By Tim Kelly, Sports Talk Philly editor 
The Philadelphia Phillies are going to have Scott Franzke work with a variety of radio partners during the 2018 season.
Larry Andersen, who had been Franzke's full-time radio partner for over a decade, is scaling back his work in 2018, as he will only be Franzke's partner for home games. According to MLB.com's Todd Zolecki, Franzke will work with a rotating trio of former Phillies during the team's road broadcasts:
Phillies hire Kevin Frandsen, Kevin Jordan and Kevin Stocker to their radio broadcast team. They will rotate working road games alongside Scott Franzke.
— Todd Zolecki (@ToddZolecki) January 8, 2018
Frandsen, 35, is the youngest of the trio, having last played for the Phillies in 2013. The utility infielder had perhaps the most successful stop of his nine-season big league career in Philadelphia between 2012 and 2013. A career .258 hitter, Frandsen slashed .338/.383./.451 in 195 at-bats for the 2012 Phillies, the last Phillies team that finished at .500.
Jordan, now 48, spent his entire seven-year major league career with the Phillies between 1995 and 2001. Jordan played primarily at second base, and peaked in 1999, when he hit .285 and drove in 51 runs for Terry Francona's club. Jordan has experience coaching in the Australian Baseball League and was also the hitting coach for Australia's 2017 World Baseball Classic team.
Finally, Stocker played five seasons with the Phillies from 1993 to 1997. He flashed high upside in 1993, when he hit .324 in his first 70 major league games on a team that eventually won the National League pennant. While Stocker finished sixth in Rookie of the Year voting that year, he's perhaps most important in Phillies history for being traded to the then Tampa Bay Devil Rays after the 1997 season for Bobby Abreu. Stocker has interviewed for vacancies on NBC Sports Philadelphia's broadcasting team on numerous occasions, but will finally get a chance to have a role in Phillies games again. The 48-year-old has broadcasting experience both with CBS Sports Network and the Pac-12 Network.
It will be hard for Franzke to find the same chemistry with any of these three that he's had with Andersen. It will be especially hard with three rotating color commentators for away games. It will be interesting to see if this trio is used as a one-year audition to determine the singular person that will be Franzke's road partner moving forward.
