It’s safe to say that the Phillies bullpen was below-par last season, especially in the final month of the year. On the year as a whole, their relievers finished 28th in ERA (5.05), 29th in FIP (4.57), and 27th in fWAR (0.4). In September they were especially bad, finishing dead last in both ERA (7.88) and fWAR (-1.1).
Thankfully, general manager Matt Klentak went out and acquired two sold veteran relievers in Pat Neshek and Joaquin Benoit. Each of them should better a bullpen that, while paltry overall, saw the emergence of two notable bullpen arms in Hector Neris and Edubray Ramos.