The Vineland alum got first-team reps at practice this week and will now take over the role that was held by Clyde Edwards-Helaire per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
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...