Phillies predicted to part ways with projected $4 million veteran

The Philadelphia Phillies were one of the best teams in the National League throughout the 2024 Major League Baseball regular season.

Philadelphia even held the top spot in the National League for a while and finished the regular season with the second-best record in the league, just behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Phillies had high hopes for the postseason and hoped to make some noise but were upset by the New York Mets in the National League Division Series.

Now, the Phillies will need to go back to the drawing board. The Phillies likely will be very active this winter, and it surely will be a long offseason.

Plenty of players will join the club, and others will end up leaving. FanSided's Zach Pressnell put together a list of three players he doesn't expect to return to Philadelphia and had veteran pitcher Spencer Turnbull on it.

"The first player on this list is a bit more obvious than the next two," Pressnell said. "The first player on this list missed most of last year with a right lat strain, showing that he isn't really integral to the Phillies' success. The Phillies are able to win without him and they will be able to replace him and win without him next year.  It's right-handed reliever Spencer Turnbull, who's set to enter unrestricted free agency after spending the back half of the 2024 season on the (Injured List).

"On the year, Turnbull made 17 appearances and seven starts, totaling 54.1 innings...He was a solid piece for the team, when he was healthy. But, Turnbull doesn't have a sustained track record of this kind of success, having posted a 4.55 ERA across his first five MLB seasons. He can be expected to regress from the pitcher that sat with an ERA in the two's all season and for that reason, the Phillies will be comfortable in letting him walk."

He won't be expensive this offseason and is projected to get a deal worth just over $4 million, but maybe that will be with another club.

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