While all predictable moves, the impact of moving prospects out of the major league camp to the minor league complex is greater than a simple swoop of the pen.
After reassigning Scott Kingery, Rhys Hoskins, and Dylan Cozens among others over the course of the past couple of days the Phillies announced more roster moves to get closer to 25-men on the major league roster.
Pitching prospects Mark Appel, Nick Pivetta, and Ricardo Pinto were each reassigned to minor league camp on Tuesday.
Neither came into spring training with a legitimate shot of making the club out of spring training, but we learned a lot about these three pitchers during their time at Spectrum Field.