To get through a 162-game season, a baseball team will usually go through a lot of players. The bottom of the active roster can often be a steady churn due to injuries, underperformance, and other factors. The Phillies had 26 different players take at bats for them in 2022, and when you need to find that many players, you’re probably going to have to draw from the flotsam and jetsam floating around the major leagues.
Oscar Mercado, Yairo Munoz, and Bradley Zimmer were three such players. All three had been on major league rosters over the past couple of years, but none of them performed well enough to really stick.