Well well well.
The Phillies look like they’re still lookin’ for pitchin’ and I’m a’likin’.
The buzz around the interwebs yesterday that surrounded the Phillies organization came from two separate things written about the starting pitching market. First, the esteemed Jeff Passan talked about the free agency market as a whole and dropped a few little nuggets about the Phillies. From his article:
The New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies both offered $300 million-plus on [Yoshinobu] Yamamoto, and while neither planned to pivot to [Blake] Snell or [Jordan] Montgomery, both are nimble enough to seize on opportunities that markets provide.