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Phillies Farm Report: Andrew Painter Shines In First Start Since Promotion
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All posts by Paul BowmanPublished12 May 2025
Throughout the season, our team will provide updates on the Phillies minor league system. Stay tuned and bookmark this page as updates will be provided throughout the 2025 MiLB season.
This page will be updated as future round-ups and minor league reports are published throughout the season.
May 21, 2025 Round-up: Phillies Adding Vets To Minors, Miller Breaking Out, Chace Hits The Shelf
The Phillies have been taking some chances on veterans they want to work with to bolster the minor leagues and, ideally, make some changes that will help them impact the major league club. 1B Seth Beer was assigned to AA Reading where former Pirate and KBO pitcher Wil Crowe will soon join him. The team is also adding former Red Lucas Sims – who will report to the FCL league, which would seemingly indicate they want to work on his mechanics. He’s just two years removed from being an effective MLB arm adn has posted multiple seasons in the majors at or below a 3.10 ERA.
Meanwhile, Aidan Miller is seeing the best offensive weeks of the season ahead of him as he joins fellow top prospect Justin Crawford in seeing success at the plate. On the flip side, the Phillies lost one of their top prospects long-term as Moises Chace (the team’s top ranked pitcher after Painter) will need Tommy John surgery.
Lehigh Valley has somehow improved and appears to be the best team in the minors while Reading has pulled themselves out of the absolute cellar. Clearwater has maintained a solid record (top-three in the league) while Jersey Shore has maintained the opposite poor record (bottom three).
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Andrew Painter Looks Good In Debut With Iron Pigs
Phillies top prospect Andrew Painter made his debut in AAA on Thursday, May 8. He got into some trouble toward the back end of his outing, but found his way out without allowing any runs. Over half of his outs recorded came via strikeout, including one against the game’s top prospect overall per MLB.com.
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Otto Kemp Named International Player of the Month and Week
A stellar month (and week to being May) has lead to prospect Otto Kemp claiming some accolades from the top level of the minor leagues.
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May 5, 2025 Round-up
The IronPigs and Clearwater threshers are leading their leagues with excellent shots at securing playoff berths. Strong pitching from Mike Abel and hitting from Otto Kemp and Justin Crawford highlight the IronPigs while a bullpen filled with success is helping to lead the Threshers to their early season success.
For the struggling BlueClaws, Raylin Heredia was the teams top batter, but has found himself on the injured list while Casey Steward’s recent rough start has given him an ugly stat line on the season following his otherwise successful start to the season as the rotation’s ace.
Finally, in Reading there’s almost no winning and laundry list of injuries while top-100 prospect Aidan Miller struggles offensively and the lone pitcher who has yet to face an in-game implosion (Griff McGarry) joins the list of the wounded as the team searches for solid options to try and piece together nine innings a night.
