Philadelphia Phillies GM Ruben Amaro, Jr has had his hands full this offseason. Not a ton has been done with regards to the free agent market, but seemingly half the team was eligible for arbitration this year and only one player, Ryan Howard, may actually go to court. Amaro managed to settle with t...

11:40am: SI.com's Jon Heyman has the details - Werth gets a two-year, $10MM deal.  He'll get $3MM in '09 and $7MM in '10, which would've been his first free agent year. 10:09am: According to CSN Philly, the Phillies avoided arbitration with outfielder Jayson Werth by signing him to a multiyear ...

In addition to backing up the facts behind today's Cole Hamels story, Todd Zolecki has an update on the Phillies' remaining arbitration-eligible players. After Greg Dobbs' 2-year, $2.5MM deal, six players are left on the arb list: Ryan Howard, Ryan Madson, Shane Victorino, Joe Blanton, Jayson Werth ...

For those unaware, Fangraphs unveiled a new section on the player pages today. The section takes all of the dollar valuation components we have manually calculated, harnesses the stats, and outputs wins above replacement level as well as the player’s fair market value salary based on his produ...

Let's dig into the latest column from John Perrotto of Baseball Prospectus. Perrotto speaks of whispers of a possible White Sox-Mets blockbuster.  The Mets would receive Jermaine Dye and Bobby Jenks and the White Sox would receive Fernando Martinez among others. Regarding the Orioles' possible ...

Brad Lidge may finally have the Albert Pujols monkey off his back after turning in a perfect season as a closer and shutting the door on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5....

Brad Lidge may finally have the Albert Pujols monkey off his back after turning in a perfect season as a closer and shutting the door on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5....

Philadelphia fans had to wait a couple of extra days but in the end it was worth it as the Phillies win their first World Series since 1980, putting away the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-3, on Wednesday....

Philadelphia fans had to wait a couple of extra days but in the end it was worth it as the Phillies win their first World Series since 1980, putting away the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-3, on Wednesday....

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26 -- For three games, the 104th World Series had served as an exercise in how to score runs and win baseball games without doing anything remotely dramatic or compelling -- and the awful TV ratings seemed to indicate it had succeeded. Between the RBI groundouts, the sacrifice......