It will likely be at least a couple of days before the Phillies announce they’ve come to terms with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, so the hot stove seems rather cold at the moment. To fill the time until the next big move is announced, I will look back at the Phillies’ last ten offseasons, and judge how well they did to build the team in both the short and long-term.
We’ll start off with a year that is not fondly remembered by most Phillies fans, although probably not as unfondly remembered as some of the other years to come.