CHICAGO -- Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard are considered the greatest shortstop, second baseman and first baseman, respectively, in Phillies history.

Surprisingly, they never made the National League All-Star team together.

But the Phillies on Wednesday learned that Alec Bohm and Trea Turner will join Bryce Harper -- previously named the NL's starting first baseman -- as starters in the July 16 All-Star Game presented by Mastercard in Arlington.

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It's the first time since 1982 that the Phillies have had three infielders start the All-Star Game. Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose and Manny Trillo started the Midsummer Classic that year.

It speaks to how superb Harper, Turner and Bohm have played this year.

“It’s great for the organization,” manager Rob Thomson said. “It’s great for all these guys being on the national stage.”

This Phillies infield is on pace to have arguably the greatest season by an infield in franchise history.

FanGraphs has Philadelphia's 2007 infield as the best in team history with a cumulative 18.3 WAR. That '07 infield included Rollins, Utley, Howard, Greg Dobbs, Wes Helms, Abraham Núñez, Tadahito Iguchi and Russell Branyan.

This year’s group already has 12.1 WAR, which puts them on pace to set a franchise record. This year’s infield includes Harper, Turner, Bohm, Bryson Stott, Edmundo Sosa, Kody Clemens and Weston Wilson.

“It’s been great,” Thomson said about the infield’s performance. “Hopefully, Stott makes [the All-Star team] as well. I don’t know what the chances are of that, but that’d be kind of cool.”

Stott entered Wednesday fifth out of 12 qualified NL second basemen with a .708 OPS. He is sixth with 1.3 fWAR. All-Star reserves and pitchers will be announced on Sunday.

This is Harper's eighth All-Star selection, and his second with the Phillies (though he missed the 2022 game due to injury). It is the third All-Star selection for Turner (his first with Philadelphia) and the first for Bohm.

Bohm has come a long way. Not many people thought he would stick at third base when the Phillies selected him with the third overall pick in the 2018 Draft. The Phillies were even open to trading him before the 2022 season. Bohm has had several difficult moments on the field over the years, but he continued to develop and eventually blossomed into one of the team’s most clutch hitters.

“I’ve seen where he started,” Thomson said. “I saw his first Spring Training after he got drafted. To see him at that point [and] to see him now, he’s a completely different guy, a completely different player, a completely different person. I’ve been developing guys all my life, and I still think of myself as a development guy. To see those things happen, it really perks you up.”