The Phillies bench player has announced his team's intention to not fire him.
The Phillies' future begins this offseason, but the team is already getting a leg up on its long winter.
While Andy MacPhail cracks open his office door and hurriedly beckons his mystery GM candidate inside while whispering hints of gender obscurity, there is one facet of his operation that he is going about with far less secrecy. That is the maintaining of 32-year-old journeyman bench bat Jeff Francoeur - this information coming from a reliable source on the subject of "Jeff Francoeurt":
"There's mutual interest in me coming back.