A player on the bubble for the 2024 Phillies’ roster is catcher Rafael Marchan. With a stacked Major League roster, the Phillies will have to make moves in the margins as they head into the 2024 Major League Baseball season.
It was showcased this year in spectacular fashion: farm systems can be made or broken by the Major League trade deadline. The San Diego Padres shipped off the majority of their top talent, albeit for the greatest hitter of this generation, and are now left with a shell of a system which likely ranks as the consensus worst in the majors.
The Philadelphia Phillies had an interesting draft this year, and reactions from evaluators were so-so. However, one of their draftees began his professional career in a big way on Tuesday, as he hammered his way to a four-hit debut.
The Overlooked and Underrated Phillies Catching Prospect that is not named Logan O’Hoppe Setting the Scene Before the rise of Logan O'Hoppe took the Phillies Organization and Major League Baseball by storm, there was Rafael Marchan.
Even though he already boasts two major league home runs in his short career, Rafael Marchan spent 1,027 minor league at-bats hunting for his first ever home run.
The Philadelphia Phillies have announced that both Didi Gregorius and Rafael Marchan will be taking their rehab with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. For Gregorius, this will be the first time since early May that he will play following a left knee sprain on May 7.
After missing the start of the season due to injury, catcher Rafael Marchan made his 2022 debut in the latest week of the minor-league season. The 23-year-old joined the High-A Jersey Shore BlueClaws on a rehab assignment on Wednesday, marking his first game action since straining his left hamstring in spring training.
The Philadelphia Phillies catching depth behind J.T. Realmuto just got deeper. Joining the ranks of Garrett Stubbs, Donny Sands and Logan O'Hoppe is Rafael Marchan.
Phillies outfielder Mickey Moniak recently suffered a fracture in his right hand, and one report suggests he’ll miss four-to-six weeks.
Rafael Marchan hit his first professional home run on Sept. 18, 2020. It was a game-tying three-run blast, not in Rookie-ball or Single-A, or any minor league affiliate for that matter—it was with the Philadelphia Phillies against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Another player from the team’s catching development machine We continue our countdown of top prospects here at The Good Phight, counting backwards from 20 to our top prospect.
The Phillies have struggled to get very much if any production from the back-up catcher position. With long-time backup Andrew Knapp signing a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds before the lockout, the Phillies need someone to fill Knapp’s shoes.
Since 2017, the Philadelphia Phillies have had a stalwart backup catcher in Andrew Knapp. The former top prospect caught 225 games for the Phillies in that timespan, bridging the gap from Cameron Rupp to Jorge Alfaro to J.T.
Some surprises here and there Today, Baseball America released their top ten Phillies prospects. The link is behind a paywall, so we’ll just list the top ten here and generate some discussion.
Do we finally have a new backup catcher? Catching is hard. Being a catching prospect is really hard. Being a catching prospect near major league ready on a team that has invested a lot of money into the current catcher is really, really hard.
Rafael Marchan plays an important role on the Philadelphia Phillies' 26 man roster, a backup to the catcher. Marchan split this role with Andrew Knapp this season after Knapp faced injury, being placed on the COVID-19 list, and taking paternity leave.
Happy Labor Day. Sorry folks. A little late with the links today. That’s what happens when you celebrate the Phillies winning a game in Miami a little too hard.
With J.T. Realmuto banged up and Andrew Knapp on the COVID-19 list, Rafael Marchan has the perfect opportunity to demonstrate his worth to the Phillies.
The Phils can only hope that Realmuto’s injury isn’t too serious, as he is perhaps the most indispensable member of the roster.
It’s deadline day, it’s deadline day! Today is the day that we’ve been waiting for - the day that the Phillies’ front office consummates a deal. They’ve seen how bad the rotation is; they need to make a move.
Think they’ll play two today? The game was postponed last night because of a Covid outbreak among Nationals’ players. They have a doubleheader today that is threatened by Covid and weather.
As rumors swirled ahead of Friday’s Major League Baseball trade deadline, a Philadelphia Phillies prospect and potential trade chip was sent down a minor-league level on Tuesday.
Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday morning that the Phillies, along with the Blue Jays, are in talks to acquire Pirates reliever Richard Rodríguez.
With the MLB trade deadline just over a month away, the Philadelphia Phillies are in quite the tricky position. For a variety of different reasons (lack of defense, bad bullpen, lackluster pitching, poor offense), the Phillies have monumentally disappointed through the first 70+ games of the season.
In a corresponding roster move, Philadelphia recalled catcher Rafael Marchan from its alternate training site.
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