Daily News | What we learned from the Phillies’ trade for reliever Gregory Soto
, they asked Cotham and Kaplan to meet with him about biomechanics. Kimbrel said he came away believing “they’re going to have beneficial tools that would be able to help me” after he struggled late last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Andrew Painter, Phillies’ No. 5 starter in 2023? It could happen. Just look to Rick Porcello.
“We really have a great deal of confidence in our pitching personnel to help guys however we possibly can,” Dombrowski said. “It’s not only from that. It’s also some of the conditioning and some of the motor movements that we coordinate through the different departments.”No surprise here. The Phillies didn’t trade touted catcher Logan O’Hoppe to the Los Angeles Angels at the deadline to get a part-time center fielder.
“We think [Marsh] can continue to grow vs. left-hand pitching and he will hit left-hand pitching,” Dombrowski said. “We don’t look at him as a platoon-type of player.”Marsh is a .220/.253/.266 hitter against lefties, including .188/.226/.260 last season. But he’s also still developing. He turned 25 last month, making him the Phillies’ youngest position player., who widened his stance and shortened his stride to get him to use his legs more effectively. Marsh hit .288/.319/.
as a hitter. They’re betting, then, that Marsh will continue to get better, even against lefties, while playing solid defense and hitting at or near the bottom of the order.Fourth outfielders and utility players are usually replaceable, so it’s unlikely the Phillies will end up regretting moving on from Vierling or Nick Maton. But it does leave the bench thinner than before, particularly in the outfield.
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