Minor League Games - May 2nd, 2025

[Squire]

AAA: Lehigh Valley (RHP Alan Rangel) at Syracuse - 6:05PM
AA: Harrisburg at Reading (RHP Chuck King) - 6:45PM
High A: Jersey Shore (RHP Braydon Tucker) at Hudson Valley - 7:05PM
Low A: Bradenton at Clearwater (TBD) - 6:30PM

Rolling Scores Here - https://www.milb.com/scores/2025-05-02/all/all/phillies

Rolling Boxes Here - https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=143&date=05/02/2025

[andyb]

FCL Previews!

2025 FCL Phillies Season Preview

5/2/25 : Florida Complex League (FCL)

[Squire]

The team announced that Andrew Painter's next start would be Thursday for Lehigh Valley

[phillychuck]

Crazy IPs game tonight...they lead 13-10 going into the bottom of the ninth.

Even crazier...13-13 going into the 10th.

[kmc1019]

4-hit night for Kemp including 2 doubles.

3 hits for Saltiban whose march toward .200 will not be stopped!

[andyb]

FCL roster here:
https://www.milb.com/florida-complex/roster/469

The entire roster consists of international players and NPG is the only non-Latino player. This really begs the question for me as to why they don't just create a DSL advanced league and do away with the complex leagues. We seem to only draft HS players in the top round or two and they go to a younger Clearwater roster anyway since there is no short season advanced league. I know there is a cultural acclimation aspect of playing in Florida for a year, but it does seem to be a waste..

The one non international player on the roster is not active but a little interesting.

8/13/24 : Phillies sign RHP Tanner Gresham to minor league contract

4-year Army pitcher who had TJ surgery in 2024 so is not ready yet apparently. It does look like he can play for the Phillies as an active duty player unlike Noah Song who sat out for 4 years.

[allentown]

This really begs the question for me as to why they don't just create a DSL advanced league and do away with the complex leagues.

I think there are several reasons: they want to start acclimating the better prospects to life in America, they want to make it easier for more of the coaches/training staff/execs to keep a closer eye on our top LA prospects -- their strengths/weaknesses form a skill/development/training perspective, and they want to gauge their performance against domestic talent and (this will change if many teams partake in an advanced DSL league) the better LA players who come stateside relatively early in their careers. Given our lack of plus LA players making it to MLB in our organization, this may also refflect some lack of faith in our DSL staff.