Minor League Games - July 22nd, 2025

[Squire]

AAA: Norfolk at Lehigh Valley (RHP Nabil Crismatt) - 12:05PM
AA: Binghamton at Reading (RHP Estibenzon Jimenez) - 12 Noon
High A: Wilmington at Jersey Shore (RHP Reese Dutton) - 6:05PM
Low A: Bradenton at Clearwater (TBD) - 6:30PM
FCL: FCL Phillies (RHP Brad Pacheco) at FCL Yankees - 12 Noon
DSL: DSL Angels at DSL Phillies Red (LHP Carlos Duran) - 11:00AM
DSL: DSL Phillies White (RHP Pedro Peralta) at DSL Miami - 11:00AM

Rolling Scores Here - https://www.milb.com/scores/2025-07-22/all/all/phillies

Rolling Boxes Here - https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=143&date=07/22/2025

[Squire]

1 PM Update

Lehigh Valley losing 1-0
Reading losing 2-0
FCL losing 3-2
DSL Red losing 6-0
DSL White losing 3-0

Can we fire the entirety of our minor league hitting instruction into the sun? Who got better this year other than maybe Hendry Mendez?

[andyb]

Weekly recap from Matt complete with Justin Crawford pinch hit conspiracy theory.

Phillies Minor League Recap (Week 17 7/15-7/21)

[bigegypt0417]

Tait, Escobar, Nori, AOA right off the top of my head.

[Squire]

Not sure we agree on a definition of better

Tait 2024 OPS: .842
Tait 2025 OPS: .758

Escobar 2024 OPS: .976
Escobar 2025 OPS: .812 (.829 at Low A)

Nori 2024 OPS: .704
Nori 2025 OPS: .720

AOA I will give you.

[bigegypt0417]

If you want to use OPS with no context to promotion...sure...you can support your narrative.

The three of them are holding their own at A ball...with all of them 20 or younger.

comparing numbers for rookie ball feels a bit off.

[Squire]

We disagree, that's fine. My view is that if you are an actual prospect, moving one level a year really isn't supposed to be shocking. Maybe they get credit for Kemp too. That ain't a great system resume. On the bright side, we drafted nearly all pitchers this year.

[zambonir]

Well, the minor league hitting staff is supposed to be aligned with the major league hitting staff right?

[Matt_Winkelman]

I would say Aroon and Tait are positive. Escobar's OPS is down but you are also talking about 24 games in the Florida complex vs 77 games in full season. Tait has not reached his game total of last year, but is a solid 20+ games ahead of where he was at this point last year. Workload is a real thing and it is going to draw down stats. You can see real gains for Tait in approach over the course of the year.

This isn't to say they are good (because I wouldn't argue that), but Tait and Escobar are arrow up guys and it isn't just level progression.

[phillychuck]

Somehow Jersey Shore produced 6 runs on 4 hits and 2 walks. 3 singles and a double. Crawford was 2 for 2 with 2 walks and 2 steals. Amazingly, he didn’t score. Lehigh Valley, Reading, JS, and CLW all won. Don’t quite know how.

[andyb]

Lehigh Valley, Reading, JS, and CLW all won. Don’t quite know how.

Squire's reverse jinx post at the beginning of the thread. If only he had put it out in time to help DSL and FCL whose games were too far gone by 1 pm to recover.