The Philadelphia Phillies have been through darker periods before. After all, they had a record-setting steak of 16 consecutive losing seasons on their way to becoming the first team in professional sports to lose 10,000 games.
However, the franchise undeniably went on a steady decline after 2011. And Cesar Hernandez and Maikel Franco are the two lone Phillies who truly know how long gone were the days of a heralded team that went to back-to-back World Series in 2008 and 2009.