The Philadelphia Phillies selected right-handed pitcher Zach McCambley, a Pocono Mountain East High School graduate, from the Miami Marlins in the 2025 MLB Rule 5 Draft, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski announced Wednesday.

While they added a pitcher in McCambley, the Phillies also lost one when the Washington Nationals selected Griff McCarry.

McCambley, 26, spent the 2025 season with triple-A Jacksonville and double-A Pensacola in Miami’s organization, going 2-3 with a 2.90 ERA (20 ER, 62.0 IP), 83 strikeouts and 22 walks in 47 combined appearances.

Thirty-five of his appearances were scoreless, and he pitched more than 1.0 inning in 20 games this season. The 6-foot-2 righthander recorded multiple strikeouts in 23 of his outings, including a season-high five batters in 2.2 innings on April 23 vs Knoxville.

After graduating from Pocono Mountain East in 2017, he went to Coastal Carolina and then was taken by the Marlins in the third round of the 2020 MLB Draft.

In 134 career minor league games (40 starts), he has gone 17-22 with a 4.27 ERA (152 ER, 320.1 IP), 383 strikeouts, 142 walks, a 1.30 WHIP and a .231 opponent’s average while striking out 28.0 percent of batters faced (383-1370).

McGarry was the highest profile name left unprotected by the Phillies. It  ends a torturous few seasons for the fifth-round pick in the 2021 draft.

The righty was touted as a top prospect, rocketing to Triple A by the end of his second pro season in 2022. But he endured a disastrous 2023, with a 6.00 ERA in 17 starts, including 20 earned runs allowed in 4.2 innings in Triple A.

His wildness abated in 2024, but injuries limited him to 30 relief appearances, including a 4.70 ERA in 30.2 innings in Triple A. He returned to the rotation in Double A in 2025, going 1-4 with a 3.25 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 72 innings over 17 starts.

At 26, the California native has potential as a reclamation project. A change of scenery might hasten it.

In the minor league phase, the Phillies selected outfielder Austin Murr from Detroit and right-handed pitcher Evan Gates from San Francisco. They lost first baseman Carson Taylor to Seattle.

Murr may be a casualty of the depth in the Tigers’ organization. The sixth-round pick in 2021 out of NC State hit .239 in 71 games in Double A in 2024, then spent much of 2025 in High-A, where he hit .280 with an .837 OPS in 72 games. He got 11 games in Triple A, batting .208 with a home run. The 26-year-old played mostly corner outfield.

Gates is a 6-foot, 27-year-old righty who went undrafted out of North Carolina A&T. He reached Triple A with the Giants in 2024, posting a 7.20 ERA and a .327 batting average against in 20 innings. In Double A in 2025, he had a 3-2 record, 3.23 ERA and five saves in 69.2 innings over 41 appearances. He struck out 80 batters, walked 31 and held batters to a .238 average.

Taylor was taken by the Phillies from the Dodgers in the minor league rule 5 draft in 2024. He played 109 games in Double A in 2024, batting .277 with 16 homers and 75 RBIs, but was limited to just three games in 2025 at Lehigh Valley due to a torn labrum in his right shoulder.

A lefty who stands 5-11, 205 pounds, the 26-year-old was drafted in the fourth round out of Virginia Tech as a catcher but played primarily as a first baseman and DH in 2024.

 

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