There are - and as far as I can tell, will forever be - Gabe Kapler apologists. They believe that the team actually overachieved during his tenure as the Phillies’ manager, and found his uber-sabermetric approach to running a team to be innovative and effective.
Gabe Kapler overachieved in two seasons as Phillies manager. In 2018, he had a poor team 15 games over .500 in August. In 2019, he kept a top-heavy, injury-riddled group in the race with zero (“if we dont, we don’t”) front office help. His reward: being fired.