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2025 Phillies season preview: predictions for the rotation

The 2025 season is upon us. We’ll preview the upcoming year by going around the diamond and look at how the Phillies are stacking up both at the major league level and down on the farm.

If you want to engulf yourself in stat by stat speculations that will probably end up being wildly off the mark, go nuts. If you’d rather whimsically skedaddle to the very brink of optimism, come with me.

Prediction #1: Christopher Sanchez will lead MLB in complete games…again

It is insane that back in 2015, 24 pitchers threw two or more complete games and, mostly steadily, by last season that number shrank to three, which was a tie at the top across both leagues.