{"id":652406,"date":"2026-03-30T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:02:20","slug":"phillies-cut-ties-with-young-infielder-after-2-year-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652406\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Cut Ties With Young Infielder After 2-Year Stint"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Phillies have returned this season with a familiar cast of veteran stars and growing pressure to reach the World Series.<\/p>\n

But in their first series of the year, which came at home against the Texas Rangers, the offense struggled.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey finished this season-opening, three-game series with 18 hits and a .186 batting average,\u201d Matt Gelb noted for The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cThat marks the Phillies\u2019 worst three-game start since 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n

With such a small sample size, the Phillies won\u2019t be making any big changes to their lineup anytime soon. But the team also can\u2019t afford to be overly patient as it looks to overcome two straight seasons of early playoff exits thanks to a star-studded lineup that has suddenly gone silent in October.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Philadelphia Phillies Turn To Promising Young Players As World Series Pressure Grows<\/p>\n

As the Phillies look for better playoff results this season, they have turned to a pair of promising prospects in Justin Crawford and Andrew Painter. With another highly touted prospect, Aiden Miller, waiting in the wings, the organization is looking to infuse some younger talent alongside the veterans who anchor its big-league roster.<\/p>\n

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But further down the line in the Phillies\u2019 system, that will no longer include 24-year-old infielder Zach Arnold.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Philadelphia Phillies Cut Bait With Struggled 24-Year-Old Infielder<\/p>\n

Arnold, who was signed by the Phillies in 2023, was released last week, according to his official MiLB.com profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his first year with the organization, between Single-A and rookie ball stints in 2023, Arnold slashed .290\/.374\/.441. Then, in 2024, he reached High-A and Double-A and slashed .233\/.309\/.294. Finally, last year in another stint across High-A and Double-A, Arnold slashed just .196\/.260\/.316.<\/p>\n

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It seems the Phillies were looking to move on because of his offensive struggles, though he showed some strong defensive versatility, as he made starts at third base, shortstop, first base and second base for the organization.<\/p>\n

He also had success at two of the best college programs in the country, playing for both Louisiana State University and the University of Houston.<\/p>\n

\u201cArnold began his college career as a shortstop\/second baseman at national powerhouse LSU but transferred to Houston after his sophomore season,\u201d Scott Lauber noted for The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> when the team drafted Arnold in 2023. \u201cHe played mostly third base for the Cougars and had a big junior year, batting .365\/.453\/.590 with 11 doubles, 13 homers, and 51 RBIs in 263 plate appearances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evidently, Arnold was unable to keep up that level of production in the Phillies\u2019 minor league system and now the organization has decided to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies have returned this season with a familiar cast of veteran stars and growing pressure to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,6418,4,415,25,69,414,71,4222,83457],"class_list":["post-652406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-dc","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-texas-rangers","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-zach-arnold"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116318264777058741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652406","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=652406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}