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I've read a bit more on this, this won't have any impact outside of Philly, but this is swiftly spiralling out of control for the Phillies, and they are gonna have to take action soon with the next draft coming up.

Apparently, almost every agent in baseball is now telling the Phillies that they will not talk to them nor allow them to talk to their player before the draft. The Phillies are not going to be able to operate that way, sure it sucks for them that a couple kids changed their mind last year and went back to school, but every team has got to be able to talk to kids to get a feel for how signable everyone is.

I'm betting some people in Philadelphia are going to be fired, and then the Phillies will beg the agents for forgiveness.