ruben amaro fired

The Philadelphia Phillies finally parted ways with longtime general manager Ruben Amaro this week. For the fans, it was a long time coming. The timeline of it all was fairly bizarre with it happening around lunchtime on Wednesday, but as Jayson Stark said on this week's Stark Report, it was indeed to get a head start on the offseason...

Changes are indeed coming to the Phillies front office. According to a CBS Sports report, the Phillies are planning to hire Andy MacPhail to a key role in their organization. A previous report by Jim Salisbury had surfaced on June 15th claiming that the Phillies were "targeting" MacPhail to be their new president of baseball operations...

You may be able to wait past 2017 or 2018 to reorder your Phillies season tickets. In an interview with reporters yesterday, Phillies president Pat Gillick spoke on a number of pressing issues and admitted that the rebuild may "take a little longer" than the previous three or four year timeline he placed on it...

If Ruben Amaro had any Phillies fans defending him, they just jumped overboard. It's been a longtime wish of most Phillies fans in wanting to see the youth movement towards the future at the big league level. In a piece with CSN Philly's Jim Salisbury, the long tenured Phillies general manager doubled down on Phillies fans when hard pressed about the criticism he's been receiving...