Comparing the Phillies to the Nationals, Astros, and Cubs
By John Town
General manager Matt Klentak said the Phillies are going through a rough patch just like the Astros, Nationals, and Cubs did, so here we’ll compare them to the Phils.
The Phillies are coming off one of their worst months in franchise history, winning just six of 28 games in May. Both the pitching and offense is struggling, and no one wants to watch this team right now.
General manager Matt Klentak recently talked with Jim Salisbury of CSN Philly about the team and their struggles. Klentak compared the Phils with some of the top teams in the league right now and the struggles they went through to get to where they are now:
"“Honestly, what I do when I get frustrated — which I do — is I try to remind myself as much as possible: right now, would we trade places with the current Houston Astros, the current Washington Nationals, the current Chicago Cubs? The answer is yes, but they lived through this. “The Nationals had the No. 1 pick and were the worst team in baseball two years in a row. The Cubs went through four or five years of top picks. The Astros lost 100 games three years in a row. That doesn’t make this any easier to stomach, that’s not what I’m saying at all. “This is kind of where we are right now and we’re doing everything we can to try to pull out of it. But teams that have been successful in their rebuilds have gone through stretches like this. Now, our job is to pull out and try to end this.”"
The Cubs, Nationals, and Astros are among the top teams in MLB right now and nearly every Phils fan, if not all of them, would want their team to be as good as those three teams. How does Philadelphia compare to those three squads? Let’s find out.