Miller, Painter and Crawford look ready to make an impact in the big leagues this season — and thanks to the increasing amount of Statcast tracking we have in the Minor Leagues now (complete Triple-A data and significant Single-A data), we already have some interesting numbers for all three of them that show the type of skill sets the trio will bring to the Majors.
Here’s one fun fact about each of the Phils’ three Top 100 prospects from their Minor League Statcast data.
From the most recent data we have on Miller — that’s a little bit of Triple-A data from 2025, and a lot of Single-A data from 2024 — we know one thing for sure: The 21-year-old hammers fastballs.
In his Minor League games with Statcast tracking over the past two seasons, the right-handed-hitting Miller has a .373 batting average and .591 slugging percentage against fastballs (that’s four-seamers, sinkers and cutters combined).
He’s batting over .300 and slugging well over .500 against each individual fastball type.
Miller vs. fastballs, 2024-25
Games with Statcast tracking only
Miller has hit Major League-velocity fastballs well, too, at least the ones he’s seen in games with tracking. Against fastballs thrown 95 mph or harder in those games, Miller is batting .357 and slugging .714.
The way he hits heaters is a good baseline to have.
We have Statcast data for the entire 2025 season for Painter, who’s the Phillies’ top pitching prospect and the No. 7 pitching prospect in baseball for good reason. The 6-foot-7 right-hander has a large pitch arsenal and basically everything in it is nasty.
Painter recorded double-digit strikeouts on five different pitch types in 2025: his four-seam fastball, curveball, changeup, slider and cutter.
Painter’s K’s by pitch type in 2025
Single-A and Triple-A combined
Painter was one of seven Minor League pitchers with at least 10 tracked strikeouts on five or more different pitch types, and he was the highest-ranking prospect with such a diverse strikeout arsenal (the only other 2026 Top 100 prospect in the group is the Brewers’ Brandon Sproat, at No. 100).
Painter’s curveball, four-seamer and changeup in particular stood out:
Statcast’s speed metric is “sprint speed,” which basically measures a player’s top sustained speed during a run on the bases. The Major League average sprint speed is 27 feet per second, and elite MLB speed is 30 ft/sec or faster.
Last season, Crawford had 67 tracked runs with an elite sprint speed of 30-plus ft/sec. That is a lot.
Statcast calls those runs “bolts,” and if Crawford had been in the Major Leagues last season, 67 bolts would have ranked in the top five of all MLB baserunners.
The only big league players with 60 or more runs last season at a 30 ft/sec or higher sprint speed were Trea Turner, Bobby Witt Jr., Chandler Simpson, Victor Scott II, Jeremy Peña, Corbin Carroll and Jackson Chourio.
In other words, when Crawford gets there, he’s going to be in the group of the most electric speedsters in the big leagues.
Crawford’s “bolts” in the Minors last season included, for example, an infield single that he beat out on April 23 with a beyond-elite 31.1 ft/sec sprint speed and a 3.90-second home-to-first time (any sub-four time is blazing fast, especially when it’s not on a bunt). He had four stolen bases where he reached at least 30 ft/sec, which is hard to do on a steal, due to the short distance the runner has to accelerate to top speed when factoring in his lead at the start and his slide at the end.
He’s just really, really, really fast, whether you’re comparing him to other Minor Leaguers or the fastest Major Leaguers.
