With J.T. Realmuto and Bryce Harper on hand, the Phillies are expected to be playoff contenders, signalling that the long rebuilding process is finally over. It’s been a long seven years since the Phillies entered the season with legitimate expectations of making the playoffs, and to commemorate this infamous era of Phillies baseball, I came up with an All-Rebuild Team.
These weren’t the best players on the team during the rebuilding process, nor were they the absolute worst. (Apologies to all you Phillippe Aumont fans out there.) These are the guys who for one reason or another, seemed to exemplify the lengthy, and often confusing rebuilding process the Phillies undertook.