LOS ANGELES — This era of Phillies baseball has, if nothing else, been governed by the unpredictable.

And not just because you’d have predicted after the special 2022 postseason run that we wouldn’t be sitting here three postseasons later still waiting for a world championship to materialize.

At every turn, the Phillies have seemed to play out the exact opposite of the expectations.

A shortfall of stars in October in 2022? Go out and get another one in 2023 in Trea Turner, then regress a round in the postseason. Then another the next year.

A bullpen failure in 2023? Build a bulletproof bullpen that featured two All-Stars in 2024, acquire another at the deadline, then see it implode in 2024.

A hunger all season to get to Red October, to have players and management and everyone with acc

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