Philadelphia Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski (Jonathan Dyer/USA TODAY Sports)
Phillies President of Baseball Ops Dave Dombrowski wishes his players were all vaccinated.
The Philadelphia Phillies have a lot of roadblocks ahead of them before the deadline: limited prospects in the farm system to use as trade chips, hesitance to go over the luxury tax threshold for the first time in franchise history, and stiff competition from other teams equally, if not more desperate for midseason upgrades.
To add to the list, there’s also the vaccination issue.
The Phillies have one of the worst vaccination records of any MLB team, not even close to the 85% threshold that would allow them to relax restrictions.