PHILADELPHIA -- Dave Dombrowski spoke for nearly an hour on Thursday at Citizens Bank Park.

A large chunk of his time focused on the team’s regular-season successes vs. its postseason failures over the past four years. In short, the Phillies still believe they are good enough to win a World Series. But for the second consecutive year, they lost in the National League Division Series.

Changes are coming. But how many and how significant remain to be seen.

“We’re close to them,” Dombrowski said about the Dodgers, who beat the Phillies in four games. “We battled them, and I think we’re in the same neighborhood. But we didn’t beat them, and we have work in order to do that.”

Rather than rehash what went wrong in the NLDS and why regular-season success hasn’t translated into postseason succ

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