This story was excerpted from Todd Zolecki’s Phillies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Cole Hamels approached Andrew Painter just after he finished his bullpen session on Tuesday at Carpenter Complex. Hamels might be the

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Aidan Miller grew up about 30 minutes from BayCare Ballpark. He still lives at home, and why wouldn’t he? Miller loves the food, and he gets to share his experiences from his first Phillies camp with family and friends. According to MLB Pipeline, Miller, 20, is baseball’s

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PHILADELPHIA -- Andrew Painter is healthy again, which means everybody is talking about him again. And that means everybody is wondering when he will crack the Phillies’ rotation.

To say that Nieves Izaguirre is from a baseball family would be an understatement. Philadelphia has signed the 17-year-old Venezuelan shortstop, who is ranked as the No. 44 prospect in the 2025 international class per MLB Pipeline. Over 60 members of his lineage have become pro ballplayers, including a pair

The Phillies announced 23 non-roster invitees to Spring Training on Tuesday, including each of their top three prospects: Shortstop Aidan Miller, right-hander Andrew Painter and outfielder Justin Crawford. The Phils have been open about their expectations that Painter -- the club's top pitching prospect and the No. 32 prospect overall,

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. As one executive put it when asked

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let's dive into some questions to go with the leftovers ...

With Paul Skenes and Luis Gil taking home their leagues' respective 2024 Rookie of the Year Awards, it's time to turn our attention to 2025.

The Arizona Fall League is over, with tremendous prospects shutting things down for the offseason. All 30 teams have made their 40-man roster decisions, adding big-name prospects and some sleepers to keep an eye on. So what’s a prospect hound to do? Answer your questions, of course! We answered a

Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies added three starting pitchers to the 40-man roster on Tuesday night, protecting them from next month’s Rule 5 Draft: right-handers Mick Abel (Phillies’ No. 6 prospect), Jean Cabrera (No. 13) and Moisés Chace (No. 26). The Phillies are looking to create as much starting pitching depth

For six more weeks again this year, some of the best prospects in baseball shined in the Arizona Fall League, the game’s most elite prospect circuit. Now it’s time to give out some hardware. The Fall League annually awards the Joe Black MVP Award to its top performer, and since

When you’re as good as Andrew Painter can be on the mound, a rehab assignment can turn into an award-winning performance. After a two-year layoff following Tommy John surgery, the goal was for the No. 32 prospect in baseball to simply get his first competitive innings in the Arizona Fall

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SURPRISE, Ariz. – Mission accomplished. Andrew Painter arrived in the Arizona Fall League six weeks ago, having not pitched in game action since he sprained his elbow during a Spring Training appearance on March 1, 2023. He tried to rehab the injury before having Tommy John surgery that July, and

Here are the top performers from the fifth week of AFL action:

With the Arizona Fall League's Home Run Derby and Fall Stars Game on tap for the weekend, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff open this week's podcast with a discussion of which top prospects they're most excited to see show out and dive into the choices on Final 2

Here are the top performers from the fourth week of AFL action:

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Andrew Painter comeback tour continued on Wednesday afternoon. The fourth Arizona Fall League start for the No. 32 prospect in baseball delivered similar results to the Phillies phenom’s previous outing: three scoreless innings, three strikeouts, no walks and one step closer to being ready for a

This fall, for the first time, the majority of Arizona Fall League stadiums are outfitted with Statcast technology. That enables us to peek under the hood and get a better sense of how some of the game’s best prospects are performing on the annual elite prospect circuit. With that in

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