CLEARWATER, Fla. — Cole Hamels on Tuesday spent his final day of his first trip to Phillies camp as a guest instructor conversing with two of the most important arms in the organization.
He chatted with Zack Wheeler as the two overlooked a group of Phillies pitchers stretching on the backfields. Hamels later moved to the mounds in the back of the Carpenter Complex to catch the back end of Andrew Painter’s second bullpen session.
Afterwards, we got one the more memorable images from Phillies camp so far. Hamels, a former first-round pick and one of the greatest homegrown pitchers in Phillies history, was talking pitch grips with Painter.