The Phillies president showed up Tuesday for his annual end-of-the-season press conference carrying a legal pad filled with notes and numbers. It wasn't all WAR and FIP and the rest of the analytics alphabet soup, either. Instead, there was Zach Eflin's ERA in June (1.76) compared to September ("over 6.00," MacPhail noted). And there was Vince Velasquez's ERA from July ("under 1.00," he noted) juxtaposed with September (10.70). And don't get MacPhail started on Odubel Herrera's cliff dive after mid-June or the monthly fluctuation of Maikel Franco's batting average.
"We were the most inconsistent team I have ever been associated with," MacPhail said.