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The Phillies suddenly have a left field competition

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Joe Girardi dropped a minor bombshell on Friday, revealing that Andrew McCutchen will not be ready for opening day. As Dean Martin once said, “Ain’t that a kick in the head?”.

Everyone was expecting the 2013 NL MVP to be back in time for opening day. McCutchen won’t be reading until further into April.

That means 2 things:
1) The Phillies won’t have McCutchen as the leadoff man and, more importantly, 2) The Phillies won’t have McCutchen as the left fielder.

The question of “Who is the opening day left fielder?