Report: Phillies could deal Ben Revere

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    With a glut of outfielders all vying for space in the Phils' outfield, the team has made their starting left fielder available.

    The Phillies have too many outfielders.

    None of these guys are potential All Stars, mind you, but right now, the Phils appear to have too many bodies for too few spots, which means something has to give.

    Ben Revere is currently the team's left fielder, with Odubel Herrera in center and Grady Sizemore and Jeff Francoeur sharing right field duties. But with Cody Asche learning left field (and seemingly taking to it well enough to consider him a Major League option) and Domonic Brown due up at some point soon, there are simply too few chairs for all the players available.

    Trading Revere makes sense. First, they already have a Revere-like player in Herrera as their every day center fielder. The two together are redundant. Second, no one is going to trade for Sizemore or Francoeur, they simply haven't been good enough to warrant spending any capital for.

    Third, Revere certainly has more value than Asche or Brown, both of whom need to prove themselves as decent Major League players before any team is willing to ask for them in a deal.

    - See more at: http://www.thegoodphight.com/2015/5/19/8625511/report-phillies-could-deal-ben-revere
     

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