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.
