Gabe Kapler spoke in the abstract about his managerial style before Opening Day. Everybody would play regularly, but nobody would play every day. Everybody would be happy about that. They would be happy because they would be healthy and productive. They would be the best versions of themselves.
But until the Phillies played the Braves the past three days at SunTrust Park, nobody really knew how Kapler's vision -- Be Bold! Value at the Margins! -- would look on the field in a game.
Now they know.
It is a small sample size, and things can change, but we have learned in three games that baseball with Kapler is unlike any baseball that Phillies fans have seen.