{"id":1335,"date":"2009-12-01T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2009-12-01T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:17:41","slug":"phillies-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so I said I would start off by updated in 4 posts with our 4 great Philly teams so heres the Phillies latest.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies sign utilityman Juan Castro to a 1 year deal.\u00a0 Awaiting the physical to pass which should pass no problem.Castro, 37, is a .230 hitter, with a .270 on-base percentage, in 15 major league seasons. In 57 games with the Dodgers last year, he batted .277, while playing shortstop, second base, third base and left field.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Phillies sign a catcher to backup Ruiz.\u00a0 Phillies sign Brian Schneider to a two-year contract.\u00a0 The contract is worth just under $3 million, with no option\u00a0 for a third year.\u00a0 Schneider who came from the Mets, 33, has, is a 10-year MLB veteran with the Montreal Expos\/Washington Nationals and New York Mets.\u00a0He has a .251 career batting average, with 59 home runs and 356 RBIs.\u00a0 He is also a HOME-townBOY(Z), out of the Leigh Valley he will be returning home.\u00a0 A very nice backup option for the Phillies to go out and get.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Jamie Moyer has surgery, nothing major here and it should not affect him getting back in action this upcoming year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Now sometime for some Rumors&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Rumor is that the Phillies should go out and get Figgins for 3b.\u00a0 The rumor out there is that the Phillies should go after Figgins, who is a GREAT lead off batter and a great 3b-man as well.\u00a0 It is through the grape-vine and thought that Figgins if a Phillie would indeed lead off wihle Rollins would be switched to the 7 position to help bring in runs in the bottom half of the lineup.\u00a0 If this is the case then I think it would be said that the Phillies are now an AL team.\u00a0\u00a0 A complete team 1-9, and can battle with the best of them hands down.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Roy Halladay announces to the Blue Jays to trade him by the spring training or to not trade him at all.\u00a0 And he can do that as it is in his contract he has a no trade clause.\u00a0 Who knows if the Phillies will make a play for him since the Phillies are one for the FEW teams on his list of teams to go to.\u00a0 sure would be AMAZING to add him.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so I said I would start off by updated in 4 posts with our 4 great Philly teams so heres the Phillies latest. Phillies sign utilityman&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[945,941,942,946,773,944,943,939,940],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_phillies","tag-backup-catcher","tag-figgins-to-the-phillies","tag-phillies-3b","tag-phillies-catcher","tag-phillies-pitchers","tag-phillies-sign-brian-schneider","tag-phillies-sign-castro","tag-roy-halladay-demands-trade","tag-roy-halladay-to-the-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}