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One of my annual habits is to review the complete rosters of all 30 Major League teams, paying particular attention to see where former Phillies have ended up. I'll review the 40-man rosters, the non-roster invitees and the coaches pages on each team's website. Even though I do this every year, I don't always formalize my findings in a post, but it seemed like a good idea this year to give me an excuse to create a few custom cards.
Presented below, at least by my unofficial tally, are the former Phillies players in camp across the majors this spring. I'm only tracking those players (or coaches/managers) who spent time with the Phillies. So while Jesse Biddle is in camp with the Braves, he won't appear on the list below as he never played for the big club. (And I think some of these players may have already moved on.)
N.L. East
Atlanta Braves: Sal Fasano - catching coach
Miami Marlins: Tylor Cloyd - rhp (NRI), Brian Schneider - catching coach
New York Mets: Ruben Amaro Jr. - first base coach, Ty Kelly - inf (NRI)
Washington Nationals: Joaquin Benoit - rhp, Reid Brignac - inf (NRI) , Howie Kendrick - of, Ryan Madson - rhp
N.L. Central
Chicago Cubs: Peter Bourjos - of (NRI)
Cincinnati Reds: Billy Hatcher - third base coach, David Hernandez - rhp, Ben Revere - of (NRI), Darnell Sweeney - of (NRI), Vance Worley - rhp (NRI)
Milwaukee Brewers: None
Pittsburgh Pirates: Daniel Nava - of (NRI), Tom Prince - bench coach, Kevin Siegrist - lhp (NRI)
St. Louis Cardinals: John Mabry - hitting coach, Mike Maddux - pitching coach
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N.L. West
Arizona Diamondbacks: Antonio Bastardo - lhp (NRI), Torey Lovullo - manager, Humberto Quintero - bullpen catcher
Colorado Rockies: None
Los Angeles Dodgers: Chase Utley - inf, Turner Ward - hitting coach
San Diego Padres: A.J. Ellis - c (NRI), Freddy Galvis - inf, Michael Mariot - rhp (NRI), Matt Stairs - hitting coach
San Francisco Giants: Andres Blanco - inf (NRI), Chase d'Arnaud - inf (NRI) Hunter Pence - of, Rich Schu - assistant hitting coach
A.L. East
Baltimore Orioles: Alec Asher - rhp, Roger McDowell - pitching coach, Joely Rodriguez - lhp (NRI), John Russell - bench coach
Boston Red Sox: Ron Roenicke - bench coach
New York Yankees: Erik Kratz - c
Tampa Bay Rays: Dustin McGowan - rhp (NRI), Colton Murray - rhp (NRI)
Toronto Blue Jays: Ezequiel Carrera - of, J.A. Happ - lhp
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A.L. Central
Chicago White Sox: Jeanmar Gomez - rhp (NRI)
Cleveland Indians: Terry Francona - manager, Michael Martinez - inf (NRI), Brad Mills - bench coach
Detroit Tigers: Daniel Stumpf - lhp
Kansas City Royals: Cody Asche - dh (NRI). Michael Saunders - of, Dale Sveum - bench coach
Minnesota Twins: Taylor Featherston - inf (NRI), Brock Stassi - inf (NRI)
A.L. West
Houston Astros: Ken Giles - rhp, A.J. Hinch - manager, Charlie Morton - rhp
Los Angeles Angels: JC Ramirez - rhp
Oakland Athletics: Brandon Moss - dh
Seattle Mariners: Juan Nicasio - rhp, Cameron Perkins - of
Texas Rangers: Jake Diekman - lhp, Cole Hamels - lhp, Dan Warthen - assistant pitching coach
5 comments:
Love the manager cards. I really hope by the time Heritage gets to '78 they get something worked out with the skippers to feature those cards again.
JT, The Writer's Journey
Agreed—those manager/coach cards are great. I’m looking forward to the 1973 and 1974 manager and multiple coach cards in the 2022 and 2023 Heritage sets too. I have the 1984 card signed by Ozark and his 4 coaches.
Being much more familiar with the Topps cards from the '70s than those from the '60s, I'm going to be extremely nitpicky when it comes to 2019-2028 Topps Heritage.
I'd actually forgotten that Ruben Amaro Jr. is a coach with the Mets, so your custom served to weird me out all over again. :-D
I missed that move altogether and I was a little surprised to see he had moved from the Red Sox to the Mets.
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