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No one who watched the last season of Phillies baseball needs to be told that the 2020-21 offseason wasn’t exactly a smashing success.
The Phillies succesfully re-signed J.T. Realmuto, but Dave Dombrowski failed to make any moves that meaningfully improved the team. He filled all the holes — catcher, shortstop, starting rotation, bullpen — but other than Realmuto, none of the free agents he signed panned out as he hoped.
So what could Dombrowski have done differently?