2013-14 Phillies Offseason Thread

[ice grillin you]

you dont tank for a five year plan you tank for a player

theoretically if there was say another arod in the draft i guess you could tank in baseball but its not happened yet and i dont think it ever will

[MDS]

strasburg

[Geowhizzer]

You all care:

To summarize:

Frandsen signed (1 year / 900K)

basticho, Kendrick, Revere, and Mayberry tendered.

World Series!

[SD]

Dom Brown to the A's for Yoenis Cespedes

[Geowhizzer]

Dom Brown to the A's for Yoenis Cespedes

Where did you see this?  I'm not finding it anywhere.

[SD]

My buddy text'd me, I asked him for a source and he still hasn't gotten back to me. Disregard (probably)

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah not seeing it anywhere else at the moment....

Interesting if true

But they're about to sign Wil Nieves though!

[SunMo]

@ToddZolecki: Phillies have acquired RHP Brad Lincoln from Blue Jays in exchange for catcher Erik Kratz and LHP Rob Rasmussen.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Turkey bacon is now Canadian bacon

[Geowhizzer]

Yeah not seeing it anywhere else at the moment....

Interesting if true

But they're about to sign Wil Nieves though!

Reuben loves him some oldtimers.

[SD]

@ToddZolecki: Phillies have acquired RHP Brad Lincoln from Blue Jays in exchange for catcher Erik Kratz and LHP Rob Rasmussen.

so my buddy was only off by a little

[Dillen]

The Dom Brown - Yoenis deal was posted by a dude w/ a fake Twitter account. It tricked a lot of people across a lot of baseball blogs today. Who the hell wastes their time doing that shtein?

[MDS]

if they can teach him to throw strikes hell be good. he can strike people out, which, get this, is a pretty big deal for a reliever

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.crossingbroad.com/2013/12/jonathan-papelbons-massive-contract-may-be-an-issue-but-his-ugly-christmas-sweater-is-on-point.html

[MDS]

they offered 2/15 to scott feldman