Worst nightmare: Just now The Philadelphia Phillies’ Legend pass away at 56….RIP
Anytime a team is viewed as buyers ahead of the trade deadline, deals get dreamt up where those like the Philadelphia Phillies come away with a roster resembling that of an All-Star team.
But for the Phillies, who had a lot of representation in the Midsummer Classic as is, there weren’t a whole lot of areas the front office truly needed to address for the back half of the year.
That didn’t stop some fans from hoping Dave Dombrowski would truly push all his chips into the center of the table by landing someone like Randy Arozarena, Luis Robert Jr., Jazz Chisholm or other big names who seemingly were going to be available.
When that didn’t happen, some criticism was levied his way.
However, Philadelphia certainly made some upgrades to this roster by bringing in former All-Star Austin Hays, star closer Carlos Estevez, and another reliever Tanner Banks, while replacing two of their struggling arms.
The idea is that these moves will make them much harder to eliminate in the playoffs after they have come up short in the World Series and National League Championship Series in back-to-back years, but with the team struggling massively the past few weeks, alarm bells are going off.
For what it’s worth, the players don’t seem worried.
They trust the process they are approaching each game with and believe things will turn around once this stretch of unlucky variance passes.
