Should Phillies pony up for Luis Robert? NBC Sports Philadelphia [Video]

Statistics are kind of like Lego blocks. You can make almost whatever you want out of them.

From one angle, the Phillies are a team at or near the top of baseball in most significant pitching and hitting categories. That has translated into the best record.

From another, it’s a team with at least one glaring weakness. The outfield that ranked in the bottom third of baseball with a .234 batting average, a .659 OPS and just 28 home runs coming out of the All-Star break.

No team is perfect, but it’s Dave Dombrowski’s job to construct the best roster possible, one not only capable of rampaging through the regular season but also one that’s built to win under the very different conditions of postseason play. So let’s imagine the Phillies president of baseball operations sitting at a drawing board and beginning to sketch the hypothetical player who could best …