Hmm…
We do these little polls here amongst the fans of the team here and the fans of the game at large. It’s a flash in time to check the pulse of the people on how they believe the Phillies will perform this season. The question we asked the other day was about how many wins you believe the Phillies will accumulate this year, so here are the results:
There remains a good lot of people that still see the Phillies among the game’s best teams. Whether or not you’d call them “elite” would depend on your definition of that word as it applies to baseball, but if we look at these things together, 80% of people think they will win 89 or more games this season.
It’s a solid estimate. This is a very good team that is built to win in the regular season the starting pitching that they have assembled. The bullpen, outside of a shaky debut by one of their members, shouldn’t let too many leads slip away once the offense has put them ahead in game. The mentioned offense is going to score a lot of runs this year; it’s the other things that might become an issue.
It’s nice to see that people still think the Phillies are good and haven’t given in to the Negadelphian ways of thinking that have permeated thoughts in the offseason.