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The Phillies SB Nation offseason simulation

It’s that time of year again.

SB Nation runs an offseason simulation where 30 people, writers and commenters alike, are tasked with running 3 months of offseason work in three days. It’s fun, hectic and a little head scratching. You can read all about the moves here in the comment section of the article announcing it. The moves were done in chronological order.

This year, I decided to take on an assistant GM, Sean Burke, to help bounce ideas off of. We went in with three goals:

  1. Get rid of the middle infielders clogging up the infield issues
  2. Get a starter that is better than what we have already

We were given a payroll limit of $130 million, which I told the people running that “LOL, that’s nothing.