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The Phillies' shock agreement to a five-year, $120 million deal with Cliff Lee late Monday night gave them what appears to be not just the best starting rotation in baseball heading into next season, but one of the greatest in the history of the sport.
Lee joins Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt in the City of Brotherly Love to form a fearsome foursome that has won a collective three Cy Young Awards, World Series MVP and made 13 All-Star Game appearances.
That quartet should make life awfully difficult for National League hitters over at least the next two seasons -- Hamels can become a free agent after 2012, while the Phillies possess a '12 club option on Oswalt -- but what kind of competition will they have to match up with to make history as one of the greatest rotations ever?
Let's start with the modern canon:
Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/14/greatest-starting-rotations-of-all-time-where-will-phillies-fit/
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