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2011
Phillies To Sign Jonathan Papelbon
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According to Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com, the Phillies have agreed to terms with closer Jonathan Papelbon on a 4-year deal in the $50 million ballpark, pending a physical.
The Phillies were close to re-signing their former closer Ryan Madson to a rumored 4-year $44 million deal, but negotiations fell through and Amaro Jr. went with Papelbon instead.
Papelbon sported a 2.94 ERA with a 0.933 WHIP while recording 31 saves of 34 opportunities in the Redsox disheartening 2011 season. As a Type-A free agent, the Phillies will have to surrender their 1st round pick for signing Papelbon. If Philadelphia lets Madson walk however, they will get a first round pick in return.
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Clayton, a Long Island native and die-hard Mets fan, started writing online about three years ago. He is currently a Journalism major with a minor in Broadcasting at Seton Hall University. Although very disappointed with the current state of the team, Clayton remains hopeful that the young prospects in the farm system will bring the Mets back to a respected franchise in baseball once again. Besides writing for MMO, Clayton is also a staff member at 89.5 WSOU, Seton Hall's modern active rock radio station. You can contact Clayton by following him on Twitter: @Clayton_Collier or E-mailing him at MaybeNextYearMets@yahoo.com
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Ruben Amaro has signed 2 stars and has actually IMPROVED the Phillies in shorter time it takes Sandy Alderson to finish a sentence about being afraid to lose draft picks while using the word ‘continuum’
But hey, Sandy uses bigger words than Amaro woo hoo!
wait, you are counting Thome as a star? He hasn’t played the field in many years, so he is basically a LH bat off the bench. Certainly a big name though, but far from a star now.
oh alright..whatever…
I know u saber people like to play semantic games and it wastes everybody’s time well the other teams are busy concentrating on what they have to do to win…OBVIOUSLY I know Thome was signed as a Lefty bat off the bench and maybe to help ease the loss of Ryan Howard for a bit.
Now can we get back on point..kind of…the way most baseball would know what I mean despite the misuse of words.
And just while i was apologizing for my misuse of words even though YOU KNEW exactly what I was talking about…while we were wasting all this time the Marlins are now zeroing in on Mark Buerhle too
You said they signed 2 stars. It’s not semantics when someone asks you who the other one is.
Thome is going to the HoF, but his time as a star has been over for a while.
Are you kidding me? I thought they were signing Madson a day ago, when the hell did this happen? It must be nice to operate a team with a sense of urgency. Color me envious.
That’s a lot of scratch for a reliever, but when you’re making money like the Phillies make, there’s nothing left to do but spend it. Lucky Phillies fans will see yet another post season. This is going to be a 10-20 year dynasty for them. They have officially adopted the same plan as in the Bronx and while the Mets lost $70 million, the Phillies are high on the hog.
Not so fast. Nothing is guaranteed. The greatest rotation on earth (allegedly) didn’t bring them a WS title in 2011. There’s no guarantee that Paplebon will guarantee a WS ring in 2012 either.
Of course you can never guarantee the World Series but I’ll say chances are good already they make the playoffs.
Did Sandy even say the words “playoffs” “contend” “wanting to win in 2012″ yesterday?
At this point I’d settle for wanting to contend
I think the goal of any MLB team is to win 95+ games of a marathon season and win the division or perhaps a Wild Card. As for the World Series, the best playoff team doesn’t always win. Luck is always the MVP of a short series. The fact Phillies didn’t win a World Series in 2011, does not diminish the incredible season they had last year. We should only be so lucky.
Too bad the Mets don’t play in a big market like the Phillies do so they could sign quality free agents to fill needs…oh wait, nevermind.
Sandy is not going to say playoffs or contender because he’s well aware the team is not good enough.He was brought here to tear it down and rebuild it and that you can not do over night and you can’t half ass it and do both. It’s one or the other,either you go for it or you rebuild and when you look at the product on the field except for a few positions I think he’s taking the right approach.
With next years free agent market loaded with some big time players. if they don’t go out and make a big push to acquire one then I’ll buy into the “he’s not trying to win”.Papelbon at this time makes no sense for the Mets.
I’m with you. You can’t go around saying “I want patience, and I want it right now!”. This team is not contending next year. I’m just glad they recognize it.
To put it in perspective, the Astros thought they could contend and spent and signed FAs and ended up with a crappy team and no farm system. At least the Mets have a farm system and a light at the end of the tunnel that’s only 2 years or so away. The ‘Stros are screwed for many years to come…
It sucks to be in this spot but reality is what it is. And I agree the Astros are screwed since they’ve basically acted like their Phillies AAA affiliate. They do have a few good prospects but they have a long way to go.They should’ve come away with better players for Oswalt,Berkman and Pence.Althought the return for Pence is supposed to be pretty good.
Papelbum signing with the Phillies as their closer. I thought that the Phils will have Madson as their closer for the long term. Now it seems to be a “good”move but some baggage along the way as one of the players who was part of the Red Sox epic collapse a couple of months ago. I gotta shake my head because of how the Mets are very slow in responding to free agents this offseason and not speaking to Reyes for a new contract is just plain idiotic. Hey Sandy, wake up will ya!
The only way we can get to the playoffs is to realign the teams. My division to b e called the “Flushing Five.”
Mets
Cubs
Astros
Mariners
Orioles
What are our chances?
I like where you’re going with this. With Epstien in Chicago and and the Orioles and Mariners on the upswing, I think we’d be luck to finish in 4th which is still better than last in the NL East. BTW Lou, thank you for leaving that thoughtful message for Vets on the other thread.
Don’t forget the proposed realignment and CBA on the docket for MLB. Its going to be crazy.
Thanks for your nice words. One of my best days in ‘Nam was listening to the 69 Amazins in the World Series on Armed Forces radio. I didn’t get to listen to every game and every inning due to my flyinh schedule, but what I heard was GREAT and a few years ago my son, who knows how much I love the Mets gave me a coffee table book on the 69 Mets with full color photos. Fantastic!
The Orioles in an upswing? You know they can’t even find a GM, right?
My bad, it looks like Dan Duquette is taking the job. Too bad Peter Angelos is still the owner.
Good to see the Phillies digging their own graves. What the OP missed is that the contract includes a vesting clause. Ah, good to see them trying to outdo the K-Rod signing. Good lock trying to resign Rollins and Hamels.
Phillie’s are digging their own grave? You gotta be kidding me with that statement right?
Listen, don’t worry about what they do with their money cuz right now they keep getting better doing it THEIR way. And the Mets are doing NOTHING and fans are leaving by the droves.
You know what? Just worry about what we can do to try and get better because right now they’re getting better and better. Looks like they’ll be in the post season again next season.
Baseball is about doing what you can to be the BEST not getting an award for being the cheapest skinflint. You just want to win being as CHEAP as possible and life doesn’t work that way. They have their resources and they’re using them whatever way they feel best so just mind your business and let’s try and get the Mets better.
It’s not about being cheap. The Phillies aren’t the Yankees and maintain a 200+M payroll. Tying up that much money on a lesser important position like closer could prevent them from having the money to improve other areas of the team and resigning all of their core players including Rollins, Victorino, and Hamels, not to mention the slew of players that will get big raises from arbitration and that albatross of a contract known as Ryan Howard. They gutted their farm system so they can’t fill the holes on the team easily.
I think Ruben Amaro knows what he’s doing with his money.
I think Sandy Alderson DOESN’T know what to do with the Mets money. What he does know what to do is NOT spend it as smart as he can in order to stay competitive.
Ruben Amaro is trying to win ballgames. How they do it is THEIR business.
I don’t think Sandy Alderson is even trying to compete or win and he’s driving fans away and losing money.
Don’t worry about how other people spend their money you just do what YOU have to do to keep up and so far Alderon is doing a HORRENDOUS job of it.
Yeah Amaro was so savvy with his money that he spent 35M for 3 year on Lidge who was awful for the first year and mediocre for the next two. Apparently he learned nothing from it. He also gave 125M for 5 years on a steadily declining Ryan Howard. Last time I checked Alderson didn’t grossly overpay for mediocre players like your hero Ruben Omar-o. LMAO
Who cares about all that? All that matters is wins and loses, it’s not about “who signs players to the best contracts”.
What do you care? They’re winning? It’s THEIR money
jeeeez times have changed
Now we have fans concerning themselves with how other teams spend their money.
They’re WINNING and winning all the time – who cares how they do it?
brb i’m gonna go downstairs and ask my neighbors how they spend their money.
So you are saying that fans shouldn’t care about how teams spend money, but you people constantly complain that Alderson is not spending money the right way. That screams of hypocrisy.
And I already pointed out that Mets fans should care about how Phillies are misspending their money because it could come back to bite them by preventing them from signing more important players and thus making them a weaker team.
That is exactly what i’m saying. I care about what players other teams who we have to compete against acquire to strengthen their rosters – like the Phillies. But how they do it? It’s their business. You want to say Ruben Amaro is misspending that’s your OPINION. I’m certainly not one to say Ruben Amaro is misspending because I don’t know what he has up his sleeve.
And right now he’s out there getting better everyday while the Mets do nothing. Maybe the Phillies future isn’t bright maybe it is but right now it’s not. The Mets have to compete as best they can with whatever funds they have. Period. If I were you i’d quit complaining about how other teams do things and start making more suggestions about what type of off season moves the Mets can make to strengthen their team.
that should read but right now it is
Since when am I complaining about what the Phillies did? I’m glad that they are shooting themselves in the foot. You are the one who’s always complaining about how Alderson is terrible for not spending money when he doesn’t have money to spend. I’ve never told anyone this site to stop voicing their opinions, so what right do you have to tell me not to “complain”? Also, not caring how one’s team spends money on its players just makes you an ignorant fan, because no team other than the Yankees have an unlimited payroll to work with.
Besides, your god was supposed to be leading a team of new age statistical analysis gurus (who’ve never won anything btw) that were supposed to outsmart everybody, who were supposed to be able to find players of cough…cough…”value” at bargain basement prices
Wasn’t these sabermetric, statisical geniuses supposed to be able to get the best talent they could with as little as money as possible? They tried it last year and it BOMBED because there were better players out there who they could have gotten with the payroll they were given. So other teams outsmarted our guys just by being better evaluators of talent.
Now all of sudden you’re worrying about how other people spend? Now it’s the Wilpon’s fault?
Please!
No need to worry. They’ll only bring papelbon out when the games ae close… and even with the fences moved in – I don’t see any close games hapening in 2012…