Rolen, who will be added to the Phillies Wall of Fame on Friday, has a complicated legacy in Philadelphia. How different might it have been if an alternate history had played out?
Larry Bowa sat in the visiting manager’s office at Tropicana Field on June 12, 2001. The
But in reflecting this week on his time spent with Rolen, Bowa brought it up anyway. What if he chose his words differently so as to leave no ambiguity about what he meant? What if he had a filter, like most other managers? What if he channeled his frustration in another way?“I said, ‘Man, the middle of our lineup is killing us,’ and Scotty came in the next morning and said, ‘What’s this, Bo? You’ve got to be kidding me,’” Bowa recalled. “I said, ‘Scotty, I’m not singling you out.
“I thought we, as an organization, were very candid about what the financial circumstances were playing in Veterans Stadium and the vision with regard to how that environment would change when we got into a new ballpark,” former general manager Ed Wade said this week. “Rolling the clock forward, you can see that’s exactly what happened. We thought we had a good plan in place with regard to getting good and staying good.
“The question is, at that point, with two or three years down the road from the stadium, do you kind of commit your whole career, or do you see what free agency looks like?” Rolen said at his Hall of Fame news conference in July. “That was my decision at the time. And I understand the Phillies had to make a move.”
“It would’ve been great if we’d have been able to come to an agreement that would’ve kept Scott in a Phillies uniform for his entire career. And we tried that,” Wade said. “In retrospect, I think from time to time about, should we have tried to continue to move forward in the negotiations? But it became apparent that we weren’t going to get there. We had to continue to travel on the path that we set to get good and stay good.
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