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Phillies: Healthy mysteries ahead for 2020’s NL East

By Tal Venada

After his first three outings, Robertson was finally getting big outs before his season-ending injury. Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images.
After his first three outings, Robertson was finally getting big outs before his season-ending injury. Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images. /
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The Phillies missed Cutch more than they had expected to. Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images. /

Phillies and Mets:     

While four outfielders missed 10 months for the Phillies, the Metropolitans lost 19 months from five position players. For instance, first sacker Dominic Smith manning left field was out for eight weeks but otherwise averaged .282 with 11 homers and 25 RBIs. Ergo, a recoverable absence.

Outfielder Brandon Nimmo lost a half season and batted .221 with eight bombs and 29 RBIs. But although his home runs and RBIs were roughly half of his 2018 numbers, his average fell from .263 to .221 due most likely to being out.

Aging veteran Cano had three stints on the IL for eight weeks total and hit .256 with 13 long balls and 39 RBIs for the other four months. As for Cespedes and Lowrie, they missed the entire campaign, although Lowrie had nine plate appearances in September.

Mets IL:

  • Cespedes: 6 months.
  • Lowrie: 6 months.
  • Nimmo: 3 months.
  • Smith: 2 months.
  • Cano: 2 months.
  • Total: 19 months.

Phillies position players IL+:

  • McCutchen: 4 months.
  • Herrera: 4 months (suspension)
  • Bruce (1.5 months) and Dickerson: 2 months for both.
  • Total: 10 of 40.5 overall months.

The Fightins were 33-26 before Andrew McCutchen‘s season-ending injury and 48-55 thereafter. And even though the left fielder missed four months, he averaged .256 with 10 homers and 29 RBIs, which is a third of 30 home runs and 87 RBIs.

Klentak had acquired Jay Bruce to be the left-handed bat off the bench, but he lost 1.5  of four months. However, he batted .221 with 12 bombs and 31 RBIs during his roughly 10 weeks here. And his replacement Dickerson was also on the IL for two of his eight weeks, plus Herrera’s suspension absence was four months.

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