The Toledo Mud Hens visit Lehigh Valley this week and bring with them some familiar faces.

Former Phillies catcher Andrew Knapp is a member of the Hens, as is former IronPigs catcher Donny Sands.

With that in mind, now is the time to look around baseball and find other Phillies and IronPigs players who have found new homes.

Knapp is batting .277 with Toledo as he looks to work his way back to the majors. Sands is hitting .241 in 40 games with Toledo as he too looks for a pathway back to the majors.

Sticking with catchers, Jorge Alfaro was in town not long ago as a member of the Worcester Red Sox, but opted out of his minor league contract with Boston and signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies. The bushy haired, wildly bearded catcher last played in the majors last season with San Diego before signing a minor league deal with Boston to start the season.

Between Worcester and his new home with the Albuquerque Isotopes, Alfaro is hitting .319 with seven home runs and 33 RBIs in 2023.

Outfielder Roman Quinn, 30, continues to bounce around from town to town. After being released by the Cleveland Guardians, Quinn signed a minor league contract with Milwaukee about two weeks ago.

In a combined 22 games with Columbus and Nashville, Quinn is hitting just .140 this season with six stolen bases and a .341 on-base percentage.

Among pitchers, Vince Velasquez was pitching for the Pirates, but recently underwent season-ending elbow surgery that will cause him to miss as much as a year of action. In eight starts with the Pirates, Velasquez had a 3.86 ERA and had gotten his pitch command under control. He was pitching on a one-year, $3.5 million contract.

Another former Phillies and IronPigs pitcher who knows a thing or two about surgeries is Adam Morgan. The oft-injured lefty underwent two Tommy John surgeries and had shoulder surgery during his career. He opted out of a minor league deal with Houston in May of last year and had not been able to catch on with a team since then.

The 33-year-old decided to officially retire and return to the University of Alabama to finish his degree. Morgan is a co-founder of a group called Objective X-ray, which provides mental health and financial assistance to veterans and first responders.

Finally, former manager Dave Brundage continues to guide the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Brundy is in his sixth year as the team’s manager after being at the controls of the IronPigs for four seasons.

Another former Boss Hogg - as the IronPigs managers are known - is Gary Jones, who was recently in Philadelphia with the Tigers. Jones is the team’s third base coach.

Of course, Detroit also has Matt Vierling (4-for-15-.247) and Nick Maton (6-for-23-.162) on its roster after they were dealt to the Tigers for Gregory Soto and Kody Clemens over the winter.

WHERE ARE WE? ... The Pigs have a 32-29 record on the season and return home in third place in the International League East, 10 ½ games behind first-place Norfolk (43-19). The Durham Bulls (36-27) are in second place, three games ahead of Lehigh Valley. The Mud Hens are 26-36 and in last place in the IL West, but are closer in games behind than the IronPigs at 10 games back.

SMOKE FROM A DISTANT FIRE ... The smoke from Canadian Wildfires was even worse in Syracuse last week than it was in the Lehigh Valley. The IronPigs and Mets had two games that were deemed unplayable because of the haze. One game was made up as part of a doubleheader while the other was just scratched and will not be made up.

WRAP IT UP ... In its first season with a split schedule, the International League is coming up on the end of the first half - which is June 25. The playoffs will have the first-half division champion play the second-half champion, and if the same team wins the division in both halves, they play the team with the best overall record of the remaining teams.