Salisbury: Phillies “open-minded” to trades as they look to fix the flaws that led to another short October

With the sting of his 95-win team’s elimination from the postseason still fresh and raw, Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski offered his autopsy on the 2024 season Tuesday. But what fans and followers of the high-priced, star-studded team really crave isn’t so much an account of what happened over four mostly sad days against the New York Mets — you already know that the Phils’ offense didn’t score runs consistently and the bullpen didn’t prevent them — it’s what Dombrowski and his staff plan to do this winter as they try to lengthen Octobers that have gotten shorter and shorter as expectations have risen and risen.
Though he acknowledged that offense was an area team o...