The Philadelphia Phillies were able to sign Major League Baseball’s most highly coveted player last offseason in outfielder Bryce Harper.
Why not a repeat this offseason to bolster new Phillies manager Joe Girardi‘s roster for his first season with the team in 2020?
MLB insider Ken Rosenthal, of The Athletic, recently predicted such a move: the Phillies signing three-time All-Star RHP Gerrit Cole.
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“The reason I’m predicting this is to make a larger point that the assumption that Gerrit Cole will go to a West Coast team is just an assumption,” Rosenthal said on MLB Network’s MLB Now.