It’s official. The Phillies have signed right-handed reliever, Joaquin Benoit to a one-year contract. In order to make room on the 40-man roster, the Phillies have designated RHP Michael Mariot for assignment.
The 39-year old Benoit signed for a reported to be $7.5 M for the one year. Benoit joins recent waiver claim David Rollins and recent trade acquisition Pat Neshek as veteran options to the young Phillies’ bullpen. Continue reading Phillies Sign FA RHP Joaquin Benoit; DFA Mariot
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Players and owners reached an agreement last week and a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is in place through 2021. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of December 5th
The Phillies claimed LHP David Roberts off waivers from the Texas Rangers. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Phillies designated OF Cody Asche for assignment. Continue reading Phillies Claim Pitcher; DFA Asche
Okay, I don’t know how close baseball really came to a lockout as reported and discussed over the past 10 days. But assuming there was at least a remote possibility of a lockout, baseball dodged that bullet when owners and players agreed to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement Wednesday evening.
Ken Rosenthal was the first to break the news with the simple and succinct Twitter announcement, “Source: CBA is done”. The new agreement will be in place for 5 years, and runs through the 2021 season. While an official announcement was being prepared, the following details were reported (these came mostly from Twitter and the MLB Network, and may change when the official announcement is released): Continue reading Baseball Avoids Work Stoppage
I hope everyone enjoyed a Happy Thanksgiving. Here’s the open discussion thread for Phillies’ talk and other topics.
Just before Thanksgiving, the Phillies released David Buchanan and traded Jimmy Cordero to the Nationals for cash considerations or a PTBNL. They also signed a couple international free agents, RHP Victor Santos and OF Wilbert Garcia. They assigned LHP Anton Mikhailovich Kuznetsov to the DSL Phillies. Kuznetsov was signed back on September 8th and is from Moscow. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of November 28th
Here’s the open discussion thread for Phillies’ talk and other topics.
The Phillies had a busy week culminating in the submission of their 40-man roster before this past Friday’s 8:00 PM deadline. First, early in the week and to the surprise and possible annoyance of a lot of fans, Jeremy Hellickson accepted the Phillies’ qualifying offer. Then the Phillies outrighted Elvis Araujo, David Buchanan, and Jimmy Cordero. Only then did the Phillies add 11 prospects to the 40-man roster. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of November 21st
With the 8:00 PM deadline approaching, the Phillies finalized their 40-Man Roster for the Rule 5 Draft.
The Phillies chose to protect 11 players from their minor league system, Continue reading Phillies Make 40-Man Roster Moves; November 18, 2016
The Arizona Fall League will hold its championship game this Saturday without the Scottsdale Scorpions, our Phillies participants, and Tim Tebow. Continue reading The Tebow Effect
The Philadelphia Phillies announced today that they have released Matt Harrison. The LHP was acquired as part of the Cole Hamels deal and was viewed as a salary dump by the Rangers. Continue reading Phillies Release Matt Harrison
In what will come as a surprise for many Phillies’ fans, RHP Jeremy Hellickson has accepted the team’s $17.2M Qualifying Offer.
The biggest surprise is that a Scott Boras client would forgo the opportunity to test free agency in what is considered to be a lean market for starting pitchers. Continue reading Hellickson Accepts Qualifying Offer
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