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Phillies Pitching: The Mountains of BABIP

The 2020 Phillies pitching staff retold the tale of Jekyll and Hyde. The competent, well-intentioned starting staff would nightly give way to a malicious, brutal bullpen. As evening turned to night, games became as watchable as the film adaptation of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Nevertheless, the cumulative performance placed the staff among the top half of teams in the league by the publicly available summary metrics (e.g., WARs).

A mystery lurks here. The Phillies had an above average offense. They were top ten by both wRC+ and OPS+. They were sixth in runs scored per game.