1 wrote:Maybe Jon Lieber is available.

Wheels Tupay wrote:

1 wrote:Maybe Jon Lieber is available.

I remember being excited about Lieber. What a time to be alive.

Bucky wrote:that's what I remember most too!

Meghan Montemurro ‏@M_Montemurro
Klentak said Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez will be given chance to make #Phillies. Salary ($4M) won't be factor. "We're paying him regardless."

“We still view both of those guys as catchers,” Klentak said Tuesday at the GM Meetings in Boca Raton, Fla.

But Klentak left at least a little room for the possibility that could change in the future. Knapp has played some first base in the Arizona Fall League in the last month.

“I want to try to think as open-mindfully and creatively as I can,” Klentak said. “We don't necessarily have to have the starting player-backup player (setup). Maybe there's a more creative solution to that long term. Look, I hope both these guys are so good this becomes an issue.”

gr wrote:Not interested in entertaining the idea that Jordan Zimmerman on a fat contract would be a our #1 guy.

phorever wrote:

gr wrote:Not interested in entertaining the idea that Jordan Zimmerman on a fat contract would be a our #1 guy.

this ... and i'm still amazed at this conventional wisdom that ignores the possibility of trades... especially in the case of the phils, given that carleton, schilling, lee, halladay and oswalt were all #1s acquired via trade.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

phorever wrote:

gr wrote:Not interested in entertaining the idea that Jordan Zimmerman on a fat contract would be a our #1 guy.

this ... and i'm still amazed at this conventional wisdom that ignores the possibility of trades... especially in the case of the phils, given that carleton, schilling, lee, halladay and oswalt were all #1s acquired via trade.

i'd be more interested in signing a guy than trading for one. i probably wouldn't give up a pick for zimmerman and definitely not one for chen. this season might be too early to convince a big name starter to come here, but i think the team starts to take shape this year and makes that job easier next winter.

"What I've learned from the Royals is there's no one way to do it," Klentak said Wednesday afternoon. "The way that they won the last couple years has been unique, relative to how teams have built over the last ... decade or so. And that's encouraging, right? That works for them. The Mets' style worked for them this year. The Cubs' style is working, the Astros' [style] -- again, a very different style that's working for them. That's very positive.

"It can turn on a dime if you're disciplined, if you're organized. If players are developing and you're accurate in the projections of when those guys are going to reach their ceilings or start to achieve at the big league level, it can turn quickly. But you have to be disciplined. You have to be prepared for when that day comes."

BigEd76 wrote:That's a great idea if we wanna lose all our draft picks

Doll Is Mine wrote:http://m.phillies.mlb.com/news/article/157077598/matt-klentak-has-many-options-to-rebuild-phils

"What I've learned from the Royals is there's no one way to do it," Klentak said Wednesday afternoon. "The way that they won the last couple years has been unique, relative to how teams have built over the last ... decade or so. And that's encouraging, right? That works for them. The Mets' style worked for them this year. The Cubs' style is working, the Astros' [style] -- again, a very different style that's working for them. That's very positive.

"It can turn on a dime if you're disciplined, if you're organized. If players are developing and you're accurate in the projections of when those guys are going to reach their ceilings or start to achieve at the big league level, it can turn quickly. But you have to be disciplined. You have to be prepared for when that day comes."

Klentak is wonderful.