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Mar 2023

Predictions are always interesting but really don't count much come October.

2 months later

Since today is "pile on the Phillies" day, it seems appropriate to revisit this thread. Every one of us who voted thought they would thought they would have a winning record. Only bkox picked them to win fewer than 86 games. Of course most of us voted before the Hoskins injury, and perhaps Ranger as well (and Alvarado, of course). But they're on a 74 win pace right now.

I wonder whether our disappointment is more that we were too optimistic than the Phillies not playing as well as they should. Sure, several players have underperformed, but a lot have been pretty much as expected. Especially if you didn't expect Wheeler and Nola to repeat 2022.

Well, what did last year's version of this thread say at this time last year?

3 months later

Well, we all got it right for the most part. Gonna be between 88 and 91 probably but the high end wasn't crazy (and would have been achievable with a better start).

Phillies will have a winning record at home and a winning record against teams over .500. They need to win one of the games in NYC this weekend to have a winning road record.

Win total is now at 88 with 5 games remaining.