Remember, during the offseason on the Romantic About Baseball podcast, I was vocal about how the Phillies should let Schwarber walk, pursue Bregman and/or Tucker full bore, and call up Crawford to revamp this lineup. At this point, you have to look at the lineup and understand that their "running it back approach" is an utter failure.

The difference between competing and winning often comes down to how well a program can turn information into action.

We can slice this a hundred different ways — dive into advanced metrics, argue over matchup splits, debate lineup construction philosophy — and all of it has value. But when you strip it all down, evaluating an offense really comes back to something much more fundamental: Which teams can string together tough, competitive at-bats from 1 through 9… and do it consistently enough to generate runs against quality pitching? Because that’s the separator. Not just star power at the

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