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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Just thought I'd mention this. I live about 15 minutes away from the Nationals Spring training site in Melbourne, Fl. Anyone have a personal message for Mr. Werth. No CUSSING PLEASE! I do plan on wearing my Phillies attire as I always do.— Philly_TEAMS_fan_in_Fla- Werth is an idiot for leaving. It's always about winning when you are given the big money. Then it turns into A-Rod and wants to be traded to a winning team. Poor guy. Its a shame 17 million a year for four years just couldn't be enough. Feel bad for him.— tom2565
- I sure would take 17 million a year. I'll never see that amount of $$ in my lifetime. If he wanted to stay so much, he should have accepted arbitration. But then again, the Phillies would not have Cliff Lee.— SallyAnn
The more we learn about Werth's personality the happer I am that he is gone. Doubt he'll ever be back, because if you can't be happy with $120,000,000...................- Cliff took less to be here, Werth took more to go. Werth takes Arbitration, no Cliff.
Pretty basic. I know he wanted to stay, but and I would have loved for him to remain a Phillie. But even he has to admit that the Nationals paid WELL above market value for him.
What's more, he's going to a team without Utley, Howard, Victorino, or Rollins. They're going to be expecting him to be THE man.
The Nats gave him an absurd contract. I can't blame him for taking it. I'd have probably taken it. He'll be thankful he took it after he retires. He'll have a heck of a lot more money going to the nationals.
It's not evil. It doesn't reflect poorly on him. The Nationals fans may be pretty upset about it in a few years, but in the mean time, I hope he has a great year.
I hope Dom Brown has a great year too though.— walcraeb - Werth realizes he just made the biggest mistake of his life. Let him have his moment to get it out. He'll have to live with his decision for 7 long years, give him a couple of days to show his buyer's remorse. This is all entirely of his own doing, but you gotta feel for the guy. Imagine signing up for $126 guaranteed bones and feeling awful about it within a week. That's messed up.— guru26
- Jayson who?— ArtMooney
- Lee over Werth; it's essentially a no-brainer. Let's say Lee wins 18 games, and there are another 5 the Phils come back to win after he's lifted; doubt Werth alone would count for 23 wins.
Here's another neat thought. I didn't look up whether the Phils open at home or not, but wouldn't it be classy for Charlie to start Cole the first game? After all, he was WS MVP 2 years ago, and has been a Phillie all along. He could be the #1 ace on some staffs, and now, he is quickly relegated to #4. I just think it would be cool for Charlie to start off with him.— JosephL - Sorry Jason, you drank Boras' Kool Aid , you took the cash, now enjoy your 90 loss season. Nobody to blame but yourself.— drbob1
- Werth got his $126M, what is he complaining about? He was paid double what he was worth. Instead of cursing the Phillies, be thankful you are rich beyond any reasonable dream.— fmMD
- I love Werth, he made his decision and will make Millions and Millions but he will never see the playoffs or world series again... unless he watches it on TV!— jmb53
- No contest Werth wasn't worth it. Lee gets my vote all the way..— Willysoup
- Werth took the money because he had to and good for him. How he earns the money will be by toiling in anonymity for the Nats, seeing his numbers fall significantly because 18 games against Washington will be replaced by 18 games against the Phillies, and getting booed by his "home" crowd when half of them are Phillie fans. I'd do that too for $60 million, but it isn't going to be fun for him.— jtj06
- werth is not going ever see a ring with the nationals— hannigan
- The Nats' won't win it all in the next 7 years? For sure? You never know. Who would've thought the Marlins would get to the playoffs in 1997, their fourth year ever, let alone beat the Yankees and win it all? All it took was a billionaire owner who told his GM (now with Detroit) to go for it. He did. He bought a lot of great players, including pinch-hitting Darren Daulton, and they won. Sure, they dis-assembled in embarrassing fashion the next year. But, they had their ring -- and another to come.— eman
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