Minor League Games - June 20th, 2025

[Squire]

AAA: Rochester at Lehigh Valley (TBD) - 7:05PM
AA: Hartford at Reading (RHP Mitch Neunborn) - 7:00PM
High A: Hudson Valley at Jersey Shore (LHP Mavis Graves) - 7:05PM
Low A: Dunedin at Clearwater (RHP Ryan Degges) - 6:30PM
FCL: FCL Phillies (RHP Cam Brown) at FCL Tigers - 12 Noon
DSL: DSL Miami at DSL Phillies Red (RHP Diery Gonzalez) - 11:00AM
DSL: DSL Phillies White (RHP Eduardo Robles) at DSL Tigers 2 - 11:00AM

Rolling Scores Here - https://www.milb.com/scores/2025-06-20/all/all/phillies

Rolling Boxes Here - https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=143&date=06/20/2025

[andyb]

3 hits for Nieves Izaguirre pulls his average up to .262. And last year's raw catching prospect Anderson Navas has his average over .300 now with a couple of hits.

All SSS, but some signs of progress from a couple of our higher profile guys down in the DSL.

[phillychuck]

Is the catcher Anderson Navas?

[andyb]

Is the catcher Anderson Navas?

Yes, just typing quickly. Anderson Araujo is a different catching prospect from this year's class. Navas was the sleeper people raved about in the 2024 class.

[phillychuck]

Navas is hitting 100 points higher than he did as a 17-year-old last season. SSS warning, but nice improvement.

[owaistabish]

Im fascinated by Luis Hernandez. @Matt_Winkelman any idea how he has looked? Also Dayber Cruceta?

[Squire]

Hendry Mendez Cycle Day

[Matt_Winkelman]

Hernandez has a definite command of the game behind the plate, has looked positive at the plate, but hasn’t made an overwhelming impression. Cruceta is really lanky and quick twitch, he needs to put on muscle but there is underlying parts that added strength should play up

[bkeich]

It is amazing we have done as well as we have this season with a negative WAR OF.

Kepler is a 1.0-1.5 WAR at best player. He isn’t this year.
Castellanos dreams of being a 0 WAR player. His defense is legendarily bad. He is having a solid season with the bat and is still negative. It is hopeless.
Marsh is a small hope. He is capable of at slightly positive OPS and is better than average in LF, but less than average in CF
Rojas would be a good OF if only he could put up a 95 OPS +. Sadly he can’t. He will get another chance because he still is cheap.
Crawford has red flags, but we need help so bad we are getting close to “why not”.
There has to be a FA / Trade that can give us a chance at a 3 WAR player.

The OF is the ultra-easy part of this team to improve. The bullpen is about as bad, but there is so much variance in relievers year to year that it is almost luck.

[zambonir]

wrong thread?

[Austinfan]

Meanwhile Anthony just keeps hitting.
.330 with .902 OPS in Reading, so he gets promoted
.417 with 1.003 OPS in Lehigh, SSS, but looks like he doesn't care what level he's playing.
.415 BABIP this year, but .376 in A ball last year, he's a line drive machine so he's going to have a high BABIP.

When undrafted b/c of gambling allegations, which he's been cleared.

1B, but did play corner OF in college, surprised they don't have him in LF, can you think of a team that could use a RH LF?
Right now he's got gap power, but needs to elevate a bit to turn some of those doubles into HRs.

Probably needs to finish the season at Lehigh, but he's making a case for himself next season.

[Austinfan]

Oh yeah, Mendez hit for the cycle. Starting to show a little more power, SA up to .454 this season.
Only 21, since he's a LH OF, they can bring him along slowly, next season in Lehigh.