The perfect Taylor Swift songs for the Philadelphia Phillies

PHILADELPHIA - OCTOBER 25: Taylor Swift performs the national anthem before the Philadelphia Phillies take on the Tampa Bay Rays in game three of the 2008 MLB World Series on October 25, 2008 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA - OCTOBER 25: Taylor Swift performs the national anthem before the Philadelphia Phillies take on the Tampa Bay Rays in game three of the 2008 MLB World Series on October 25, 2008 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Which Taylor Swift song best fits these Phillies players and executives?

With Taylor Swift dropping Red (Taylor’s Version) on Friday, it’s time to assign Swift songs to the Philadelphia Phillies.

After all, Swift was born in Reading, PA, and performed the National Anthem at Game 3 of the 2008 World Series, Philly’s second and most recent championship. There was also a funny coincidence during the 2021 season, when the Phillies social team kept tweeting out Red lyrics the day before Swift announced the re-record of the same album.

There are a lot of Phillies and a lot of TSwift songs, but here are a few that fit together perfectly…

The Phillies bullpen – “I Knew You Were Trouble”

Blowing 34 saves to tie the MLB season record, pretty much any time Girardi picked up the bullpen phone, you knew it wasn’t going to end well. No matter who it was (Ranger Suárez aside), we knew they were trouble when they walked in.

Zack Wheeler – “Red”

The Phillies social team decided this one for us when they tweeted this earlier this season.

Bryce Harper – “Style” / “August”

With his power bat, MV3 ‘never goes out of style.’ In 28 August games, Harper hit .337/.455/.776 with a 1.231 OPS and 10 home runs, his best month of the 2021 season.

Aaron Nola – “Delicate”

With his poor pitching and his complaints about COVID vaccines and the “narrative” about his September struggles, Aaron Nola was certainly the most delicate player on the Phillies this season, and his ‘reputation’s never been worse.’

Jose Alvarado – “Wildest Dreams”

This one’s not that deep; he led the pitching staff with nine wild ones this season.

Alec Bohm – “Exile” 

With his struggles in his sophomore season, Alec Bohm was benched and then exiled to Triple-A to work on his hitting. Hopefully, the Phillies’ new pitching coach can work his magic on the struggling third baseman.

Hector Neris – “End Game”

Despite his struggles this season, as their longtime closer, Hector Neris coming in to pitch usually meant end-game. Plus, he reached 500 career strikeouts this season and then set a new franchise record for career strikeouts by a reliever with 520.

Ranger Suárez – “You Belong With Me”

Returning to the starting rotation from the bullpen for the first time since 2018, Ranger Suárez was a breath of fresh air this year.

He’s “been here all along,” so why couldn’t we see? Thank god he ‘belongs’ with us.

Phillies free agents – “Blank Space” / “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”

There’s a “blank space” on the roster where you used to be, but hopefully, some other team will ‘write your name.’ But it won’t be the Phillies, because “We are never ever ever getting back together!”

Joe Girardi – “I Forgot That You Existed”

Dave Dombrowski somehow spent almost a year as the Phillies’ President of Baseball Operations and didn’t know how long Girardi’s contract was for.

Dave Dombrowski – “Look What You Made Me Do”

After getting fired from the Red Sox during a Sunday Night Baseball Game in September 2019, Dave Dombrowski “rose up from the dead, [he] do[es] it all the time,” and went out and got hired as Phillies POBO.

If you don’t play well, don’t forget: he’s “got a list of names, and yours is in red, underlined.”

The Phillies over the last decade – “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)”

It’s fitting that a 10-minute song perfectly encapsulates the Phillies, who cemented a full decade without postseason play when they eliminated themselves from contention in September 2019.

The glory days of the Golden Era are long gone now, but we remember them “all too well.”

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