A Phillies press release Tuesday afternoon confirmed that the team has hired former New York Yankees national crosschecker Brian Barber to be the new scouting director.
The Phillies interest in Barber was first mentioned last week by NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Jim Salisbury among a list of several other candidates. He emerged as the Phillies preferred option Saturday morning as reported by Salisbury, and later that day RADIO.COM‘s Jon Heyman reported that the team had offered him the position.