Let's hear it a bit for Shane Victorino who has been on something of a tear since coming off the DL. He's looking again like the Super-Pest that fans either love or hate. Tim Dierkes over at MLB Trade Rumors yesterday had a piece about how the Phillies are handing out contract extensions like candy. His bad contracts: Ryan Howard (you either get that one or you don't and Dierkes doesn't), Jamie Moyer (a good neighbor reward, Tim), Cole Hamels (how can he not get that one?), Placido Polanco (the very player that Jimmy Rollins last night called the best hitter on the team), Joe Blanton (well, that one is not looking good this year), Danys Baez (don't get me started), Brian Schneider (yes, why two years not one), Ross Gload (could say the same as for Baez though Gload has been 100x better), and picking up the option of Jimmy Rollins a year early (a no-brainer). All I concluded from the piece was that as a long-time Cubs fan, Tim Dierkes simply does not get it. Ruben Amaro, Jr., however, does.
