PHILADELPHIA – The best thing to do when you find yourself aboard a sinking ship is to locate and plug the leak or leaks. Perhaps the second best thing to do is anything at all.
Two things can be true simultaneously: The Phillies are playing better now that Joe Girardi has been fired in favor of bench coach Rob Thomson, currently serving as interim manager; and that Joe Girardi wasn’t the biggest problem the Phillies had.
It remains to be seen whether and for how long the former will hold true, but that is immaterial to the latter.