"Could the Phillies trade Cole Hamels?

That has been one of the hot questions posed by media members at these general managers meetings, and Ruben Amaro Jr. understands why.

"They're only writing it because it happened before," the Phils' GM said Wednesday.

He was referring to his trading of Cliff Lee in Dec. 2009. Amaro re-signed the lefthander as a free agent a year later."