Comments on: Odds and Ends: Halladay Wants Out, Ticket Prices Up

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By: j reed

j reed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:27:47 +0000

is torrealba still available or is he asking too much?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:01:23 +0000

Now that they have multiple options for the 25th man…they will likely try to sign a big need leading up to the winter meetings.

I think they will address 3B first, then sign the best reliever they can afford & the best starter they can afford, then wait to bring in a cheapo list backup catcher.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:59:49 +0000

MLBTR: Phillies Sign DeWayne Wise & Wilson Valdez (both utilitymen) to minor league contracts.

They have just covered themselves incase Juan Castro doesnt work out or another bench hole opens up.

By: j reed

j reed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:54:29 +0000

the annoying thing is that if Halladay goes to either the Sox or Yankees, either team is a shoe in for a WS …. if we are still the class of the NL and make it back to the WS, we are looking at another loss. Halladay Beckett Lester would be downright brutal and with the Yankees line-up C.C. and Halladay would be all you’d really need. It be interesting if the Yankees landed him how the league would react…there’d be almost no reason for any other team to play the season…Selig might see this little baseball renaissance come to a quick end. It’d be hard to stay interested knowing that you’d have to face a team with that much firepower….a team would just have to be incredibly hot to overcome such odds. I’d say if we have the chance let’s get him esp. since we still don’t know when Hamels will return to his true talent level.

By: Don M

Don M — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:37:37 +0000

More to end the notion that HAPP + TAYLOR would be anywhere near enough..

Peter Abraham – BOSTON GLOBE… from MLBTR

“that he feels Halladay would be worth the price for the Red Sox (the price, presumably, being Buchholz, Casey Kelly, and another prospect or two).”

Regardless of his situation, he’s still Roy Halladay.. and the Blue Jays will once again let teams outbid each other to get him … I’ve thought all along that the RedSox are the ones that need him most

Beckett and Lester.. Bucholz is just as unproven as HAPP, but more highly regarded. Dice-K and Wakefield are coming off injury, so they definitely NEED pitching

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:39:43 +0000

Fortunatley, the more I read about the Tigers and Edwin Jackson the more I get scared away from him. WHY are they trying to just…get rid of him? Something has to be wrong there…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:38:25 +0000

Hopefully that will put the issue to rest….this has become madness. They will not be quiet this offseason, but they will not spend foolishly either. They got to this level by not spending folishly.

By: Don M

Don M — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:26:49 +0000

that was never going to be enough.. as long as the Yankees are willing to part with Phil Hughes or Joba Chamberlain (I actually like Hughes a LOT more of those two)

and the RedSox might be willing to deal Clay Buchulz..

The Phillies’ JA HAPP is not in the same category as those guys, despite his sucess so far at the Major League level.. maybe replacin Michael Taylor in that deal with ANTHONY GOSE would help make something work, but I really can’t see that being either..

…
Buster Olney points out two things:

“One executive tells Olney that the Blue Jays’ chances of moving Roy Halladay are no better than 50/50. Another source suggests that the Jays could have had three top prospects for Halladay last summer, whereas now they could probably only land one star prospect and a second with some major-league potential. ”

They aren’t going to give him away for no reason..

By: Georgie

Georgie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:12:06 +0000

So there you go, that pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? Roy’s not coming here for Happ and Taylor, end of story.

By: Don M

Don M — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:11 +0000

to prove that Happ + Taylor would not be enough:

“The Red Sox are making a push to obtain Toronto ace Roy Halladay before the start of baseball’s winter meetings Dec. 7, according to industry sources. But the Blue Jays reportedly want top prospect Casey Kelly along with young starter Clay Buchholz. The Sox could retreat from the deal if the Blue Jays continue to demand Kelly. The 20-year-old was their first pick in the 2006 draft and signed for $3 million.”

Boston Globe

By: psujoe

psujoe — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:23:03 +0000

McDonald who is a great fielding SS and a good fielding 3b is going to sign with the BJ’s for 1.5 mil. Utility guys are getting expensive. I wouldn’t pay that much for a pure defensive IF backup.

By: karen

karen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:09:29 +0000

I can afford the Phillies tickets but I have a season ticket for Lehigh Valley so I go there and it is definately much closer for me and its not as crowded as Philly. Granted, it is not the big league team but there are future stars down there and rehab appearances do happen…..pedro martinez, victorino, raul, ruiz, happ was there in 08, taylor was down there at the end of 09….its fun.

By: jrollpatrol08

jrollpatrol08 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:07:45 +0000

” Victorino will not be traded and to put him in the same company as Mayberry and taylor/brown is silly.”

um if werth accepts a multiyear deal in philly then victorino will get moved. he had maybe a slightly above average season, and he could get more money somewhere else. the phils arent going to expend too much time/energy/money on keeping vic here when taylor and brown are going to be here as a cheaper alternative. i see this as the last season of ibanez, werth, victorino in OF. i think management wants to see werth, brown, taylor as the 2011 OF.

By: jrollpatrol08

jrollpatrol08 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:54:57 +0000

i cant tell if cliff likes it here or not. but i know he loves to compete, and that he can do for 5 more years if he signs a contract with philly. even though it goes against the organization’s pitcher planning, i do think they will offer him a 5 year deal. they dont like to go over 3 but with what this guy has shown you have to make an exception. i guarantee you one thing…management is definitely thinking this: ‘ok this guy played great for us…we know the importance of having a dependable number one guy, lets at least OFFER him 5/90 plus incentives/bonuses and see how much he likes it here.’….i wont guarantee lee will sign here but the offer has GOT to be there this winter

By: bfo_33

bfo_33 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:13:34 +0000

As much as I would hope for the opposite, the Phils will not be going for Halladay. It is not in their gameplan, and they typically don’t deviate from the gameplan.
The longer the Jays hold onto Halladay, the more they will have to pay him. Maybe you’d get more for the Harley if you waited for late spring to sell it, but if you can’t afford the payments, you get rid of it regardless. Halladay will go cheap (in regards to prospects, esp if they can force a package including Wells) and before the season starts, he just isn’t going to the Phillies.
Pujols deserved the MVP, and Ethier isn’t a bad #2. The Phillies have too much talent to call any of their players the MVP. Any one of their top 5 go down, they are still a playoff team. The same cannot be said for STL or LA. It doesn’t mean that guys didn’t have better years (I’m not even sure who the Phils MVP is, Utley, Howard, or Werth?).

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:11:43 +0000

Itll be for cheap. Hes better than Bruntlett anyway.

By: PSUjoe

PSUjoe — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:07:41 +0000

If the Phils sign Castro it better be for under a million. Assum $1 million. That leaves 19 more according to Amaro.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:58:11 +0000

They openly said that they would trade him inside their division weeks and weeks ago when the speculation began.