102 regular season wins a single season franchise record for the Philadelphia Phillies. With a 1-0 NLDS Game 5 to St. Louis, those wins or 5 straight NL East division titles meant nothing. Ryan Howard who struggled through the final 3 games of the series offensively, hurt is achilles , now it's been reported he tore it. Is it possible Howard could miss the entire 2012 season. Which would be year one of his 5 year $125 million contract. Having Halladay, Lee, Hamels and Oswalt didn't help Philadelphia win the World Series. Now with the likes of Madsen the closer and Rollins the shortstop as free agents, what will Philadelphia do. Will veterans Ibanez or Lidge who are free agents return, only time will tell. With Howard Philadelphia struggled offensively, without him how well will the offense do, it'll be an interesting off season for the Phillies. Obviously the time is running short on the core of this team to win another World Series.
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