He’s proven to be durable and effective for the considerable majority of his five years with the Phillies, and should be paid in kind, but reality isn’t so cut-and-dry
A few years ago, back around the time of Tom Gordon, Antonio Alfonseca, and Geoff Geary, I started to get more exposed to the idea of reliever “fungibility.” The thought, as some of my newer-school, more forward-thinking baseball friends would put it, was that relievers...