All Phillies fans should want to be like the Yankee's!

Yes, they are the evil empire. Yes, we all hate the fact that they can buy any player in baseball during free agency but don't we want to do that? Look there is no way that the Phillies will be able to spend like the Yankees unless they can buy Comcast. Yankee money is billionaire money. Yankee money lets you make mistakes on players and not care the next season when you cut them. The Phillies do not have that kind of money but what they do have (like Yankees of old) is a good farm system. Quality farm prospects are jewels in baseball. And jewels can buy you players.

In baseball teams draft “prospects” every year and if you have an eye for talent then you can consistently replenish your system each year. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Phillies scouting crew has done wonders for the last 10 years. They used the draft to build a team that would lead them to two World Series berths and one crown. That being said, people need to stop worrying about Kyle Drabek and Michael Taylor/Dominic Brown.

The Phillies’ organization has put themselves in a very unique place. They have the opportunity to start gambling like the Yankees do, but not with money with prospects. Now the late 90s and early 2000s the world saw a Yankee team that was home grown and supplemented with great players. There is no reason in my mind that the Phillies cannot duplicate what the Yankees did. The Phillies have their entire core players signed through 2011 basically and just need to add a few pieces to make this the era of Philly dominance in baseball.

Now there are a lot of things that have to go right in order for this to happen (everyone says healthy, Brad Lidge/Cole Hamels bounce back, etc) but all aside, the Phillies need to make the deal for Roy Halladay happen. Why? Let’s call it a “safety halve.” You sign Halladay and you play for a World Series for three years straight then comes free agency for him and Cliff Lee. Now, all you have to do is sign one of them and bring up your new big name prospect and add him to the rotation for 2011, and trust me there will be. There is no reason why fans should not expect new good prospects for the next 5 years. Seriously, what has given you the impression that there won’t be another Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, Carlos Carrasco, Kyle Kendrick, John Mayberry Jr., Antonio Bastardo, Kyle Drabek, Michael Taylor, etc.. Every year we hear about these great prospects that the Phillies have and every year they draft/sign even more. And yes I know that Rollins, Howard, Hamels, and Utley are All-Stars yada yada yada….

Phillies fans, all I am saying is that I trust our farm system to replenish and that a trade for Drabek and Taylor/Brown for Halladay sounds and we should all expect them to do it. There will always be diamonds in the rough and Roy Halladay in the NL East with Lee and Hamels against the freaking Mets sounds great.