Phillies manager Pete Mackanin has been at the helm of the rebuilding Phillies for more than two full years now, and if you judged his tenure by wins and losses alone, it wouldn’t be pretty. He has gone 170-237 (.418) since taking over for Ryne Sandberg in the middle of 2015, certainly not a sparkling record.
But no one has been judging Mackanin on wins and losses. He hasn’t been expected to win a lot of ballgames, and with 95 losses already on the team’s ledger, they’re battling the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers for the worst record in baseball.