Werth boos Amaro, via text message
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Werth boos Amaro, via text message
Daily News staff
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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Welp, Mr Werth. If you hadn't has the greediest agent on Earth chirping in your ear about contract length and highest dollar amount, you'd still be a member of the Phillies.
I think trading Werth for Lee -- what the Phillies essentially did -- is OK given that Werth has shown signs of being on the decline. But the Phils better find a right-handed bat to hit behind Howard -- could Jimmy Rollins be it?— cno711- @Potus - He said "a" number 1 starter, not "the" number 1 starter. It's widely believed that they are both No. 1 starters.— Grazman
- Grazman: I agree. There actually is FOUR number one starters on our team.— Clem
Sounds like Werth has a man crush on Lee!— pritter
@potus - since thats Charlies job to set lineups it would be him not Raj
Comment removed.- Surely you don't think Werth had a good year at the plate.
It would have been nice to keep him, but he was a terrible situational hitter last year. What was his average with RISP?— fmMD - .138 w/ RISP and 2 outs. - dead last in the NL. — F. Harry Stowe
oh stop bashing werth. he helped win us a world series, now he's getting paid. wish him the best and get over it. if any of you were offered a 40% increase in salary and a long term rock solid commitment and roughly only 7 more years to be able to work, after you had injuries that nearly kept you from working, and would have left you on disability, you'd take it all. it's not greed. look around, people are BuhRoke. you have to go with cash security especially when your previous injuries could hit you again anytime. i don't get the hate. with mcnabb i get the hate. with werth, he's gonna retire with his phillies world series ring. plus, you never know what a difference a year makes, he could be back.— Evilvet- Werth is a chump. he leaves for the cash and now wishes he could be on the phils. punk a**.— Don Cornelius
Sounds like a bit of "Seller's Remorse" from our friend Jayson. Sorry big fella, but you made your own bed on this one...- One guess who will be a huge target of our boos this year when playing the LAST PLACE Nats. Enjoy that money, JW. All of a sudden you now have free time in Octobers!— deanm828
- Enough already. Werth helped us get a ring and was part of some all-time great Philly teams. For that absolutely no reason we should be talking smack or this guy get booed. Did he jump ship for the money? Sure. So what. Good for him the Nationals are morons. It's not like he jumped ship before getting the job done.— DennyP
- I love(d) Werth and wish he was still in RF for the Phils. But Scott Freaking Boras? You lay down with dogs you get fleas.— erbower
