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Knapp adding versatility to big league credentials

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It came during one of those flurries of lineup changes that happen during Grapefruit League games. In the top of the seventh inning of the Phillies' game against the Braves on Saturday at Spectrum Field, Andrew Knapp entered the game as a defensive replacement at first base.

Which would be unremarkable except for this: He's a catcher by trade, good enough to have won the 2015 Paul Owens Award, emblematic of being deemed the best player in the Phillies' farm system.

It wasn't the first time this spring that manager Pete Mackanin has used Knapp at first, either.