Former Phillies GM Ruben Amaro is back in Philadelphia to finish out a four-game home-and-away series with the Red Sox which is, as you’ve seen, just going really great.
But with the “Phillies suck” narrative pretty played out at this point, we turn to the subplots surrounding each game. And in this case, one of them was the return to Philadelphia of Ruben Amaro, the former general manager who inherited Pat Gillick’s World Series regime and departed from Philadelphia having witnessed its collapse.
You may not remember, but for a long time, Amaro was the protagonist of the Phillies narrative (more so in the off-season).