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The 2017 Phillies were full of surprises

The MLB season is all wrapped up, which means we all spent Sunday evening watching our season predictions turn to ash in our hands and blow away in the autumn wind. Every year, we think we know who the Phillies are and, along with some unconsciously applied enthusiasm, we greet them in the form we believe they’ve taken through trades, signings, winter ball, spring training, rumors, and lies. Every year, they are something else, making us a little or a lot wrong about our assumptions, as fact or statistically-based as they may be.

Any Philadelphia sports fan will crawl out of your toilet and explain that they had seen all this coming; the devastating injuries, the walk-off losses, the underperforming offense and pitching, and visions of a mysterious apocalyptic desert that we can only assume in horror is a forewarning of humanity’s annihilation.