{"id":97,"date":"2008-01-28T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:42:05","slug":"phils-add-an-everyday-thirdbaseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Phils Add an Everyday Thirdbaseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would your reaction be if I told you that the Phillies could add 20 home runs and\u00a0solid defense at third base?\u00a0 You would probably be pretty happy, right?<\/p>\n<p>What if I told you that Phillies signed Giants thirdbaseman Pedro Feliz?\u00a0 Same reaction?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 Either way, both <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com\/images\/2006\/07\/04\/phVTJI5l.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"feliz\" height=\"235\" \/>of those things just happened this afternoon, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3219098\">Phillies signed Feliz <\/a>to a 2-year free agent contract.<\/p>\n<p>Feliz has now had 4 straight 20 home run seasons, though his batting average over that period has been as low as .244 and only once was higher than .253.\u00a0 Honestly, I do not know what I think about this signing.\u00a0 It only just happened.\u00a0 I will think more about it when I get a chance (I hate it when life gets in the way of &#8220;thinking&#8221; about baseball), but my initial gut reaction is that Feliz does not seem like that big of an upgrade.\u00a0 Am I wrong about this?\u00a0 Is he <em>that <\/em>much better than Wes Helms and Abraham Nunez?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dollar figures aren&#8217;t out yet, so maybe it did not cost us that much.\u00a0 A lot will have to do with what the salary is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would your reaction be if I told you that the Phillies could add 20 home runs and\u00a0solid defense at third base?\u00a0 You would probably be pretty happy, right? What if I told you that Phillies signed Giants thirdbaseman Pedro &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[177,194,16],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-giants","tag-pedro-feliz","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}