The Philadelphia Phillies are in a good place. It’s a place most young kids, high school standouts, and college athletes covet.
The sporting pinnacle.
You’re on a team—your own team—that you helped build with your own hands and you are enjoying success year after year.
This is what Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and the rest of the gang are experiencing now.
They’ve clinched four straight National East crowns, and they find themselves standing alone at the top of the mountain as the hottest team in the MLB.
They’ve even held the league’s best record for a good part of the final stretch this year.
It’s hard to bet against the Phillies right now, with so much going well for them.
Among many different things that work in their favor, I was able to consolidate them into 12 different things, beginning with…