{"id":93218,"date":"2025-01-02T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=93218"},"modified":"2025-01-02T22:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:29:25","slug":"five-best-phillies-trades-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/02\/five-best-phillies-trades-since-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Best Phillies Trades Since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like any other franchise, the Philadelphia Phillies have made a huge number of trades during the 21st century. This offseason, the Phillies acquired<\/a> starting pitcher Jes\u00fas Luzardo<\/a> in a deal with the Miami Marlins. More recently, on Wednesday, they dealt Tyler Gilbert<\/a> was dealt<\/a> to the Chicago White Sox. Some of these trades have led to success for the Phillies, while others have set the team back. After looking at the Phillies’ best free agent signings since 2000<\/a> it is now time to evaluate their best trades in that time span.<\/p>\n

The 5 Best Phillies Trades of the Century<\/h2>\n

5. Sending Jimmy Rollins to the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/h3>\n

Phillies Received: Tom Windle<\/a> + Zach Eflin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Dodgers Received: Jimmy Rollins<\/a> + cash<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the lone deal on this list involving the Phillies trading away a star player. On Dec. 19, 2014, the Phillies sent Rollins and cash to the Dodgers for Windle and Eflin. Rollins had a .224\/.285\/.358 line with 13 home runs and 41 RBI in 144 games as a Dodger. Furthermore, Rollins had a 0.4 bWAR and a 79 OPS+ in that 2015 season. Eflin would become a key part of the Phillies’ 2022 run to the World Series. In six appearances between the NLCS and World Series that year, he did not allow an earned run. Eflin also recorded a save in the NL Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n

4. Acquiring Cristopher S\u00e1nchez from the Tampa Bay Rays<\/h3>\n

Phillies Received: Cristopher S\u00e1nchez<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Rays Received: Curtis Mead<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On Nov. 20, 2019, the Phillies and Rays made what appeared at the time to be an insignificant trade. Neither S\u00e1nchez nor Mead had played in the majors at that point. Now, S\u00e1nchez is becoming<\/a> one of the better starting pitchers in baseball. He made the All-Star team in 2024 in a season where he pitched two complete games. Mead has 62 career major league appearances across the 2023 and 2024 seasons. This is one of the more underrated one-for-one trades in the last few years.<\/p>\n

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Cristopher S\u00e1nchez tosses his second complete game of the season<\/p>\n

As called by Scott Franzke and LA pic.twitter.com\/NPve4sQ4d7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nick Piccone (@_piccone) August 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n