Daily News | Trea Turner is the latest tribute to John Middleton’s desire to win
Trea Turner owned the stage, but the venue belonged to the man wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a brown blazer with elbow patches. John Middleton went out of his way to make this something other than his day. But that’s what it was.
Whatever you think of the wisdom of signing 30-year-old players to 11-year contracts, or the sustainability of the approach that has brought the Phillies to the brink of the 2023 season as the defending National League champions, the one thing that you cannot question is the immense value they have placed on winning.
After introducing Turner to a crowd of media and employees at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday afternoon, Middleton and the rest of the Phillies brass listened to him say all the right things. It wasn’t just what he said but how he said it, right down to correcting his grammar after mistakenly referring to himself and his wife as, “Me and Kristen.
He is an electric player, one who does a lot of the things the Phillies could not do in their World Series loss to the Astros. And he is joining an electric team, one that Middleton and Dombrowski both deserve credit for fashioning. It isn’t often that a roster built on a foundation of dollars achieves an identity that feels homegrown. There aren’t a lot of big-ticket free agents who have the exact sort of makeup that can enhance such a thing. The Phillies knew that Turner had it.
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