THE HOT STOVE does not stop burning for orientations, so the past month has been a rather eventful one for Matt Klentak. Since Andy MacPhail brought his new general manager aboard, the Phillies have worked baseball's back channels of talent as hard as any team, adding starter Jeremy Hellickson via trade, parting ways with Domonic Brown and Justin De Fratus, and claiming three relievers and an outfielder off waivers. To put that last bit into perspective, the Phillies made only six waiver claims between the start of the 2013 season and the end of the 2015 campaign.
As Klentak and MacPhail prepare to head to Nashville, Tenn.