The Phillies are not in the Dodgers class. Yet they took two of four from the NL’s best team. The splitting of the series showed me two things. One, the Phillies just can’t possibly match up with a team the Dodgers caliber. They have too many holes. Two, newly extended Matt Klentak needs to get to work.
Klentak must have thought the same way and was possibly using the Dodger series as a springboard of which way to go at the trading deadline. He started by signing left-handed starting pitcher Drew Smyly and followed that up by acquiring RHP Mike Morin from the Minnesota Twins.