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Durbin Agrees to One-Year Deal

POSTED: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 2:46 PM

Todd Zolecki

And then there was one.

The Inquirer has learned that the Phillies have reached an agreement with righthander Chad Durbin on a one-year, $1.635 million contract. This follows the news that rightfielder Jayson Werth has agreed to a two-year, $10 million contract with the Phillies.

That leaves Ryan Howard as the only Phillies player still eligible for salary arbitration. Howard is seeking $18 million in arbitration. The Phillies are offering $14 million. It seems more likely than not that Howard and the Phillies return to the arbitration table.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:19 AM, 01/22/2009

Philly fans do tend to be self destructive. They have a QB that leads them to 5 championship games in 10 years and they want to ride him out of town on a rail. They have the ML leader in homers and RBIs for the last three years and, nah, trade him, get him out of here! Pat Gillick? OUT with thee! Schmidt, same story. Joni Mitchell must have had Philly in mind when she wrote "You don't know what ya got till it's gone".

— tpizza