Phillies announce changes to the player development department

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Phillies today announced several changes to the player development department.

For a team that has struggled to develop players to turn into significant major league contributors, this is a major shakeup. Dave Dombrowski has spent the majority of this season, in his own words, “observing” the organization. He made a pretty big trade in sending Spencer Howard to Texas for Kyle Gibson and Ian Kennedy, but for the most part, we haven’t really heard much from him.

Now, we can see what he has been looking at.

We’ve written plenty here in these spaces about how depressing it is that the team cannot seem to come up with the homegrown talent needed to grow a big…