LOS ANGELES — The Phillies lost in seven games in the National League Championship Series in 2023, and short of not finding roster space for Rhys Hoskins on the roster, decided to run it back in 2024.

Those Phillies won 95 games, the National League East for the first time in a decade and backslid one round of the playoffs, and the front office decided to run it back one more time.

After the latest postseason failure, sealed by the 2-1, 11-inning loss in Game 4 to the Dodgers, running it back once more is both logistically fraught if — given the diminishing returns in the postseason — it’s even palatable.

The Phillies head into the latest disappointingly early offseason with three major members of their nucleus — J.T. Realmuto, Kyle Schwarber and Ranger Suarez — as pending free agents,

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