The Phillies starting pitching looks to be one of the strongest units in baseball.
Fangraphs has them ranked second, only behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in projected WAR. They’ve spent north of $370 million to put this group together.
They’ll likely pitch plenty of innings given how the Phillies like to use their rotation. Rob Thomson has become known as someone with a quick hook but his starters pitched 899 innings last season, third most.
How will they perform? Can we expect to see something similar? I’ll look through each of the five and offer some predictions.