3 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES

O/U WINS: 80.5 KEY PLAYER: Archie Bradley will be looked upon to stop the historic bleeding that emanated from the 2020 Phillies’ bullpen, turning a playoff team into one that spent October at home. PLAYER WHO’LL NEED TO STEP UP: Take your pick among homegrown Spencer Howard or free agents Chase Anderson and Matt Moore. One of those three must reach back to previous heights (or projections, in Howard’s case) to join Aaron Nola, Zack Wheeler and Zach Eflin and give the Phillies’ starting rotation a strong front four. NAME YOU’LL GET TO KNOW: Howard is still a rookie after enduring a rough, six-start big-league debut in 2020. He has accomplished and shown too much for the Phils to bail on him now.

BIGGEST QUESTION MARK: Can Scott Kingery give the Phillies anything for the $24 million they invested in him before he so much as played in a big league game? The infielder-outfielder will begin the season at the organization’s alternate site after a terrible spring training in the wake of a poor 2020 that followed a very rough case of the novel coronavirus.

HOW IT’LL GO DOWN: There’s much to like about the Phillies, who added an All-Star executive in Dave Dombrowski over the winter to work with their AllStar manager Joe Girardi. Despite re-signing Didi Gregorius and

J.T. Realmuto, they still can’t and won’t match the manpower of this division’s top two clubs.

PROJECTED LINEUP LF Andrew McCutchen 1B Rhys Hoskins RF Bryce Harper

C J.T. Realmuto

SS Didi Gregorius 3B Alec Bohm

2B Jean Segura CF Adam Haseley

ROTATION

RHP Aaron Nola RHP Zack Wheeler RHP Zach Eflin LHP Matt Moore RHP Chase Anderson