Before the first game of the season, the Phillies announced that Brandon Marsh would have the opportunity to start the year every day. So far, you have kept this promise in the season in the season, since Marsh started each of the Philadelphia games until this point, even though the team is opposite two left -handers in four games.
It is too tiny a sample size to make a final statement in one way or another, but so far Marsh 4-13 (.308) is with a Homerun, two walks and five strikeouts. Against left-handed pitching is Marsh 2-7 with all five of his punchouts and one of his walks. Here, too, there is not enough data to determine how everyday player experiment is running.
But something that happened late in the game on the opening day was remarkable. The Phillies went 3: 3 to additional innings against the Nationals with the score. Marsh should lead the tenth with Bryson Stott as Ghost Runner on the second basis. The left -hander Colin Poche was brought to Marsh. The Phillies decided that he could be taken at the bat instead of going to a right-handed prise hitter like Edmundo Sosa or Johan Rojas.
What Marsh tried, however, was a treacherous sign. He straightened around and tried to block the first playing field and finally retired when the field was high for Ball One.
Then he stepped around again, but did not offer on the field, a strike near the inner corner, which spread the number 1: 1.
Marsh then sat around a third time to make it too colorful, but pulled it back again when the field for Ball 2 became low and outside.
On the next field, Marsh finally contacted a colorful attempt, except that the ball got bad and the count goes 2-2.
Finally, Marsh was frozen for a strike lookout on a 94 miles per hour in a similar place to strike.
It is a bat in the first game of the season, but the Phillies that Marsh probably ask in this situation to ask colorful speaks volumes about their true trust in his ability to meet links. Since the Ghost Runner was originally designed for the 2020 season, MLB teams have set a victim 214 -or an average of about 43 times per season and about 1.5 times per team. The Phillies did it 8 times in this period and only once in 2022, 2023 and 2024 (h/t to our own Schmenkman).
All of this says that teams generally do not try to sacrifice the ghost runner. The Phillies are no exception of this rule, since they do it directly on average of the league of 1.5 times a season. Like most MLB, they try to hit the runner home and in the worst case to move it with a ground ball instead of giving up safely.
The fact that the Phillies would prefer to try a colorful than intend to bring the ball into play, speaks for how much they really believe that he can come against the left if he absolutely needs it. They would rather let them give up, that they will definitely give up, that they usually try to avoid the risk of not bringing the ball into play, which he ultimately did at this point.
Perhaps it is a moment in a game of the first series of the season, but it is better to trust the actions of the Phillies when it comes to Marsh rather than her words. You insisted that you believe that Marsh has been able to meet left since his acquisition in 2022, but they routinely planned it and limited him to only 231 record appearances against the left over this period, including only 90 in 2024.
It will be interesting to see how long the leash takes when Marsh plays every day. Perhaps the decision could also be seen as a referendum about what the team really thinks of Johan Rojas’ skills, especially when you consider that it was not called too colorful in this tenth inning, even though it is more tailored to his skills. Regardless of this, the Phillies can say that they believe in Marsh, but show their actions as much?
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