Alright, now is when the fun really begins.
Aroon Escobar – 104
Dante Nori – 52
Francisco Renteria – 42
Gabriel Rincones – 34
Moises Chace – 10
Matthew Fisher – 6
The Phillies don’t have a deep farm system. On this, we can all agree. You can blame some of it on poor player development, where they have struggled to take players they have drafted and turn them into major league quality players. You can also blame some of that on trades, using the farm system as a way to bring back already developed major league talent, a maneuver that thins out a system rather quickly. What they have now is three clear cut top prospect, a fourth that might enter that tier this year and Escobar. He’s got the feel of former Phillies prospect Hao Yu Lee where he might be a good bat, but is he impact-ish? Can he play the field well enough?
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Or is he the next big trade piece?
That’s going to be the question for the next several players on this list: will they be in the system long enough to debut with the Phillies, or will they be the next in a line of players that gets dealt in July?
Personally, as you can read from the below scouting report, Escobar seems like a bat that the team might want to hang on to to potentially fill in for Bryson Stott in a few years if he’s ready at something of a cheaper cost than it would be to extend Stott, but development isn’t linear. We’ll have to wait and see.
2025 stats (w/ Clearwater, Lakewood and Reading)
538 PA, .270/.361/.413, 82 R, 15 HR, 62 RBI, 24 SB, 10.4 BB%, 18.2 K%, 121 wRC+
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Baseball Prospectus scouting report ($)
Escobar has a compact, quick right-handed swing. His analytic hit tool markers are also very good for a low-minors level: he makes a well above-average amount of contact and is aggressive within the strike zone without chasing at a concerning clip. So while there isn’t a “future batting champion” hit tool projection here, we feel pretty comfortable projecting an above-average outcome. And that projection comes with non-zero power output, as he clocked 15 homers across the minor-league season with a near-105 mph 90th-percentile exit velocity at Low-A, suggesting that pop is real.
Defensively, he settled in at second base for almost all of his 2025 action after bouncing around the infield previously.
With each new post, we’ll reveal who won the voting for that particular slot, then post new players for you to vote on, adding another one to the list each time until we get to our final tally of 20. Once we get to 20 top prospects, we’ll do an honorable mention post at the end. If a player gets traded to another team, we’ll just chuck him right on outta here and all the players will move up a spot. If a prospect gets acquired, we’ll ask where he should go on the list.
Probably the most important thing about this whole process – please vote. Give us a few minutes of your time, just click a button and then we can discuss other players and things in the comment section, but don’t forget – VOTE!
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