CLEARWATER, Fla. — At one point, during an informal workout Tuesday on a back field at the Carpenter Complex, the advance scouting manager flipped balls in a hitting drill while the major league player information coordinator helped organize a fielding exercise. Those jobs did not exist a year ago — or ever, with the Phillies — and they are now filled by two men in their late 30s.



Spring training does not begin until Wednesday, the first official workout for pitchers and catchers, but radical change has been implemented here for weeks. The Phillies held organizational meetings at the complex in late January, an unusual time for them, but imperative because of the sheer amount of new people tasked with taking the franchise to the next level.



“What we don’t do is do it because it’s the way it’s always been done,” Gabe Kapler said Tuesday. “We don’t have a cookie-cutter...