{"id":677387,"date":"2026-06-01T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677387\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:37:08","slug":"phillies-notes-realmuto-miller-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677387\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Notes: Realmuto, Miller – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-rays were negative on J.T. Realmuto<\/a>\u2018s left wrist after the catcher was hit by a Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> fastball in the third inning of today\u2019s 9-1 Phillies loss to the Dodgers.\u00a0 Realmuto remained in the game and was back behind the plate in the bottom of the third, but was replaced by Rafael Marchan<\/a> before the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n

After the game, Phils manager Don Mattingly told MLB.com\u2019s Paul Casella<\/a> and other reporters that Realmuto was \u201cobviously sore, couldn\u2019t really squeeze, wasn\u2019t gonna be able to swing and actually had a little trouble catching, too.\u00a0 So, sore enough to get him out of there.\u201d\u00a0 Despite this lengthy list of issues, Mattingly felt Realmuto was \u201cgonna be okay\u201d given the x-ray results.<\/p>\n

The Phillies don\u2019t play on Monday, so Realmuto has an extra day to heal up before the club begins a six-game homestand on Tuesday against the Padres.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if Realmuto also sits Tuesday due to any lingering soreness, and the presence of both Marchan and Garrett Stubbs<\/a> on the active roster gives the Phillies some flexibility in giving Realmuto some more rest without leaving the club short-handed at the catcher\u2019s spot.<\/p>\n

Realmuto missed 10 days earlier this season due to a bad back, and the veteran backstop is one of several Philadelphia hitters who has underperformed at the plate.\u00a0 After signing a new three-year, $45MM free agent deal with the Phillies during the offseason, Realmuto has stumbled out of the gates with a .220\/.296\/.299 slash line and two home runs over 142 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

In a longer-term injury concern, Phillies GM Preston Mattingly didn\u2019t have any new news on the status of infield prospect Aidan Miller<\/a>, who has been sidelined all season due to ongoing back pain.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re leaning on medical.\u00a0 [He\u2019s] still just doing his rehab program at this point.\u00a0 It\u2019s not baseball activities, but as we\u2019ve seen over the years, that could change pretty quickly,\u201d Mattingly told The Athletic\u2019s Charlotte Varnes<\/a> and other reporters.<\/p>\n

Miller dealt with back problems in the second half of the 2025 season, and played through discomfort over a two-month stretch that saw the infielder promoted to Triple-A for the first time.\u00a0 Miller still hit .264\/.392\/.433 over 526 combined PA between the Double-A and Triple-A levels, but had to finish the year on the Triple-A injured list after only eight games with Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n

The back soreness resurfaced again in Spring Training, and has put a halt to Miller\u2019s fourth pro season.\u00a0 He has been able to play catch and take some grounders, but that has been the extent of his baseball activity for the better part of three months.<\/p>\n

Mattingly feels Miller will be able to play before the 2026 campaign is over, though the fact that this is now even a question speaks to the uncertainty surrounding Miller\u2019s status.\u00a0 The team seems to be operating with some extra caution given the lingering nature of this back problem, and how the Phillies \u201cwant him to be good to go not just this year, but the rest of his career,\u201d as director of player development Luke Murton told Varnes.<\/p>\n

Miller entered 2026 as a consensus top prospect in baseball, with The Athletic\u2019s Keith Law and ESPN\u2019s Kiley McDaniel each ranking the infielder within the top ten of their preseason rankings.\u00a0 It was seen as just a matter of time before Miller made his Major League debut, with the career shortstop seen as a candidate to supplant Alec Bohm<\/a> at third base or Bryson Stott<\/a> at second base given how Trea Turner<\/a> has the shortstop position covered.\u00a0 This extended injury absence has thrown a wrench into all of these plans, and it may be that Miller will have to wait until 2027 to get his first taste of the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X-rays were negative on J.T. Realmuto\u2018s left wrist after the catcher was hit by a Yoshinobu Yamamoto fastball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[225405,28641,99],"class_list":["post-677387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-miller","tag-j-t-realmuto","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}