Philadelphia Phillies, the antidote against the Dodgers empire
Phillies is a highly competitive team, with a solid rotation to fight from you to Dodgers
On paper, Los Angeles Dodgers looked like a real trabuco prior to the start of the 2024 major league season. The arrival of Shohei Ohtani was the conductive thread in the calendar of the Californian ninth that ended with 98-64 record, the World Series title was agreed and also the label of absolute protagonist.
This year?
Well, in 2025, the major league champion looks, if possible, even more dominant and powerful. A low season of a lot of movement, the most important, the hiring of the rookie Roki Sasakihe has brought endless criticism so many that the ‘monoparador’ Angelino team is turned into the “the empire of evil”, as their rivals call it.
Is there any among them capable of stopping the powerful Dodgers machinery?
Yes. Philadelphia Phillies.
What club has enough arguments to stop the Dodgers in the National League in 2025? No one but the Phillies. It is known about the strong money investments of New York Mets and the youth that the Arizona d’Backs presume, but no one has a rotation as solid as Philadelphia or a team as compact as those of the ‘City of the Brotherhood’.
Pray the maxim that pitching is the name of the game and, in that sense, the Phillies have the second best opening rotation of the National League, composed of Zack Wheeler’s arms, Aaron Nola, Ranger Suárez and Cristopher Sánchez. Andrew Painter is added to them, who underwent Tommy John surgery in 2023, and who will be ready to take action.
Gone were Wheeler’s seasons with the Mets. Since 2020, the right provides its services to Philadelphia, with a golden season in 2021, when he was leader in the War National, 7.5, complete games (3), bleached (2), innings (213.1) and strikeouts (247), What earned him to stay, incredibly, secondly of the Cy Young, below Corbin Burnes, who only surpassed him in effectiveness with 2.43.
The dominant key in the rotation is closed Aaron Nola. The right is a franchise player from Philadelphia. Three times ranked within the top 10 of the applicants the Cy Young award and who concluded in position 11 in 2024. The native of Baton Rouge, Lousiana has won at least 11 games in the last three calendars.
The Dominican is a great third or fourth in the rotation, after its 11 victories and its two full games, one of them bleached, in 2024. Meanwhile, Ranger comes from a dozen triumphs and a bleached. Although the effectiveness of the Venezuelan was 3.46, it has been shown as a dominant pitcher with its low -speed pitching, particularly the curve (75mpph) and the change (80mph).
The Bullpen highlights the arrival of Canadian Jordan Romano, who between 2021 and 2023 had very solid performances, including a couple of calls to the star game in 2022 and 2023. Romano comes from a bad season, due to an injury, which limited him just 15 relays with a high 6.59 in the average admitted clean races.
If Romano remains healthy, he will surely contribute to the Phillies as he did with the Toronto Blue Jays, because in 2022 he presumed 63 departures as a reliever, 64.0 work rolls and a very good effectiveness of 2.11.
It is no secret to anyone that Phillies have touched at the doors of heaven recently. In 2022 they fell in the World Series, in six games, against the Houston Astros. In 2023 they lost the National Championship series, in seven games, against Arizona, and last year, after winning 95 commitments, they arrived at the National Division series against the Mets, which they lost in four games.
In the case of Phillies, statistics are not cold. The numbers confirm that it is a ninth on, highly competitive in recent years, so they are now expected to return to the autumn classic, as they did in 2009, after overcoming Dodgers in five games.
While the Californians have built a trabuco with bomb hiring in the dead campaign, such as Sasaki and the return of Kiké Hernandez, the Phillies are shown as a team of tremendous respect.
Bryce Harper presumed 4.8 War in 2024, with 30 homers and 87 towed, one of the most complete players in the league; Add Trea Turner, a hostel in short elite, who marked an era with Washington and Dodgers and looks for those leading planes with Philadelphia. Turner comes from two seasons to the thread with Phillies of at least 21 home runs and 62 produced.
Meanwhile, they have a fourth BAT disguised first in Kyle Schwarber, who ended in the 15th place in the MVP vote of the National, turned into the best base -based negotiator in Balls in 2024, with 106, and its third season to the Thread of at least 38 windows and the second consecutive of 104 produced.
The manager Rob Thomson He has the entrustment of guiding the Phillies again to the postseason and playing you to the Dodgers of Los Angeles. Today, based on numbers and in front of position by position, those of Philadelphia have the necessary caliber to stop those directed by Dave Roberts in an authentic clash of heavyweight in the National.
Dodgers deserves the nickname of the ‘Empire of Evil’, will their hosts succeed? We are to see it.
