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2018 Phillies — the NL’s “25U Champs”

Each season, Fangraphs allocates 1,000 Wins Above Replacement across MLB. That’s for both position players and pitchers, and it’s always split as 57%, or 570 WAR to position players (to cover hitting and fielding), and 43% (430) to pitchers*.

Phillies players totaled 32.0 WAR in 2018. Replacement level for a team is set at 48 wins, so 32 WAR would predict a total of 80 total wins for the Phils, which as it happens is exactly how many games they won.

That total of 32.0 WAR ranked 19th in the majors, about what you would expect for a team that finished slightly below .