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PHILADELPHIA — Phillies officials are pushing back on recent claims made by disgruntled minor leaguers and an advocacy group that the organization didn’t try as hard as it could to find non-hotel accommodations for players in their home cities this season. Although the Phillies conceded that players are living in hotels at every level of the farm system, they maintain that the arrangement is necessary because of the limited availability of apartment-style housing, particularly in the greater Reading (Double-A), Lakewood, N.J. (high A), and Clearwater, Fla. (low A) areas. Three minor leaguers w…