Retroactive Phillies offseason grades: 2014

The Phillies hoped AJ Burnett would be part of an excellent rotation; he wasn’t.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.

2014

Heading into the 2013 season, the Phillies had (publicly, at least) hoped that a return to good…