Phillies Nation · Jan 20, 2019
Josh Harrison reportedly on Phillies radar
Harrison would bring an experienced, versatile presence to strengthen the Phillies bench (Keith Allison/WikiCommons)While all of Phillies Nation waits on verdicts in the Bryce Harper and Manny Machado cases, the team is not sleeping on other moves to improve the overall roster.
A glance around the Phillies depth chart reveals, assuming the club’s power brokers actually want to contend in 2019, that a couple of important bench pieces may be missing.
Those two pieces would be a veteran infielder with proven ability at multiple positions, and a power bat who would be comfortable coming off the bench as a late-innings pinch-hitter while seeing limited opportunities otherwise.