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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I think this has to spell the end of Amaro up there. Just an epic-level disaster, and I'm not sure he can escape it.
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The silence is deafening. If someone went rogue we would have heard something by now, and his comment about not talking because its an ongoing investigation was silly. Its not your investigation Amaro, you can talk.
I don't want to overstate the fallout though, agents are still going to deal with them for free agents and college seniors, and obviously once they draft someone, the kid has to talk to them the agent just has to be very careful.
However, if I'm an agent, and my client is a high schooler or college junior who is still wrestling with the decision to go to school or not and he's not 100% sure he wants to go pro yet, there is no way in hell I let the Phillies get anywhere near him before the draft. Thats going to hurt their ability to figure out who is signable. It would be different if several teams started snitching on their players but right now its just the Phillies. The other 29 teams are willing to cooperate, so to hell with 'em.
edit: the Phillies just released a tersely-worded statement that managed to say nothing but the obvious. I read the statement as, "yeah we did it, so what? don't like it? Bite me!" The reaction from the media is pretty brutal, CBS called the Phillies "a pretty pitiful organization top to bottom"