Bryan Rincon is having a breakout season with Double-A Reading and Cody Bowker is cementing his spot on the list of top Phillies pitching prospects. The pair of 22-year-olds are both with Reading after Bowker’s promotion from Jersey Shore in the middle of August, and are helping the Fightin Phils on their way to a second half division championship.
Rincon came into the season with a career-high of eight home runs in a season and has smashed that having hit 22 home runs for Double-A Reading this season. In August, Rincon played din 25 games and hit .330/.487/.580/1.067, adding five home runs to his season total. He also added seven doubles, 10 RBI, 25 walks and 22 runs scored in 115 plate appearances. Rincon struck out 24 times to give him more walks than strikeouts in August. The shortstop prospect has 86 walks and 105 strikeouts on the season.
A switch-hitter, Rincon put together a 26-game on-base streak that went from July 31 to August 30, tying him for the fifth longest stretch in the Eastern League. It was his second 26-game on-base streak of the season.
The Phillies number five prospect according to MLB Pipeline was the Eastern League Player of the Week for the week ending August 23. In the EL, Rincon ranked first in walks, second in runs and on-base percentage, third in OPS, tied for fourth in doubles, fifth in extra-base hits (12) and total bases (51). He also ranked fifth in hits with 29.
Bowker had four starts in August and went 2-0 with a 2.84 ERA, striking out 20 batters and issuing just three walks in 19 innings. He held opponents to a .174 batting average. The right-hander finished the month with a 0.79 WHIP and 1.42 walks per nine innings to give him a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 6.67. Among 240 pitchers who made at least four starts in High-A and//or Double-A in August, Bowker ranked sixth in WHIP, eighth in walks per nine, and 10th in strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Bowker started the month with Jersey Shore and was 1-1, 3.28 in eight starts with the BlueClaws and is now 2-0, 2.40 in three Double-A starts with Reading. The Phillies third round pick in 2025 opened the his first professional season with Clearwater and went 2-4, 5.90 in 10 starts and two relief outings with the Threshers prior to being bumped up to High-A. On the season he is 5-5 with a 4.28 ERA.
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