Sporcle Friday: Most “Félix Quality Starts”

One of my most vivid memories of a truly dominant playoff team features the 2009 Phillies. Featuring a rotation anchored by Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels, the Phillies steamrolled through the NLDS and NLCS on their way to a pennant. Though they were ultimately outmatched by the Yankees in the World Series, those Phillies and their rotation were the platonic ideal of what I thought an excellent playoff team should be.

An opposite example, of course, would be this year’s Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays were a team with strengths in just about every area except the rotation.

What any future Mariner playoff team will look like would seem to be heavily dependent on how this year’s offseason goes. The…