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This week's Phillies mailbag looks at Joe Girardi and John Farrell as potential managers, and what Larry Bowa might be doing come Spring.

It's easy to look at the raw numbers of past pitching staffs under Bob McClure, who the Phillies hired as pitching coach Monday, and point and laugh and gasp for what may be yet to come here in 2014. But it's not that simple -- something we learned during the time of the guy McClure replaced in Philadelphia...