Phillies' World Series window might close with bad vibes start to 2026

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The Philadelphia Phillies are off to one of the worst starts in all of Major League Baseball. If it weren't for the New York Mets losing 11 straight, the Phillies might be the center of attention for all the wrong reasons.

Through the first 21 games of the season, the Phillies are 8-13, 6.5 games back of the Atlanta Braves for the top spot in the NL East, and only 1.5 games ahead of the Mets for the worst record in baseball.

Amid such a brutal start to the year, Tim Kelly of Bleacher Report presented a worrying verdict that the bad vibes within the team could potentially be the warning sign that the World Series window is over for this aging Phillies roster.

Phillies bad vibes might spell end of World Series window

"The vibes coming from the Phillies are bad," Kelly writes. "Still, it's hard to shake just how badly the Phillies have played in April, and wonder whether the window has closed on a team with so many players on the wrong side of 30."

The Phillies have the worst run differential in all of Major League Baseball. They are being outscored by 38 runs so far this season, with only 75 runs scored and 113 allowed on the year. They're 5-10 at home and have lost five straight.

Alec Bohm has a .407 OPS on the year, while Bryson Stott has a .511 OPS. hasn't played well lately, and has a .648 OPS on the season.