{"id":634580,"date":"2026-04-27T18:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:19:16","slug":"phillies-rightfully-continue-freefall-in-mlb-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634580\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Rightfully Continue Freefall in MLB Power Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">With another week of the season in the books for the Philadelphia Phillies, the team continues to struggle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">It has been an extremely frustrating start to the season for the Phillies in 2026. Despite coming into the year with some high expectations once again, the team has largely failed so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">While it was great to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/phillies\/onsi\/pressure-on-zack-wheeler-to-step-up-and-get-phillies-on-track\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return of Zack Wheeler<\/a> on Saturday against the Atlanta Braves, there haven\u2019t been too many positives for the team of late. With a 9-19 record, it is no surprise that there are a lot of issues, but it is the lineup that has really been the root of the problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">As expected with the team being 10 games under .500, they are at the bottom of the National League East with the New York Mets, the team needs to turn it around quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/mlb-power-rankings-week-of-april-27-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Leitch of MLB<\/a> recently released his power rankings, and the Phillies continued to drop. After another terrible week, they fell from 21st to 25th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia\u2019s Freefall Rightfully Continues<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01kq7t0vc6rctdxshy0v.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia Phillies head coach Rob Thomson walking off the field \" title=\"Philadelphia Phillies head coach Rob Thomson walking off the field \" width=\"5373\" height=\"3022\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"77\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Phillies head coach Rob Thomson | Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7b\">With it being a full week of action for the Phillies, the team went 1-6, but at least snapped their lengthy losing streak on Saturday. It has been one of the worst stretches of baseball in a long time for the franchise in a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\">To start the week, Philadelphia was on the road against the Chicago Cubs in a four-game set. The Cubs had just recently swept the Phillies in Philadelphia, and they were able to replicate that success this past week as well. With it being a four-game set, it was extremely disappointing that the team couldn\u2019t get a win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7h\">Following that series, the team knew that they were going to be up for a tough challenge against the Braves over the weekend. That proved to be the case, and they lost two out of three games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7k\">Atlanta is now 10.5 games up already on the Phillies, and that feels like an insurmountable lead early on. Due to the struggles, there are going to be plenty of rumors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/phillies\/onsi\/phillies-unsurprisingly-named-potential-landing-spot-for-talented-manager\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surrounding the job security of Rob Thomson.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7n\">Even though he has had a lot of success with the team in the past, this is a brutal stretch, and he is undoubtedly on the hot seat. This coming week, the team will have a much-needed day off on Monday and then will be hosting the San Francisco Giants and then heading on the road to play the Miami Marlins. With both of those teams under the .500 mark, this could be a great opportunity to get some wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With another week of the season in the books for the Philadelphia Phillies, the team continues to struggle.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-634580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}