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Here's what I posted from there immediately after Jayson Werth addressed his contract (he's a free agent after the season) a few minutes ago:

- Jayson Werth on the first question, of course, about his new beard: "I'm not going to talk about that...am I going to ask you about that thing on your neck?"


- Werth says contract situation is "different" than Jason Bay and Matt Holliday, and mentioned how Aaron Rowand probably wishes he was still in Philly. The school of thought is Werth could strike it rich on the open market as Bay and Holliday did this winter.... but mentioning Rowand was very interesting, since Rowand did test the open market and then saw his former team go to the World Series in the next two years.

- Werth: "Hopefully it will work out and I'll be in Philly for a long time."

- Werth called going into his walk year "an interesting situation" and was vague on if he'd consider negotiating with Phils during season. His agent and Ruben Amaro Jr. have had very preliminary talks, according to both Werth and Amaro... and this was as of last month, when Amaro said so.



More in the paper tomorrow. Oh, here's Werth's new look (courtesy MLB.com). I thought I'd post it with another interesting Werth look. Enjoy!