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How the Philadelphia Phillies botched their rebuild — and what it tells us about tanking
Since mid-2015, when the recent Phillies hit their lowest point — bad, expensive and with a barren farm system — they have had four managers, not to mention five hitting instructors and five pitching coaches. “Managers,” Roger Angell once wrote, “are changed whenever it becomes apparent that something must be done, even though it is […]
Continue readingMets put David Peterson on IL, call up Corey Oswalt to start vs. Marlins
Mets manager Luis Rojas said that Peterson “woke up and felt a little weird with his shoulder” and that the team wanted to be careful with him. Rojas didn’t know whether Peterson would undergo an MRI. New York called up Oswalt, a right-hander, from its alternate training site to start against the Miami Marlins less […]
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