Phillies looking to be fourth team in MLB history to do something that already seems impossible

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The Philadelphia Phillies have been the most disappointing team in Major League Baseball outside of the New York Mets, and they don't exactly sit too far ahead of them.

The Mets and Phillies have just been outright disappointing, though the Phillies might be a bit more disappointing because they've had a lot of this roster together over the past few seasons.

To make matters worse, many have questioned the Phillies in the past few years, questioning if this core is even good enough, or young enough, to win at the highest level.

Interestingly enough, there are some stats that suggest that the Phillies just aren't good enough to win a World Series, and some history going against them that suggests they really don't have much of a chance.

“As The Athletic’s Jayson Stark noted in March, the Phillies are trying to become only the third team to win a World Series with four regulars — Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber, Trea Turner and — all playing the season at 33 or older. But those four carried teams that won 95 and 96 games the past two seasons, extending the Phillies’ run of consecutive playoff appearances to four years. And it’s not as if they looked old doing it,” Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic .