Daily News | The Phillies’ three best (and worst) decisions of the 2022 World Series season
I’ll admit I had no idea Thomson would take a team that was seven games under .500 and go 21 games above .500 in his four-month run, then take it all the way to the World Series.I always hated the idea of Kyle Schwarber batting leadoff, and, sure enough, he struggled when placed there to start the season, then, intermittently, for the first six weeks or so. Putting him back in the leadoff spot for good May 28 when he was hitting .190 with a .724 OPS seemed idiotic. The Phils had little choice.
Schwarbs hit 38 of his league-high 46 home runs from the leadoff spot, including seven homers to lead off games. Schwarber hit six more homers in the postseason, including a 488-foot bomb in Game 1 of the NLCS; a leadoff homer to start Game 5 of the World Series; and the only run in Game 6, when the Phillies were eliminated.
But he was dominant in four of those starts and he was competent in another. In his first career playoff run, he did what an ace is supposed to do: He gave his team a chance to win almost every time he took the mound.Nearly everyone rejoiced that Phillies owner Middleton exceeded the salary cap by adding a last-minute, All-Star DH/outfielder, but signing Nick Castellanos for five years and $100 million has, so far, been a disaster. His OPS fell 245 points, from .939 in 2021 to .694 in 2022.
The Phillies president spent $6 million on Jeurys Familia, whom Dombrowski released at the deadline. Familia had a 6.09 ERA in 38 appearances.
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