The Team to Beat is a term -- part self-applied nickname, part rallying cry -- which became associated with the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team of 2007.
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Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins proclaimed the Phillies as the "team to beat" in the National League East during a January interview with the Associated Press, just months after his team's distant second-place finish behind the Mets.
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