Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)
Why are the Phillies planning to buy at the trade deadline when they can’t even stay above .500?
The Philadelphia Phillies are, once again, under .500.
Now 5-5 in their last 10 games, with a losing record on the road (20-30) and a winning record at home (27-18), the Phillies have cooled off considerably from their pre-All-Star break streak of winning three series in a row against the Padres, Cubs, and Red Sox.
At the beginning of the second half, the consensus was that the Phillies would be buyers at the deadline, and ‘aggressively‘ so.