Phillies Sign Jake Arrieta

Hoooooooly smokes, they did it.

After months of back-and-forth will-they-won’t-they, their words and actions resting on opposite sides of an imbalanced scale in the nearly 12 weeks since signing Carlos Santana, Pat Neshek, and Tommy Hunter, the Phillies finally struck, landing the top remaining starting pitcher on the free agent market.

Jake Arrieta, 2015 Cy Young Award winner, is a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Arrieta, who turned 32 on March 6, signed a three-year, $75 million deal to come aboard the Phillies’ ship. He instantly lends credibility and likely higher-end production to a starting rotation that really needed both, and figures to slot in behind Aaron Nola, who has already…