Holliday going to Oakland...

by Steve Jeltz on Nov 10, 2008 3:01 PM EST

Pending a physical, it looks like Matt Holliday will be going to Oaklan. Now that the dream of a Utley-Howard-Holliday middle of the order is dead, I think the club needs to redouble their efforts to sign Burrell. An outfield of Werth, Victorino, and a Dobbs/Jenkins platoon simply won't cut it. On a related note, Burrell has to be salivating when he sees Mike Cameron's 10 million and Brian Giles' 9 million options picked up.

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I am surprised.

by taco pal on Nov 10, 2008 3:40 PM EST reply actions

Is Dobbs/Jenkins/Stairs (the idea Amaro is kicking around) even really a platoon? It seems to me that this would essentially be the equivalent of one left handed left fielder with poor to mediocre numbers against left handed pitching. If we don’t keep Burrell or get another good right handed outfielder I think we are in some trouble.

by FuquaManuel on Nov 10, 2008 5:01 PM EST reply actions

That is in all likelihood a negotiating posture, not a genuine proposal. If you are going to be in negotiations with Burrell or whomever, then you need to make it seem to them that you’re willing to live without them. Even if it’s objectively crazy to go with a Dobbs/Jenkins/Stairs three-headed monster, if there is any doubt in the mind of Burrell/whoever as to whether you might actually be that crazy, then they’ll be that much more willing to bargain with you.

It would not be helpful to the Phillies’ negotiating position if Amaro were to go out and announce to the press “We cannot live with our current leftfield situation and we will have to spend whatever it takes to bring in a good RH hitter.”

by taco pal on Nov 10, 2008 5:44 PM EST up reply actions

Very good point sir. I is stupid.

by FuquaManuel on Nov 10, 2008 5:54 PM EST up reply actions

Of course, it’s still possible that we end up with some crappy platoon in left next year. But if that happens, it’ll be because Amaro tried and failed to get someone else, not because he actually thought it would be okay.

by taco pal on Nov 11, 2008 11:00 AM EST up reply actions

I think our expressed interest in Matt Holliday and the fact that the Oakland A’s and BIlly Beane now control him is possibly the scariest thing in the world to me right now — next to global warming, nuclear winter, and this lady.

by FuquaManuel on Nov 10, 2008 6:28 PM EST reply actions

Whoever gets Holliday off Billy around the All Star Break is going to fork over half of their farm system to do so… Hopefully we don’t see him in red pinstripes this year…

World F*ckin' Champions, indeed...

by foos05 on Nov 11, 2008 8:07 AM EST up reply actions