Don't get your hopes up: Werth is gone.

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Don't get your hopes up: Werth is gone.

POSTED: Monday, October 25, 2010, 5:18 PM

There was a flurry a excitement on my Twitter this morning over Ruben Amaro's comments that, in the words of the Daily News, “the Phillies want Jayson Werth to return and have enough money to re-sign him.” Which would be fine by me.

Except, if you read between the lines, Amaro is telling you that this isn't going to happen:

Amaro said the Phillies want Jayson Werth to return and have enough money to re-sign him, but said that will “depend on what the ask is” and “how it will affect other things.”

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“Jayson had a good year. It wasn't an extraordinary year,” Amaro said. “He had a tough time with men in scoring position. It wasn't as productive a year as he had in the past. If he is not with us, there are players that we can acquire and or we have in our own organization that can help us be as consistent.”

Allow me to translate: “Werth is good, sure, but he's not that good, and he's going to want waaaaaay too much money. We'll try, you know, a bit, but he's not worth giving away the store. So when this shit goes south and he ends up on the Red Sox, blame him, not me.”

Not saying whether letting Jayson go is a good idea or not, just that that's what's gonna happen.

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