Hunter Pence is under contract for 2013, as he still has arbitration eligibility, so it wasn’t a guarantee that he’d be traded. Shane Victorino was a pending free agent, so he was almost certainly going to go, but Pence thought he might stick around.
Video: Hunter Pence ‘Surprised’ By Trade
The deal to the San Francisco Giants caught him by surprise, then, and here we have a video from Comcast SportsNet about the move.
The Astros traded for Pence at the deadline last year, and the 29-year-old outfielder had a career year as he helped the Phillies to the playoffs. He regressed to something closer to his career numbers, and with the possibility of a $14 million arbitration award in the offseason, the Phillies decided they’d rather have a package of Tommy Joseph, Nate Schierholtz, and Seth Rosin.
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