If Arizona can deliver on the above, it would be about 20% up on last year’s fWAR total from their starting pitching, which came in at 10.8 fWAR. One area which looks set to improve is the way all of the above starters are projected to be better than replacement level. That wasn’t the case last year, where five of the fourteen came in at 0.0 fWAR or worse, totaling -0.8 fWAR. Half of that was due to Madison Bumgarner, and the rest came from the failed attempts at using an opener, where Kyle Nelson, Jose Ruiz and Bryce Jarvis combined for an ERA of 10.
2024 Fangraphs Diamondbacks Projection: Starting Pitchers
