Philadelphia Phillies: 5 Veterans Who Submarined 2013 Season

If success has a thousand fathers, failure has at least five.

Except for perhaps Domonic Brown and Cliff Lee, the 2013 Phillies have a roster full of players who must bear some degree of responsibility for the fact that Philadelphia currently trails the awful New York Mets in the National League East.

But I don’t have the time to prepare a slideshow documenting every organizational and on-field failing of this franchise in 2013. And I seriously doubt you would much want to read it.

Instead, I’ll single out the worst offenders and let the others suffer their shame in isolated silence.

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