No date has been set for when Andy MacPhail will officially take over for Pat Gillick as Phillies president. The passing of the baton, as MacPhail referred to it Thursday, will occur when Gillick is ready, MacPhail said.
Gillick said minutes later he will hand off to MacPhail probably in the next "45 days or so," which means the official change should happen, at latest, just before the annual organizational meetings, which begin Oct. 26 in Clearwater, Fla.
But regardless of when the formal transfer of power occurs, the Andy MacPhail era of Phillies baseball, for all intents and purposes, began Thursday at 12:14 p.