Since leaving Philadelphia, Jayson Werth’s relationship with the city’s fanbase has been complicated. One could even say there was some mutual loathing between the two.
Some fans simply, and irrationally, hated Jayson Werth for leaving Philadelphia as a free agent following the 2010 season, when he signed a 7-year, $125 million deal with the Phils’ division rivals, the Washington Nationals.
It didn’t have to be this way. As much as I love Phillies fans and the passion with which they follow the team, they were wrong to hate him for taking the contract of a lifetime and leaving a franchise that, quite frankly, didn’t want him anymore.