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Phillies' Cole Hamels becoming more attractive trade chip by the day

COLE HAMELS will take the mound at Citizens Bank Park tonight. But the ticking clock on his Phillies career is growing louder by the day.

Major League Baseball's trade deadline is two months from Sunday and the Phillies own the prize of the market.

That is, of course, if they decide to trade Hamels at all.

"Our hope is, within the time frame his contract is over, that we're back contending again," general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said earlier this month about Hamels, whose current contract can keep him in a Phillies uniform through 2019. "We're hoping by '17 and '18, we're starting to put ourselves in that spot.