After last season, before the Ken Giles trade but after the Matt Klentak hiring, I wrote this:
“I think Matt Klentak deserves a pretty good chance. Give him until the end of 2018 to be a playoff contender (now that I think about it, having a solid foundation with good role players and an upward trajectory by the end of 2018 is better).”
We’re one year through the Klentak Experience, one year through the MacPhail Experience, and one year into the Better Days Are Ahead part of the Phillies rebuild. We didn’t have to sit through a season of Aaron Harang in 2016, so that’s a start, right?