Phillies’ Ruben Amaro Has Roy-al Touch

Filed under: Phillies, NL East, MLB Transactions, MLB Trade Deadline

On the day he may have secured the National League for his team for the third consecutive year — a feat that hasn’t been done since the Cardinals of the ’40s — the most interesting general manager in baseball celebrates ’80s Retro Night at the ballpark looking like Gordon Gekko.

Meet Ruben Amaro.

He collects aces.

While the Braves cling to a shrinking lead in the East and the Reds and Cards slug it out in the Central and the Padres and Giants pitch the story of the West, the suddenly Roy-buttressed Phillies have become the most dangerous team in the NL. That’s because, as tweak week for contenders closes on Saturday with the non-waiver trading deadline, this second-year GM turns over a pair of Roys for the stretch run.

Bullets, they call them at the other World Series.

With Roy Oswalt now the club’s number-three starter, only Roy Hobbs is missing.

After a pause for East Coast cause and a glowing endorsement from friend and Phillies closer Brad Lidge, the country boy right-hander waived his no-trade clause, agreed to a mutual option for 2012 and ratified the deal eliciting a cease-tweet on the subject of if and where he’d go.

 

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