The Phillies spent millions this winter to supercharge their lineup. Will it be enough to overcome their defensive deficiencies and get them to a World Series?
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The phone calls and text messages trickled in early in the offseason. They stopped for a while after Major League Baseball locked out the players and froze rosters, but picked up again, in frequency and intensity, last month once the collective bargaining agreement was finalized and the doors to spring training swung open.
Who has that kind of time? Certainly not an organization that lives under the cloud of a decade-long postseason drought. It’s far more expeditious to keep adding offense. And the Phillies do play half their games in a homer-friendly bandbox. Boras knew that, too. “What an awesome experience we’re about to have this year with the lineup we’re about to have,” Harper said. “It’s a special thing to be able to have guys at the top of our lineup and in the middle of our lineup. Pretty well-rounded. Just the length of our lineup is pretty impressive.”There were other paths the Phillies could have taken after signing Schwarber.
The Phillies took that approach last year, too. They had a below-average defender at every position except catcher and second base and unsurprisingly ranked last in the majors with a minus-54 rating in defensive runs saved, according to Sports Info Solutions., but didn’t change the personnel. There are limits to Dickerson’s magic, especially with veterans such as shortstop Didi Gregorius. In the outfield, Schwarber and Castellanos grade out as below-average in defensive runs saved.
“I never really looked at us as a bad defensive club,” Leyland said before a recent spring training game in Lakeland, Fla. “I thought we were OK. And with our pitching, that made us better.”How a black journal helped Mickey Moniak earn a spot on the Phillies’ opening-day roster
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