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Should there continue to be outfield platoons?

The Phillies went about bolstering their lineup this trade deadline by acquiring Harrison Bader from the Twins. That led many to believe that the team had solved their outfield platoons by acquiring a starter and leading to the falling of these dominoes:

  • Bader starting in center field
  • Brandon Marsh starting in left field, or at least platooning with Otto Kemp
  • Max Kepler getting DFA’ed
  • Johan Rojas getting sent down to Lehigh Valley

Instead, only one of those things has happened - Rojas being sent to the minors.