The Phillies’ outfield picture is still messy, but Felix Reyes taking his bat to winter ball is at least a promising sign.
Reyes, who finished the year on the minor league injured list after breaking his wrist, is headed to the Dominican Winter League to play for Toros del Este. For Philadelphia, that’s a useful development on two fronts: it gives the 25-year-old more at-bats after a lost stretch, and it offers the club a chance to see whether he can keep building on the power that got him to the majors in the first place.
The road here has been a long one. Philadelphia signed Reyes as an international free agent out of the Dominican Republic in February 2020, but he didn’t actually begin his pro career until the following year because the minor league season was canceled. From there, he spent four seasons grinding through the lower levels without much noise, never getting past a .714 OPS between Low-A and High-A in 2023.
Then 2025 hit, and Reyes finally broke through. In 95 games with Double-A Reading, he launched 15 homers and piled up 53 total extra-base hits while posting a .937 OPS. That run earned him a late-season look at Triple-A and put him in position to compete for a major league job heading into 2026.
He opened this season at Triple-A Lehigh Valley, then got the call after Otto Kemp struggled in April. Reyes made his big league debut on April 18 and announced himself immediately, homering in his first at-bat against future Hall of Famer Chris Sale.
But that was about as good as it got. Over 12 games, he hit just .158/.158/.263 before being optioned back to the minors in mid-May.
He never got back to the Phillies. In August, the club moved him to the 60-day injured list after the wrist injury, using the roster spot elsewhere and officially ending his season.
Now Reyes is back home, suiting up for a Toros del Este team that also includes former Phillies Yairo Muñoz and Spencer Turnbull. If the wrist is behind him, the Phillies would love to see the right-handed power show up again, especially after he produced 38 extra-base hits in Lehigh Valley this year.
That matters because Philadelphia still has real work to do in the outfield. Adolis García is a free agent, Brandon Marsh is coming off a rough second half, and the corner spots remain very much in play. A big-name addition such as Seiya Suzuki or Randy Arozarena would change the look of the group, but a healthy Reyes would give the organization another needed layer of depth.
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