Rollins wants to remain a Phillie

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J-Roll is still a relevant force on the Phils



It's rare these days, players generally go where the money is. A couple of days ago, there were reports of the NY Yankees interested in Jimmy Rollins. The Phillies were all ears on the trade possibilities but the Yankees apparently didn't offer enough in return and to top it all off, Jimmy Rollins (who has a no-trade clause) didn't want to go to the Yankees.

Rollins could have steered himself into a nice new 3 year deal to finish out his career with the Yankees and possibly took advantage of the generous salaries that the Yankees offer players like the former MVP Rollins. Jimmy didn't elect to do this, he wants to remain in the Phillie pinstripes.

This was all reported by ESPN's Jayson Stark, who had closes that were at the source of this information.

Both sources also said Rollins isn't interested in getting traded to #Yankees so it was a moot point to pursue this further.
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) November 26, 2014

So, for now, Rollins remains a Phillies player which could be for his last season as his contract is up at the end of 2015 and then we'll see what happens with him. Jimmy just celebrated his 36th birthday on Thanksgiving Day.

Rollins has been the spark plug of this team some years ago, and even though he's aged as well as the other Phillies players have that have been with the team a long time, J Roll still puts up decent numbers.


Check out Jimmy's numbers over the years:

Year	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BA	Awards
2000	21	14	53	5	17	1	0	5	.321
2001 ★	22	158	656	97	180	29	14	54	.274	AS,MVP-17,RoY-3
2002 ★	23	154	637	82	156	33	11	60	.245	AS
2003	24	156	628	85	165	42	8	62	.263
2004	25	154	657	119	190	43	14	73	.289	MVP-30
2005 ★	26	158	677	115	196	38	12	54	.290	AS,MVP-10
2006	27	158	689	127	191	45	25	83	.277	MVP-21
2007	28	162	716	139	212	38	30	94	.296	MVP-1,GG,SS
2008	29	137	556	76	154	38	11	59	.277	GG
2009	30	155	672	100	168	43	21	77	.250	GG
2010	31	88	350	48	85	16	8	41	.243
2011	32	142	567	87	152	22	16	63	.268
2012	33	156	632	102	158	33	23	68	.250	GG
2013	34	160	600	65	151	36	6	39	.252
2014	35	138	538	78	131	22	17	55	.243
15 Yrs		2090	8628	1325	2306	479	216	887	.267
162 Game Avg.		162	669	103	179	37	17	69	.267

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 11/27/2014.