By December of 2014, the Phillies brain trust was finally ready to turn the page on the tremendous championship run of the late 2000’s, albeit a year or two late. The first big shoe dropped that month, with the trade of iconic shortstop Jimmy Rollins to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for a pair of pitching prospects.
Those young pitchers were left-hander Tom Windle, whom we discussed in the first installment of the TBOH Phillies Top Ten Prospects list a couple of days back, and right-hander Zach Eflin.