Tag Archive: Philadelphia Phillies

Dec 08

Angels sign Wilson and Pujols

Apparently the Lost Angeles Angels listened to me, and didn’t listen to me. I said they needed to focus on getting a hitter instead of a pitcher when it first came out that they were purusing C.J. Wilson but they decided to one up me and sign not only Wilson, but also Albert Pujols. I …

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Dec 08

The fish strike again

As I have already reacted to, the Marlins signed Jose Reyes to a lucrative contract. Well. The Miami Marlins came one step closer to signing the all of their first three contract offers they gave out this year when they signed Mark Buehrle to a 4 year $58MM contract today. Let me just start this …

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Nov 18

Time to be smart, Angels

Los Angeles Angels. You don’t need starting pitching. You don’t really need it at all, to be honest. You going after C.J. Wilson and Hiroki Kuroda is foolish. You’ve got a trio of pitchers that can take care of business. Please, don’t make the same mistake as the Philadelphia Phillies did. It’s really not necessary. …

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Nov 12

Reaction to Phillies signing Jonathan Papelbon

News broke yesterday that the Philadelphia Phillies have signed Jonathan Papelbon to a 4 year $50MM contract with incentives making the contract up to $60MM. Not quite where I thought where he would land, as I said he would go the Seattle Mariners. That’s a lot of money for a closer, but Papelbon has been …

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Nov 12

Holy wow, Marlins

Here we go. I said in my NL East’s version of Offseason Files that the Florida Marlins (now known as the Miami Marlins) would see their payroll skyrocket and they would be in on some big names. I mentioned that they have a very good core set of players and I expected them to be …

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