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Phillies’ Joe Girardi Praises Didi Gregorius, Zack Wheeler

Infielder Didi Gregorius: one year, $14 million.

Right-handed starting pitcher Zack Wheeler: five years, $118 million.

Two former New York major league stars, both now members of the Philadelphia Phillies under another fellow former New Yorker, manager Joe Girardi.

Girardi has nothing but praise for the Phillies’ marquee free-agent signings. He knows Gregorius particularly well already, having managed him on the Yankees for three seasons from 2015 to 2017.

“I just have always loved Didi, not just what he does on the field, because I think that’s special, but what he did in the clubhouse,” Girardi recently told WFAN’s Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts.