Season in seven words: “Did you hear? They won in ‘08!” …

Hero: Chase Utley faded hard in the season’s last month, but he remains criminally underrated. How has this guy not popped up in an unfunny Subway commercial by now? …

Loserhead: Brad Lidge narrowly edges out Charlie Manuel, the manager who continues to enable him. At some point, it’s going to dawn on Cholly that what happened in 2008 is not relevant to 2009 …

Key need: To reverse the aging process so that they can wring another title run out of the Howard/Utley/Rollins/Werth/Victorino core …

Prognosis: Players age fast now that the game has outlawed supervitamins and wonderpills. Be wary.

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