The Phillies got quite the return for Cole Hamels and Jake Diekman from the Rangers in 2015. They received three top prospects: Jake Thompson, Nick Williams, and Jorge Alfaro, along with two other pitching prospects in Jerad Eickhoff and Alec Asher. For the first year and a half after the trade, Eickhoff looked like the best return in the trade.
Eickhoff’s first 41 career starts gave everyone reason to believe he could be a strong rotation piece. He had a 3.44 ERA, 4.00 fielding-independent pitching, 1.