Marchan will start at catcher and bat eighth in Wednesday's game against the Giants, Todd Zolecki of MLB.com reports. After winning the backup catcher job coming out of spring training, Marchan has ...

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To give J.T.'s legs a bit of a rest, Schwarber is making his first appearance in the field this season. It was an extreme ...

PHILADELPHIA — Phillies manager Rob Thomson gave second baseman Bryson Stott a night off from the starting lineup Wednesday, ...

Phillies fourth. Johan Rojas doubles to deep left field. Trea Turner flies out to center field to Mike Yastrzemski. Johan Rojas to third. Bryce Harper homers to right field. Johan Rojas scores. Kyle ...

Harper suffered a torn ligament in his right elbow during the 2022 season and was relegated mostly to being a designated ...

Stubbs had a minor-league option. Rafael Marchán, a 26-year-old catcher with some promise, did not. Dombrowski and Thomson did not couch their message when demoting Stubbs to Triple A.

Rafael Marchán has had a few tastes of the big leagues. His MLB debut was back in the COVID-shortened 2020 season. But in the time since then, he's struggled to stay healthy and develop ...

The Phillies ultimately made their decision about who is going to start the 2025 season backing up Realmuto, opting to go with former top prospect Rafael Marchan over Stubbs. That's the right ...

In doing so, they all but confirmed that switch-hitting Rafael Marchan will be their backup catcher. Stubbs, 31, is the far more experienced of the two and performed better in limited spring ...

It was pain-free until that happened. Good overall.” When Thomson summoned Rafael Marchán into his office Thursday morning to deliver the news he’d made the team, it took Marchán back almost ...