Marcus Hayes: The Phillies paid Nick Castellanos $100 million. He needs to step up (again) with Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber out.

Sure, there are other hitters who need to show up better, too.

Bryson Stott and Brandon Marsh likely will have a better chance to convince the club that they can be cornerstone contributors as well as defensive studs, because now, you’d imagine, they’re going to have to hit left-handed pitching.

Trea Turner just needs to keep it up at the plate, because he clearly remains limited in other areas, especially on the base paths, where his hamstring, which cost him 38 games, clearly is not 100 percent. But then, he’s 30, too.

Edmundo Sosa, the team’s best defensive player, can further make the case with his bat that he should be an everyday player, if not here, then elsewhere. He’ll likely be slotted in at third base, replacing Alec Bohm, who will replace Harper at first. Bohm’s bat will earn him his his first All-Star start, but now he’ll have to prove that he can produce without the presence (and protection) of Schwarber, Harper, and Realmuto.

Bohm’s been part of the Castellanos Protection Service. In a town notorious for eating its own, Casty largely has gone unscathed. How?

First, the Phillies have been good enough for the regular season and successful enough in the postseason to soften the blows of his consistent underachievement.

Second, Harper and Realmuto have been so good, Bohm and Stott have been such surprises, and Schwarber has been so oddly valuable — a home-run champion who bats .200 in the leadoff spot — that the high-profile, big-money free agent who arrived with Schwarber has mostly been allowed to skate.

Castellanos has ridden coattails better than Dan Quayle.

Hope springs ...

The Phillies have survived without their stars before. Last season, Rhys Hoskins blew out his knee in spring training, Harper didn’t play until May because he had elbow surgery, and Turner had $300 million worth of performance anxiety until August. They still went 15-15 in their first 30 games because of their pitching staff, the kids — Marsh, Stott and Bohm — and Nicholas Alexander Castellanos.

He hit .319 with an .882 OPS.

So yeah, he can do it.

Will he?