Interesting article on this whole Phillies/Roy Halladay mess with some good points over at The Sporting Blog. Almost everyone I’ve heard from seems to want to make this happen. However no one I’ve heard from is Ruben Amaro, Jr.. Best case scenario? Halladay leads us to a couple more parades down Broad Street and Happ turns out to be a fluke and Drabek and Brown never amount to anything. Worst case scenario? Happ turns out to be a fluke and Drabek and Brown never amount to anything and Halladay leads to the Angels or BoSox to another World Series championship. Best guess is this whole situation will meet somewhere in the middle. That’s the way it goes.
I say just go for it all. A proven ground ball inducing Cy Young winner who’ll give you 7-8 innings a game for a couple years and take some heat off of Hamels? I’ll allow it. I want to start catching up on the Yankees 26 rings now. Not risk it, take our chances this fall and then see how things turn out in a few. I’m not saying pull maneuvers like the Yankees have done more recently and deplete your whole farm system year after year… but do this now and create an outstanding front end rotation for a few years. Like it says in the article, “…what 3-man rotation would you feel better about trotting out once October rolls around? Hamels-Happ-Blanton? or Halladay-Hamels-Blanton? It’s just no contest.”
Oh, and it might not be too shabby seeing Halladay make his Phillies debut when I’m at the game in San Francisco this Thursday. Not too bad at all.
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