Think what you may about the three-year/$60 million contract that the Philadelphia Phillies signed Carlos Santana to this past offseason. His first season with the Phillies has been disappointing, though we can debate just how disappointing the former Cleveland Indian has been in 2018 and why exactly that is. One thing that increasingly isn’t up for debate is that one of the side-effects of the Santana signing – that Rhys Hoskins would play in left field, rather than his natural position of first base – has been unsuccessful.
In the top of the fourth inning of Monday evening’s loss to the Washington Nationals, Zach Eflin had already allowed the Nationals to regain the lead in a game the Phillies had tied at two in the previous half-inning.