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Opportunity Awaits for Domonic Brown at Phillies’ Camp

February 20, 2011   Ed Price   No comments

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Domonic BrownCLEARWATER, Fla. — Domonic Brown wears a light-grey T-shirt with the sleeves cut off under his Phillies uniform.

The shirt is made by Nike, but the slogan on it might as well come from the Philadelphia front office:

YOUR
TIME
WILL
COME

Told Sunday the slogan is appropriate, Brown chuckled and nodded.

FanHouse rated Brown, 23, the No. 6 prospect in baseball. And with Jayson Werth gone, having taken the Nationals‘ money, there is a spot for Brown in right field at Citizens Bank Park.

 

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Phillies Not Rushing to Move Joe Blanton

January 11, 2011   Josh Alper   No comments

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Joe Blanton is still a member of the Phillies and that’s OK with general manager Ruben Amaro.

Amaro, speaking with Todd Zolecki of MLB.com, said that there’s no pressing need to get rid of Blanton’s $17 million salary over the next two years. Blanton has been on the market since Cliff Lee agreed to a return gig in Philly, but, for now, Amaro is focusing on his strong pitching depth rather than the payroll flexibility a Blanton deal would give the team.

“I really don’t have to do anything,” Amaro said. “We’ll see whether it makes some sense to increase some flexibility for us for later on, but at some point, as I’ve said, we’ve just got to see what we’ve got in spring training and move on from there.”

 

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Cliff Lee’s Return to Phillies Highlights Unpredictable Offseason

December 28, 2010   John Hickey   No comments

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All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010.

Cliff Lee to the Phillies.

Jayson Werth to the Nationals.

Zack Greinke to the Brewers.

Carl Crawford to the Red Sox.

What do these offseason moves by the baseball establishment have in common?

Just that the baseball establishment thought each of those players would wind up somewhere else.

 

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Cliff Lee: Rejoining Phillies a ‘No-Brainer’

December 15, 2010   Marc Lancaster   No comments

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The Phillies didn’t jump into the Cliff Lee sweepstakes with a serious offer until late last week, but once they showed a legitimate interest, the pitcher knew where he would be spending the next several seasons.

“I never wanted to leave this place in the first place,” Lee said Wednesday during a news conference at Citizens Bank Park.

The left-hander was officially welcomed back to Philadelphia after signing a five-year contract that guarantees him $120 million. As previously reported, the deal contains a vesting option for a sixth year based on innings pitched that could boost the total value of the contract to $135 million, and there are additional bonuses possible based on year-end awards.

Lee happily accepted a No. 33 Phillies jersey from general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. at the press conference, a gesture that in itself demonstrated what has changed in Philadelphia since Lee last pitched there in the 2009 World Series. He wore 34 during his previous stint, but Roy Halladay has since taken over that number.

 

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Ruben Amaro Denies Reports That Phillies Won’t Re-Sign Jayson Werth

November 12, 2010   Josh Alper   No comments

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Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro hit back at reports that the Phillies have already written off the prospect of re-signing Jayson Werth.

“That’s unequivocally a false statement,” Amaro said. “That did not come from me and I would not express that.”

No one should start doing cartwheels down Broad Street in a parade celebrating Werth’s return to the team, however. While Amaro said that they look forward to speaking with Werth’s agent Scott Boras, they also want to get an answer about what Werth wants to do sooner rather than later.

“I don’t think it’s something we’re going to let go on for a while,” Amaro said. “Hopefully we’ll find out if he’s a viable option to bring back in a short period of time. Regardless of what happens with Jayson, there are things we need to do.”

 

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Jayson Werth Could Stay With Phillies, Says GM Ruben Amaro

October 25, 2010   Tom Fornelli   No comments

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While he may not have earned himself as much extra money as Cliff Lee has this October, Phillies outfielder Jayson Werth probably doesn’t need to worry about getting a new contract this winter when he hits the free agent market. He’ll still be one of the top outfielders available, along with Carl Crawford, and he has Scott Boras as an agent. Of course, most people presume that wherever Werth signs his next deal, it won’t be in Philadelphia where he played a key role in getting the Phillies to the World Series two years in a row.

Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro doesn’t see things that way. Not only does he want Werth back in the City of Brotherly Love next season, he thinks that his team can get the deal done as well. Amaro did qualify his statement by saying that it will depend on what the asking price is, and how it will affect other parts of the organization.

Still, even while Amaro says that the Phillies would like Werth back, it was this quote that makes me doubt the sincerity behind his remarks:

 

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Steve Phillips’ 2010 MLB Awards

September 27, 2010   Steve Phillips   No comments

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It is that time of year. Teams are clinching playoff spots while others are being eliminated from postseason consideration. That makes it time to award the hardware for the season’s best performances.

Each season there are so many extraordinary performances. It would be nice to reward all of those who deserve it but unfortunately that is just not how it works. Only the best of the best will win the awards.

AL Most Valuable Player

This is really a two-player race: Josh Hamilton and Miguel Cabrera. Some may think that Jose Bautista should be considered a candidate with his 50-plus homers but he is well behind both Hamilton and Cabrera in on-base percentage and batting average.

Hamilton is leading all of baseball with a .361 average to go with his 31 homers and 97 RBI but he has been hurt and unable to play since Sept. 4.

Cabrera is third in the league in hitting (.328), second in home runs (38) and first in RBI (126). He is a few points behind Hamilton in OPS. The fact that Cabrera has 31 intentional walks (to five for Hamilton) shows how little protection he had in the Tigers lineup.

Winner: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers

 

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Phillies’ Ruben Amaro Has Roy-al Touch

July 29, 2010   Anthony L. Gargano   No comments

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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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Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Denies Chase Utley is Injured, Then Admits He’s Injured

June 18, 2010   Josh Alper   No comments

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The physical state of Phillies second baseman Chase Utley has been the subject of discussion for some time now thanks to Utley’s struggles at the plate in June. Utley’s OPS sits at an unsightly 541 and he hasn’t hit a home run in nearly a month. The Phillies have steadfastly denied any suggestion that Utley is less than 100 percent healthy, or they had until first base coach Davey Lopes spoke to David Laurila of Baseball Prospectus.

Per Lopes, part of the reason why the Phillies haven’t been as active on the basepaths this season is because Utley has been “hampered by a little bit of a knee injury.” General Manager Ruben Amaro reacted swiftly to this admission by saying that Lopes was lying and repeating that there is no injury.

Amaro followed up that strong denial by saying that Utley has been dealing with knee soreness during the season.

 

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Refined ‘Doc’ Halladay Was Bound to Deliver Perfection

May 29, 2010   Anthony L. Gargano   No comments

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Down in baseball’s sleepiest port, under the cloak of a holiday weekend, with the hometown’s focus on the Flyers, yes, squarely on Stanley, especially after the ballclub’s forgettable week, Roy Halladay bullied history. And doesn’t history happen that way?

In another time, without sacred scrolls running at the bottom of flat screens and instant alerts and programming break-ins, Halladay’s perfect game against the Marlins is Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point night in Hershey. It becomes great sports lore in Philadelphia, with scores swearing they watched live, and everyone else wondering if such perfection really happened because it happened in Baseball Florida, invoking the conundrum of the falling tree in the forest.

Alas, there’s proof, if only because sooner or later, the best pitcher in baseball had to throw a perfect game.

Baseball justice, however unjust at times, says so.

 

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