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Braves get older, Hamels hangs out

Good morning (of afternoon)! Here’s what’s going on this Friday:

The Braves are arming themselves for the 2017 season. They recently signed R.A. Dickey and, now, have Bartolo Colon on board.

They’re two of the three oldest players in baseball (Ichiro Suzuki is in between); the pair is a combined 85 years old. Comparatively, the Phillies’ current three-man rotation of Aaron Nola, Vince Velasquez and Jerad Eickhoff is a combined 73 years old.

Here’s a list of five reasons the Phillies should sign Jose Bautista this winter.

I have one reason why they shouldn’t: qualifying offer. A rebuilding team like the Phillies should not surrender a high draft pick right now. Bautista is off my table.

Cole Hamels was at Saul High School Thursday; we were there.

Check out what he had to say about the rebuild, plus his time in Philadelphia, along with good stuff about the city from his wife, Heidi.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.