We started with 32, and now we’re down to just two. In our quest to determine the best Phillies Opening Day starter of the past 32 years, we’ve pared the list down to our final competitors: 1997 Curt Schilling and 2010 Roy Halladay.
Despite being seeded third, 2010 Halladay topped his 2011 self to emerge from the Steve Carlton Region. (It’s pretty impressive that a guy who threw two no-hitters and won the National League’s Cy Young Award had only the third best bWAR of the past 16 years.) And the top seed of the Robin Roberts Region, 1997 Schilling topped his second-seeded 1998 counterpart.