Mickey Moniak breaks wrist, out 4-6 weeks

In bad news for the Phillies, their spring sensations is going to be missing some time to start the season.

Moniak was one of the better stories to come out of spring training this year, showing a renewed style of play and winning the center field position. This news, on the same plane as John Lannan becoming public enemy number one, hurts the team, but not nearly as much as it seems.

Center field was going to be a platoon anyway, so this news means Matt Vierling will be getting a lot of time to see if he can keep hitting the ball really, really hard. It also means they’ll have to bring someone up to help in center field, maybe to be a platoon partner, maybe not. The immediate candidate…