With the Phillies middling rotation proving to be a point of weakness amongst an otherwise strong roster, the front office is going to need to look elsewhere to find arms.
Perhaps one of their best options is a righty carving up prospects in Double-A Reading, flashing the brilliance that could make him a front-line starter, perhaps as soon as next year.
A second-round pick in the 2017 MLB Amateur Draft, Spencer Howard was taken by the Phillies out of Cal Poly. Standing a solid 6-3 and weighing in at about 200 pounds, Howard is the big-body workhorse type that sported an 8-1 record with a 1.