Daily News | Phillies still believe their unconventional leadoff hitter plan can work
ATLANTA — John Middleton typically refrains from making public comments about the Phillies during the season. But there’s at least one person outside the managing partner’s immediate household who has a sense for how he feels about the local baseball team.
Entering play here Tuesday, the Phillies ranked 26th in on-base-plus-slugging from the center field position and 27th at shortstop . The bullpen ranked 22nd in ERA . Although the defense hasn’t explicitly blown a game, the Phillies still had the fewest defensive runs saved in the majors. But since 2018, when the Phillies began accelerating from rebuilding to contending, they have a .321 on-base percentage out of the leadoff spot, tied with the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles for third-worst in the majors. Only the Miami Marlins and Detroit Tigers are worse. None of those teams qualified for the playoffs in a full season.
“Last year, our on-base percentage was way below, and Odúbel’s not meant to be a leadoff guy. He was the best guy that we had,” Dombrowski said. “But I don’t feel the same way this year.” Long has previously cited Curtis Granderson as an effective leadoff hitter for years with Dombrowski’s Tigers teams and Girardi’s Yankees clubs “because he had the ability to change the score and he could get on base.” Long was the hitting coach in Washington when Schwarber went on a 19-game leadoff tear for the Nationals last season, going 25-for-71 with nine walks for a .427 on-base percentage. He also slugged 15 homers.
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