Starting pitcher Jake Arrieta #49 of the Chicago Cubs (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
2015 feels like it wasn’t that long ago, but it’s been six years. To refresh your memory, “Uptown Funk” was the number-one song, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was the number-one movie, and Barack Obama was still president. In Major League Baseball, the Cubs still hadn’t won a World Series, J.T. Realmuto was a Miami Marlin playing his first full season, and Bryce Harper was a Washington National.
The 2015 Philadelphia Phillies were, to put it nicely, a disaster.