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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Opening Day is 16 days away. It has been a relatively quiet camp for the Phillies, who opened Spring Training with arguably 23 of 26 roster spots locked up.

The second edition of Spring Breakout is bursting with high-profile prospects. A whopping 69 members of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 are slated to participate, including Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony (No. 2), Tigers outfielder Max Clark (No. 6), Red Sox infielder Kristian Campbell (No. 7), Rays shortstop Carson Williams (No.

Who will be the best pitcher in each league in 2025? Last season, there was no question that the Tigers' Tarik Skubal and the Braves' Chris Sale surpassed every other arm. Both claimed a Triple Crown en route to winning their first Cy Young Award. Those two left-handers might have

Who are the bats who will define the 2025 season? Our first edition of the 2025 Hitter Power Rankings (decided by a panel of MLB.com voters) offers up a wide range of candidates, including two reigning MVP Award winners, the recent recipient of the largest contract in baseball history, two

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Matt Strahm would love to say he will be ready to pitch by Opening Day, but he knows this is no time to be a hero. An MRI exam recently revealed that Strahm has an impingement in his left shoulder, which has caused inflammation, irritation and a

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It’s been a minute since strangers have yelled at me on the internet, so it must be time to post my top 10 lineups for 2025! As always, this is an inexact science, because baseball, despite all the incredible data readily available to us, remains an inexact science. I don’t

This story was excerpted from Todd Zolecki’s Phillies Beat newsletter. This edition of the newsletter was written by Paul Casella. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Ranger Suárez has a well-earned reputation for being unflappable. Good or bad, he's rarely shown emotion in his nearly 13 years in the Phillies organization. So, of course the veteran lefty wasn't worried about his diminished velocity in his spring debut last Tuesday -- but that doesn't

Across the league, this season's Opening Day rosters are taking shape. But for every club, there's still at least one big league job left to be won. Here's a look at how those positional battles are unfolding less than three weeks from Opening Day. Jump to: AL East | AL

CLEARWATER, Fla. – One of the storylines of Spring Training has been the implementation of the ABS challenge system in select ballparks across Arizona and Florida. But those in the Sunshine State might be a little more familiar with the tech than their southwestern counterparts. The Florida State League first

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Everything about Taijuan Walker looks different this spring. The velocity is up. The command has improved. The movement is better. Even just standing on the mound, it's apparent he's bulked up a bit. Perhaps most important, the results have certainly been there.

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Though the Phillies shied away from making a massive blockbuster deal at last year's Trade Deadline, they did make a flurry of moves that resulted in an influx of newcomers. Relievers Carlos Estévez and Tanner Banks joined the big league bullpen, Austin Hays was added to the

Spring Training is the season of new pitches. Tons of pitchers all around big league camps are experimenting with their repertoires and adding to their arsenals. Some new pitches stick, some don't. But let's try to find the ones that are worth paying attention to as the 2025 regular season

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies opened Spring Training last month saying top pitching prospect Andrew Painter could be a difference-maker in the big league rotation by “July-ish,” which is how president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski phrased Painter’s tentative timeline. But there is more than Painter to watch in the

It’s time to crown a new king. After a three-year run for the Orioles atop our preseason farm system rankings, they’ve stepped off the throne, making way for the Tigers. The O’s had slipped from the top spot in our 2024 midseason rankings as they’d graduated a number of prospects

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CLEARWATER, Fla. – It could have been 2004, seeing Jimmy Rollins and Larry Bowa together in Phillies uniforms, chatting on the infield at BayCare Ballpark. Bowa is here every day, working with the infielders and throwing BP. Rollins got to camp on Wednesday. He will be here through the weekend

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Ranger Suárez showed where the one-hopper nicked his fingertip on Tuesday at BayCare Ballpark. He had tried to barehand a ball in the fifth inning in his first start of the spring. He said he realized midway through the play that he shouldn’t try to catch it,

This is the third straight year that right-hander Andrew Painter has topped a new Phillies’ Top 30 list at the start of the season. The biggest difference, of course, is that he’ll actually pitch in this one. The Phillies’ first-round pick in 2021 was the best pitching prospect in baseball

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