This is the first in a semi-weekly look at some trade targets that you might not have considered and whether it would make sense to trade for them.
Did you hear about the Phillies and their pitching staff? It wasn’t what one would call “good” last year, at least not in the classical vernacular. They had a little bit of trouble finding guys who could throw more than four effective innings in a row, and when they did, it seemed like injury and its cold fingers would grip that pitcher’s entire body and sent him into the phantom zone.