Phillies - A Fan’s View

Compiled and written by Steve Potter This week’s Spotlight Player : RHP Sam Highfill - 25 years old - signed as non drafted free agent 7/29/25 - NC State University Sam had an outstanding outing this week for Jersey Shore going five scoreless innings on Friday night allowing just three hits and one walk while striking out four batters. He’s now riding an eight inning scoreless streak. He has been a reliable innings eater in his brief two year pro career to date - features a f

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - SWB 5 (26-23) Lehigh Valley 4 (23-28) Allentown, PA - Coca-Cola Park How they scored : Carter Kieboom walked in the second inning, Christian Cairo doubled and Dylan Carlson walked. Kieboom scored when Dylan Moore reached on a fielding error (third baseman). A wild pitch scored a run. Steward Berroa grounded out to score a run. Three singles and a wild pitch scored two runs for SWB in the third inning. A fieldin

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Lehigh Valley 5 (23-27) SWB 4 (25-23) Allentown, PA - Coca-Cola Park How they scored : A walk, two stolen bases and fielders choice ground ball scored a run for SWB in the third inning. Two doubles scored a run for them in the fourth inning. Liover Peguero and Carter Kieboom each singled in the bottom of the fourth, Christian Cairo walked. Dylan Carlson and Dylan Moore each walked to score a run. Paul McIntosh

Professional baseball is a business first and foremost. The goal of every organization is to build a cohesive unit at the major league level that can and ultimately does produce championships. Player development as part of that equation is to provision pieces to the puzzle that can either impact the big league team directly else be used as trade chips to acquire other puzzle parts that can be molded into the equation. Like every large corporation it’s difficult to get to know

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Lehigh Valley 6 (22-27) SWB 5 (25-22) - 10 innings Allentown, PA - Coca-Cola Park How they scored : SWB scored two runs in the third inning on a walk, double, ground out and wild pitch. Steward Berroa and Felix Reyes singled in the third inning, they scored on a home run by Bryan De La Cruz. Four singles scored two runs for SWB in the fourth inning. Felix Reyes and Bryan De La Cruz singled in the fifth inning.

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Scranton/WB 8 (25-21) Lehigh Valley 7 (21-27) Allentown, PA - Coca-Cola Park How they scored : Steward Berroa singled in the first inning, he went to third on a single by Felix Reyes. Carter Kieboom walked, Dylan Carlson walked to force in a run. A walk, single, fielders choice, single, two errors and double play ground out scored three runs for SWB in the third inning. Ernesto Martinez Jr then hit a two run ho

RHP Drake Fellows (28 years old) has signed a minor league contract with the Phillies and has been assigned to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. He had been assigned to pitch in the Mexican League for the Saraperos de Saltillo after being released by the Yankees organization on 3/22/26 but never appeared in a game. Fellows was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 6th round of the 2019 draft from Vanderbilt. He was traded to the Pirates organization on 1/19/21 and signed by the Ya

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Lehigh Valley 13 (21-26) Scranton/WB 1 (24-21) Allentown, PA - Coca-Cola Park - 11 AM How they scored : Steward Berroa walked in the third inning and scored on a monstrous home run to left field by Felix Reyes. Bryan De La Cruz and Dylan Carlson walked in the fourth inning - they both scored on a double by Liover Peguero. Robert Moore doubled to score Peguero. Christian Cairo singled to score Moore. Felix Rey

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Scranton/WB 15 (24-20) Lehigh Valley 4 (20-26) Allentown, PA - Coca-Cola Park How they scored : Scranton Wilkes-Barre (SWB) scored a run in the third inning on a single, stolen base and single. Dylan Carlson homered in the fourth inning. A single, stolen base, sacrifice bunt and throwing error (pitcher) posted a run for SWB in the fifth inning. Yanquiel Fernandez hit a two run home run. Dylan Moore singled in t

Mr. Dombrowski has been quoted as saying that the earliest a realistic evaluation of a major league team can be made is after approximately 40 games - about a quarter of the season. The Phillies currently stand at 25-23 - for each of the past four seasons they’ve been a playoff team - in 2022 after 47 games they were 21-27 (that team eventually won 87 games and went to the World Series), in 2023 they were 22-26 (that team eventually won 90 games), in 2024 they were a stellar

Compiled and written by Steve Potter Florida Complex League (Short Season) - Tigers 4 (3-9) Phillies 0 (4-8) Lakeland, FL - Tigertown Complex - seven innings How they scored : All four runs scored in the first inning - three singles scored the first run then a three run home run was hit by Cristian Perez. At Bat : 0 R, 3 H, 2 BB, 7 K’s TJayy Walton doubled. On The Hill : 4 R, 7 H, 2 BB, 9 K’s RH Deiry Gonzalez - 2.2 IP, 4 R, 4 H, 0 BB, 5 K’s LH Raymon Rosario - 1.1 IP, 0 R, 0

Compiled and written by Steve Potter This week’s Spotlight Player : Victor Cardoza - 20 years old - signed as an international free agent - 1/15/23 - Puerto Cabello, Venezuela Victor went 6 for 10 (.600) with a triple and five RBIs in three FCL games this week - he had a walk-off game winning single on 5/15 against the Yankees in a three hit effort. However it’s coupling that with the carryover from last week why he’s earned this week’s spotlight. He was transferred to the

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Rochester 3 (25-20) Lehigh Valley 0 (20-25) Rochester, NY -ESL Ballpark How they scored : A double, single, fielders choice and single scored two runs for Rochester in the fourth inning. Two doubles scored a run for them in the eighth. At Bat : 0 R, 6 H, 2 BB, 6 K’s Liover Peguero had three hits (singles). On The Hill : 3 R, 7 H, 0 BB, 10 K’s RH Chuck King - 4 IP, 2 R - 1 earned, 4 H, 0 BB, 4 K’s - 59 pitches -

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Rochester 5 (24-20) Lehigh Valley 0 (20-24) Rochester, NY -ESL Ballpark How they scored : A single and double scored a first inning run for Rochester. Andres Chaparro hit a three run home run in the sixth inning. Two singles and a ground out scored a run for them in the eighth. At Bat : 0 R, 4 H, 5 BB, 10 K’s Dylan Moore had two hits (singles). Paul McIntosh singled and walked twice On The Hill : 5 R, 12 H, 0 B

Veteran RHP Lou Trivino has re-signed with the Phillies on a minor league contract and has reported to Lehigh Valley. The 34 year old reliever began the season with the IronPigs posting a 2.77 ERA in ten appearances (13 IP). He opted out of his contact on 5/1 and signed a major league deal with the Baltimore Orioles. Lou appeared in two games (3 IP) with the Orioles and was tagged with six runs on six hits - Baltimore designated him for assignment on 5/10, he chose free agen

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Rochester 3 (23-20) Lehigh Valley 2 (20-23) Rochester, NY -ESL Ballpark How they scored : Trey Lipscomb homered for Rochester in the second inning. Otto Kemp singled in the fourth inning and scored on a double by Liover Peguero. Christian Cairo walked in the fifth, stole second and went to third on an infield single by Carter Kieboom. Sergio Alcantara hit a sacrifice fly to score Cairo. Two doubles and a single

Minor League Seven Day IL : 10 (plus 7 now on Rehab Assignment - see below) LHP Juan Amarante - (went on IL 5/12/26) INF Brady Day - (went on IL 4/30/26) INF Carson DeMartini - (went on IL 5/7/26) OF Pedro Leon - (went on IL 4/11/26) INF Aidan Miller - (went on IL 3/27/26) LHP Wesley Moore - (went on IL 5/8/26) LHP Cade Obermueller - (went on IL 4/2/26) C Rene Pinto - (went on IL 4/4/26) RHP Matt Potok - (went on IL 5/11/26) LHP Andrew Walling - (went on IL 5/10/26) Minor Le

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Lehigh Valley 6 (20-22) Rochester 3 (22-20) Rochester, NY -ESL Ballpark How they scored : A walk, double and single scored two runs for Rochester in the first inning. Dylan Carlson walked in the second inning and scored on a double by Paul McIntosh. Steward Berroa hit a two run home run. A walk, stolen base, wild pitch and ground out scored a run for Rochester in the third inning. Christian Cairo singled in the

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Rochester 13 (22-19) Lehigh Valley 11 (19-22) Rochester, NY -ESL Ballpark How they scored : Steward Berroa doubled to lead off the game and scored on a single by Carter Kieboom. Dylan Crews hit a two run home run for Rochester in the bottom of the first inning. Christian Cairo walked in the second inning and stole second. Caleb Ricketts singled. Robert Moore singled to score Cairo. Steward Berroa doubled to sco

Compiled and written by Steve Potter International League (AAA) - Rochester 3 (21-19) Lehigh Valley 0 (19-21) Rochester, NY -ESL Ballpark How they scored : A single, wild pitch and single scored a run for Rochester in the first inning. They scored a run in the third inning on a walk and double - another run in the sixth on two singles and a suicide bunt. The game was played in 2 hours and 24 minutes. At Bat : 0 R, 4 H, 5 BB, 7 K’s Carter Kieboom had two hits (singles). On The