It has been less than a week since the Phillies made a major rotation upgrade, and already there are chinks in the solidified pitching staff.
Eickhoff out 6 to 8 weeks w lat strain.
— Jim Salisbury (@JSalisburyNBCS) March 16, 2018
This is a bigger blow for long term implications that it is for the Phillies in the immediate future. This is a similar injury to the one that caused Eickhoff to miss time last year. After the 2016 season, it looked like Eickhoff might be a 180-200 innings workhorse, and now there are real questions about his ability to stay healthy.