Philadelphia Phillies hire Caleb Cotham as new pitching coach

Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images Few who followed the Cincinnati Reds through their deep, dark rebuild will forget some of the larger missteps made along that path. As the team began tearing down the last vestiges of their 2010-2013 run, they were flipping established big leaguers for prospects almost monthly, with only a precious few of those deals actually panning out.

Perhaps the most widely frustrating of those deals involved then-closer Aroldis Chapman, whose off the field issues had significantly dented his reputation and, therefore, his trade value. So when the Reds finally moved him to the New York Yankees for a four-prospect return, Reds fans were mostly resigned to the fact that…