Phillies President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski is geared up for his fifth trade deadline in Philadelphia. They’ve bought each of the previous four to varying degrees. 2023 was infamous for its lack of aggressiveness in Hao Yu Lee for Michael Lorenzen, while 2022 was considered the opposite, when Dombrowski got aggressive in shipping out Logan O’Hoppe and Ben Brown for Brandon Marsh and David Robertson.
Since it’s July 11, there’s only so much information available about who may or may not be available. With that, this is just a temperature check on what the plan could be at the end of this month and how they are positioned to execute it in both the short-term and long-term picture.