A New Era For Phillies Baseball

In one of the more predictable decisions of the 2015 Phillies season, Ruben Amaro, Jr. has been officially removed as General Manager. Take a moment and look around at the current state of the Phillies organization. The past nine months have been littered with departures of franchise mainstays. Jimmy Rollins? Gone. Cole Hamels? Gone. Chase Utley? Gone. And now, the man who joined the organization before any of them, Ruben Amaro, Jr. is gone as well. In case there was any lingering doubt, it’s now officially a new era of Phillies baseball.

Amaro’s long overdue departure has to be counted as the first real move of the new Andy MacPhail era even though he won’t assume his new role as Team…