Despite their best efforts to keep the search for a new manager a heavily guarded secret, it is out there now. The Phillies, after an extensive first round of interviews by general manager Matt Klentak and his lieutenants, apparently have their finalists. Now they must decide if they want an outsider (Gabe Kapler) or an insider (Dusty Wathan) running the team on the field.
At the start of this century, it would have been easy to forecast which way the Phillies would go in a situation like this one. Under team presidents Bill Giles and David Montgomery and former general managers Ed Wade and Ruben Amaro Jr.