{"id":38,"date":"2007-11-20T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-11-20T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:20:30","slug":"phils-ownership-may-be-willing-to-raise-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Phils Ownership May be Willing to Raise Payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it took about one day for my &#8216;Phillies hot stove&#8217; post to be proven wrong, on some counts.\u00a0 It appears that around the same time I was writing the post on Sunday night, claiming the Phillies would not be bringing in Mike Lowell or any other <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/images\/2007\/07\/30\/EWLHWuyU.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"lowell\" height=\"235\" \/>thirdbaseman, the Phillies front-office was actually <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/sports\/20071120_Phillies_made_a_play_for_Lowell.html\" title=\"lowell\">involved in serious negotiations with Lowell <\/a>on a four-year deal.\u00a0 Yesterday, Lowell decided to stay in Boston, signing a 3 year, $37.5 million contract.\u00a0 The Phillies offer was for the same amount per year, but with a fourth year bringing the total amount of the contract to $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>The question here is, what changed between last week, when Pat Gillick flatly denied that the Phillies would be pursuing Lowell, and Sunday night, when the Phils offered him $5o mil?\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine that Gillick was willing to leave himself with no payroll flexibility to pursue a pitcher.\u00a0 I think the only logical conclusion is that Phillies ownership were willing to go over their stated payroll limit of $105 million, if it meant bringing in Lowell.\u00a0 This is, potentially, great news.\u00a0 It may make all my points in that post on Sunday night moot, but I would be fine with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it took about one day for my &#8216;Phillies hot stove&#8217; post to be proven wrong, on some counts.\u00a0 It appears that around the same time I was writing the post on Sunday night, claiming the Phillies would not be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[54,25,16],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mike-lowell","tag-pat-gillick","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}