Dave Dombrowski, Phillies (Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
When the Philadelphia Phillies coaxed baseball executive Dave Dombrowski to get back into the game of baseball after he was fired by the Boston Red Sox in 2019, many truly believed it was the aggressive jolt the club needed to run away with a suspect NL East division.
The organization wasn’t wrong in assuming the division race would be wide open for much of the year … but they clearly missed on Dombrowski, whose moves this offseason and at the trade deadline haven’t moved the needle for a struggling Phillies team.