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The Phillies' season opens against an opponent who didn't exactly go "all in" this offseason.

As we learned last year, you can tell exactly how a season is going to go based on the first series of the year. But considering the Phillies are expected to exceed the luxury tax and the team plays in a non-decrepit stadium, at the present moment, I certainly wouldn’t trade places with an A’s fan. I strongly discourage looking up the answer, and please don’t confirm nor deny the accuracy of your answer so that everyone has a chance to guess. But even though the A’s are predicted to be hot garbage, and the Phillies are expected to be a fun dinger-mashing machine, if the Phils don’t come out and dominate these first few games, we don’t have to panic. On April 3rd, 2006, the Phillies began their season at home against the St. Louis Cardinals, and it was a miserable experience for the hometown fans. It wasn’t like the A’s were in desperate need of a rebuild. In preparation for the season opener, I watched Major League 2 yesterday. For instance, I wasn’t sure Henderson Alvarez III was an actual person until I looked him up and learned that he was actually an All-Star for the Marlins in 2014. But as anyone who is not new to Phillies fandom knows, having an easy opponent on paper does not usually equate to easy games for the Phils. If you’re an A’s fan who is interested in winning baseball games, you’d probably use other words to describe the past few months. At the end of last season, I wasn’t sure if I was going to continue doing these series previews in 2022. But hey, a new season (along with some high priced free agents!) brings new hope, and inertia being what it is, I’m back for my fifth season of previewing Phillies’ opponents.

A year after winning 82 games and missing the playoff for the 10th straight season, the Phillies are looking to end the longest active playoff drought in ...

The Phillies will be without 2016 No. 1 overall pick, Mickey Moniack, who is out with a broken wrist and expected to miss 4-6 weeks. Here is the 2022 Phillies opening day roster, which has 28 members instead of the usual 26. Those two will join Harper and free agent additions Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellano to help beef up the Phillies lineup.

Beyond the homeruns, there are plenty of story lines to follow for the Philadelphia Phillies this MLB season. The Inside the Phillies team takes a look at ...

From the youth in the infield, the potential breakout of Suárez or the long awaited return of Domínguez, each unit has something to watch closely this year. There was no way to tell if Dominguez still had his 2018 form left in him, the one that pitched to a 2.95 ERA, picked up 16 saves and struck out 74 batters in 58 innings. He only appeared in one major league game for the Phillies, pitching one inning and picking up a strikeout. Meanwhile, Stott figures to be in the best spot of the three. With pressure mounted to make the postseason, it will be telling how long of a leash Girardi gives Bohm with Gregorius representing a veteran option. In fact, there were doubts that he'd be able to achieve the dominance he once found, or even return to baseball at all. He's got the peripherals to continue his dominance in 2022. After struggling to the tune of a .209 average with only 13 home runs, Gregorius was far from guaranteed to be on the roster this year. Originally a first round pick out of Las Vegas, Stott has also formed a fast friendship with franchise player Bryce Harper. All things considered, Stott figures to be the mainstay in the lineup between the three. Shortstop will be manned by either Gregorius or Stott. Considering Bohm's struggles defensively at third, his bat will have to warrant his playing time in the lineup. This puzzle becomes even more challenging when factoring in the improved spring of Didi Gregorius. Beyond the long balls, they are plenty of story lines to follow this season.

There will be plenty of storylines as the Philadelphia Phillies try to end an 11-year postseason drought.

Nola pitched to a 4.63 ERA last year - his advanced metrics were better as he gave up an inordinate number of home runs on two-strike pitches - after posting ERAs of 3.28, 3.87, 2.37 and 3.54 the previous seasons. The right-hander will make his fifth straight Opening Day starter, but Wheeler was the ace of the team last year. He is finally healthy again and showed signs of being his old self in spring training, meaning he could be a valuable eighth-inning piece for the Phillies. Girardi joined the Phillies in 2020 with much fanfare. Moniak was hit on the hand by a pitch and is reportedly out six weeks. But Stott is hardly the only option. When Eflin missed the second half of last season, the Phillies struggled to fill his spot. Ian Kennedy closed down the stretch last year but was homer-prone and was not re-signed. If Knebel can be reliable, it would solve a big problem area for the club. Bringing in Schwarber and Castellanos along with an annual re-tooling of the bullpen has the Phillies thinking they can finish the job, especially with baseball adding an extra wild card team per league in 2022. While it is a strong offensive group, it does not project to be strong defensively. There was an enticing preview of the Phillies’ projected power in spring training when they hit 32 home runs in 17 games.

It's opening day for the Phillies, and the team is beginning its much-anticipated 2022 season against the Oakland Athletics at Citizens Bank Park, ...

Increased roster size: Because of a shortened spring training, teams are permitted to have 28 active players on their roster (29 players for any doubleheader) through May 1. April 26: Colorado, 6:45 p.m. (NBC Sports Philadelphia, WIP) Ohtani, the reigning American League MVP, is a two-way star who hit 46 home runs in 2021 while also posting a 3.18 ERA from the mound. You might notice there’s no pitcher in the Phillies batting lineup. But we may be making too much of the team’s opening day record. The Phillies have never played Oakland on opening day. Former NBC Sports Philadelphia reporter Gregg Murphy will handle pre- and postgame radio coverage. Overall, Philadelphia is 65-72-2 on opening day, dating back to the then-Philadelphia Quakers’ 4-3 loss to the Providence Grays in 1883. Technically this would be his 51st season, but he was unable to work during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season due to illness. Joining him in the booth will be analysts John Kruk and Ruben Amaro Jr. His deal has a team option for 2023, but the Phillies have yet to pick it up, making him something of a lame-duck entering the season. Thanks to a club-record $240 million payroll, excitement is sky-high for the team, which hasn’t made the playoffs since 2011.

The best day on the baseball calendar has finally arrived. The Phillies open the 2022 season against their former City Series foes the Oakland Athletics.

Players will walk on to the field from Ashburn Alley as they have done in previous years. While most fan intrigue this spring has been concentrated on the lineup, the Phillies’ starting staff has the potential to be one of the ten best in the sport. Aaron Nola will be making his fifth-consecutive Opening Day start for the Phillies on Friday. Everybody knows that Zack Wheeler, who finished second in NL Cy Young voting last season, would be in this spot right now if it was strictly merit based. It’s reasonable to question whether or not the Phillies bullpen has improved considerably relative to last year, but compared to Opening Day 2021, Girardi does have more set-up options at his disposal and it’s not just because rosters expanded to 28. It’s hard to remember the last time the Phillies went through an entire spring training without the closer being one of the top storylines. Since Girardi prefers to break up same-handed hitters as much as he can with the three-batter minimum rule still in place, a very good hitter will bat seventh in a lineup that features every starter.

Participating are Phillies writer Corey Seidman, pre/postgame live host Michael Barkann, analysts Ricky Bottalico and Ben Davis, and producers Sean Kane and ...

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It seems like Joe Girardi has already determined the Philadelphia Phillies' lineup for Opening Day, but what do analytics say about how it should be ...

Since strikeouts are a push for the two players, we'd like to use walk-rate and home run-rate to determine which player ends up in the three-hole, but Hoskins leads in both categories. For the lead-off hitter, the two-hole hitter, and the cleanup-hitter, the run value of an out is -.328, -.324 and -.327 respectively. The is antithetical to the Phillies line-up, their best hitter, Bryce Harper, bats third, which has an out worth a -.315 run value. Three-hole hitters get a .020 run advantage on home runs over the five-hole. Nick Castellanos and Kyle Schwarber are the Phillies' next two best hitters, at least they would have been in 2021. Perhaps most interestingly is the run value for an general out for each batter. This means that even starting the lineup puts Girardi and the Phillies in a tough position. The first rule of which is obvious, a lineup should always put their best hitters near the top. A walk with two outs and a runner on second is worth .13 run value. This means players who strike out more often are better utilized in the three-hole over the four-hole. Extrapolated out over a full season, that's an extra 18 plate appearances per position in the batting order. This version of the lineup uses an interesting mix of power and contact.

2. Who will be the Phillies' RBI leader? Advertisement. Seidman: Nick Castellanos' career-high is 101 and I just don't see how that's still his ...

The Mets are due for some good injury luck on the pitching front at some point. Seidman: The Phillies would take that combo. He also consistently hits the ball hard and should do some damage in the bottom of the Phillies lineup. That’s really tough news for the Phillies and Moniak considering how well he played during spring training. The Phillies' offense will be one of the best in baseball. Seidman: Stott looks and acts like a big-leaguer already. With Zack Wheeler and Ranger Suarez rounding into form in the final week of spring training, I expect their rotation to be rock solid. I'd put Stott at the top of that list. Seidman: Nick Castellanos' career-high is 101 and I just don't see how that's still his career-high after 2022 (barring injury). He's batting behind the reigning MVP who has a .426 OBP the last two seasons. Feeney: 91 -- the offense should be very good. Kyle Schwarber and Jean Segura will also set the table. Phillies brought in two guys that can mash fastballs, which is a huge improvement from 2021.

A's lineup (away) · 2B Tony Kemp (L) · DH Billy McKinney (L) · C Sean Murphy (R) · LF Chad Pinder (R) · 1B Seth Brown (L) · SS Elvis Andrus (R) · 3B Kevin Smith (R) ...

- C J.T. Realmuto (R) C - C Sean Murphy (R) The 2022 season is here, for better or for worse.

The Philadelphia Phillies looked exactly like what we expected they would in an Opening Day win over the Oakland Athletics Friday — an excellent offense, but ...

Seranthony Domínguez needed just seven pitches to retire the side, a welcome sign as the Phillies look for him to recapture the elite form he showed at times in his rookie season of 2018. With the shift on, Stott struggled to get the ball out of his glove attempting to turn what would have been an inning-ending double play, with Stephen Vogt instead reaching first to keep the inning alive. Catcher Sean Murphy — one of the few remaining veterans for the A’s — led off the inning with a double, and then Pinder singled into left field. With that said, it took Oakland until the top of the fourth inning to break into the hits column, with left fielder Chad Pinder hitting an opposite-field home run off of Aaron Nola: After Aaron Nola retired the side in order in the top of the first inning, Kyle Schwarber led off for Joe Girardi in company. Not only did reigning National League MVP Bryce Harper plate Realmuto in the following at-bat, but thanks to a lack of a serious tag attempt from Oakland second baseman Tony Kemp, he wound up on second base:

The Philadelphia Phillies lineup lived up to its billing in an 2022 MLB Opening Day victory over the Oakland Athletics.

However, he was able to get out of the inning by striking out veteran Jed Lowrie. The game begins at 4:05 pm with Kyle Gibson set to take the mound for Philadelphia against former Phillie Cole Irvin for the A's. During the bottom half, Schwarber and Realmuto both got on base ahead of the reigning NL MVP Bryce Harper. In an unusual situation for Harper (with men on base), he hit an RBI double scoring Schwarber. Shortstop Didi Gregorius also tacked onto the hit count as he singled in Hoskins from second. New leadoff hitter and slugger Kyle Schwarber, as if on cue, got the afternoon started with a leadoff home run. He absolutely cruised through the first six innings, allowing just one run.

Beautiful spring days are made for baseball. After a rainy few days in Philadelphia, the sun was shining on Citizens Bank Park as the Phillies opened their ...

Harper would walk with one out, then score on a Castellanos double that made it 7-5 (he was thrown out at third trying to make it to third on the throw), but an insurance run was had. Schwarber would knock in Stott with an RBI single, making it 9-5 and effectively icing the game. Familia would strike out the next batter, but the next batter after that would ground into what should have been a double play that should have ended the inning, but saw another runner reach thanks to another bad throw. Luckily for the Phillies, their offense is more than capable of getting runs back quickly and that’s what they did in their half of the seventh. He was simply dominating the A’s into that unfortunate seventh inning when, in an almost carbon copy of his outings last year, he simply ran out of gas too fast for the team to get someone ready behind him and nearly gave up the lead. All in all, a solid start for Nola, but also something that looked a little too familiar. Another run in the sixth gave the Phillies a 6-1 lead, one that felt safe since in the midst of all this offensive goodness, Nola just kept cruising through the Oakland lineup. He would get a one out walk, then go to third on a single by J.T. Realmuto. Bryce Harper followed with a hustle double, scoring Schwarber and sending Realmuto to third, making it 2-0. Kyle Schwarber was leading off the inning for the team and he got 2022 started with style. Didi Gregorius began his 2022 season with an RBI single to center field and the Phillies had a 5-0 lead. It’s pretty textbook for Schwarber, leading off with a dinger, something he’s getting pretty adept at doing. Beautiful spring days are made for baseball.

It took Phillies fans seven pitches to fall in love with Kyle Schwarber, who set the tone in an opening day win. By Jim Salisbury.

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The Phanatic wasn’t the only part of the Phillies that needed a facelift. “You know, the reward of it all, the moment will happen quickly. That’s the kind of inning the Phillies had in mind when they beefed up the offense to try to snap a postseason drought that dates to 2011. Bryson Stott made his major league debut for the Phillies as the starting third baseman. Castellanos added an RBI double in the seventh for a 7-5 lead. Stott, the 14th overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft, singled in the sixth for his first hit. He was injured Wednesday in his last at-bat of spring training and could miss up to six weeks. He endeared himself to his new fans as he stuck around after the final out and autographed baseballs passed to him through the netting. Chad Pinder hit a solo homer in the fourth. Harper lobbied hard for the Phillies to sign Schwarber and they gave the outfielder a $79 million, four-year contract. He was called out on the throw but stayed on second base as the play was reviewed. “You guys like the new guy?"

Schwarber signed a four-year, $79M deal this offseason with the Phillies and got off to quite the start.

He posted a career-best 3.1 WAR and made an impact with the Red Sox in a playoff run to the ALCS. He set career highs in 2019 with 38 homers and 92 RBI, too, so he's been trending well for a bit. He made the All-Star team for the first time and hit .266/.374/.554 (148 OPS+) with 32 homers in just 399 at-bats. It actually worked in 2017, when George Springer homered for the Astros and then they won it all that year.

It took Phillies fans seven pitches to fall in love with Kyle Schwarber, who set the tone in an opening day win. By Jim Salisbury.

He gave up a double, a single and a three-run homer to the first three hitters as the A's cut the lead to 6-4. But Nola quickly hit a wall in the seventh. Aaron Nola ran out of gas in the seventh inning and the defense got ugly with a pair of errors. The Phillies' bats pounded out 11 hits and everybody in the starting lineup had at least one. The leadoff spot was a big problem for the Phils in 2021. Now to be on the home side and go out there and play for these fans is special."

The new left fielder hit the seventh pitch he saw as a Phillie into the right-field seats to start off a 9-5 win.

stepping out there when you get your name called to take the field and the ovation, first at-bat, end of the game, it was all special,” he agreed. The Phillies thought what they saw out of Schwarber was pretty special as well. I didn’t know what was going on, I was kind of floating up there.” “It was a great team win. “It was a little early curtain call, a really exciting moment. “That was really cool.

32 relatives showed up for Bryson Stott's major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies on Opening Day against the Oakland Athletics.

45 prospect, and the Phillies no. But Bryson wasn't on the 40-man roster, he remained unaffected by the lockout and joined Phillies spring training in February with his fellow minor leagues. But Bryson remained on the Phillies' radar and received an invite to the Phillies Alternate Site Training Camp in Allentown, PA at Coca-Cola Park. He used that head-start to slash .419/.514/.581 in a breakout spring training performance, earning an Opening Day call-up as Phillies third baseman. But Bryson retained his confidence, making two smooth plays to begin the top of the eighth and keep the Phillies lead at two runs. Inside the Phillies got a chance to speak with Bryson Stott's family following the game.

Bryson Stott's first big-league game wasn't just a test of his baseball skill, his work in the infield and in the batter's box. It was a test of his makeup ...

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PHILADELPHIA -- The best part of Kyle Schwarber's home run in the first inning on Opening Day was not the sound it made when it left his bat.

“To start like that, what a way to introduce yourself,” Hoskins said. It was good for me. “It was good for everyone. You can't hit a homer in your first at-bat if you don't swing the bat.” It looked like he was telling them that it was the first homer of many he plans to hit this season. It was good for my wife, and good for him, to just kind of get back up there. In the end, it doesn’t matter. You can't hit a first-pitch homer if you don't swing at the first pitch. PHILADELPHIA -- The best part of Kyle Schwarber’s home run in the first inning on Opening Day was not the sound it made when it left his bat. He had not seen his family until he flew home for about 12 hours following Wednesday’s Grapefruit League finale against the Rays in St. Petersburg. I was just kind of floating out there.” “I didn’t know what was going on.

If there's one thing Kyle Schwarber can do and do well, it's hit the baseball. The fourth overall selection in the 2014 MLB Draft by the Chicago Cubs, Schwarber ...

Will Kyle Schwarber hit a home run in all 162 games this season? After watching Aaron Nola retire the top of the Athletics’ order in order, Schwarber took the plate versus Frankie Montas and put him through the wringer. After weeks and weeks of anticipation ratcheted up by a, shall we say, unconventional offseason, the Philadelphia Phillies finally took the field at Citizens Bank Park for their first of 162 contests, and the results, as they say, were too sweet.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rhys Hoksins took an informal poll inside the clubhouse on the popularity of new Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber.

Bryson Stott's first big-league game wasn't just a test of his baseball skill, his work in the infield and in the batter's box. It was a test of his makeup ...

"He responded to pressure and the expectations of him trying to make the team. "I went up to him (after the two plays in the eighth) and said, 'Outstanding.' Then he makes two plays right out of the gate the next inning and doubles off a tough lefty. "To be able to get those two in a row was awesome," Stott said after the game. You get two really tough plays (in the seventh) and he's not able to make them. At this point, the crowd of 44,232 and everyone watching at home was thinking Here we go again with the $%#@&% defense.

The Philadelphia Phillies have been playing baseball since 1883. What did that first day of Philadelphia baseball look like and how have things changed ...

Multiple grandstand collapses, the latter occurring in 1927, and the stadium's age forced a Phillies move to Shibe Park stadium mid-season 1938. Today, Aaron Nola will make his fifth consecutive Opening Day start at age-28. At that point in their history, losing was less a concern and more a tradition. From 1965-71, Chris Short started six Opening Days, winning all but one of them. From 1876-79, it became a horse market before Phillies' founder, Al Leach purchased the land and erected a three-section shoddy wooden grandstand. It was a clear day in Philadelphia. The high that day was 61° Fahrenheit with clear skies, and for the first time, the Philadelphia Phillies took the field.

The third baseman finished with two hits and a couple nice plays but also some defensive misplays..

I didn’t talk to him at all, I just let him go out there and play his game and that’s all we need.” “That’s him, he goes out there and doesn’t let anything faze him,” said Harper. “That’s a tough inning for anybody in that situation. To see him make two plays out of the gate shows a lot about his maturity.” “I kind of messed one up and allowed a run and to be able to get a couple more ground balls was awesome,” said Stott. “It’s just the next one. ... He didn’t have to make a play like that all spring. You just try to keep that one under wraps and get back to it.

The season was six pitches old and the bell was already ringing. The Phillies paid Kyle Schwarber to take the good pitches and punish the bad ones, ...

Big bats, bad gloves, a vintage Aaron Nola effort in more ways than one, and a questionable decision by Joe Girardi came together like a scene from Captain ...

Instead of a lights-out performance that should have generated plenty of confidence moving forward, Nola ended his day with a result that felt awfully familiar to what he saw far too often last season — lots of good, some bad, plenty of questions. Holding a 6-4 lead, the Phillies flirted with a full collapse when Hoskins and Stott teamed up to commit a pair of errors. Holding a five-run lead, and with Nola at just 68 pitches, Girardi allowed his guy to face Seth Brown with two runners in scoring position. He struck out seven, walked none and yielded just one hit — a fourth-inning solo shot off the bat of Chad Pinder. And we saw plenty of it during a seemingly never-ending top half of the seventh. Luckily for the Phillies, relievers Jeurys Familia and Brad Hand recorded roughly six outs to preserve the lead. Later, it provided plenty of breathing room after Aaron Nola and the defense teamed up for a hideous seventh-inning effort that almost spoiled it. The offense helped build a 5-0 lead. It was the complete 2022 Phillies experience, and it all unfolded in their very first game. The power of this lineup is obvious, but if it combines blunt force with savvy hitting and quality approaches, good night. Two batters later, Schwarber was across the plate following a J.T. Realmuto single and Bryce Harper RBI double. During his first plate appearance, Schwarber spit on a tough 2-2 splitter from A’s starting pitcher Frankie Montas. He then blasted the seventh pitch of the at-bat, a 97.3 mph sinker, over the right field fence.

Since the start of last season, Schwarber has 18 home runs in 122 plate appearances out of the leadoff spot, where he is hitting .305 with a .393 on-base ...

With the Rangers prior to the deadline, Gibson had a 2.87 ERA in 19 starts. Gibson has made at least 29 starts in six of the last seven full major-league seasons. When the A's scored four to make things interesting, the Phillies responded with one in the seventh and two in the eighth to put the game away. Gibson appeared in 12 games with the Phillies after last year's trade deadline, starting 11. That was yet another benefit of the Nick Castellanos signing. They won because the bats didn't go to sleep after building a five-run lead through six innings.

New outfielder Kyle Schwarber celebrates with Bryce Harper after hitting a home run in his first at-bat during the 2022 season opener against the Oakland ...

But the ballclubs made sure residents had a chance to see the two local teams duke it out. This thread details how it all went down. The Phillies are hosting the Oakland Athletics at Citizens Bank Park for the first series of the 2022 season, part of the interleague play that’s about to become even more prevalent in the MLB.

The Phillies are short on outfield depth with both Odúbel Herrera and Mickey Moniak on the injured list. 23-year-old prospect Simon Muzziotti is currently the ...

Quinn, according to Gelb, will play center field for Lehigh Valley. The Phillies are short on outfield depth with both Odúbel Herrera and Mickey Moniak on the injured list. If there’s another injury in that position group, it’s possible that the Phillies add Quinn to the 40-man roster. His 2021 season ended early last May when he tore his left Achilles during a game against the Rays at Tropicana Field.