The Phillies will play their first regular season game of the 2025 season tomorrow. There’s much baseball to be played ahead of us over the next six months, so however you look at the team’s chances to begin the year will likely change as we move through the daily grind.
But here at the start of the season, you’re likely in one of two camps. That is the optimist or the pessimist. This week, we’ll try to describe three big reasons why its logical to fall into either camp. And in order to not bring down the excitement before the games begin, we’ll begin with the optimism.