To their credit, the Phillies were active at this year’s trade deadline.
With a league-worst bullpen filled with other teams’ castoffs and underperforming home grown arms to start the season, general manager Matt Klentak had one mission over the last two weeks.
Get some help.
Last week, he acquired 32-year-old David Hale from the New York Yankees in exchange for minor league pitcher Addison Russ, and sent Nick Pivetta and pitching prospect Connor Seabold to the Boston Red Sox for two more veteran relievers, Brandon Workman and Heath Hembree.