The Phillies have declined their $6MM club option on reliever Mike Adams, the club announced. Of course, the attentive reader would have already realized this fact from looking over this morning’s MLBPA release, which listed Adams among the free agents.
Needless to say, the move is not a surprise. Adams, 36, had an injury-plagued two-year run in Philadelphia and never had much of a chance to live up to his contract. He was effective enough when he was not hurt, and ultimately contributed 43 2/3 innings of 3.50 ERA ball, but the price was too steep to bring him back for 2015.
Adams will surely generate plenty of interest in spite of his shoulder problems. He was rather good early in 2014, ending the year with 10.1 K/9 against 3.9 BB/9 to go along with a 56.3% groundball rate. Though a substantial guarantee would be a surprise, we have seen significant outlays made to injured hurlers (Jesse Crain and Gavin Floyd, for example) in recent years .
This site is amazing. Quoting stats from NEXT year!
(Thanks for your hard work Jeff and others I enjoy being a reader.)
Did I forget to publish the MLBTR crystal ball post, in which all of baseball’s future is revealed? Eh, better keep that genie in the bottle.
Thanks for the friendly heads up, much appreciated.
Of course, the attentive reader would have already realized this fact from looking over this morning’s MLBPA release, which listed Adams among the free agents.
I bet Ruby was one of those readers!
In all seriousness though, would Mike Adams sing a make good contract with the Phillies or is parting ways best here?
I’m guessing that was supposed to be Jesse Crain? Hahn’s injury was in Low-A, and he’s not getting a substantial guarantee.
First day of the offseason = “spot Jeff’s typos” day here at MLBTR. Congratulations to another winner!
Sadly, every day of the year represents one with multiple errors on my end. Pointing out this rare one by you wasn’t meant to be a knock on you!
Ha, didn’t take it that way at all. Always prefer to have a chance to correct the mistakes.
Would be nice to see him reunite with the Padres. Not gonna happen, but he was the true ace of The Penitentiary.