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Breaking News: Phillies Sign Geoff Jenkins

Just as I figured.

Jerry Crasnick of ESPN is reporting the Phils snatched Jenkins to a 2-year/$13MM deal with a third year vesting option. At the moment, it’s a preliminary agreement.

Jenkins is a nice fit for the Phillies, and will make up for about 60-70 percent of Aaron Rowand’s loss. It looks to be about $6MM for the first year and $7MM for year two, which isn’t disastrously high. It’s about what you’d figure for Jenkins. Of course, this means the Phillies arbitrary $10MM to spend this offseason has been reached (and a bit overdrawn). Does it mean the Phils are finished spending? I hope not.

As far as the team’s needs for 2008, they can still use another starter and another back-end reliever. Kris Benson may be the former, but there’s no indication the Phils are strongly looking for the latter. All in all, despite this good pickup, the Phils may be going into 2008 with the same problems as 2007.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.