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After a weekend full of trade rumors, Phillies General Manager Ruben Amaro summoned Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels to his office on Tuesday night after the Phillies lost to the New York Mets, according to Phillies.com's Todd Zolecki:
Cole Hamels had changed out of his Phillies uniform and back into his street clothes when he headed toward the visitors' clubhouse doors late Tuesday night at Citi Field.
A clubhouse attendant stopped him before he reached the exit.
"Hey, Cole, Ruben would like to see you," he said.
I wonder if Hamels thought he was traded at that point.
The pieces quotes Hamels as saying, "it was about something else" other than a contract discussion, and Amaro as saying "it was a private discussion."
I am sure over the next 27 days until the trade deadline we will have people reading into almost everything, but hopefully there was some good, honest discussion.
Or, maybe Amaro just wanted to see if Cole had any July 4th barbecue plans.
