Philadelphia Phillies manager Joe Girardi (Jim Rassol/USA TODAY Sports)
There are plenty of reasons for optimism as it relates to the Philadelphia Phillies, heading into their second season under Joe Girardi. Among those reasons is that president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski helped retool a bullpen that, during the shortened 2020 season, posted the second-worst combined earned run average in Major League Baseball over the past 90 years.
The 2009 World Series-winning manager recently joined Phillies broadcaster Kevin Frandsen’s Pine Tar for Breakfast podcast and expressed excitement about the club’s new-look bullpen.