5 things we learned about the Phillies in spring training

The Phillies have already flown north for the regular season after completing their final exhibition on spring training on Monday afternoon. The games will now count.

Thursday afternoon will officially start when the Phillies open to the Nationals in Washington. Almost all players who return are known to the front office and the fans, but there are some new folds for the latest version of the Phillies.

Here is a look at five things that we have learned from Phillys 30 Spring Training Games in Florida in the past one and a half months:

Made to walk

No baseball team did not collect walks in the grapefruit or in the Cactus league than in the Phillies. Her 153 BBS was more than 10% more than the next highest number of Red Sox (139). Thanks to its eye for the baseball, Phils also contributed to the first best for the basic rate of a team in spring training .370.

One of the main reasons why Phils stalled in the after season was a little happy. They chased more than they were under pressure in 2023 and the Mets in 2024. The patience on the plate is not the most exciting virtue in baseball, but it’s a win. If this exceeds the regular season, it could set the table more for the abundance of electricity stains in the installation of the Phillies.

A steal on the left?

Max Kepler was an unexpected signing and it was even more unexpected when the Phillies made it clear that they could play the left-handed Hitter every day in the left field, even though they suffered from some Link-Righty split problems. Kepler showed everything he could have in spring training .375/.500/.675 in 40 for bats. He tied for most RBI (11), Homeruns (3) and additional base hits (6) of every keyman in Clearwater.

If someone is reliable in the outer field, the team has no longer been the team since Bryce Harpers elbow injury and subsequent position change. Nick Castellanos is a very streaking hitter, and Johan Rojas and Brandon Marsh have previously presented themselves as a tensile hits.

The start depth is thin

The Phillies will enter the regular season with Taijuan Walker as fifth starter. Who saw that coming?

Ranger Suárez On the shelf, the Phils had to use their reserves for one or two starts and hope that they see something different from Walker than what they saw last year, or this spring in which the man of $ 18 million a year was struggling. Behind Walker stands Joe Ross, who did not impress this spring and is not yet stretched out, and a embarrassment of the wealth, everyone also fought in Clearwater and ranged from Tyler Phillips to Mick Abel.

The actual upgrade will come this summer when Andrew Painter is hopefully ready to contribute to the Big League squad. Until then, fans can only pray for good health.

You are okay with all the left

The 26-man list will contain 13 offensive players. Six of them beat from the left with a Switch key in Rafael Marchán. That seems to be a uniform split, but if you divide it into the everyday players, it becomes a little more reliable. The regular guests Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, Brandon Marsh, Bryson Stott and Max Kepler are all south paws.

Why is that a problem? Well, it makes it easier for the opposing managers to reach their Lefty Specialist relievers and has a lot more pressure on the few timely prise hits of Phillies (apart.Marchán, Edmundo Sosa and Rojas). But the Phillies weren’t excessively concerned when they decided that left -handed Kody Clemens would be their last banking biane. Expect that left -handed people have more opportunities at least at the beginning of this season to face hand jugs.

The list will be liquid

One of the most common debates under baseball fans of winning teams concerns the impact regulation. It is really difficult to know whether Schwarber would have more Homeruns if he beats higher in the order or whether Trea gymnast would have more patience and more walks if he were led. All signs of the Spring Sound as if the team intends to find out both answers.

It seems that there will be two main orders for the regular season if comments from manager Rob Thomson and his lines are to be believed in spring training. So we expect these two to look:

Against right starter

1. Kyle Schwarber*
2. Trea Turner
3. Bryce Harper*
4. Alec Bohm
5. Max Kepler*
6. JT Realmuto
7. Nick Castellanos
8. Bryson Stott*
9. Brandon Marsh*

Against left starter

1. Trea Turner
2. Bryce Harper*
3. Alec Bohm
4. Kyle Schwarber*
5. JT Realmuto
6. Max Kepler*
7. Nick Castellanos
8. Bryson Stott*
9. Brandon Marsh* or Johan Rojas

Will this tactic work? In 2024, the Phillies held regularly with the Schwarber -off -Line attachment in Schwarber and won 95 games, while Schwarber set a record for Leadoff -Homeruns. But maybe flexibility and different appearance of the crime will give some new possibilities, or one of these two lists will be superior.

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