The Phillies' last serious piece of business for the offseason, other than settling with their many arbitration-eligible players, is to add a right-handed bat for the bench. One high profile guy out there looking for work is Sammy Sosa. 

Fifth on the all-time home run list with 609, Sosa obviously isn't the mid-order monster he was ten years ago. And his defense would serve mostly to make Raul Ibanez feel better about his own glovework. But Sosa's 21 home runs and 24 doubles in just 412 at-bats with Texas in 2007 suggests he might have enough thump left to deliver some big late-game pinch-hits. It would also just be kind of funny to have two 40 year-old pinch-hitters, Sosa and Matt Stairs, there solely to swing for the fences once a night. 

Sosa played for just $500,000 two years ago, or one-fifth of what Chan Ho Park will be pulling down for the 2009 Phillies. At 40 years old, he meets the evident age criterion Ruben Amaro Jr. has set down for acquisitions. So why the heck not?