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If they're trying to contend AND stay under what the 2021 "cap" was, then Knebel for 1/10 is not a good use of coin.

So I will give them the benefit of the doubt (LOL) and assume this means their payroll in 2022 will go over the cap (LOL)

Bring on many more signings

Hallelujah!

Jeff Passan
@JeffPassan
Right-handed reliever Corey Knebel is in agreement on a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, a source familiar with the deal tells ESPN.

We need some levity, so I found the worst tweet of the week....

Jacob Stein
@jacobstein16
The Phillies have actively gotten worse. Lost 2 of their 10 best players (Quinn and Neris) and added no one yet. Absolute travesty and disgrace to general management

Losing Neris & then not even getting Knebel done before the freezeout is some serious weaksauce.

Not sure I fully buy this logic from Scherzer... ======= Britt Ghiroli @Britt_Ghiroli Scherzer said the Dodgers limiting his pitch count and trying to keep him fresh for the postseason lowered his work capacity and he thinks led to his dead arm. Said in DC he was relied on and pushed to consistentl...

Bryce did a radio interview in which he said he thinks that if they can't resolve a new contract by early January, the two sides may agree to roll over the current agreement for one more year. Neither side -- especially the owners, who love this current contract -- wants the damage and uncertainty l...

Guaranteed thing that's happen in the Kiermaier talks: Phillies are asking Rays to select their picks of better prospect(s) in exchange for covering some of Kiermaier's remaining salary.

MLB Trade Rumors guessed Bryant would get 6/160, and their predictions have been pretty accurate thus far. You just have to do that. It's the market rate; no more, no less. He is the bat they need to get this offense back toward what it was in 2019, then you go find a CF (probably) and preferably a ...

I mean, if you want a cheap upgrade on CF defense, sign Kevin Pillar and bat him ninth. Spend your dollars on real bats

C Realmuto
1B Hoskins
2B Segura
SS Gregorious
3B Bryant
LF Schwarber
CF Pillar
RF Harper
DH Bohm

I like Schwarber a lot (think they should have picked him up last year to platoon with Cutch/be Cutch insurance) and have been asking for them to trade for Nicky C on like a yearly basis going back to when he was a prospect in rumored Hamels deals but getting them now when they're going to get big ...