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07-08-2009, 07:56 PM
Phillies are considered leaders to acquire Halladay (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rumors/post/Phillies-are-considered-leaders-to-acquire-Halla?urn=mlb,175454)
The New York Post, after speaking to several different baseball executives early Wednesday morning, has made the Phiadelphia Phillies the team most like to acquire Roy Halladay (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6134/) from the Toronto Blue Jays (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/tor/).
According to the Post, more than one of the executives used this term: "No team in baseball is more motivated to get a starter than the Phillies."
Other reasons why Halladay and Phillies would be a good match, according to the Post:
• They are a now team and Halladay gives them a major boost in trying to repeat.
• He is a groundball pitcher, which only makes him more attractive to a club that plays home games in cozy Citizens Bank Park.
• He is dominant in the AL East, so the Phillies have to think his stuff would play up to a greater degree in the NL.
• Philadelphia has volume in good to very good prospects, but might not have the one sure thing to front a deal for a player as special as Halladay unless the Blue Jays see Kyle Drabek, Jason Knapp, Dominic Brown or Michael Taylor in that way.
The New York Post, after speaking to several different baseball executives early Wednesday morning, has made the Phiadelphia Phillies the team most like to acquire Roy Halladay (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6134/) from the Toronto Blue Jays (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/tor/).
According to the Post, more than one of the executives used this term: "No team in baseball is more motivated to get a starter than the Phillies."
Other reasons why Halladay and Phillies would be a good match, according to the Post:
• They are a now team and Halladay gives them a major boost in trying to repeat.
• He is a groundball pitcher, which only makes him more attractive to a club that plays home games in cozy Citizens Bank Park.
• He is dominant in the AL East, so the Phillies have to think his stuff would play up to a greater degree in the NL.
• Philadelphia has volume in good to very good prospects, but might not have the one sure thing to front a deal for a player as special as Halladay unless the Blue Jays see Kyle Drabek, Jason Knapp, Dominic Brown or Michael Taylor in that way.