a contract year, because they want more money. Whether or not Byrd can sustain that level of production is a gamble that the Phillies are taking. But no one, not even you, can say definitively that Byrd will be a poor player in 2014 or 2015. You can say definitively that he was an All Star in 2013.
robertp
Amaro himself dubbed Byrd “a decent role player”.
theydizneyboy
Hey Ryan, how about you do some research. Ruben is to do what he’s told. It’s David Montgomery and John S Middleton who are to blame. Stop spamming RUBEN RUBEN RUBEN RUBEN.
Call out the right people, not the puppet.
nepp
Middleton is a limited partner who has zero say in the running of the organization. He has nothing to do with the day-to-day decision making and is basically the equivalent of a non-voting shareholder who gets a dividend from them every year. Montgomery is the only member of the ownership group involved in the running of the team and I would agree that he has way too much influence on decision making in the FO.
theydizneyboy
Is that true? Montgomery is the only member of the ownership group involved in the running of the team?
Is it that known around baseball or do you have a source?
If it is known fact I’d assume it would be spoken about much more than it is now, which is never.
LooksEasyOnTV
“We’ve got a lot of holes to fill, and our job is to try to make the right decision 70 percent of the time, not the wrong decision 70 percent of the time.”
I think the better option would be to try making the right decision 100 percent of the time, while realizing that there is a margin of error (perhaps as high as 30 percent).
Karkat
Going .700 in baseball is pretty darn good! That’s a 113-49 season!
LooksEasyOnTV
Or a .700 batting average!
My point was that it is odd to hear a GM state that his goal is to be wrong 30 percent of the time.
Karkat
That phrasing was wicked odd. But as someone else pointed out I doubt there’s much that Amaro could say at this point that wouldn’t net him a tremendous amount of scrutiny.
raltongo 2
yea, i thought that was kind of a hum-dinger quote also…hoping to be average? 70/100? That’s a “C” in school
Tony DiQuattro
I’m sure Ruben will take your comment into consideration.
Phillyfan425
RAJ tries to be an optimist – Phillies fans slam him for being unrealistic.
RAJ tries to be a realist – Phillies fans slam him for being too pessimistic.
I guess he could try being a pessimist, like most Phillies fans. But them I’m sure he’d get slammed for being “too negative”.
theydizneyboy
Dude, it’s not Ruben’s fault, it’s David Montgomery and John S Middleton! Do some research!
Vincent Paterno
Has anyone signed Jeff Baker? If not, he might be an option for the Nationals if they can’t get Reynolds.
Stuart Brown
Baker should probably be the primary option, not Reynolds.
phillies1102
Okay, Ruben had made some mistakes in past offseasons, but putting his entire history behind him, he actually had a good offseason given his position. He had to add talent in RF, SP, and C and with only $22 million, that is not easy to do. I would have done things a little differently, but in reality, my moves wouldnt have made both our team better and our budget possible. I still think we should have traded Brown, but I understand if the return wasn’t suffice.
His only mistakes were giving Mayberry a contract and giving Ruiz a third year, but in a market where Skip Shumaker got 2 years, 5 million, Mayberry’s deal is plausible and the market demanded a 3rd year for Ruiz. So we’ll see how well his moves will work, but I have good feelings about Byrd.
Andrew m
The Ruiz signing is horrendous. Especially after seeing the deal salty got. Would it kill this guy to sign someone who isn’t in his mid 30’s??
phillies1102
The Salty signing did hurt, but he wasn’t a fit for us and he clearly wanted to be more than a 7 hole hitter. His defense is average, while Chooch’s is always superior, but yes I am suprised overall Ruiz got that kind of deal. Doesn’t mean he can’t live up to it.
Ron Loreski
Kendrys Morales is 100% not a fit for the Pirates for 2 reasons.
1. He’s a DH.
2. No way they surrender a 1st round draft pick for any player.
bucsws2014
And people wonder why Bowden is no longer a GM. smh!
alexamato
I’d rather have Fontenot make the Nat’s roster over Carroll
leowalter
Seriously,I have never heard Bowden explain why he thinks ANY NL orginization would give up a no. 1 pick for a DH that should never pick up a glove more than once a week.
Andrew m
I’m confused… Does he think the phillies have a shot to contend this year? Guy is an absolute joke of a general manager. For the love of god, let us reload our roster. He’s trying to scrape togethor another 2008 season from a roster that simply not as good, and clearly on the decline. Not looking forward to another dreadful season this year.
Bob M.
I think if the Phillies could get 200 innings out of Matt Garza and production from Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez, they could push for a wild card spot.