Phillies Offseason Thread

[Rome]

Lidge made 12.5M and so will Papelbon.  If it's true that they slot positions in terms of payroll importance then it's not a stretch to believe they saw Papelbon out there, offered him Lidge's payroll slot and moved on without giving it another thought.

And I would much rather have Papelbon than Madson with the game on the line so the extra money and years he got is inconsequential to me.

[ice grillin you]

they dont slot positions....you are thinking of the eagles

and if money is inconsequential to you then really theres nothing to discuss and every deal the phillies throw out there is the best ever

i tend to look at things more in shades of grey rather than strictly black n white

also last year madson had more saves less blown saves and didnt choke the season away in the final game of the year

[Sgt PSN]

i tend to look at things more in shades of grey rather than strictly black n white

Really bad analogy on your part. 

[Rome]

and if money is inconsequential to you then really theres nothing to discuss and every deal the phillies throw out there is the best ever

i tend to look at things more in shades of grey rather than strictly black n white

I actually had to read this twice.

Good God.

[Munson]

If there were liquid in my mouth I might have spit all over the screen reading that

[phattymatty]

dude that won jeopardy tonight is one of the phanstormers, those crowd amping people at the phils games. never knew they were called phanstormers but trebek threw in a shot at the phillies afterward.

[Munson]

hah, I was watching and immediately thought "suck it, trebek" in my mind.

Phillie Phanatic got a mention though so...yay.

[Sgt PSN]

Phils and Kendrick avoided arbitration.  1 yr, $3.5mil. 

[MDS]

hes the worst pitcher in the history of baseball

terrible deal

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

That's $3.5m they could have tacked on as easily-reachable incentives into Papelbon's deal.

[ice grillin you]

can this kendrick kid hit at all?

[BigEd76]

Joel Pineiro signed a minor league + ST invite

[Geowhizzer]

All In!

[SD]

It's blatantly obvious what happened, Boras tried to play smug and smug called his bluff. They probably agreed to the deal in principle then Boras got greedy and tried to get more...probably tried to call around to gain other interest to raise his clients value, smug went elsewhere and Boras was stuck holding his dick in his hand.

Eskin on Sports Final saying ^this is exactly what happened. Madson/Boras agreed with smug in principle on a deal, Boras floated that number around to a bunch of other teams. Smug moved on. Madson got farged in the end.

[SunMo]

Phillies avoided arbitration with Cole.  1 year, $15M