The Phillies have reportedly promoted assistant pitching coach Chris Young to the position of pitching coach, bumping Rick Kranitz out of his job, according to Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic. The decision was apparently due to “multiple teams showing interest” in snatching Young away from the Phillies, including, as Scott Lauber reports, an NL East team.
This was seemingly not in the Phillies’ initial off-season plans after Gabe Kapler had told reporters that “the entire Phillies coaching staff will return next season” in late September, and GM Matt Klentak had echoed that plan, per Jim Salisbury:
“There is one area that Klentak will not change: on-field leadership.