Phillies Nation · Feb 22, 2017
News: Spring starters, Blanco, Buchholz, prospects
Good morning! Here’s the news for this morning:
SPRING STARTERS: The Phillies announced starting pitchers for their first three spring training games (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). They are: Mark Leiter Jr., Alec Asher, Adam Morgan.
Leiter is facing the University of Tampa, a game the Phils typically don’t like using big-leaguers for. The big-league starters will start merging into this soon.
DREW IT UP: Jim Salisbury has a profile of Drew Anderson, a highly touted pitching prospect who was named to the 40-man in advance of the Rule 5 Draft. Anderson is with the Phils in spring training but will likely start 2017 in Reading.