The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are a team loaded with talent from top to bottom.

They were finally all assembled in one clubhouse Tuesday for the annual Media Day. Hopes ran high for the players who talked about the amount of talent on the team and the fact that they seem destined to be able to score a lot of runs, while their pitching staff should be shutting down a lot of lesser offenses.The roster reads more like a list of top Phillies prospects than it does a roster - J.P. Crawford, Jorge Alfaro, Jake Thompson and Nick Williams are just some of the prospects who will at least open the season with Lehigh Valley. How long they'll be there will depend on their progress and the progress of the players ahead of them on the Phillies roster."We all know that it's very possible that a lot of the guys here now won't be here later in the season," said new manager Dusty Wathan, who like many of his players, is also making the move from Reading to Lehigh Valley. "There are always guys who will go up to the majors, there's always the possibility of trades, so you just never know. But with the roster that we start with, I like our chances."One ironic part of the team is that there are two players who both have fathers who played in the majors. Second baseman Jesmuel Valentin's father Jose was a major league infielder and pitcher Mark Leiter's father pitched in the majors. The run of major league fathers continues into the manager's office, where Dusty Wathan followed in the footsteps of his dad, John Wathan."I think having that background helps mentally," said Wathan. "When you grow up around baseball, you realize that even the superstar players are just people, so it takes away some of that awe that you have when you are around major league players that you've watched play and respect for what they do on the field."That's what was nice about [Jorge] Alfaro and [Roman] Quinn when they got called up last September. They didn't play a whole lot, but they got to see those guys and get over that awe factor that some young players can get."Rhys Hoskins and Dylan Cozens spent the 2016 baseball season chasing each other for the home run leadership of not just the Reading Fightin' Phils, but of all minor league baseball. When all was said and done, Cozens was the minor league home run champion with 40 home runs and Hoskins finished with 38.Some scouts have pointed to the fact that they played at FirstEnergy Stadium, a homer friendly ballpark. They also point to the fact that both hit the majority of their home runs while playing at home, drawing some doubt into their true power potential.This season, both players move up to the Triple-A level with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs and will be in a completely different situation playing in Coca-Cola Park, known for being much more of a pitcher's park."I don't think it's going to change what I do," said Hoskins. "I just look to hit the ball hard and go gap-to-gap. If I hit it well enough and get it high enough, it's a home run, but if I hit it hard, there's always the chance for it to find open spaces. I don't go up looking to hit the ball far, just to hit it hard."In the annual Route 222 Exhibition Game Tuesday night, Cozens showed that the tougher environment might not be too much of a problem when he blasted a pitch from Reading's Brandon Leibrandt well over the right field fence for a solo home run."That was my first at-bat in the stadium, and obviously, it was a confidence booster," said Cozens. "Now, I'm looking forward to doing it in the season."Cozens and Hoskins, along with the rest of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs team will get their chance to produce in the regular season starting Thursday night when Lehigh Valley hosts the Pawtucket Red Sox in the season opener. Jake Thompson will start for the IronPigs, while Pawtucket's starter hasn't been announced.