Funny how the Phillies thought they couldn’t afford him after 2009 and swapped him for three so-so prospects. They pulled a Yankee (if you remember how the Yankees were the mystery team waiting in the weeds during the Catfish Hunter bidding-—when Hunter was freed up after Charlie Finley reneged on insurance payments-—and merely asked Hunter what it would take to make him a Yankee) and landed their man. Lee looked very comfortable pitching in Philadelphia in ‘09. (And I bet they still debate whether the Phillies should have gone with him on short rest instead of Joe Blanton in Game Four.) That Halladay-Lee-Oswalt-Hamels rotation looks bloody great on paper . . .
That staff should rival the Braves of the mid 90’s and the Orioles of the early 70’s. Killer.