The Phillies were clearly better than the Marlins in the wild-card series. Are they good enough to make another deep October run? Ben Verlander weighs in.
The first round of the MLB postseason ended a day early thanks to sweeps in all four wild-card series. We now know all our division series matchups and have a good idea of who could be this year's version of the 2022And, well, my big takeaway from the first round of the 2023 MLB playoffs is that the best candidate to be the next 2022 Phillies is… the 2023 Phillies.
As we saw over the past two days, that crowd is clearly ready to go for another"Red October" run and keep"Dancing on their own."Not only that, but it's pretty easy to make the case that this is a better, deeper team than the one that barely snuck into the postseason before their incredible run last year. They clearly showed how much better they are than the Marlins.
If Philadelphia pulls off the upset, we may need to start talking about whether teams are actually hurt by the top-two seed bye. The Braves have spent their downtime scrimmaging against minor leaguers. No offense to minor leagues out there — love them, was them — but you cannot compare that atmosphere, even though the Braves did open those scrimmages to the public, to what the Phillies just experienced. It is nowhere near the same energy.
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