Friends, fans, we embark on another baseball season, and once again, our Phillies are the odds-on favorites to win the World Series.
That is because Vegas can only use history, as can I.
I won’t have hands-on experience until the Phillies met the Pirates in Pittsburgh on opening day on April 5.
(More about that later.)
One Vegas house has the Phillies as 9/2 favorites, followed by the Yankees, who are at 6/1.
You can’t predict what St. Louis and before them, the Giants have done.
The Giants got into the playoffs with one game left and the Cardinals got into the playoffs with no games left.
All this odds-on favorite stuff is with slugging first-baseman Ryan Howard on the shelf with an Achilles injury until mid-May.
So with arguably their biggest star on the shelf, why are they the favorites to win it all?
Simple.
Look back and look forward.
Simply said, the Phillies were 102-60 in 2011, and are not throwing out Kevin Millwood and Von Hayes this season.
Nope.
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