Fire Topper, break up the team, and do it before it’s too late for this $250 million payroll to win a World Series. Right? Wrong. Losing to the Mets in the NLDS last week might sting today, but tomorrow looks as bright as ever for the Phillies.

The Philadelphia Phillies blew a golden opportunity to win their first World Series in over a decade this past season. President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski thinks the team he built has enough good players.

Meeting with reporters for a year-end press conference far earlier than either man would have hoped or envisioned, Dave Dombrowski and Rob Thomson spoke separately for nearly an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon about what went wrong and how the Phillies can go about fixing it.