How Phillies' Brandon Marsh has been worst player in MLB since All-Star break

The Philadelphia Phillies are struggling to stay alive in the NL Wild Card hunt, as the team's bullpen is running out of steam, the rotation is dealing with a major Jesus Luzardo injury, and the offense has regressed.

There is a lot of blame to go around, but there is one player on this Phillies' roster who is more to blame than anyone, at least on offense. That player is Brandon Marsh.

USA Today's Bob Nightengale went as far as to claim that "no one" in MLB has had a worse second-half of 2026 than Marsh. Unfortunately, looking at his statistics since the All-Star break, this claim is more likely than not Marsh's reality.

How Brandon Marsh has had the worst second-half of any player in MLB

"No one has had a worse second half than Phillies outfielder Brandon Marsh," Nightengale writes. "He was voted to the All-Star team in July, but ever since he's been one of the worst hitters in the sport..."

Marsh was named to the NL All-Star team this season, being voted as a starter to play in the Phillies' home ballpark. It was an exciting start to the year, but since then, he's been terrible.

Since the All-Star break, across 56 games and 168 at-bats, Marsh has just 30 hits with 39 strikeouts, 14 walks, two home runs, four doubles, 12 RBIs, and 17 runs scored. Marsh has just a .179 batting average and a .474 OPS since the break as well.

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Before Saturday's game, Marsh had a .490 OPS, which was, as Nightengale noted, the worst in baseball since the break among 155 qualified hitters.

To put those statistics into perspective, Marsh, in 92 games and 339 at-bats before the All-Star break, had 102 hits, 52 runs scored, 15 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs, 46 RBIs, 19 walks, eight stolen bases, a .301 batting average, and an .829 OPS.

Those are legitimately great numbers. But in the second half, Marsh has been a complete liability. As Nightengale noted, no player has been worse than Marsh since the All-Star break.

It's been a brutal past few months for Marsh, and his struggles offensively have been a major problem for this struggling Phillies offense. His regression has stung, and he's one of the main reasons for the team's second-half struggles.

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