NEWSReport: Phillies made a minimum $300 million offer to a legend
The Phillies missed out in the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes, however it wasn’t really for absence of exertion.
In his most recent review of the MLB free organization and exchange market scene, Jeff Passan of ESPN reports that the Phillies (alongside the New York Mets) each advertised “$300 million or more” to the three-time Sawamura Grant champ. It’s not satisfactory precisely the way in which close the Phillies were to the Dodgers’ triumphant $325 million proposition, however Passan affirms they were in the vicinity.
That does not necessarily imply that the Phillies simply required an additional few million dollars to complete the task. It’s conceivable that Yamamoto was continuously going somewhere else, or even L.A. in particular. He grew up a Dodgers fan, was attracted to playing with individual Japanese whiz Shohei Ohtani and didn’t appear to be excessively infatuated with Philadelphia itself. ( According to MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki, Dave Dombrowski stated that Yamamoto was “just not a person attuned to coming to Philadelphia.”) It was possible that an offer in excess of $325 million would not have been accepted.
The report, however, associates two past specks of data about the Phillies’ advantage in Yamamoto — one, that the Phillies had without a doubt made a deal; two, that the Phillies were “surprisingly strong contenders” while the offering came to the $300 million imprint.
Had Yamamoto acknowledged, his would’ve been the third $300 million agreement on the books for the Phillies, joining Bryce Harper and Trea Turner in that camp. They would’ve turned into the primary group in MLB history to hand three players a $300 million agreement; all things being equal, the Dodgers turned into the fourth group (alongside the Phillies, Padres and Yankees) to give out two.
It likewise highlights exactly how “in” the Phillies actually are on beginning pitching this free organization, regardless of marking Aaron Nola to a seven-year, $172 million agreement in November. Although multiple reports have suggested that the Phillies could pounce elsewhere if the market works out favorably, Yamamoto’s age and upside, in addition to the Phillies’ desire to establish themselves in the Japanese market, may have made the team treat him as an exception to an otherwise opportunistic approach. In that equivalent piece, that’s what passan composes “while neither [the Phillies or Mets] wanted to turn to Snell or [Jordan] Montgomery, both are sufficiently agile to take advantage of on chances that markets give.” ( That tracks with other late revealing too.)
One such open door might be beginning to introduce itself with Snell, who could end up taking a present moment, high-AAV bargain that mitigates a portion of the strength gambles related with the ruling NL Cy Youthful champ. Regardless, regardless of whether it’s for the most part an inactive methodology from this point forward, the Phillies essentially appear to go overboard when all is good and well — and the titanic proposal to Yamamoto is proof.