8/20/26 : Minor League Radar Watch

The regular season has ended for the DSL Phillies, round robin playoffs begin today - you can watch the Phillies team play in them on YouTube (11 AM). Clearwater and Jersey Shore end the regular season on 9/6/26, Reading on 9/13/26 and Lehigh Valley on 9/20/26. Clearwater has already qualified for the playoffs by winning the first half title in the Florida State League and Reading currently holds down first place in the second half Eastern League NorthEast division playoff race.

Here’s a look at some events and players popping up on the radar ya all should be taking notice of going down the stretch.

Dominican Summer League :

The playoffs start today at 11 AM - the regular season ended on Tuesday.

Seventeen year old outfielder Francisco Renteria ranked in the league’s top ten in multiple regular season categories : tied for 3rd - runs (65), 6th - AB’s (198), 2nd - hits (75), 1st - Triples (9), tied for 2nd - HR’s (11), 3rd - RBI’s (55), tied for 3rd - batting average (.379), 1st - Slugging (.682), 1st - OPS (1.152), 1st - Total Bases (135), 9th - BABIP (.418) and 2nd in ISO (.303).

The 2026 version of the league had 51 teams - the Phillies squad finished 4th in runs (448), 3rd - hits (500), 7th - doubles (92), 3rd - triples (26), 5th - RBI’s (350), 2nd - batting average (.288), 2nd - Slugging (.426), tied for 8th - OPS (.829), 4th - Total Bases (740) and 5th in BABIP (.351).

That’s good stuff!

DSL Cup Playoffs

Pool Play : each team plays every opponent in pool

Round Robin schedule :

Pools seeded by regular season records :

Pool A : 1,8,9, 16 (Royals Ventura, Giants Black, Brewers Gold, Mariners)

Pool B : 2,7,10, 15 (Padres Gold, Phillies, Astros Orange, Angels)

Pool C : 3,6,11,14 (Royals Fortuna, Blue Jays Red, Tampa Bay, Cubs Blue)

Pool D : 4, 5, 12, 13 (Colorado, Reds, Yankees, Tigers2)

Seedings :

1 - Royals Ventura - 39-15 - .722

2 - Padres Gold - 40-16 - .714

3 - Royals Fortuna - 37-18 - .673

4 -Colorado - 36-18 - .667

5 -Reds - 36-19 - .655

6 -Blue Jays Red - 34-18 - .654

7 -Phillies - 36-18 - .643

8 -Giants Black - 36-20 - .643

9- Brewers Gold - 34-20 - .630

10 -Astros Orange - 33-20 - .623

11 -Tampa Bay - 34-21 - .618

12 - Yankees - 33-21 - .611

13 - Tigers2 - 34-22 - .607

14 - Cubs Blue - 33-22 - .600

15 -Angels - 33-22 -.600

16 - Mariners - 33-23 - .589

Semi finals :

Four Pool winners - best of three series

Championship :

Semi Final winners  - best of three series

Lehigh Valley :

Tommy Pham is red hot for the IronPigs - he’s hitting .393/.469/.679 with a 1.148 OPS in 15 August games (64 PA’s) with 8 doubles, 1 triple, 2 home runs and 18 RBIs - walked 8 times and struck out 11 times. In his last four games (8/14 - 8/19) he’s went 11 for 17 (.647) with six runs scored, three doubles and eight RBIs. The 38 year old signed with the Phillies as a free agent on 6/27/26.

Reading :

OF Raylin Heredia - the 22 year old from the Dominican Republic is having his best all around season - he’s continued to be “hot” in August - .324/.370/.574 with a .944 OPS in 16 games (68 AB’s) with 5 doubles, 4 home runs and 13 RBIs.

On the season he’s tied for 2nd in the Eastern League in runs (73), 1st - hits (132), 1st - doubles (32), tied for 3rd in home runs (21), 6th - RBIs (67), tied for 8th in batting average (.286), 10th - slugging (.497), 1st in Total Bases (229) and 9th in BABIP (.348)

The young man is a winner, he was a key cog in the 2022 DSL championship team, a member of Clearwater’s 2024 playoff team and right in the thick of this season’s push by Reading to win the second half Eastern League title. In my opinion he’s gonna be a big league contributor in the not so distant future.

Jersey Shore :

Outfielder Dante Nori (21 years old) is three games in on his rehab assignments (one game with Clearwater and two with Jersey Shore). He’s returning after spending most of the summer on the IL (placed on IL 6/7) with a pelvic injury. Now fully healthy the dynamic center fielder looks to pick up where he left off last season when he played at three levels (Clearwater, Jersey Shore & Reading) posting a very solid .261/.361/.372 slash line in 487 AB’s with 18 doubles, 12 triples, 72 runs scored and 52 stolen bases. He’s one of my favorites - very happy he’s back to good health and in action!

Clearwater :

Nineteen year old shortstop Matthew Ferrara has shown flashes of brilliance this summer. He took his lumps early in the year but is now on a very strong run - in July and August he’s posted a .301 batting average (37 for 123) with 8 doubles, a triple, home run and 21 RBIs with 19 walks and 27 strikeouts and has stolen 16 bases. He’s posted a .400 OBP in August in 60 plate appearances and a season best .831 OPS limiting his strikeouts to just ten while drawing six walks. He reminds me athletically of Trea Turner.  The young man has legit tools and is certainly one to keep on the radar.

Player Development Center :

Side and live bullpens continue for the pitchers in rehab and PDC camp :

Side Sessions : Ruger Riojas, Devin Sheerin, Jaxon Jelkin, Bo Rhudy, Wyatt Danilowicz, Justin Lee, Christian Coppola, Drew Titsworth, Cooper Consiglio, Patrick Clemmey, Adam Troy, Ethan Chenault

Sides & Live BP : Braeden Fausnaught, Brendan Sweeney, Elias Holbert, Kobe Minchey, Cal Higgins, Eligio Arias, Kyler Carmack, David Hernandez, Deiry Gonzalez, Jesus Montiel, Naoel Mejia, Gerardo Lopez

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