Two different leagues, two different weekly honors for Phillies prospects. Aidan Miller picked up the Player of the Week honor from the Eastern League and Ramon Marquez was named the Pitcher of the Week by the Florida State League. Miller won the award for the second time in three weeks and a Reading player has been honored by the league for three straight weeks now with Griff McGarry getting the Pitcher of the Week honors for August 12-17.

Miller has been tearing up Eastern League pitching since the calendar turned to August. In six games in Altoona last week, Miller had a hit in every game – he now has a nine-game hitting streak – and had three, three=hit games. The 21-year-old hit .522 (12-for-23) along with a slash line of .522/.621/1.000. Miller also scored five runs, drove in seven runs, had seven extra-base hits – five doubles and two home runs – and stole two bases. Both home runs came in one game, giving the shortstop the first multi-homer night of his career.

Miller led the league in average (.522), OBP (.621), extra-base hits (7), total bases (23), and tied for the top spot in doubles (5). He was also second in home runs (2), and OPS (1.621), and tied for second in hits (12). His slugging percentage of 1.000 was third in the EL and he tied for third with five runs scored.

For the month of August, Miller is slashing 4-16-.378/.475/.683 with an OPS of 1.158. Miller came into August batting .222 and has raised that to .256 with his hot August streak. On the season he is batting 12-39-.256/.372/.425 with Reading.

Clearwater pitcher Ramon Marquez, who is just under a month away from his 20th birthday, was named the Florida State League Pitcher of the Week. Marquez, who signed for a lackluster $10,000 signing bonus as an international free agent out of Mexico, is 6′ 2″, 180 pounds. Marquez opened the year in the Florida Complex League and was bumped up to Clearwater at the end of the FCL season.

For the week ending August 24th, Marquez threw five shutout innings against Jupiter, allowing just one hit and did not walk a batter. He had seven strikeouts, just one shy of his career mark, which he has done twice including in his start just prior to Sunday’s start against Jupiter. He also struck out eight batters once in the FCL against the Tigers Complex League team.

In three August starts Marquez is 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA for Clearwater and has just two walks and 18 strikeouts in 14 innings of work. On the season, Marquez is 2-0, 4.24 with five walks and 22 strikeouts in four starts covering 17 innings. Between the FCL and FSL, Marquez is 3-3, 4.42 in 14 games – 12 starts – and has 72 strikeouts in 55 innings to go with just 17 walks.

Marquez is the first Threshers player to be honored by the Florida State League this season.