steve-phillips Stories - Amazin' Avenue
Who Let Bobby Bonilla Return to the Mets in 1998?
The New York Mets are not drumming up a lot of meaningful news these days, which means it's only a matter of time before some hack writer drums up Bobby Bonilla's deferred contract payments for "original" content on a slow news day. We all know about how the story ends with $1,193,248.20 due to...
The Case for Bobby V
The Red Sox' offseason has been a turbulent one, as befits a team that committed one of the worst regular season collapses in baseball history. (Nearly as bad as...well, never mind.) Their curiously torturous managerial search is the latest example. You'd think there'd be no shortage of candidates...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Nine
Old friends Steve Phillips and Omar Minaya play a role in "Chapter Nine: The Trading Desk". Much of the chapter is devoted to Billy Beane's quest to improve the A's at the 2002 trade deadline. Interactions with other GMs like Phillips, Minaya (then with the Expos), Brian Sabean and Mark Shapiro are...
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