{"id":588063,"date":"2026-02-23T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588063\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:36:33","slug":"phillies-manager-rob-thomson-confirms-aidan-miller-injury-first-hinted-at-by-bryce-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588063\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies manager Rob Thomson confirms Aidan Miller injury first hinted at by Bryce Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Thomson confirmed unfortunate news regarding Aidan Miller. The young prospect is dealing with a back issue, though it is not considered serious. The first signs of concern surfaced earlier when Bryce Harper<\/a> mentioned that the Philadelphia Phillies needed to get the young player healthy.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhillies prospect Aidan Miller has a sore back. Phillies want to be careful with him so he\u2019s taking it easy this week, getting treatment. If he was healthy, he would\u2019ve played yesterday in Dunedin,\u201d wrote Todd Zolecki on X (@toddzolecki) regarding the situation.<\/p>\n

Miller played 108 games last season, marking the second-heaviest workload of his minor league career to date. He totaled 105 hits, 13 home runs and posted a .259 batting average, making it a highly productive year overall.<\/p>\n

Harper said it \u2014 but not the full story<\/p>\n

It was Harper who first referenced Miller\u2019s injury earlier in the day, surprising many Phillies<\/a> fans who were unaware of the situation. At the time, few details were available. However, once manager Rob Thomson clarified the matter shortly afterward, it became clear that information had already been shared internally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need him to get healthy, because he could help us by the end, obviously,\u201d Harper said during a media session with NBC Sports Philadelphia. Harper also took the opportunity to call Team USA\u2019s victory over Canada in the Olympic gold medal hockey game \u201camazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NY<\/p>\n

see also<\/p>\n

NY Mets may have a future left-handed bat among their prospects, according to Carlos Mendoza<\/p>\n

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\u201cAidan Miller increased his stock as much as any prospect in the second half of the season. He improved just about every aspect of his game. Miller was one of the most productive minor league hitters after the break while looking comfortably above average at shortstop,\u201d wrote Aram Leighton, co-founder of Just Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Thomson confirmed unfortunate news regarding Aidan Miller. The young prospect is dealing with a back issue, though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,1207,4,144,25,4216,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-588063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bryce-harper","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","13":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","14":"tag-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116119273496054345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588063","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=588063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}