Frizzle
Active Member
Now, it turns out these two big trades will finally allow the Phillies to become winners again. It's funny how things work out. Someone on the Phillies side had clearly done their homework:
Amaro's final big trade - for Hamels - Jorge Alfaro, outfielder Nick Williams, pitchers Alec Asher, Jerad Eickhoff, and Jake Thompson, may initially have appeared to some to have been a HOU robbery, and at the time, people including me felt we got only garbage. Then, taking a closer look, it became clear that outside of lame Matt Harrison included in the trade, the Phils got a huge haul as is being demonstrated now with SP Eickhoff and the others in the minors who have actually moved ahead of the home grown talent.
I think Amaro's final trade was not one of his making. He was nothing more then a puppet that late july. My guess is that Pat Gillick, with Middleton lined all of this up.