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Originally Posted by stevew
Burrell's already dead to ya?
I mean, i don't think they need to resign him either, but they do need to bring in someone to offset the loss of his production.
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Well, my thinking on Burrell is that the Phillies are ready to replace him and he will only come back if extremely cheap (somewhere in the ball park of 3-years, 12 million). That might be unrealistic, but I really don't see that much demand for his services elsewhere in the National League because of his poor fielding and the fact that he is older and falls into that mid-level range of free agents likely to be screwed by the economy. So, it is possible that Burrell will come back.
However, I'd be just as happy with signing a cheap power-type guy to platoon with Dobbs and Jenkins. I'd
love for them to get Adam Dunn (so long as they don't have to break the bank for him) as I think he is really underrated for the numbers he put up in a pitcher's ball park. Dunn could easily hit 40 homeruns playing at CBP.