Werth boos Amaro, via text message
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Werth boos Amaro, via text message
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Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. appeared on Fox29’s “Good Day” show this morning and said he was booed in a text message from former rightfielder Jayson Werth.
Amaro was taking questions from the station’s Facebook friends. Amaro was asked: Why did you say signing [Cliff] Lee would be better for the club than signing Werth?
“I love the guy,” Amaro said about Werth, who signed a free-agent deal with the Nationals. “I wish we had him back. Sometimes you have to make tough choices. For us, having a No. 1 starter as compared to a righthanded bat, the impact on our club was greater.
“Is that the right way to look at things? I don’t know. For me, it is. I got a long text message from him last night booing me, in classic Philly style. He was upset. But hey, that’s how it works sometimes. Business is business. There are tough decisions.
"I think he was half kidding. We were joking back and forth. I told him he could still have been on our club if he accepted arbitration.”
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Can't wait to see that dumb stare on Jayson after one of the big 4 strikes him out with RISP!!! Ha Ha— george22- Different take: Werth was too defensive to text Amaro about what he said. But, Amaro by no means had to make that text public. He could have called Werth at some point and privately explained. Werth was a crybaby on a day when he should have just been celebrating. Amaro was mean-spirited in embarrassing Werth publicly. I don't like what either one of them did.— eman
- Doesn't Madson have Boras as his agent? If so, maybe we need to develop a set up guy this year.
I do believe that Werth might be regretting his decision...— DaveCicc- The Phillies shouldn't have trouble landing a right-handed batter. Any sane hitter out there is going to look at the Phillies roster and salivate at the chance to play on this team.— Carcharios
- Werth began to publicly show himself to be an a-hole last spring, with surly treatment of reporters, bristling at the mere mention of his beard, culminating in his abhorrant treatment of a fan midseason. And now this. If anyone had reason to be bitter that we let him go, it was Lee last season. But he wasn't. He realized it was a business and the Phillies did what they thought was best, right or wrong. On the other hand, Werth has a LOT to be thankful of the Phillies for, from giving him a last opportunity when he was on the scrap-heap, to allowing him to be a full time player. And because of that he hit the lottery. Instead of lamenting what might have been, he should be occupying his time embracing a situation that HE chose. Classic poor attitude.
Very good player, but I have to say that I'm not sorry that he's gone.
Honestly, adequate hitters are not that hard to find (see Cody Ross and Pat Burrell for the Giants last season). Top of the rotation pitchers are incredibly hard to find and acquire. It's hard to fault us for putting a premium on the latter over the former, especially when we have a potential young stud coming up (Brown).— Bill Lame Beer - It remains to be seen whether or not these transactions work well in the long run for all concerned. Certainly Jayson would have preferred to persuade the Phillies to "show him the money". After he saw that they chose Lee over him, he felt a degree of rejection. He will realize over time that few of us get the cake and eat it too. It is bittersweet for the Phillies also, as they wish they could have kept Jayson in the fold. Timing played a huge factor. If Jayson decided to compromise he would still be the right fielder, no question. The money was so overwhelming and the Phillies had evaluated the amount of years they were willing to go. The Phillies at some point last week had that feeling of rejection. All the parties now move on and should wish the other well.Jayson was able to get the big bucks because the Phillies gave him that opportunity. All good.— leecee
I always liked Werth, until he lost interest at mid-year after Ryan Howard signed for $25M a year. Werth reacted like a pouting diva, which really surprised me.— The Monk- Sorry JWerth, really would have loved for you to stay, but your are gone. So, have fun down in Washington where you will never be on a wining team again. Hey at least you still have red in your uniform, so you can at least pretend your on the Phils.— Static87
(3) Playoff Teams will to pay what Lee got and more for his services
(1) Bottom of the barrel franchise willing to pay Werth— KINGOFZED
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I'd like to boo Werth for all of his stikeouts, and lack of clutch hitting. Sure, Werth took alot of pitches, but when you swing so hard your knee hits the ground, that's not good. If the Phils can get someone behind Howard that doesn't swing wildly, like Burrell and Werth did, watch out!— mccarte1- you got to be kiddin me. come on Jayson you should have stayed.
Maybe there is a clause for you to get out of the Nats contract and maybe Rube can work something out.— Bob65S - Comment removed.
- Man, Werth was pretty classy for the most part. There was the f-bomb at the dad in foul territory, a few baserunning mistakes and his crummy avg with RISP this year. Lost in all of this is that he's 31 years old, a great player and this was his first chance at a big payday. Alot of you forget that he was a big part of our run and, when everybody else was hurt, Jayson Werth carried us. Y'all act like his text to Ruben was a direct slap in your face when it was between those 2 men alone. This Cliff Lee signing has a bunch of you acting like Yankees fans. The media is hyping every angle and playing most of you like the puppets that you are. Show a little class Phillies fans.— vafan
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