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Rays giving a $183M contract to Wander Franco, who has 281 career at-bats

Not bring back Alvarez, especially, made zero sense to me. And the Giants got him for 2 years, $2.5M total.

Aaron Loup, lefty reliever the Phillies had been considering, gets 2/17 from the Angels.

The Phillies need relievers, but with so many needs to spend on, they cannot afford to spend that kind of coin on them IMO.

If all they want is Stott and other pieces not named Abel and Painter, you absolutely do it. But I don't think that's nearly enough. I fear those Abel/Painter chips are burning a hole in Dom's pocket, and he sees that as the path to make this team a contender during the Harper window. He's not wrong...

Phillies pursuing Pirates CF Brian Reynolds in a trade. Price would be extremely high. I want to go "all in" right now with Bryce Harper. But a worry is that Dombrowski is going to use those young pitchers as the chips to go all in. If you're going to do this, there's no window after the H...

Right now, given their track record on picking relievers, I'd rather see them try to build depth than spend $15M on a 9th inning closer.

Phillies taking with reliever Mychal Givens.

Because they need to add multiple arms and, more importantly, multiple big bats, I am OK if they don't throw big money at a "closer" (or, worse, trade Segura for one.) Let's add multiple quality arms to the pen and see how it all shakes out.

I mean, we'd ALL love it if Kingery bounces back, because it would be good news for the Phillies. But it's not something they can or should plan on for 2022. He was wretched even in the minors last year. He should probably play everyday at Triple-A to see if he finds his swing again, and then it's a...

If I had to guess at anything, the Phillies are setting themselves up at backup & Triple-A catcher in the event they use Marchan -- one of their guys who would actually interest other teams -- as a trade chip this offseason.

The Phillies have acquired RHP Nick Nelson and C Donny Sands from the New York Yankees in exchange for LHP Joel Valdez and 1B T.J. Rumfield.