This time last year, the Phillies were coming off something of a breakout performance from their bullpen. The Joe Girardi era saw the relief corps post the second-worst fWAR in MLB from 2020-2021, spurred of course by a historically miserable COVID year. Then, as if a switch flipped, the unit became the pennant-winning Phils’ most underrated unit. Writing this article last season, I said that the best case scenario for the Phillies’ bullpen was to finish as a top-5 unit and boy, wouldn’t you know it? They finished number three in fWAR (6.8), bested only by the Dodgers (7.
2024 Season Preview: The Best Case Scenario for the Bullpen
