Can Phillies Blame One Guy for Horrible Start to 2026 MLB Campaign?
It's very strange to look at the Philadelphia Phillies before Rob Thomson and not get a sense that he was blamed, and perhaps he shouldn't have been, for all of the struggles the organization has faced. Even when Dave Dombrowski spoke about the decision to move on from Thomson, it wasn't exactly like he was putting all the blame on him, even if the decision to let go of him made it seem like that. “This isn’t a blame game,” Dombrowski said , per MLB.
com. “You can blame whoever you choose. For us, we don’t really do that.
Rob, like the rest of us, you bear responsibilities. Just the way things were going, they’re not going well enough. I don’t think we’re playing up to our capabilities.
I think we’re a much better club than we played. And so you make some decisions that are tough at times. ” The bigger problem here is Dombrowski, who obviously didn't do a good enough job of putting together a competent roster.
The Phillies look like a very good team on paper, at least one that can win games at a high level, but they just haven't been able to do so over the first month or so of the regular season. “No, I don’t have any regrets,” Dombrowski said about his roster construction. “I mean, if we play this way the rest of the year, I’ll have a lot of regrets at the end of the year.