Bats Right Throws Right | ||
Below are the rosters of the minor league affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies:
Contents
Drew Anderson
Andrew J. Anderson (born March 22, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Anderson attended Galena High School in Reno, Nevada and was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 21st round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. He missed the 2015 season recovering from Tommy John Surgery. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.
Víctor Arano
Víctor Teodoro Arano Armas (born February 7, 1995) is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Arano signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as an international free agent in April 2013. He made his professional debut that season with the Arizona League Dodgers. On August 28, 2014, he was acquired by the Philadelphia Phillies as the player to be named later from and earlier trade for Roberto Hernández. After the 2016 season he pitched in the Arizona Fall League.
Aaron Brown
Aaron Joshua Brown (born June 20, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Brown was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 17th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft out of Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, California. He did not sign with the Pirates and played college baseball at Pepperdine University, where he was both a outfielder and pitcher. After his sophomore season, Brown was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 30th round of the 2013 MLB Draft. He again did not sign and returned to Pepperdine. He was then drafted a third time, this time by the Philadelphia Phillies in the third round of the 2014 Draft.
Brown signed with the Phillies and made his professional debut with the Williamsport Crosscutters. He was later promoted to the Lakewood BlueClaws where he ended the season.
Dylan Cozens
Dylan Wallace Cozens (born May 31, 1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Cozens attended Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Arizona and transferred to Chaparral High School in Scottsdale midway through his junior year after he was susupended from the baseball team. As a senior he hit an Arizona record 19 home runs, which broke Paul Konerko's previous record of 13.
Cozens was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. He was committed to play college baseball and football at the University of Arizona, but signed with the Phillies. He made his professional debut in 2012 with the Gulf Coast Phillies. Cozens spent 2013 with the Williamsport Crosscutters and 2014 with the Lakewood BlueClaws. After the 2014 season he played for the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League. Cozens played for the Gulf Coast Phillies, Clearwater Threshers and Reading Fightin Phils in 2015. Cozens hit 40 home runs with Reading in 2016, winning the Joe Bauman Home Run Award. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the season.
Elniery García
Elniery De Jesus García Sanchez (born December 24, 1994) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
García signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an international free agent in December 2011. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.
Rhys Hoskins
Rhys Dean Hoskins (born March 17, 1993) is an American professional baseball first baseman in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Hoskins played college baseball at California State University, Sacramento. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the fifth round of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft. He spent his first professional season with the Williamsport Crosscutters where he posted a .237 batting average with 9 home runs and 40 RBI's. He started 2015 with the Lakewood BlueClaws and was later promoted to the Clearwater Threshers; he posted a combined .319 batting average, 17 home runs and 90 RBI's between the two teams. Hoskins spent 2016 with the Reading Fightin Phils where he batted .281 with 38 home runs and 116 RBI's.
Franklyn Kilome
Franklyn Kilome (born June 25, 1995) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Kilome signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an international free agent in 2013. He spent 2014 with the Gulf Coast Phillies where he posted a 3.12 ERA in 40 innings pitched. He pitched 2015 with the Williamsport Crosscutters where he posted a 3-2 record with a 3.28 ERA. Kilome spent 2016 with the Lakewood BlueClaws where he had a 5-8 record with a 3.85 ERA.
Andrew Knapp
Andrew Michael Knapp (born November 9, 1991) is an American professional baseball catcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Knapp was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 41st round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft out of Granite Bay High School in Granite Bay, California. He did not sign with the Athletics and attended the University of California, Berkeley to play college baseball. Knapp was then drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round of the 2013 MLB Draft. He signed with the Phillies and made his professional debut with the Williamsport Crosscutters where he posted a .253 batting average. He spent 2014 with the Lakewood BlueClaws and Clearwater Threshers where he batted .260 with 6 home runs and 32 RBI's. Knapp started 2015 with Clearwater and was promoted to the Double-A Reading Fightin Phils during the season, where he posted a combined .308 batting average, 13 home runs and 84 RBI's between the two teams. Knapp spent 2016 with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs where he batted .266 with 8 home runs with 46 RBI's. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the season.
Hoby Milner
Hoby Milner (born January 13, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Milner attended R. L. Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas and was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 44th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. He did not sign and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played college baseball. After his junior year he was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the seventh round of the 2012 MLB draft.
Milner was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 Rule 5 draft. The Indians returned Milner to the Phillies on March 24, 2017.
Cameron Perkins
Cameron Perkins (born September 27, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Perkins was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 43rd round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft out of Southport High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He did not sign and played college baseball at Purdue University from 2010 to 2012.
Perkins was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the sixth round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Phillies and made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast Phillies and also played for the Williamsport Crosscutters. Perkins played for the Clearwater Threshers in 2013. He started 2014 with the Double-A Reading Fightin Phils and was promoted to the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs in June.
Ricardo Pinto
Ricardo Antonio Valera Pinto (born January 20, 1994) is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Pinto signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an international free agent in December 2011. He made his professional debut with the Venezuelan Summer League Phillies in 2012 and also played with them in 2013. In 2014 he played for the Williamsport Crosscutters. Pinto spent 2015 with the Lakewood BlueClaws and Clearwater Threshers. He won the Paul Owens Award as the Phillies Minor League Pitcher of the Year after going 15–4 with a 2.97 earned run average (ERA) and 105 strikeouts. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.
Andrew Pullin
Andrew L. Pullin (born September 25, 1993) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Pullin graduated from Centralia High School in Centralia, Washington, in 2012. The Philadelphia Phillies selected him in the fifth round of the 2012 MLB draft. In 2016, the Phillies promoted Pullin from the Clearwater Threshers of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League to Reading Fightin Phils of the Class AA Eastern League.
Cornelius Randolph
Cornelius Cleopatrick Randolph (born July 2, 1997) is an American baseball outfielder.
Randolph attended Griffin High School in Griffin, Georgia. During Randolph's senior year, he hit .533 with 8 home runs and a 1.631 OPS. The Philadelphia Phillies selected Randolph with the 10th pick in the first round of the 2015 MLB Draft. Randolph signed with the Phillies, receiving a $3,231,300 signing bonus. Randolph spent 2015 with the GCL Phillies where he batted .302. Randolph spent 2016 with the Lakewood BlueClaws where he posted a .274 batting average with 2 home runs and 27 RBI's.
John Richy
John Minoru Richy (born July 28, 1992) is a professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Richy was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 3rd round of the 2014 MLB Draft out of the University of Nevada–Las Vegas. He began his professional career that year with the rookie class Ogden Raptors and was promoted to the class-A Great Lakes Loons a few months later. He had a 3.74 ERA combined in 12 games for the two teams. In 2015, he began the season with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the Advanced-Class-A California League where he was 10–5 with a 4.20 ERA in 22 games (18 starts).
On August 19, 2015, he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies (along with Darnell Sweeney) in exchange for Chase Utley.
Sixto Sánchez
Sixto Sánchez Encarnacion (born July 29, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Sánchez signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an international free agent in February 2015. He made his professional debut that year with the Dominican Summer League Phillies. He pitched 2016 with the Gulf Coast Phillies.
Brock Stassi
Brock James Stassi [stass'ee] (Born August 7, 1989) is an American professional baseball first baseman in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
The Phillies selected Stassi in the 33rd round of the 2011 MLB Draft out of University of Nevada, Reno in the state of Nevada. Stassi previously had been drafted by the Cleveland Indians in 2010, but decided to stay at school. He hit a .360 average with 19 doubles, driving in 34 runs and scoring 29 times in 55 games for the Nevada Wolf Pack, earning First Team All-Western Athletic Conference honors during his senior season at the University of Nevada.
Stassi debuted with the Williamsport Crosscutters in 2011, playing for them in parts of two seasons before joining the Lakewood BlueClaws (2012), Clearwater Threshers (2012–2013) and Reading Fightin Phils (2014–2015).
His breakout season came with the Fightin Phils in 2015, when he posted a .300/.394/.470 slash line with 15 home runs and 90 RBI in 133 games, helping lead Reading to first place in the Eastern League Division standings while earning an All-Star berth. Besides, Stassi led the league in RBI and doubles (32), ending second in total bases (225) and walks (77), third in on OBP and runs scored (76), fifth in hits (140), and sixth in home runs.
In addition to his offensive contributions, Stassi led all Eastern League first baseman with a .995 fielding percentage, making just five errors in 112 games. At the end of the season, he was selected as the winner of the 2015 Eastern League Most Valuable Player Award.
On the personal side, Stassi comes from a baseball family, as his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather played as catchers in the Minor Leagues, while his younger brother, Max Stassi, is a catcher who plays in the Houston Astros organization. Furthermore, Brock and Max Stassi held an annual charity event that began in 2009 in their hometown of Yuba City, California, as the money collected goes to 12 food banks within a 50-mile radius of Yuba City, and Hands of Hope, a charity that offers support to homeless children and their families. The premise of the charity is simple. The brothers staged a home run derby, seeing how many they can launch over 30 minutes at the Yuba City High School field. Since 2014, the event was expanded to include a home run derby with one player from each of eight local high schools, taking donations based on the number of homers hit, as well as accepting flat-rate donations.
Alberto Tirado
Alberto Tirado (born December 10, 1994) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Tirado signed with the Toronto Blue Jays as an international free agent in July 2011 for $300,000. He began his career in 2012 with the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays, where he made 11 starts and posted a 1–2 record with an earned run average of 2.68 in 37 innings pitched. Tirado would finish the 2012 season with the Bluefield Blue Jays, earning a 2–0 record and 2.45 ERA in 3 starts. In 2013, he would make 12 appearances for Bluefield, 8 of which were starts, and posted a 3–0 record with an impressive 1.68 ERA over 48 1⁄3 innings. Prior to the 2014 season, Baseball Prospectus rated Tirado as the 76th best prospect in baseball.
Tirado began the 2014 season with the Low-A Vancouver Canadians and made 17 appearances (3 starts). He was then promoted to the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts and made another 13 appearances, 7 of which were starts. In total, Tirado posted a 2–2 record with a 5.00 ERA and 76 strikeouts over 75 2⁄3 innings. On July 31, 2015, Tirado was traded to the Philadelphia Philles, with Jimmy Cordero, for Ben Revere. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.
Carlos Tocci
Carlos Daniel Lugo Tocci (born August 23, 1995) is a Venezuelan professional baseball outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Tocci signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an international free agent in August 2011. He made his professional debut in 2012 with the Gulf Coast Phillies. He spent 2013 and 2014 with the Lakewood BlueClaws. He hit his professional home run in July 2014.
Jesmuel Valentín
Jesmuel José Valentín (born May 12, 1994) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball second baseman and shortstop in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
The Los Angeles Dodgers selected Valentín in the first round of the 2012 MLB Draft (51st overall) out of the Puerto Rico Baseball Academy. The Dodgers assigned him to the Arizona League Dodgers to begin his professional career, where he hit .211 in 43 games in 2012. He split 2013 between the Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League and the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League and hit .264 in 95 games. He began 2014 with Great Lakes, where he hit .282 in 107 games.
The Dodgers traded Valentín to the Phillies on August 16, 2014, as a player to be named later (along with Victor Arano) in a deal that sent Roberto Hernández to the Dodgers.
On April 11, 2015, he was placed on the restricted list and suspended indefinitely following his arrest for a domestic violence incident. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.
His father, José Valentín, played in Major League Baseball.
Nick Williams
Billy Nicholas Williams (born September 8, 1993) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Williams was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the second round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft out of Ball High School in Galveston, Texas. He was committed to Texas A&M University, but signed with the Rangers. He made his professional debut with the Arizona League Rangers, hitting .313/.375/.448 with two home runs in 201 at-bats over 48 games. He played the 2013 season with the Hickory Crawdads. He played in 95 games during the season, hitting .293/.337/.543 with 17 home runs over 376 at-bats.
Prior to the 2014 season, Williams was ranked by Baseball America as the Rangers fourth best prospect and the 97th best overall in baseball.
On July 31, 2015, Williams was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies along with Matt Harrison, Jorge Alfaro, Jake Thompson, Alec Asher, and Jerad Eickhoff in exchange for Cole Hamels and Jake Diekman. The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.
Tom Windle
Thomas Joseph Windle (born March 10, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Windle attended Osseo Senior High School in Osseo, Minnesota. After his senior season, Windle was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 28th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft. He did not sign and played college baseball at the University of Minnesota for the Gophers from 2011 to 2013. In three years, he appeared in 51 games with 20 starts and had a 2.26 earned run average (ERA).
Windle was then drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second round of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Dodgers and made his professional debut with the Great Lakes Loons. In 2014, he pitched for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.
On December 19, 2014, Windle and Zach Eflin were traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for Jimmy Rollins.