The Phillies’ roster flexibility can help their depth

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty ImagesPublicly available research has been a boon for the baseball industry. Baseball sites such as Baseball Prospectus and Fangraphs and the work they have accomplished has led to a greater understanding of how the game functions on the part of the readers. It has forever shifted the way we consume the game, how we compare players not just across the current group, but also across generations. If you’re anything like me, you’re checking those, and other, sites each and every day to get maybe just a little bit smarter about the game.

At Fangraphs, Ben Clemens wrote an interesting piece about depth. The main purpose of the article was trying to see how each team’s…