Just because there’s smoke doesn’t necessarily mean there’s fire when baseball’s Hot Stove is heating up.
Rumors run rampant during the early stages of free agency as player agents feed propaganda to national writers and broadcasters in an effort to get their clients paid. That’s just how it goes, and anything churned off the always-entertaining off-season rumor mill should be taken with a large grain of salt.
That said, rumors abound about the Phillies’ interest in free agent left-handed starter Blake Snell.
Aaron Nola's number starts at $30 million for probably 7-years, a contract the Phillies will not do, according to @howardeskin.