{"id":547131,"date":"2026-01-31T04:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/547131\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:49:12","slug":"phillies-sign-dylan-moore-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/547131\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Sign Dylan Moore To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies reached agreement with utilityman\u00a0Dylan Moore<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a>. The Klutch Sports client receives a non-roster invitation to MLB camp.<\/p>\n

Moore is a veteran of seven big league seasons. He\u2019d spent his entire MLB career with the Mariners until they released him last August. Moore signed a minor league deal with the Rangers and was quickly called up after\u00a0Corey Seager<\/a> needed an appendectomy. Moore spent the final month of the season on the MLB roster and appeared in 18 games as a Ranger.<\/p>\n

That was a homecoming for the Central Florida product, who began his professional career as a seventh-round pick by the Rangers in 2015. Texas traded him to the Braves before he made it out of A-ball. Moore bounced around the minors before establishing himself in Seattle upon signing there as a minor league free agent.<\/p>\n

A right-handed hitter, Moore has done the majority of his damage against left-handed pitching in his career. A .216 batting average against southpaws isn\u2019t going to turn many heads, but he has walked at a 12% rate and has 28 homers in 819 career plate appearances with the platoon advantage. Moore didn\u2019t produce against pitchers of either handedness last season, yet he was a decent role player for the majority of his time in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n

His offensive approach skews heavily toward the three true outcomes, particularly strikeouts and walks. Moore has a trio of double digit home run seasons and has stolen at least 11 bases in all but one year of his career. He\u2019s not a burner but has generally done well to take extra bases when opportunities present themselves.<\/p>\n

Moore will vie for a multi-positional role off Rob Thomson\u2019s bench. He has experience everywhere on the diamond except catcher. He shouldn\u2019t play much shortstop or center field but rates as a solid or better defender anywhere else.\u00a0Edmundo Sosa<\/a> will be the top utility infielder, while\u00a0Otto Kemp<\/a> has a similar defensive skillset to Moore and also hits right-handed. Depth outfielders Johan Rojas<\/a> and\u00a0Pedro Le\u00f3n<\/a>, plus non-roster invitee\u00a0Bryan De La Cruz<\/a>, also bat from that side. The Phils will have a lot of competition for potential platoon partners for\u00a0Brandon Marsh<\/a> and prospect Justin Crawford<\/a>, who\u2019ll go into camp with a good chance to win the center field job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies reached agreement with utilityman\u00a0Dylan Moore on a minor league contract, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,116,4],"class_list":["post-547131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-dylan-moore","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115987910834986671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}