Don’t Look Now But the Phils Are the Hottest Team In All of Baseball

That 9 out of the last 10. 10 of the last 11. Just as the Oracle Bryce Harper predicted. Thanks to some band aids put on the bullet wound that is are bullpen via the trade deadline, the Phils have the best record in baseball over the past 11 games and you get the feeling that the attitude of this team is just different.

Wind the clocks back 2 years ago, 1-year man Carlos Santana literally broke a TV in the clubhouse because the guys were playing fortnite too often. Nobody took anything seriously. Do you think the team of Alphas we have today is missing out on getting better at baseball to play video games? You think DiDi or McCutchen are wasting their time when there are baseball games to win? JT has probably been the best baseball player on any field he’s walked on since he was 11 and he carries that attitude into any game. Even with him and Bryce coming back down to earth from their red hot starts, this lineup 1 through 9 is good enough to pick up the slack. Not to mention the alien has returned just assassinating baseballs

That’s 6 bombs and 7 doubles the last 15 days (some of you people wanted to trade him. You can order your clown nose online).

The greatest delight of this all has been the pitching. Aaron Nola and Zach Wheeler are looking like a 1-2 combo that could possibly carry you through any given playoff series. If Spencer Howard can live up to his potential you’re looking at 3 wins with a shortened rotation that’ll put them on the mound more often. Arrieta (also a relative Alpha Male) can win you ball games and you better not let the Led Zeflin (Zach Eflin, trademark on the nickname is pending) get rocking, or else he can send a whole lineup walk-info up the stairway to heaven.

If the bullpen can just not kill us (which the last two weeks they haven’t for the most part) then the rest of the league should take notice. This is a team of grown men they’re up against who can say they’re going to do something and then go out and do it. You watch this Phillies team, and you can see they expect to win every ballgame. That’s something that hasn’t been in that clubhouse for a very long time. Hop aboard the bandwagon now, before it’s too late.

By Fred Courduff | September 5, 2020
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