

Soto and Bell are both out of the NL East now, and the Phils have 11 games left to play against a completely gutted Nationals squad, the most out of any team in the NL Wild Card hunt – The Cardinals, for example, only have four games against Washington.Īdvantage Phillies and disadvantage Cardinals and Giants.

There's what the Phillies did Tuesday and then what the Padres' blockbuster trade did for them. (Could the Phillies have somehow hijacked both ends of the Bader-Montgomery trade? No, of course not, they’re not the Pirates.) Particularly because if the Mariners’ acquisition of Castillo pays off, guess which team will suddenly own the longest playoff drought in MLB? Ī gift on the schedule Mike Axisa | CBS Sports
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A bigger upgrade in the rotation or center field would’ve been nice. But if anything, they lost ground to the Braves and Cardinals. The Phillies did pretty well, and didn’t give up any prospects with which they’ll regret parting. (His defense is already superior to Herrera’s.) He doesn’t have to be much better to represent an upgrade on Herrera. 239/.299/.354 hitter and just 18 months removed from being a global top-50 prospect.

The Marsh trade makes more sense knowing what came later- Odúbel Herrera was DFA’d minutes after news of Marsh’s arrival broke, and Moniak later went to the Angels in the Syndergaard deal. Robertson is a reliable reliever for a team in need of quality innings-his first injury-plagued stint with the Phillies is about the only period in the past 14 years in which he wasn’t a very good eighth-inning guy or closer. Syndergaard isn’t the pitcher he was five years ago, but the Phillies have money to burn and a Zach Eflin–shaped hole in the rotation, so he should be useful. The Phillies traded from the tier of prospects below their anointed troika of young right-handers to fill in some roster gaps.
