Baseball teams are trying all kinds of methods to recruit players in free agency, and one former Phillies star played a small role in the Phillies acquiring Andrew McCutchen.
On the NBCS Philadelphia podcast “At the Yard” the newly-signed McCutchen told Jim Salisbury that he reached out to Shane Victorino to get a feel for the city.
“(Victorino) said some great things of course about the city… He loved it and he said I would love it too,” said McCutchen.
Unlike other teams trying to court free agents, it appears the Phillies didn’t send Victorino out to McCutchen, but it was the other way around.